Properties:        Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Objectives: Let the students learn how to write a letter to a friend.

Language Focus:  “there be” and some other phrases.

Teaching Procedures;

Step 1 Organizing the class

Step 2 Revision

1.       Check the homework.

2.       Review the words, expression and phrases on holiday. If the students can manage themselves, let them try without too much help from the teacher. Do orally around the class.

Step 3 Presentation

Play the tape right through. Make sure the students really understand how they should respond. And elicit the useful phrases “be busy doing”.

Step 4 Learn Part 1

Graded comprehension. Questions are introduced here and will now feature in each teaching lesson. A number of questions of type given below should be asked rapidly round the class immediately after the oral procedure has been conducted.. Only a few minutes  should be spent on the exercise. Word and expressions likely to be unfamiliar in the letter should be explained with tape. The pattern “There be “ will be practiced with patterns involving the use of the present participle.

Such as :

There is a big fire burning outside.

There is a bird flying in the sky.

Step 5 Practice

Ask the students to make a letter without any further preparation.

The aim is to enable the students to write the letter on their own.

Step 6 Do exercises

Get the students to read the letter more carefully .And check the answer with the whole class.

Let them work alone and write down the right answers.

Step 7 Homework

Finish off the whole exercises.

Write a letter to a friend.

Step 8 Summary