Step 1. Revision:

A: words and expressions: madam   disappoint,

Willing ,graduation, effect

B: Find out how much the students know about famous scientists.

   Step 2. Presentation(04教育资源网，转载请注明)

a.     why do people go to conferences?

b.     What do people do at a conference?

Step 3. Dialogue

Books open. Play the tape of the dialogue for the students to listen and follow.go through the dialogue briefly. See if the students can guess the meaning of disappointing, willing.

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a.     might be quite interesting: might here expresses possibility.

b.     I’m not sure---- accidents =I haven’t yet decided whether to go to the talk on accidents or not.(04教育资源网，转载请注明)

c.      How did you find the talk this morning? =what was the talk like this morning?

d.     Very disappointing =the talk was not as good as I had expected.

e.      Be useful for somebody

f.       Be useful to somebody

Step 4.practice.

Student book page 1,part 2.teach the new words : go over, willing, devote.

Step 5.workbook.

Ex1. aims at revising the expressions on certainty and uncertainty. Make sure the students know the expressions in students book lesson 1,part 2 before starting to do this exercise. Let them practise in pairs following the model.

Step 6.Consolidation(04教育资源网，转载请注明)

Get students to have a dialogue like the one in part1,in groups of four, with their books shut.

Step 7.homework.

Finish off the workbook exercises.

Get students to write out some sentences from part2,and some questions and answers from part3.

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