Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Teaching key points and difficult points Key points: 1.Students know some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to ask for advice 2. Students improve their reading ability and foster proper reading strategies. 3. Students review how to answer special questions and general questions. 4.Students review how to change the first-person singular form into the third-person singular form. Difficult points: 1.Students know how to acquire,process and integrate detailed information from the reading material. 2.Students know how to summarize the main ideas properly Teaching methods Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher's activities Students'activities Aims 1.Lead students to recall some Think about the To get the class warmed problems they may face problems and talk up and lead in the topic every day. freely about the topic. “problems'” Step 1 Leading-in 2.Guide students to discuss Talk about their choices To elicit students'prior who they usually turn to for and state their reasons. experiences related to the help if they don't know how topic. to deal with their problems and tell the reasons. Step2 Introduce the text by beginning Form a general idea of To get students fully Pre-reading with the explanation of the term what the text mainly prepared for the reading “an agony aunt'”. talks about. part. 22 2 Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Teaching key points and difficult points Key points： 1. Students know some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to ask for advice. 2. Students improve their reading ability and foster proper reading strategies. 3. Students review how to answer special questions and general questions. 4. Students review how to change the first-person singular form into the third-person singular form. Difficult points： 1. Students know how to acquire, process and integrate detailed information from the reading material. 2. Students know how to summarize the main ideas properly. Teaching methods Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims Step 1 Leading-in 1. Lead students to recall some problems they may face every day. Think about the problems and talk freely about the topic. To get the class warmed up and lead in the topic “problems”. 2. Guide students to discuss who they usually turn to for help if they don’t know how to deal with their problems and tell the reasons. Talk about their choices and state their reasons. To elicit students’ prior experiences related to the topic. Step 2 Pre-reading Introduce the text by beginning with the explanation of the term “an agony aunt”. Form a general idea of what the text mainly talks about. To get students fully prepared for the reading part