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Teaching goals:

1.      Enable the Ss to know the purpose of a website called “world gifts” and give their opinions on it.

2.      Enable the Ss to learn about the international welfare programmer called “Plan International” and a child who has been sponsored through it.

Teaching important and difficult points:

Get the Ss to realize that they should make the most of what they own and do something for the poor.

Teaching method:

Task-based method and fast reading

Teaching aids:

A recorder, a projector, a compute connected to the Internet.

Teaching procedures:

Step I. Revision

Dictation eight sentences, each contain the vocabulary they ‘ve learned in this unit.

Step II. Pre-reading

      “Have you ever tried to send a gift to the children in poor areas or countries? Probably not. Today, we can have access to a website, where you can send your gifts to those who are in great need. Please glance quickly at the Internet page on Page 33, and answer the following questions.

1.      What does the page show you?

2.      Where is the list of gifts?

3.      In what kind of order are the gifts listed? How much are cheapest and dearest gift?

4.      where is the gift card?

5.      What do the photos show you?

Step III. Careful Reading

       Reading carefully.

 And the task is to finish Ex2 on page 34.

Discussing What do you think of this website and its idea? Do you think people will get interested in it and buy its gifts? Do you think those gifts listed are really helpful? Now turn to page 34. Discuss the topics in Ex 3 in groups.  Choose one of the topics to discuss.

Step IV. Reading Task

Deal with reading task in the work book.

We have talked about the Chinese welfare programmer Project Hope which helps children in poor areas go back to school. In the world, there are many organizations or programmers that help different groups of people in one way or another. Today, we will get to know another organization called Plan International. Turn to page 73,. This is a letter from Rosanna to some students. Rosanna works as a volunteer of Plan International in an area of Ecuador. Why did she write to the Ss? What did the Ss do? Read the letter and find the answers. While reading, summarize the topic of each paragraph and finish Ex on page74.

Step V. Homework

1.      Ask Ss to search for information about Plan International.

2.      Pick out the sentences with attributive clauses in “ A letter from Plan”.