Lesson 58

　　Teaching aims: Get the students to grasp the general idea of the text.

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step 1 Revision

　　Check the homework

　　Have a dictation

　　Ask the students to talk about any techniques of their own which they find useful.

　　Step 2 Presentation and reading for general understanding

　　Write the complex Chinese character on the blackboard and let the students talk about. Then answer the two questions:

　　Is the text about listening to people or learning a foreign language?

　　Does the writer give advice or information or both?

　　Step 3 Reading

　　1. Read the whole passage carefully and chooose the right answers, working in pairs or small groups.

　　2. language points;

　　refer to

　　when + doing sth

　　the + comparative degree, the + comparative degree

　　get better at doing

　　show respect to / for sb.

　　talk through

　　Step 4. Note making

　　Step 5 Discussion

　　Group work about the following questions:

　　Which pieces of advice do you agree with?

　　Which pieces of advice do you disagree with?

　　Who are good listeners to you, and what do they do well?

　　In what ways do people not listen to you well?

　　How has this group discussion been? Have you listened well to each other?

　　Homework:

　　Read the text aloud after class.

　　Finish the exercises in the white-cover book.

　　Blakboard design:

　　refer to

　　What I said just now wasn’t referring to you.

　　when + doing sth

　　You’d better turn down the music when sleeping.

　　the + comparative degree, the + comparative degree

　　The higher you climb, the farther you’ll see.

　　get better at doing

　　He can get better at listening to speech in a foreign language.

　　show respect to / for sb.

　　Youth should always show respect to old age.

　　All the students treated the teachers with respect.

　　talk through

　　We talked the plan through for nearly an hour.