Lesson 10

Step 1 Revision

Write up on the board： Lesson Ten, the____ lesson. Get a student to write in the missing word. Check the homework.

Revise the comparative forms in Lesson 9. Get the Ss to compare objects using the comparative forms of adjectives they know.

Step 2 Presentation

Review the story in Lesson 9. Ask Where are the twins going? What food is there to eat? What day is it?

Show the Ss some pictures of food(or bring the real thing if possible). Ask What's this in English?

Teach hungry with a gesture. Ask Ss Are you hungry? Help them to answer Yes, a little/very! Then ask What would you like to eat? Get them to say I'd like a/some/one o those…．

You may bring peanuts or walnuts into class to teach the word nut.

Step 3 Reading

SB page 10, Part 1. Ask What does Lucy have to eat? Lei the Ss read the dialogue silently to find the answer. Let them guess the meaning of round and Have one! (=Eat a mooncake!)

Speech Cassette . Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat, then practise the dialogue in pairs.

Get some pairs to act it out, with appropriate gestures and actions.

Step 4 Presentation

Ask three Ss to come to the front： they should all be quite tall. Say A is tall. B is taller than A. C is the tallest of all. Say it again; the Ss listen and repeat. Point out the use of the and of all in the tallest of them all. Ask three other Ss (D, E and F) to come to the front and teach short/shorter than/the shortest of all in the same way.

Use objects to give other examples for comparison.

Step 5 Drill

Get the six “tall”and“short”Ss to stand at the front of the class. Call out their names as a drilling cue:

T：B

Ss：B is taller than A.

T：C

Ss：C is the tallest of all.

T：D

Ss：D is short. etc.

Step 6 Read and learn

SB page 10, Part 2. Speech Cassette .Play the tape. Ss listen and repeat. Allow the Ss a minute or two to learn the sentences, then say Books closed! Tell me about Jim's box/cake, etc. Ss must say Jim's box/cake is the heaviest/biggest of all.

Step 7 Read and act

SB page 10, Part 3. Speech Cassette .

Books closed! Ask Which mooncake is the nicest of all? The Ss listen to the tape to find the answer. Books open! Read. through the dialogue with the Ss. See if they can guess the meaning of delicious. Explain that people say Mmm! when they see or hear about delicious food. Let them practise in pairs. Then ask Whick mooncakes do you like? Help them answer I like mooncakes with nuts/an egg.

Step 8 Workbook

Wb , Exx.1, 2 and 3. Do these exercises orally in class. Get Ss to act out their dialogues in Ex. 2.

Ex. 3 is optional. If time permits, get the Ss to read the dialogue in pairs and act it out.

Homework

Do Wb , Exx. 1 and 2. Learn the words in Ex. 1 and write out a dialogue for Ex. 2.