A Telephone Call

A Telephone Call     I.Teaching Material A Telephone Call A: May I speak to Jim, please? B: Sorry. He's not at home. A: Where is he now? B: He went to the bookshop. A: Would you please take a message? B: Sure. A: Tomorrow is Teachers' Day. We'll have a party at school. B: What time is the party? A: At three thirty in the afternoon. B: OK, I'll tell him when he's back. A: Thank you. II. Teaching Aims 1) Enable the students to make telephone calls in English and get them to know how to behave themselves on the telephone. 2) Raise the students' interest in learning English. 3) Encourage the students to have good cooperation with one another. III.Teaching contents 1 ) Patterns: May I speak to ...? Would you please take a message? 2) Vocabulary: message, party, take a message IV.teaching Aids Four toy telephones, a CD-ROM, a toy tiger. V. Teaching procedures Step 1. Warming-up  Sing the song "Greetings". Step 2. Presentation and Practice 1) Ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the talk between the teacher and the person in the screen. 2) After the talk, the teacher tells the students how to make a telephone call in English. Write the pattern "May I speak to...?"on the blackboard and teach them how to use it on the phone. 3) Using the four toy telephones, ask the students to make telephone calls in pairs with the following patterns: ---- May I speak to...? ---- Speaking. Those students who do not have toy telephones can use their pencil-boxes instead, or they can put their fingers to their ears as a sign to make phone calls. 4) Ask one student his/her name and his/her home telephone number, using the following sentences: Would you please tell me your name? Would you please tell me your home telephone number? 5) Make a telephone call to a student and get the students to learn the following short dialogue: T: Hello. Is that 8624763? S: Yes. T: May I speak to Xiao Hong? S: Sorry, she is not in the office. T: Would you please take a message and ask her to come to school this afternoon? S: Sure. T: Thank you. 6) Ask the students to make calls in groups. Then ask some pairs to act out to see if they know how to use the patterns below: May I speak to..,? Would you please take a message? 7) Ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the dialogue "A Telephone Call" with the following questions in mind: What is the message about? What time is the party? Then ask the students some questions if they have understood the dialogue. 8) Ask the students to look at the dialogue on the screen and listen to it again. 9) Ask the students to read the new words and the sentences on the blackboard. 10) Ask the students to retell the dialogue in their own words in pairs. 11) Play the game "Throwing the toy tiger " to see if the students can say the sentences well. The teacher throws the toy tiger to a student. When the student catches the toy tiger, he or she must say one of the sentences on the blackboard, and then throws the toy tiger to another student. 12) Ask the students to act out the dialogue in roles.  Step 3. Consolidation 1) Show the students three pictures on the screen. Ask them to make telephone calls in groups based on the picture they have chosen. Picture One: You want to invite Tom to play football with you, butTom hasn't got a telephone at home. You ask Mary to take a message to Tom. Picture Two: Miss Wang is ill. You want to pay a visit to her with Jack. But Jack is not at home. His sister picks up the phone. Picture Three: You will hold a birthday party on Sunday. You phone to Lily to invite her to your party, but she isn't at home. How do you speak to her mother, who is at home at that time? 2) Ask some pairs to act out their telephone calls. Step 4. Summary Tell the students the way of making a phone call in their daily life. Step 5. Homework Ask the students to make phone calls to their friends and tell them their school life after class. Step 6 . Ending Sing the song "Happy Weekend".