The Seventh Period : Listening, Writing and Acting
Purpose: To improve students’ listening,writing and acting ability.
To get students to know what happe ned to Henry after Scene 4.
Step 1. Listening
1. Ask students to look through the exercises of Ex1 before listening and then play the tape.
2. Ask students to think of more things Henry might do with the bank-note. Let them try to make up what might happen after Henr y do these th ings.
Step 2. Listening, speaking and writing task
1. Ask Ss to imagine what the situation in which Henry meets the woman (Portia) of his dreams will be lik e. Ask students to discuss the following questions with their partners.
(1) If you are Henry, what kind of woman is of your dreams?
(2) If you are the woman what characters of Henry will attract you?
(3) As Henry becomes the man many people are talking about, what will you think of him?
(4) Suppose you are Henr y, what sort of complements do you think Henry would give Portia?
2. After discussion, ask students to listen to the tape twice and make a few notes they will need.
3. Ask students to work in pairs and discuss each of the things in Ex3 on P58.
4. Ask students to write the di a logue for Act Two, Scene 3 and remind them to make the words
