Teaching goals

Train their listening and speaking abilities.

Teaching important and difficult points

Help the students to talk about position, space and direction and illustrate ways that listeners indicate that they are listening to the speaker.

Teaching methods

Pair work and group work, discussion and cooperation

Teaching aids

A recorder, a computer, and a blackboard

Teaching procedures

Step1 Listening

1.       The first time the students listen to the tape they are expected to listen for the gist only. Read Ex1 on page 6 with students so that they know what to listen for and play the recording right through without stopping.

4 Geographic areas of California

   2 Where George’s tour started

   3 California not as George expected

   1 Where George is now

   5 Californian people