Period 4 Listening and Vocabulary, Everyday English and Function

Teaching Goals:

1. Review the present simple tense and the present continuous tense.

2. Get Ss to master some new words.

3. Enable Ss to know some skills of listening.

4. Let Ss make a conversation.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

　Check the answers to the WORKBOOK exercises of Grammar and give them some directions.

Step 2 Vocabulary Study

Purpose: enable Ss to know the parts of speech according to the suffixes and determine their functions in sentences.

1. Group Work

　Learn some useful suffixes.

(1) suffixes used as a noun signifier: -er, -or, -ee (-eer), -ing, -ance (-ence), -ment, -tion, -ness, -ist, -hood, -ism, -ship,

Eg London - Londoner survive - survivor pay - payee

engine - engineer build - building attend -- attendance

different - difference manage - management graduate - graduation

ill - illness biology - biologist child - childhood

social - socialism friend - friendship

(2) suffixes used as an adjective signifier: -y, -ful, -ous, -ic(-ical), -al, -less, -some, -ent/ -ant, -able / -ible, -ive/ -tive, -ative , -ary, -ing, -ed

Eg sand - sandy use - useful danger - dangerous

hero - heroic philosophy - philosophical nation - national

home - homeless trouble - troublesome differ - different

import - important change - changeable sense - sensible

act - active talk - talkative second - secondary

interest - interesting interest - interested

(3) suffixes used as a verb signifier: -en, -fy, -ize (-ise)

Eg wide - widen beauty - beautify organ - organize

2. Individual Work

　　 Fill in the charts with the proper forms of the words by practicing Activity 1 on P5.

Suggested answers:

Noun Verb Adjective

correction correct /

encouragement encourage /

enjoyment enjoy enjoyable

explanation explain /

fluency / fluent

misunderstanding misunderstand /