I'm sorry / afraid I disagree.

Showing understanding I see /understand.

I see what you mean.

Step Ⅲ Reading

Ask the students to look at the given photos and read the George's diary on pages 8 quickly. Then practice Activity 1 and fill in the chart in pairs.

T: Look at George's photos on page 8. These are things he saw in San Francisco. Now read the diary he wrote quickly and find out the day he saw these things under the photos.

Ask the students to check the answers with their partners.

Show the following on the screen.

Mon. 12, June Tues. 13, June Wed. 14, June

Dropped luggage

Went exploring

Rode on a cable car

Visited Fisherman's

Wharf. Drove around city

Went to Chinatown Took ferry to Angel Island

Golden Gate Bridge

For Activity 2, ask students to read the George's diary on page 8 carefully and then answer the questions in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class.

Ask the students to read the diary again by themselves. Then discuss in groups of 4 and practice Activities 3~4. A few minutes later, ask some of them to show their work.

Sample answers:

Reasons for omitting:

1. Some unimportant, unnecessary, uninteresting little words like pronouns "we", "I", articles "a", "the", or prepositions. If omitted, the meaning can't be affected and misunderstood by others.

2. Just keep the key words without explaining more in details.

Ask students to rewrite the diary entry.

A sample version:

On the next day, I teamed up with a couple from my hotel (Peter and Terri) and hired a car. We spent all day driving around city. There's a great drive marked out for tourists. It has blue and white signs with seagulls on them to show way to go. It's a 79km round-trip that takes in all the famous spots. We stopped many times to admire the view and take photographs. Now we have really good idea of what the city's like.

In the evening, I went to Chinatown with Peter and Terri. Chinese immigrants settled in this area in the 1850s. The fronts of the buildings are decorated to look like old buildings in southern China. There are some interesting temples here, and a number of markets and a great many restaurants. Also there are art galleries and a museum