Lesson 38

　　Step 1 Revision

　　1 Revise making simple telephone calls.

　　2 Check the homework.

　　Step 2 Presentation

　　Ask the Ss about the telephone dialogue in Lesson 37， e. g. Did Mr Green ring up the headmaster yesterday？ What did he want to talk about？

　　SB page 38. Discuss the picture. What can you see？ Mr Green and Mr Zhang. What's happening？ They are talking. Mr Green is going to tell Mr Zhang about Jim's study.

　　Present some of the new words by talking about Jim's work like this： Jim works hard. He goes to school early and listens carefully in class. He does his homework well. He is not lazy. He does very well in the exams. He often gets over 90 in English. But his Chinese is not as good as his English. He is weak in Chinese. He often gets 60 or 65 in the Chinese exams. Write down lazy， over 90， weak， exam on the Bb. Get the Ss to guess their meaning.

　　Step 3 Reading

　　Let the Ss scan the passage to find the answers at the top of the page. Check the answers.

　　Then let the Ss read the passage more carefully. Ask them questions about the passage： you can use the questions in Wb Lesson 38， Ex. 1 to help you， but don't let the Ss look at these questions yet.

　　See if the Ss can guess the meaning of capital， miss and in trouble from the context. Discuss any language problems that occur.

　　Note：

　　I hope！ is used by itself at the end of the sentence for emphasis.

　　Except Chinese = He'll do well in all the exams except Chinese. Mr Green thinks Jim will get low mark in the Chinese exam.

　　Is he？ is an expression of surprise.

　　The whole family's going for two months. The Present Continuous Tense can be used to talk about future plans. Notice that family is singular.

　　Step 4 Reading aloud

　　SB page 38. Speech Cassette Lesson 38. Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat. Then they can practise the dialogue in pairs.

　　Step 5 Workbook

　　Do Wb Ex. 1 orally in pairs. Then ask the Ss to write down their answers in their exercise books. Check the answers with the whole class.

　　Some of the answers are： 1 Yes， but he is a little weak in his Chinese. 2 The headmaster thinks that Jim works hard and will do very well in the exams. 3 Yes， I think he does. 4 No， he isn't.

　　10 Mr Green can't help Jim with his Chinese. He is worried about his Chinese because Jim may fall behind the other students.

　　Step 6 Acting

　　If time allows. ask two Ss to act out the dialogue. Get them to use gestures， e. g. Come in， please. Please sit down， etc. and facial expressions.

　　Step 7 Workbook

　　Do Wb Exx. 2 and 3. The answers to Ex. 2 are： 1 d， 2 b， 3 c， 4 a， 5 e， 6 f.

　　The answers to Ex. 3 are： lazy， weak， missed， fell behind， except， exam.

　　Homework

　　Finish off the Workbook exercises.

　　Read the end of the dialogue on SB page 39， Part 1.