Incomplete Plosion

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Incomplete Plosion
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• bad cold great care
• black dog big boy
• A difficult person
• A good chance
• about three years ago
• at primary school
• Let me see
• Tell him Im not coming.
• Id like to know

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• Dont forget to turn it off.
• Jack can speak good French.
• I want to read science fiction in English.
• Ive never listened to English broadcast
  programs.
• I would not consider him a good friend.

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Dictation of Sentences
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1. Now Im trying to focus on the general idea,
not worrying about the new words.
2. I dont think
when we speak, but it is important
to
we have to sound
like an English person
pronounce well enough to make
ourselves understood.
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3. Its necessary that we spend some time after
class listening to tapes and practicing reading
and imitating.
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Talking about Likes, Dislikes and Preference

• Communicative function
• Unit 3, Book 1, Page21
• Unit 5, Book 2, Page48

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Maggie _____ swimming but she ______________
skiing. She _____ flying on planes and traveling
by train but she _____ getting on buses because
they are too crowded and dirty. She is __________
playing the piano and she _______ reading to
playing computer games. She _____ going to
Chinese restaurants and her _______ food is spicy
Sichuan bean curd.
likes
doesnt care for
loves
hates
not interested in
prefers
loves
tofu
favorite
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After work she __________ listening to music. She
_______ light music to rock, because light music
makes her feel relaxed. She ______ watching TV in
the evening. She _____________ news program but
sitcoms are the ___________ thing for her to
watch.
is keen on
prefers
enjoys
thinks a lot of
last kind of
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes

• Listen to the recording and complete the passage
  with the missing words.
• Listen again and try to retell the passage with
  other expressions for Likes and Dislikes.

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What are they talking about?

• Listen to dialogues

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• Dialogue 1
• Do you like pop music?
• Whats your favorite pop song?
• Whos your favorite singer then?

• Im crazy about it.

• Its hard to say.

• Celine Dion, undoubtedly .

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• Dialogue 2
• Do you care for operas?
• Which do you like better, opera or musicals?
• Do you just listen to it or go to the
  performances?

• Yes, I do, very much.

• Opera

• I prefer going to a performance.

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• Dialogue 3
• Do you enjoy listening to music?
• Whats your favorite music?

• Yes, very much.

I enjoy listening to music more than any other
pastime.

• It depends.

In a good mood, sth exicting.
feel low, sth soft and quiet.
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Dialogue 1 pop music/song Celine Dion
Dialogue 2 opera ? musicals going to performance
? listening to it
Dialogue 3 listening to music (? any other
pastime)
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Talking about Preference

• Speaking Task
• Making a Short Conversation

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Do you like winter or summer?
They are all right, but I like better (than ).
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winter or summer?
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Which do you prefer, traveling by train or by
plane/air?
I prefer (to).
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traveling by train or by air?
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Which appeals to you more, chatting with your
friends on net or by phone call?
appeals to me more.
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chatting with your friends on net or by phone
call?
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Who do you like better, Yao or Liu?
Its hard to say/decide.
If you ask me, I think I prefer.
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Yao Ming or Liu Xiang?
Hurdle race
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Which novel do you like best? Which novel is your
favorite?
Id say is my favorite.
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Monkey King The Legend of 3 States The Dream of
the Red Mansion The Story of Waterside
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climbing
table tennis
football/soccer
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Whats your favorite sport?
I have a passion for.
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New words Invitation Elegant tasteful and
stylish Attractively Elementary school
Something strange invitation elegant tasteful
and stylish attractively elementary school
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Questions

• What do we know about this party?
• It was a get together of college students.
• It was given by Sam.
• Sam and I were both invited to it.
• It was given by a very beautiful girl.

B
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• According to the speaker, which of the following
  is true?
• The girl was the only person he knew at the
  party.
• The girls beauty attracted his attention.
• The speakers friend introduced him to the girl.
• The girl persuaded him to stay a moment.

B
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• 3. What were the topics of the conversations
  between the speaker and the girl?
• The weather
• All of the above
• TV programs
• Sports

B
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• 4. What surprised the speaker most?
• The girl pretended to know him.
• The girl knew the names of quite a few
  famous football players
• The girl knew his name used by some people in
  his elementary school days.
• The girl was so friendly toward him.

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• 5. What do we learn about the girl?
• The girl was friendly with everybody she met.
• The girl was a person with whom you could easily
  develop a close friendship.
• The girl and the speaker might have gone to the
  same elementary school.
• The girl must be the most beautiful one at the
  party.

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I went to Sams party at his invitation.
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A girl caught my attention. Her hair was so
golden. Her face was so perfect. Her clothes
looked so elegant.
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I believed I had never seen her before. But I
didn't tell her.
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football
TV plays
weather
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Before I had realized, half an hour had passed.
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I was surprised, because the strange thing is
that, although my name is Jack, there had been
one time in elementary school when some people
had called me Rob.
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Now with the help of pictures, retell the story
to your partner.