Teaching Aims
1. Learn and master the following everyday English:
Possibility and impossibility
I / She / He can / may…
I / She / He may not…
It is likely that…
It is possible that …
He / She is not likely to…
2. Do some listening and writing.
3. Review the Attribute and the useful expressions in this unit.
Teaching Important Points
1. Make the students learn the expressions for possibility and impossibility.
2. Improve the students’
Teaching Difficult Points
1. Use the expressions for possibility and impossibility correctly.
2. Make correct sentences with some phrases.
Teaching Methods
1. Listening-and-choice activity to help the students go through the listening material.
2. Make simple dialogue to practise the students’ speaking ability.
Pair work to train the students’ writing ability.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Revision
Check the homework exercises.
Get Ss to retell the story about Clare Flower.
Step 2 Preparation for listening
SB Page 54, Part 1. Wb Listening, Unit 21. Tell the Ss we’re going to listen to a story about a store detective in London. A store detective works in a shop and looks out for people who are stealing things. Then read aloud the task in Ex. 1 and make sure the Ss understand what to do.
Step 3 Listening
Listening Cassette Unit 21. Do each exercise in turn. Play the tape, then let Ss discuss their answers in pairs. Play the tape again if necessary, then check the answers with the whole class.
Listening Text
A problem for the store detective
Listen to these two conversations which take place in a store in London.
PART 1
A customer is talking to a shop assistant.
(C =Customer; SA =Shop Assistant
SA： Can I help you?
C： Yes, please. I want to change this skirt.
SA： What's the matter with it?
C： Nothing's the matter with it. It's just the wrong size. It's too short.
SA： Where did you buy it, Madam?
C： Here, in this store. Except that I didn't buy it. My sister bought it for me as a present.
Look, it's still got the label on the skirt arid the price.
SA： And when did she buy it?
C： Before Christmas.
SA： Have you got a sale ticket, you know a note of the sale?
C： No, my sister kept that, I suppose. And she's abroad. She's in America right now.
SA： So you want to change it for a larger size.
C： That's right.
SA： Would you like to see if you can find one the right size and then bring it over here?
(Later)
C： Here. I've found one and it fits me perfectly. Can I take this one then?
SA： Of course, Madam. I'll put it in a bag for you.
PART 2
The store detective stops the customer outside the store in the street.
(C =Customer; D =Detective)
D： Excuse me, Madam. I'm a store detective with M & S. You have just left the store with goods which you have not paid for.
C： That's not true.
D： You have a skirt in that bag which you haven't paid for.
C： I think you have made a mistake.
D： Would you please come back inside the store and explain.
C： Right.
(They go back inside the store and go to the skirt department. )
D： This skirt, Madam. You did not pay for it and you took it out of the store.
