Unit 16 Description (II) Step 1: Opening Remarks Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 15 Part A ： Micro-Listening Listening for Key Words

Part A ： Micro-Listening Exercise 1: 1.Tom’s sister is tall. 2.Ann’s boss is bossy. 3.The new office is tall, bright and modern. 4.Paul’s cousin is very beautiful. 5.The baby is lovely.

Part A ： Micro-Listening Exercise 2: 1.Adjectives used to describe the beauty: famous, beautiful, charming 2.Adjectives used to describe Bernard Shaw: intelligent, wise

Part B ： Marco-Listening  Conversation 1: Everybody Likes Him Culture Notes: 1. come on an expression used in colloquial English to encourage someone to do something.

Part B ： Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. honey An affectionate term, meaning “sweetheart or dear”, used to address people who are very close and intimate to you. For example, it is used by parents to call their children and between husband and wife.

 Conversation 2: What Did the Person Look Like? Part B ： Marco-Listening 1. Just calm down a minute. When you calm down, you stop feeling anxious, upset or angry. You often use “a minute” to mean a short time. Culture Notes:

Part B ： Marco-Listening 2. Around 5’10’’ meaning the robber is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, which is about 178 cm. In the US, people do not use the metric system (meter and gram) to measure the basic units of weight and length. Instead, they use feet and inches for length and pounds and ounces for weight. One foot equals cm and one inch equals 2.54 cm. Culture Notes:

Part C Oral Practice Task 1: Communicative function: Talking about study with classmates and teachers Firstly, students are required to remember the useful sentences and structures that are often used in talking about study with classmates and teachers. Secondly, they are required to read a model dialogue.

Part C Oral Practice Finally, they are requested to make similar conversations of their own, using the given situation below. Try to use what they’ve learned in this lesson in their conversations. Situation: Now look at the picture in your book and make similar descriptions of your own to describe the woman in the picture.

Part C Oral Practice Task 2(Pair work): Questions and answers on the texts Listen to conversation 1 & 2 again and answer the following questions in complete sentences. Then link up the answers to make a short summary of the conversation.

Part D Home Listening Exercise on page 137