Lesson 2  Websites

lesson 2 websites
teaching aims:
to practise extensive and intensive listening skills.
to find information from a website.
to focus on prominently stressed as an aid to understanding – the key content words in every sentence that are stressed.
to practise making plans and suggestions over the telephone.
teaching difficulties: to practise expressing preferences
teaching aids: computer and cassette
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up
t: do you use the internet?
s:
t: what do you usually use it for?
s:
t: net changes our life and makes life more convenient. do you want to know its history?
can you answer any of these questions about the history of the internet?
1. why did the net begin?
a) for military reasons
b) for scientific reasons
c) for business
2. what year did it start in?
a) 1959 b) 1969 c) 1979
3. when did people start calling it the ‘internet’?
a) the 1980s
b) the early 1990s
c) the late 1990s
4. when did the internet start to grow very fast?
a) the late 1980s
b) the mid-1990s
c) the late 1990s
answers: 1. a 2. b 3. a 4. b
ⅱ listening and talking
listen to the tape and answer the questions.
listen again and answer the questions
why did the net begin by the military?
the pentagon were worried about communication after a nuclear war. in 1969 they thought of linking computers into a network so that if one part of the network was destroyed , other parts could continue working.
what do people use the network to do?
people use the network to share ideas .they use it for entertainment, e-mail, playing games and getting information.
which ‘website’ can you visit to do these things?
a) find out what’s going on in your town
b) look for a job
c) find out the latest world news
d) get information for a school history project
e) write to your friend by e-mail
f) buy clothes
a3 b1 c6 d2 e5 f4 ask students to tell you the reason why you choose the answers.
listen to a telephone conversation between two people in brighton. which thing from the internet page do they decide to do?
go to the cinema on friday evening to see richard bailey’s new film, virtual planet
listen to the conversation again. complete the function file with words and phrases from the list.

Lesson2Websites

see you, 973273, would you like, hang on, are you up to, do you fancy, i’d better, why don’t we, i can’t, i’d love to , sorry, let’s, this is, please
answer the question hello. (1) ______.
say who you are hello, mrs turner. (2) ________ mandy.
ask to speak to somebody can i speak to lucy, (3) ______?
ask somebody to wait just (4) ________ a second.
ask about plans what (5) _______ _____ this weekend?
say you didn’t hear (6) _______?
make suggestions (7) _____________ go on saturday morning? (8) ___________ doing something on friday night? (9) ______________ to go?
reject suggestions well, (10) _______. i’ve got a music lesson.
accept suggestions great, (11) __________.
finish the cal well, (12) _________ go now.
make an arrangement (13) _____ meet at 6:30, outside the cinema.
say goodbye right. (14) _______ tomorrow.
answers: 1. 973273 2. this is 3. please 4. hang on 5. are you up to 6. sorry 7. why don’t we 8. do you funcy 9. would you like 10. i can’t
pronunciation
listening strategies: important words
•listen for words that are stressed. they are important words.
•do not worry if you do not hear all the other words.
do the exercise 7
students listen to the seven sentences on the cassette. pause after each sentence for students to identify the stressed words.
then play the cassette for students to repeat the sentences.
ⅲ homework