Unit 2 English around the WorldPeriod 4 Learning about Language1．Teaching aimsSs will be able to use direct speech and indirect speech2. Teaching important pointSummarize the rules of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech.3. Teaching difficult pointLearn about the special cases in which the tenses shouldn’t be changed.4. Teaching methodsDiscussing, summarizing and practicing.5. Teaching proceduresStep 1.Discovering useful words and expressions1.Work in pairs. Do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then check the answer you’re your classmates. The teacher helps the students discover the difference in prepositions.2. Revise the phrases be different from, pay a role(part) in, because of, in/on a team, the number of/a number of, than ever before, even if, comp up to, over time, communicate with, be based on, make use of, have one’s own identity, such as, Only time can tell, native speaker, Step2.Direct and Indirect SpeechRevise the grammar of unit 1Please change the direct speech into indirect speech1. He said, “I’m going to Beijing tomorrow.__________________________________________________________2. “What a lovely girl!” they said.__________________________________________________________3. He asked, “Are you a teacher?”__________________________________________________________4. “This is the craziest thing I have heard of so far,” she thought.__________________________________________________________5. Mr Wang said, “I was born in China in September, 1972.”__________________________________________________________用心 爱心 专心16. She said, “They had left when I arrived there.”__________________________________________________________7. She says, “Liu Fang is good at English.”__________________________________________________________8. He said, “The...
