This is the second teaching period of this unit. As usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for them to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class.

In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the Ss’ reading ability and getting them to learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming and so on. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find those the Ss find most difficult and help them to understand. One way of helping them learn new words is to ask them to study the text before the lesson and find out the meaning of any word they are unsure of. A second way of helping them is to choose the words they maybe find difficult and pre-teach them before beginning the reading.