Help students write an essay about whether smoking should be banned.

Help the students to learn how to listen to a TV programme.

Teaching important points教学重点

Learn how to join some sentences by using linking words and phrases and write an essay about whether smoking should be banned.

Learn how to listen to a TV programme.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

How to join some sentences by using linking words and phrases

Teaching methods教学方法

Individual, pair or group work, discussion and task-based activities.

Teaching aids教具准备

A projector and a tape recorder.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与教学方式

Step Ⅰ Lead-in

T: We are often asked to write short articles in or after class in paper tests. I find that some students are not able to use the linking words or phrases like "however, although, despite, even though, in spite of, on the other hand, therefore, etc" correctly. If we apply them to our articles correctly, we are able to read and write well. Please look at the sentences on the screen and then rewrite it using "although, even though, however, on the other hand, therefore".

The teacher shows the sentence on the screen.

Some people find the idea of taking people off life support machines terrible.

Others don't mind doing this if the patient doesn't improve after many years.

T: We can say "Although some people find the idea of taking people off life support machines terrible, others don't mind doing this if the patient doesn't improve after many years."

S1: Even though some people find the idea of taking people off life support machines terrible, others don't mind doing this if the patient doesn't improve after many years.

S2: Some people find the idea of taking people off life support machines terrible.