制作人：许新叶

Teaching Aims

I. Knowledge Aims:i. Master the following new phrases:

New Phrases : leave for think of

ii.Sentence Patterns:

A girl named Alice

It is/was + ··· + who /that + ···

II.Ability Aims:

i. Training students’ spoken English

ii.Improving students’ reading ability

III.Emotion Ability:

i. learning the first postage in the world

Teaching Importances:

i.Training students’ spoken English

ii.Improving students’ reading ability

Teaching Difficulty :

Training students’ reading ability

Teaching Method:

Aims-Circulation Teaching Method

Question: Why did Alice give the letter back to the mailman?

The answer:

Because there is nothing in it .She knew the content of the letter by some signs on the envelope.

I. Who had to pay postage in the early 19th century?

II. Whom did Alice receive a letter from ?

III.What did Alice do after looking at the envelope ?

IV.Why did Tom put some signs on the envelope ?

V. Who first thought of using stamps ?

VI. When did the post offices in England begin to sell stamps ?

Answer the questions:

I. Who had to pay postage in the early century?

People who received the letter had to pay postage in the early 19th century.

She received a letter from Tom.

She handed it back to the mailman.

II. Whom did Alice receive a letter from ?

III. What did Alice do after looking at the envelope ?

V. Who first thought of using stamps ?

IV. Why did Tom put some signs on the envelope ?

VI. When did the post offices in England begin to sell stamps ?

Because he knew Alice could not pay the postage.

Rowland Hill first thought of using stamps.

The post offices in England began to sell stamps in 1840.

Language Points:

leave for

e.g. He left Shanghai for Hangzhou .

think of

e.g. I can’t think of his name right now.

A girl named Alice

Means A girl who was named Alice.

It is/was + ··· + who /that + ···

e.g. It was he who first thought of using stamps.

e.g. It was last year that we got to know each other.

e.g. It was at the station that I met him for the first time.

Fill in the blanks with the right words according to the text.

1.In the early 19th century the person who ____________the letter had to pay the postage.

2.Alice handed the letter back to the ____________.

3.Alice know the content of the letter by some ________on the envelope.

4.Rowland Hill first had the idea of using _______.

5.The first postage stamps in England were put out in ________.

received

mailman

signs

stamps

1840

Exercises:

1. Make up a conversation after Text 2 and then act it out.

2. Workbook P80. TVI. Translation(1,2,3,4,5).