Period 3 Listening and ReadingThe General Idea of This Period：This period aims at training students two skillslistening and reading skills.Students have to get the general idea of Freddys story and get detailed information by reading the rest of Freddys story.Having the general idea of the whole story，students are expected to sum up the advantages and disadvantages of being famous.Whats more，students are encouraged to express their opinions on whether they would enjoy being famous and give their own reasons.Teaching Aims：1.Train the students abilities to listen to the story about Freddy.2.Enable the students to memorize some important information about Freddys story.3.Train the students abilities to express their opinions.Teaching Important Points：1.Develop students listening skill to get all the needed information.2.Enable students to retell the story.3.Train the students abilities to express the advantages and disadvantages of being famous.Teaching Difficult Points：1.How to catch all the points about Freddy from listening.2.Retell the information about Freddy.Teaching Methods：1.Listening skill directing.2.Task-based activity.Teaching Aids：A tape-recorder，a projector，some slides and a multiple-media computer.Teaching Procedures：Step 1 Review and Check the HomeworkT：Last class we learned something about the attributive clause with the preposition ahead of the relative clause.Remember? Ss：Yes.T：Can you make a sentence with this structure?Ss：Yes.S1：The guitar with which they gave performance was lost.T：Good.S2：The name by which the group was known was “The Monkees”.T：Well done.S3：The book，the cover of which is broken，is not mine.T：Yeah，very good.S4：The singer with whom Coco Li sang was very happy.T：Terrific!T：Good，all of you have reviewed the lesson.Then lets go on to check the homework.Ex.2 on Page 71.Correct the sentences.I would like some students to come here and write down your correct sentences on the blackboard.（8 students come to the blackboard and write down the sentences.The other students check their sentences.）Suggested answer：1.Peter said that he was really grateful to you for the help you offered the other day.2.He told all the people present to pay more attention to education.3.Mr Clark found Alice sitting in the corner of the living room whose windows were wide open.4.Ill never forget the days which/that we spent together during our study tour in the Republic of Ireland.5.They thought very lightly of our new design，which made us very pleased.6.Please sit here for a while.The meal is being prepared at the moment.7.As a result of the terrorists attack，tourism，which is the most important industry here，has been greatly affected.8.You will be fine as long as you stick to the rules.Step 2 Warming up：introduce Freddy to the classShow a picture of a frog and let the students say out what it is.Then introduce Freddy to the class.T：OK，class.Have a look at this picture.Do you know what it is?Ss：Its a frog.T：Right.But he is not a common frog.His name is Freddy.He has a special quality.Can you guess what special quality Freddy has?S1：Swinging.S2：Flying.S3：Singing.Step 3 PredictionDescribe Freddys life experience and let the students guess what will happen next.While talking about Freddys life experience，show the relevant pictures to attract the class attention.T：When Freddy was young，he was a little tadpole.As time went by quickly，he soon became a frog.One day，Freddy sat on the water lily leaf and slid his long，thin legs into the water.Suddenly，he heard some music across the lake.Then what would happen?（Allow the students to express their own ideas and prediction freely.）S1：He found a snake.S2：He found his friends.S3：He found a nightingale.Step 4 Listening for the General InformationLet the students listen to the tape for the first time and answer the following questions.T：You have many difficult ideas about what will happen to Freddy.Now lets listen to the story about Freddy and see what Freddy found when he swam slowly towards the sound.（Play the tape for the first time.After listening，ask some students what they have got.）T：So have you got the answers?What did Freddy find when he swam slowly towards the sound?S：He found three confident frogs sitting still on the leaf and playing the instruments.Step 5 Listen for the Detail Information （Group work）Divide the class into 2 groups.For the students in Group A，they have to find out all the true statements from the 6 sentences.For the students in Group B，they have to find out all the false statements from the same 6 sentences.At last，see which group can get the most correct answer.The six sentences are：1.Freddy had changed from a man to a frog.2.He felt lonely in his lake till he met his friends on the lily leaf.3.The singers of the band could sing very loudly. 4.Freddy thought he could sing as wel