Unit 7 World Trade Organization,Listening and speaking,I. Teaching objectives Ss are expected to learn to: 1. listen for specific information about WTO; 2. listen for specific information to fill in the gaps in the conversations; 3. retell the main points heard; 4. role-play the conversations,II. Teaching focus: To learn the impacts of entering into WTO III. Teaching difficulty To listen for gist and specific information VI. Teaching aids: a disc player and the disc V. Teaching length: 90 minutes IV. Teaching procedure:,Step1. Greet the class and announce the tasks for the periods. Step2. Lead-in Questions (3minutes) 1. In your opinion, what is the significance of Chinas entry into WTO? 2. How does entering into WTO influence your daily life?,Step3. Present the 5 questions in Task2. Ask the class to read them through and make prediction about the points that the conversation may cover based on the key words in the questions. (3 minutes),Step4. Play the disc for the class to listen for the answers to the 5 questions in Task2. After listening, the Ss can have 5 minutes to talk about their answers in pairs. (10 minutes),Step5. Play the disc for the class to listen again and fill in the gaps in Task1. (5 minutes) Step6. Retelling. Ask the class to work in pairs and retell the key points to each other and invite 2 pairs to present to the class. (10 minutes),Step7. Speaking. Ask the class to work in pairs and role-play a conversation based on the information given in Task5. (15 minutes),Step8. Present the 5 questions in Task6. Ask the class to read them through and make prediction about the points that the conversation may cover based on the key words in the questions. (3 minutes),Step9. Play the disc for the class to listen for the answers to the 5 questions in Task6. After listening, the Ss can have 5 minutes to talk about their answers in pairs. (10 minutes) Step10. Play the disc for the class to listen again and fill in the gaps in Task5. (5 minutes),Step11. Retelling. Ask the class to work in pairs and retell the key points to each other and invite 2 pairs to present to the class. (10 minutes) Step12. Speaking. Ask the class to work in pairs and role-play a conversation based on the information given in Task8. (15 minutes),Step13. Summary. Step14. Assignments: To learn the new words and expressions in the two conversations,Intensive Reading,I. Teaching objectives: The Ss are expected to learn: 1. the Principles of the WTOs Trading System; 2. the words and expressions; 3. the reading skills to find out the general idea and specific information.,II. Teaching focus: To learn the Principles of the WTOs Trading System III. Teaching difficulty: The reading skills to find out the general idea and specific information VI. Teaching length: 90 minutes IV. Teaching procedure:,Step1. Greet the class and announce the tasks. Step2. Lead-in questions (2 minutes) How much do you know about the Principles of the WTOs Trading System?,Step3. Reading skills: ask the class to skim the passage and outline its logical structure the talk about their answers in pairs. Ask 2 pairs to present to the class. (20 minutes),Principles of the WTOs Trading System General idea: There are a number of simple, fundamental principles run throughout all of the WTO documents.,1.Introduction 2.The specific principles: 1) trade without discrimination 2) Free trade, gradually, through negotiation,3) predictability through binding and transparency 4) promoting fair competition 5) encouraging development and economic reform,Step4. Reading skills: ask the class to scan the passage and find out the answers to Tasks911 based on the key words in each question and the outline made in Step3. (20 minutes),Step5. Intensive reading: ask the class to read through the passage in details and mark out the language points that are difficult to understand. (10 minutes) Step6. Language points in the passage. (25-30 minutes),Difficult sentences 1. In general, MFN means that every time a country lowers a trade barrier or opens up a market, it has to do so for the same goods or services from all its trading partners whether rich or poor, weak or strong.,一般来说，最惠国待遇指每当一个国家降低贸易壁垒或开放一个市场时，必须给予来自其所有贸易伙伴的同样产品或服务以相同的待遇，不分贫富、强弱。,2. The issues are complex, and the rules try to establish what is fair or unfair, and how governments can respond, in particular by charging additional import duties calculated to compensate for damage caused by unfair trade.,问题很复杂，这些规则旨在规范什么是公平与不公平，以及政府如何应对，特别是通过增收进口关税以补偿不公平贸易造成的损失。,3. At the same time, developing countries and transition economies were much more active and influential in the Uruguay Round negotiations than in any previous round, and they are even more so in the current Doha Development Agenda.,同时，和前一回合相比，在乌拉圭回合中，发展中国家和过渡经济体表现得更为积极，影响也更大。在当前的多哈发展议程中，情况更是如此。,4. A ministerial decision adopted at the end of the round says better-off countries should accelerate implementing market access commitments on goods exported by the least-dev