Step 1　 Revision

1 Check the homework exercises.

2 Revise simple phrases for asking permission: ask individual Ss Can I borrow your book, please? May I open the window? Could I use your pen, please? etc. Help the Ss to answer Yes, of course. Then get the Ss to ask each other for permission to do things.

Step 2　 Presentation

SB Page 7, Part 1. Books closed! Tell the Ss Wang Bing wants to do two things. What are they? Listen carefully. Speech Cassette Lesson 5. Play the tape or read the dialogue (playing both parts yourself). Get the Ss to tell you the answer. (Smoke; use the phone.) Then ask Can he smoke in the office? Why not? (No; it‘s not allowed.) and Can he use the phone? (Yes.)

Step 3　 Language focus

Ask How does Wang Bing ask for permission? What words does he use? Play or read the dialogue again and note the answers on the Bb:

Do you mind if I smoke?

Would you mind if I smoked in the office next door?

I wonder if I could use your phone.

Add the words revised earlier:

Can/May/Could I...?

Explain that these are all ways of asking permission to do things. Tell the Ss that Do/Would you mind... ? = Does/Would it bother you...? Note the Past Tense form in the conditional phrase Would you mind if I did...?

This sounds very polite. Play or read the dialogue again. This time the Ss listen and repeat. Then they practise the dialogue in pairs. Note that non- smoking offices means offices in which smoking is not allowed.

Step 4　 Practice

SB Page 7, Part 2. Go through the phrases in the table and make sure the Ss understand them. Go ahead = Please do. Carry out a short drill. Say to the Ss:

T: You want to borrow my pen. Use Do you mind. Ss: Do you mind if I borrow your pen? T: No. Go ahead. You want to use my dictionary. Use

Would you mind... ?

Ss: Would you mind if I used your dictionary? T: No. Go ahead, (etc.)

Practise negative replies. Ask individual Ss Would you mind if I kept your pen/threw your dictionary out of the window? etc. Then the Ss work in pairs, asking their partners for permission to do the actions in Part 2.

Step 5　 Dialogue

SB Page 7, Part 3. Go through the model dialogue with the whole class. Make it clear that B is unwilling to help, but agrees in the end. Get the Ss to make up similar dialogues and ask some pairs to act out their dialogues in front of the class.

Step 6　 Workbook

Wb Lesson 5, Exx. 1-3.

Read and act out the dialogue in pairs. Call out several pairs to give out their performance in front of the class.

Discuss the answers to Ex. 2 in pairs. Then check the answers with the whole class. The Ss are encouraged to give different answers.

For Ex. 3, get two Ss to read aloud the model dialogue. You may use different expressions to make another dialogue with a student about the same picture. Then let the Ss practise in pairs with the other three pictures. Finally call out several pairs to give their dialogues.

Step 7　 Consolidation

Practise the dialogue in SB Page 7, Part 1 again.

Homework

Finish the Workbook exercises.

Revise the dialogues in SB Lesson 5.

Write one of the dialogues in Ex. 3 in the exercise book.