W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

aim: 
improving students’ critical skills using problem solving situations.
2.
Ask students to do the following test to check their intelligence independently. 
set the time. 
answers
:
1. What relation is your niece’s 
brother to you?
 Don’t know Cousin
Nephew Uncle 
answer: 
nephew
2. How many birthdays does the 
average man have?
 Don’t know 1 10 65
75
answer: 
1 – Just one!
3. Some months have 31 days; 
how many have 28?
Don’t know 1
 2 
 3 
 9 
 12
answer: 
12 – all of them!
4. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. 
What is the answer?
Don’t know 
 25 
 50 
 
70 
 90
Answer
: 70
– 30 divided by 1/2 
equals 60! takes some thinking.....
5. If there are 3 apples and you 
take away 2, how many do you 
have?
 Don’t know 
 1 
 2 
 3
answer
: 2 – you took them, 
remember?
6. A doctor gives you three pills 
telling you to take one every half 
hour. How many minutes would 
the pills last??
 Don’t know 20 40 60
 90

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Teacher’s book
75
answer
: 60 – start with the 1st pill, 
30 minutes later take the 2
nd
, then 
30 minutes for the 3rd.
7. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all 
but 9 die. How many are left?
 Don’t know 
 1 
 3 
 5 
 8 
 9
answer: 
9
8. How many two cent stamps are 
there in a dozen?
 Don’t know 
 1 
 3 
 6 
 9 
 12
answer: 
12 – There are twelve 2 
cent stamps in a dozen!
post-listening Time: 10 min.
aim
: practising introduced materials in speech.
3.
According to the table, tell students to describe the intelligence types of their 
class. (Ask to write about 40-50 words.) What is the most common type of 
intelligence in your class? Does it surprise you? how many types of intelligence 
are there in their class? is there a difference between boys and girls? 
lEssON 2. sIx CONDITIONs OF lEaRNING (90 mIN)
 “I see and I forget. I hear and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
 
Objectives.
by the end of the lesson students will be able to:
 
listen for gist and detailed information;
 
use the 
expressions with to be
in meaningful situations.
skills to be emphasized: 
listening, speaking, reading, writing.
Target structure: 
expressions with 
to be.
Target vocabulary: 
actually, kind of, in my opinion, plenty of, spare, with 
pleasure, truly, similar to, I think, free, I’d love to,
materials:
photos, a tape, textbooks
starter Time: 10 min.
aim:
preparing students for the new topic.
tell students to look at the picture and discuss in pairs.
 

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Teacher’s book
76
Divide class into small groups. Ask them to answer the questions in small group 
discussion. Ask students to use the charts in that page. Check in a whole group 
discussion.
a) What do you think of Confucius’ statement?
b) What way did you use to learn english?
c) 
How much reading do you do every week?
d) 
How much listening do you do every day?
e) Will you change your learning way after this?