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Book 1 Lesson One Half a Day Lesson One Half a Day Period 1-2 Schedule Week One Teaching Aims: 1. Describe students’ experience of the first day at school 2. Focus on vocabulary and grammar points Teaching Contents: 1. Preview 2. Background information Important Points: 1. Practice speaking and reading 2. Text analysis in terms of plot, setting, protagonists, writing devices and theme 3. Word-formation rules Difficult Points: 1. Make students talk freely about their first day at school 2. Analyze the text in detail Teaching Methods: 1. Teaching approach: communicative approach 2. Teaching aids: multimedia Assignments: 1. Exercises in the textbook 2. Exercises provided through handout 3. Please review the words and phrases we have learned today and preview the text Teaching Procedure: I. Lead-in: Role-play: Talk about sth. about the first day at school. II. Preview on the textbook: Listening Speaking III. Background Information: About the author: Naguib Mahfouz was born on the 11th Dec. 1911 in an old quarter（地区）of Cairo, the youngest son of a merchant. He studied philosophy at King Faud I (now Cairo) University, graduating in 1934. He worked in university administration and then in 1939 he worked for the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. He was later Head of the State Cinema Organization at the Ministry of Culture. He also worked as a journalist. Although widely translated, his works are not available in most Middle Eastern countries because of his support of Sadats Camp David initiative. In 1994 he survived an assassination attempt by Islamic extremists. Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1988. He has been described as “a Dickens of the Cairo cafés” and “the Balzac of Egypt”.He is now the author of no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Mahfouz be