When: doesn’t tell but we know the members meet on the last Fri. of every month

　　Why: they all over poetry

　　Things they do: talk about poems and poets. First, select or write poems, then read them out loud. And listen to each other talking about poems.

　　4.Now the Ss have got a good idea of what the passages are about and one of the best way to learn English is to read and recite, so ask the Ss to finish the summary of the passage and try to learn something by heart.

　　The radio station in our school is ____ by the student. Two years ago, I asked the ________ if music could be played during _____ ____. He agreed. We tell students the _______, _____ _____ and some special messages. During _____ ____ we tell the students what they ______ or _________ do for preparation. When parents come, we play songs _____ by students and _____ them of ______, such as _________ and ______ _____.

　　Our English teacher Mr Owen started the group “_____________________________”. Group members ____________ to talk about ________ and _______ that we like.  When I _______ it, I was ________ to write five poems and _____ one ____ to the group. I ______ every one around a tree before I read. The group said they loved the poem I read.

　　Sample answers:

　　Run, headmaster, break time, weather, recent news, exam time, should, shouldn’t, sung, inform, events, outings, school plays, “Poets of the Next Generation”, meet, poems, poets, attended, required, read, out, circled

　　Step 4 Practice

　　Revise the new words and match the right column with the left column.

　　1. allow                    A. all people born at about the same time

　　2. headmaster                B. order or command something

　　3. generation                C. permit somebody / something to do sth.

　　4. select                    D. not excited, nervous

　　5. calm                    E. person with the highest authority in certain schools.

　　6. require                    F. choose somebody / something

　　Sample answers: C E A F D B

　　Deal with the difficult points in the passages

　　1. run v. 管理; 經(jīng)營

　　run a business/a theatre/ a bus company

　　2.  as  conj

　　1) I am lucky as I am one of the hosts.

　　as=since, because

　　As you weren’t there, I left a message.

　　As she’s been ill perhaps she will need help.

　　2) It was started two years ago as CD players were not allowed in school.

　　as=during the time when, while

　　I watched her as she combed her hair.

　　As he grew older he lost interest in everything except gardening.

　　3. approve  v.批準(zhǔn)；通過; （常與of連用）贊成，贊同

　　1) 我的父母不準(zhǔn)許我吸煙。

　　My parents don't approve of me smoking cigarettes.

　　2) The resolution was approved 82 to 16 with 18 abstentions.