teaching aims: 1. teaching students how to use abbreviations to fill in a timetable. 2. develop students’ ability of listening to and identifying dates, day, time, venue and events or activities. teaching procedures: step 1 revision check the students’ home work: 1) ask some students to read their five sentences out and let other students make comments about these sentences. 2) ask students to take out their textbooks and turn to page 88 to check their answers of part c2. step 2 presentation 1 ask students to read the five points in skills building 1 on page 12. have them write down the names of months and the seven days of a week in abbreviations.
