I. Presentation

Ask students: Do your parents allow you to watch TV? Yes, they do.

Present the sentence: You are allowed to watch TV.

Teach “allow sb to do sth “  

“be (not) allowed to do sth”

      “should (not)be allowed to do sth”

Present more sentence.

Do your parents allow you to exercise?

Yes, they do.

You are allowed to exercise.

Do your parents allow you to smoke?

No, they don’t.

You are not allowed to smoke.

Do your parents allow you to drive?

No, they don’t.

You are not allowed to drive.

Do your parents allow you to choose your own clothes?

No, they don’t.

You should be allowed to choose your own clothes.

Do your parents allow you to get your ear pierced?

No, they don’t.

You should not be allowed to get your ear pierced.

II. Warming up

Obey the school rules!

As a teenager, you have a lot of rules at school. Can you write down some of them?

Students should be allowed to speak English loudly.

Students shouldn’t be allowed to sleep in class.

Students shouldn’t be allowed to make noises.

Students shouldn’t be allowed to throw the rubbish in the classroom.

Students shouldn’t be allowed to get to class late.

Explain:

allow sb to do sth

允许某人做某事

be allowed to do sth

被允许做某事

should be allowed to do sth

应该被允许做某事

1a. Read the statements below. Circle A for agree or D for disagree.

1. Teenagers should not be allowed to smoke.                    A D

2. Sixteen-year-olds should be allowed to drive.                A       D

3. Students should not be allowed to have part-time jobs.         A       D

4. Sixteen-year-olds should be allowed to get their ears pierced.   A D

5. Teenagers should be allowed to choose their own clothes.      A D

III. Listening

1. Pre-listening

What’s the relationship of the two speakers?

They are mother and daughter.

2. 1b  Listen and circle T for true or F for false.

1) Anna can go to the shopping center by bus.         T      F

2) Anna wants to get her ears pierced.               T      F

3) Anna wants to choose her own clothes.            T      F

3. Listen again and answer the questions.

1) What does the woman think about John’s driver’s license?

2) What does Anna want to watch?

3) How is Anna going there?

4) What else is Anna going to do?

IV. Practice

1c Look at the statements in la and make conversations.

A: I don't think sixteen-year-olds should be allowed to drive.

B: I agree. They aren't serious enough.

A: I don’t think sixteen-year-olds should be allowed to _____.

B: I agree. They are/ aren’t _____.

V. Key phrases

1. be allowed to do            被允许去做

2. the shopping center          购物中心

3. driver’s license             驾驶执照

4. sixteen-year-olds            16岁的孩子

5. be worried about your safety 担心你们的安全

6. part-time jobs               兼职工作

7. get their ears pierced     穿他们的耳朵

8. their own clothes        他们自己的衣服

9. serious enough          足够严肃

VI. Listening

2a What does Molly think of Kathy’s statements? Listen and circle A for Agree,

D for Disagree or DK for Doesn’t Know.

2b Listen again. What are Kathy’s and Molly’s reasons? Number their reasons in

the correct order.

_____ It looks cool.

_____ Young people need to sleep.

_____ He needs to spend time with friends.

_____ He needs time to do homework.

_____ It doesn't look clean.

Listen the third time and make true or false.

1. Molly is working late tonight.

2. Both Kathy and Molly think teenage boys never get tired.

3. Kathy and Molly don’t think Larry should work every night.

4. Larry’s hair is too long and doesn’t look clean.

5. Larry doesn’t have many friends because he doesn’t like to make friends.

VII. Practice

1. 2c Make a list of things teenagers should and should not be allowed to do. Discuss your list with your partner.

A: Do you think teenagers should...?

B: Yes, I .../No, I...

2. 2d Read the conversation and answer the questions.

1) Where do they go for school trip?

2) Does Mr. Smith allow students to take photos?

3) How to take photos?

3. Fill in the blanks and role-play the conversation.

Sandy: I’m really excited about seeing the famous paintings by Picasso.

Wu Lan: Me, too! I’m glad Mr. Smith chose the art museum for our school trip this year.

Sandy: I’m going to bring my new camera to take lots of photos!

Wu Lan: Oh, no. Mr. Smith says we must not take photos. _____________________

       ______________________. （博物馆不允许）

Sandy: That’s too bad! Do you think __________________________________

      （会不会允许我们照相啊）if we don’t use a flash?

Wu Lan: Hmm ... I think they just want to protect the paintings. So if you don’t

        use a flash, then it might be OK.

Sandy: Yeah. I think we should be allowed to do that. I’ll bring my camera anyway.

VIII. Summary

1. Language points

allow的用法

1) Teenagers should be allowed to choose their own clothes.

2) Teenagers should not be allowed to smoke.

3) It is not allowed in the museum.

4) Do you think we may be allowed to take photos if we don't use a flash?

以上四句都含有重要的句型be allowed to do sth.，其中第三句是此句型的一般现在时，一二四句是情态动词与此句型的混合使用。

运用：“sb. + should / should not + be allowed to do ...”

翻译：

我认为应该允许16岁的孩子开车。

I think sixteen-year-olds should be allowed to drive.

你认为应该允许13岁的孩子们做兼职工作吗？

Do you think thirteen-year-olds should be allowed to take part-time jobs?

安娜可以选择自己的衣服。

Anna is allowed to choose her own clothes. 

同义句转换

They should allow us to have part-time jobs. 

__________________________________________________________________.

We should be allowed to have part-time jobs.

We should allow children to spend time with their friends.  

_________________________________________________________________.

Children should be allowed to spend time with their friends.

The teacher should allow Anna to finish the picture.

__________________________________________________________________.

Anna should be allowed to finish the picture.

2. Explanation

1) sixteen-year-olds十六岁的青少年

它相当于一个名词,等于sixteen – year- old kids.

  “一个16岁青少年的表达方式”

a kid of sixteen

a kid of sixteen years old

a sixteen-year-old kid

 2) They aren’t serious enough.

句中的enough用作副词，意为“足够地”，修饰形容词serious。

enough用作副词时，可以用来修饰形容词或副词，并且通常位于形容词或副词之后。

【运用】单项选择。

(1) The dining hall is ___________ to hold 300 people.  (2013 广东梅州)

A. enough big             B. enough small

C. small enough          D. big enough

D

(2) My grandpa can’t walk ___________ because there is something wrong

   with his feet.

A. fast enough            B. enough fast   

C. slowly enough        D. enough slowly

  A

3) He doesn’t seem to have many friends.

  主＋seem to do sth.    好像

  e.g. His temperature seems to be all right.  他的体温好像完全正常。

  seem的其他用法:

  (1) seem+形容词

  e.g. The question seems quite easy.  那个问题好像很容易。

 (2) seem+名词

e.g. That seems a good idea.  那好像是个好主意。

 (3) It seems + that 从句

e.g. It seemed that nobody knew anything about the matter.

看来没有人知道这件事。

【运用】根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。

(1) 这儿的衣服似乎很贵。

    The clothes here ____ __ __ very expensive. seem to be

(2) 他们似乎周六要去上海。

    They seem __ __ to Shanghai on Saturday. to go

(3) 好像今天她要开车去上班。

   __ _____ ___ she’ll drive to work today. It seems that

IX. Homework

Write down what should be allowed to do or should not be allowed to do in school or your family.