1. The Direct Method Introduction: Goal:How to use a foreign language to communicate Basic Rule:No translation is allowed Meaning:Be conveyed directly in the target language, no recourse to the students’ native language

2. Taiwan • Area :36,000 square kilometers • Population:23 million • Capital :Taipei City • Language :Mandarin/Taiwanese/Hakka/Indigenous Languages • President :Ma Ying-Jeou

3. Reading the Passage • Taiwan's total land area is only about 36,000 square kilometers; it is shaped like a tobacco leaf that is narrow at both ends. It lies off the southeastern coast of the mainland Asia, across the Taiwan Strait from Mainland China-- a solitary island on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. To the north lies Japan ; to the south is the Philippines.

4. Taiwan lies on the western edge of the Pacific "rim of fire," and continuous tectonic movements have created majestic peaks, rolling hills and plains, basins, coastlines, and other wonders. Taiwan sees climates of many types: tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate, providing clear differentiation between the different seasons. There are about 18,400 species of wildlife on the island, with more than 20% belonging to rare or endangered established 7 national parks and 13 species.The government has national scenic areas to preserve Taiwan's best natural ecological environment and cultural sites.

5. Looking At a Map

6. What’s former name of Taiwan? • In 1544, a Portuguese ship sighted the main island of Taiwan and dubbed it "Ilha Formosa", which means "Beautiful Island." • Both Tayoan and the island name Taiwan derive from a word in Sirayan, one of the Formosan languages.

7. Q&APrinciples 1. Goals:learn how to communicate and think in target language 2. Role:teacher and student are more like partners 3. Characteristics: • to associate meaning and the target language directly, • explain new things with target language instead of translation, • setting in a real situation, • grammar is taught inductively

8. 4. Interaction:teacher and student interact with each other5. Feeling:no principle6. Language and Culture:．language is primarily spoken, not written．Culture consists of history, country and information of daily lives7. Areas and Skills emphasized:．Vocabulary is emphasized over grammar．Communication is seen as basic．Reading and writing practice orally．Pronunciation

9. 8. Role of native language:should not be used9. Evaluation:to use the target language in both oral and written skills10. Teacher respond to student errors:try to get student to self-correct

10. Techniques • Reading aloud • Question and answer exercise • Getting students to self-correct • Conversation practice • Fill-in-the-blank exercise • Dictation • Map drawing • Paragraph writing