I.True or false. Directions: Judge whether the following statements are true or false. Write a T in the brackets after a true statements and an F before a false statements.

( ) 1. Start-up refers to the beginning of the teaching activities. A good start-up greatly improves the chances of success.

( ) 2. Pre-class activities should increase the students' cognitive or affective burden to guide them think.

( ) 3. Language learning is the aim of classroom activities, so teachers should try to use the best possible approach to carry out specific teaching activities, such as new language lead-in, new language presentation, task presentation, and new language learning.

( ) 4. Specific activities in practice and production should see cultivating students' overall language competence as the final aim. They should not only help students consolidate the new language which they have just learned, but also cultivate students' language competence in a real communicative context.

( ) 5. Extracurricular teaching activities are an extension of classroom teaching. Extracurricular teaching activities, such as reciting, speech contests, class trips, mini-fieldwork, parties, etc. all can be used in teaching English.

( ) 6. Authentic and interesting extracurricular activities can improve students' English learning, and give them better contact with real world information resources.

( ) 7. English classroom activities for elementary and middle school can be divided into four types: start-up, language learning, language performance, and summary.

II.Short answers. Directions: answer the following questions briefly.

1.What should teachers pay attention to carrying out classroom teaching activities?

2.What are the features of extracurricular English activities for elementary and middle school?