Teaching aims: After learning the passage National flags, colours and cultures, students will be able to predict the theme or the topic of an article, with the help of headlines, subtitles and the first or the last paragraphs. The students will also understand that what they already know will help greatly in their reading. Teaching points: 1. Learn to use the words and expressions in the text; 2. Train the students’ reading ability; 3.How to help the students understand the text exactly. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision Guess the words according to the paraphrases. Have a dictation. Step 2 Reading strategy Step 3 Reading comprehension of the text Step 4 Practice Step 5 Discussion & Exercises Choose one of the national flags and present an oral report on it. Step 6 Homework 1. Go over Reading article “National flags, colours and culture” on P 34-35. 2. Finish Ex. C1, C2 on P 36.