二、简答题(本大题共3小题，每小题10分，共30分)
Section II: Problem Solving
DIRECTIONS: Situations in classroom teaching are provided here. In each situation there are some problems. Firstly, identify the problems; secondly, provide your own solutions according to the communicative language teaching principles and explain in details.
1. Some teachers pay particular attention to the comfort of the classroom, and the learning environment: the lights are soft, the chairs are comfortable, there is soothing music playing in the background, texts are read to the students gently by the teacher. Finally the texts are given to the students with a parallel translation in their mother tongue and they work through it asking the teacher questions about things they don’t understand in it.
What do you like about this method? Why do you think translations of the text are given? What have we gained from the Humanists in our approach to teaching a foreign language?
2. Read the following listening text, and try to design five different post-listening activities for it. You also need to make a brief statement of the purpose of your activity.
Kate is going to the supermarket to buy some food. First, she decides what she needs to buy at home. How much bread does she need? What kind of vegetables? Is there enough fruit? Next, Kate makes a shopping list. She is going to buy two chickens, some cabbages, four tomatoes and two loaves of bread. She is going to buy 3 bottles of milk and 12 eggs. But she’s afraid she hasn’t got enough money, so she’ll have to stop at the bank on her way to the supermarket.
(From Senior English Text book, Listening Workbook, Book 2A, PEP)
3. There are different styles of grammar teaching and each style of grammar teaching has its benefits and drawbacks. Could you think over inductive grammar teaching and try to fill in the following tables with as many comments as you can.
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