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r tense. Thus there will be many different usages when you apply it, such as: "I am going to do..." "He/She/It is going to do..." "We/You/They are going to do..." "I/He/She/It was going to do..." "We/You/They were going to do..."etc. Third, you should keep in mind that you should only use a pure verb in the sequence; you can't use any other form. Such mistakes can be seen as follows: I'm going to buying a new car next week. (×) He is going to does some shopping tomorrow. (×) Step 3 Practice: Fill in the blanks using the right form of the verb "be" 1) She ___ going to visit her grandma next month. 2) They ___ going to plant trees next Wednesday. 3) The students in Class 2 ____ going to help the peasants get the apples from the orchard this afternoon. 4) Who ___ you going to do the experiment with? 5) Lin Tao ___ going to buy a new English dictionary. The Key: 1) is 2) are 3) are 4) are 5) is Step 4 Practice: Multiple Choice 1) Who is going to ____ you with your English this Saturday? a) helps b) helped c) help d) helping 2) What are you going to _____ this afternoon? a) does b) did c) doing d) do 3) My friend Jerry is going to ____ abroad next semester. a) studying b) study c) studies d) studied 4) Are you going to ____ a ring to your mother? a) give b) given c) giving d) gives 5) I don誸 know who is going to _____ the floor. a) Sweeping b) sweeped c) sweeps d) sweep Key: 1) c 2) d 3) b 4) a 5) d Step 5 Practice: Translation (from Chinese to English) 1) 汤姆星期六下午要去医院看望他的好朋友。 2) 今年他们打算载10000棵树。 3) 谁将负责这个过程。 Key: 1) Tom is going to visit his friend in hospital this Saturday afternoon. 2) They are going to plant 10,000 trees this year. 3) Who is going to be in charge of this project? Comments: Advantages: From this sample, we can see that the deductive approach to language teaching is traditionally associated with Grammar-Translation. This approach can get straight to the point, and can therefore be time-saving. Many rules—especially rules of form—can be more simply and quickly explained than elicited from examples. So it is preferred by those teachers who are experienced in both languages and many students, especially those whose listening and speaking ability is not good enough to follow the teacher in class if the whole class is given in total English. What's more, it meets many students?expectations about classroom learning, particularly for those learners who have an analytical learning style. It also allows the teacher to deal with language points as they come up, rather than having to anticipate them and prepare for them in advance. In all, it is easily controlled, time-saving and economical. Maybe it is the reason why so many teachers and students still follow this method to learn English. Disadvantages: The disadvantage about the deductive approach is that grammar explanation encourages a teacher-fronted, transmission-style classroom and the students have little chance to practice using English. Secondly, it encourages the belief that learning a language is simply a case of knowing the rules. Little by little, the students will only concentrate on your Chinese explanation and the forms of the language. Thirdly, it is seldom as memorable as other forms of presentation such as demonstration so that although the students know the rules very well, they make mistakes in using it again and again, especially in thei