Unit 8
Lesson 29
Teaching Objectives:
Grasp the simple present tense of “be”.
Properties: Tape recorder. Calendar
Language Focus:
What day is today? What day was yesterday?
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you’re better now. keep healthy
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading - in
Write the days of the week on the blackboard. Ask the Ss: What day is today? What’s the date today?
Then say What day was yesterday? What was the date yesterday?
Teach the word yesterday.
Lead to the simple past tense: am, is→was
2. Ask the students to work in pairs and talk about days and dates.
(With the help of Calendars)
Step 2 Read and learn
Practise reading the sentences with the students, then ask What day is it today? What day is it tomorrow? What day was it yesterday? etc.
Get the students to look at the calendar. Ask What day is it today? etc.
Step 3 Read and learn
Play the tape for the students to listen. Ask Who’s away?
Teach the words ill and hope.
Play the tape again for the students to listen and repeat.
Ask Ss to give similar reports.
Step 4 Presentation
Ask a student Who was absent someday or didn’t hand in homework on time. Ask questions like：
Where were you yesterday? What was wrong with you?
Where is your homework? What’s wrong? …
Point out the two forms, was/were.
Help the students to answer with the simple past tense
Step 5 Read and act
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
Ask the Ss to retell the main idea of the dialogue.
Explain the words and phrases: composition, remember, bit
Composition: a short piece of writing, essay
I’m sorry to hear that.
I hope you’re better now
keep healthy.
eg. It’s so hot today, keep the door and windows open.
Taking regular exercise can keep you healthy.
Put the food in the fridge and keep it fresh.
Then the students practise the dialogues in pairs.
Ask the questions:
Why wasn’t Lily at school on Thursday?
Did she hand in her composition on time?
When did she hand it in?
Get some pairs to act out the dialogue.
Step 6 Exercises in class
It____(be) Friday today. Because Lily____(be) ill yesterday, she ____(be not) at school. Today she ____ ( be ) better. She ____ (be) at school.
Key: is, was, wasn’t, is, is
Step 7 Homework
1 Write a duty report.
2. Finish off the workbook exercises.
3. Review the past tense of be
The design of the blackboard
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Lesson30
教學目標：
1．使同學熟練掌握一般過去時的用法，并能比較它和一般現在時的區別。
2．使同學讀懂本課閱讀材料的內容，并能根據回答課后的問題。
教具：Picture and recorder
教學過程：
Step 1 Revision
（1）要求學生進行角色表演，內容如下：
Teacher: Hello, everyone！Who is on duty today?
Students: It is Li Gang. Who is not here today Li Gang?
Li Gang: Tian Tian is not here.
Teacher: Why is she not here?
Li Gang: I think she is ill. I am not sure.
Lily: I know. Tian Tian called me last night. She said she had a bad cold yesterday. She asked me to tell you.
Teacher: Well. I wish she will be all right soon.
（2）教師出示幾張小明在十一國慶節照的像片，讓學生說出小明都去了那些地方
使用Where was Xiao Ming in /at ? Was Xiao Ming at…? 的句型.
（3）Dictation要求學生寫出下列動詞的過去式：do, have, am/is, are, go.
Step 2 Presentation
Pre-read.
（1）讓學生思考下面幾個問題并進行回答：
What do you want to do in the future? Why? Is it a busy job?
Do you want to be a businessman/businesswoman?
What do you think of the job of a businessman/businesswoman? Are they usually very busy?
（2）教師自然引入新課：我們來討論書上的三個問題。鼓勵學生提出自己的不同見解。針對大家的觀點，我們來看一看Lily’s uncle是怎樣的一個商人。
Read the text: My uncle
1. Ask the Ss to go over the passage in a silent way and answer some questions.
What’s Lily’s uncle?
What’s his job? Is he very busy?
Where does he work?
Where was he last Monday /three days ago/the day before yesterday/yesterday/last night? →Writing of Ex.3
2. Listen and repeat
3. Name the places Uncle Mike travels to.
先標出旅游下列地點的時間，再將下列地點按Uncle Michael Wilson旅行的時間先后的順序進行排列。A. Taipei B. Shanghai C. Dalian. D. Hong Kong E. New York F. Tokyo
4. Suppose you were Lily, say something about your uncle.
Step3 Drill
（1）撲克組句游戲：教師須準備幾種單詞卡片，分別是主語，be動詞或be動詞的過去式，介詞，時間狀語（包括表示現在時間的和表示過去時間的狀語），疑問詞，標點。教師可以將學生每五人分成一組。組員每人手里抓完張單詞卡后，開始輪流出牌，出牌時每個人須將出的牌組成通順的句子，例如：甲：I 乙：am 丙：in 丁：Shanghai.先出完手中牌的同學為勝。
學生復述課文。
Step 4 Exercises in class
1) Make up sentences:
1. sell, my uncle, many countries, to, computers.
2. every day, have, meetings, he
3. go to, come to, visit, people, see, him.
4. usually, work, he, quickly
5. the day before yesterday, be, in, Hong Kong, Mike.
6. three days ago, he, in, be, Tokyo
Keys:
1. My uncle sells computers to many countries.
2. He has meetings every day.
3. He goes to visit people and people come to see him.
4. He usually works quickly.
5. Mike was in Hong Kong the day before yesterday.
6. He was in Tokyo three days ago.
2) Fill in the blanks with the proper form of verb “be”.
1. What day ______ it yesterday?
2. Her parents ______ in England last month.
3. ______ your aunt a bookseller? Yes, she is.
4. There ______ a class meeting next Friday afternoon.
5. He must ______ a doctor.
6. Here ______ some orange for you.
Answers: 1.was 2.were 3.Is 4.will be 5.be
Step 5 Homework
1.Copy the new words and the phases.
2.學生預習怎樣將動詞變成過去式。
3. Do Ex.3 on Page 37
4. Retell the passage
The design of the blackboard
教案點評：
本設計由表演的形式導入教學，本設計的特點是通過圖片的展示引入本課主題教學--談論過去的活動，運用動詞be的一般過去時談論過去所在的地方。最終以游戲的方式進行語法的操練，避免枯燥無味，重在學生的自主活動。
Lesson 31
Teaching Objectives:
The simple past of action verbs.
Time adverbials of simple past
Grasp question form of the Simple Past Tense.
Properties: Tape recorder. Overhead Projector
Language Focus:
last week/night/month a moment ago Yesterday morning just now the day before yesterday, have-had half an hour ago, call-called do-doing by the way
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
What did you do yesterday /the day before yesterday/last night…?
Step 2 Presentation
Ask the student on duty?
Who isn’t here today? Where is he/she?
Who wasn’t here yesterday?
Where was he/she?
Help Ss to form the rule: am/is→was are→were
Step 3 Ask and answer
Part 1
Read through the questions with the students and then let them ask and answer in pairs.
Part 2
1. Read through the choices with the students. Then choose two students to give a model for the class.
Let the students ask and answer in pairs. Choose several pairs to give several of their sentences to the whole class.
2. Ask students to remember time adverbials of simple past.
last week/night/month just now = a moment ago …ago yesterday/the day before yesterday.
3. Make sentences with the simple past adverbials.
Did you have a party on your birthday last year?
His grandpa went away just now.
He saw a film a few days ago.
Everyone came here yesterday.
Step 4 Read and say
1.Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
2.Ask questions.
When did Sally call Lucy? Why did she call Lucy?
Was Lucy at home? Where was she?
What did Lucy do?
How did she like Guangdong food?
What did Lucy and her uncle have for dinner?
3. Ask students to form rules of past form of some action verbs.
call-called do-did have-had
4.Explain the words and phrases: just now, match, by the way, etc.
5. Have the students practise reading the dialogue in pairs.
Step 5 Exercises in class
Fill in the blank with the proper form of the given verbs.
1. She ____(come) to see me last night.
2. I____(get) to school late yesterday.
3. Mary ____(be) born on Apr. 20,1985.
4. My father____(go) to shanghai on business 3 days ago.
5. He ____ (leave) here just now.
Key: 1.came 2.got 3.was 4.went 5.left
Step 6 Homework
1.Finish off the workbook exercises.
2. Make a dialogue like the one in the book.
3. Remember past form of verbs.
The design of the blackboard
Lesson 31Who wasn’t here yesterday?Where was he/she?Where was Mr. King yesterday morning? He was at the office. Where were the twins half an hour ago? They were at school.
Lesson 32
Teaching Objectives:
Develop the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Grasp the Simple Past Tense.
Properties: Tape recorder, overhead projector
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Ask the Ss to say out the dialogue they made after class.
2. Dictation: past form of verbs
am, is buy find have meet see stand
are come get hold put sell swim
become cut give know read sing take
begin do go leave run speak teach
bring drive grow lose say spend write tell
Step 2 Spelling and pronunciation
Ask Ss to summarize the letter combination with the sound and give example words
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
Practise the individual sounds, then show flashcards with more words and get the students to pronounce the words.
Step 3 Listening
Play the tape for the students to listen and get the main idea. Ask Where is Uncle Mike now?
Play the tape again and answer the questions on Page 116
Play the tape more time. Check the answers
Step 3 Practise
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
Teach cold.
Listen again and ask the Ss to answer some questions.
What’s the weather like today?
Why did Lucy call her uncle, Mike?
Explain the language points: much/a little/even/a lot of + the comparative form of adjectives + than.
It’s much/a lot easier than before to contact her because she has an e-mail address.
It’s even hotter than yesterday, so let’s just stay in the cool room.
Get the students to practise the dialogue in pairs. Then ask Ss to make similar dialogues, using the words in the box.
Ask several pairs to say their new dialogues in front of the class.
Step 4 Reading
1. Pre-reading.
(Suppose the business man is Uncle Mike) Do you still remember Lucy’s Uncle, Mike? In the last period, we know he’s a very busy businessman.
He travels a lot in the world. Today we’ll see what his work is like?
2. While - reading.
Play the tape for the students to listen. Ask How does Michael remember things?
Ask the students to scan the text for the answer.
Then read the text and answer the questions:
1.When does Mike get up every morning?
2. How does he go to work?
3. How long does it take to go to work?
4. What does he mean by “every minute counts?”
5. Why does he keep a diary?
6. Where were they last summer?
7. How was their holiday?
8. Do you want to be a businessman like Mike? Why or why not?
9. What kind of work do you like, busy work or a job with a lot of free time? Give the reasons, Please!
Explain the words and phrases: drive, plan, rain.
have a light breakfast
e.g. Every morning I only have a light breakfast
It takes sb. time to do
e.g. It takes him one hour to do his homework every day.
spends time on sth./(in) doing sth. /costs (sb.) some money./ pays (money) for sth.
e.g. He spent the whole evening on the broken TV./ (in) repairing the broken TV.
This pair of fashionable jeans cost me 300.
Please pay for the books you choose at the checkout.
Step 5 Reading and Writing
Have the students fill in the blanks individually and then check the answers.
Write similar dialogues.
VI. Go over the checkpoint and the main points of the whole unit.
Step 6 Exercises in class
Tense exercise
1. Jim____(hear) from his wife last week.
2. My brother ____(join) the League in 1980.
3.My father____(get) to England yesterday.
4. It ____(take) me half an hour to mend the kite.
5. Lucy ____(be) a bit ill yesterday and ____(not do) come to school, but today she is much____(well).
Key: 1.heard 2.joined 3.got 4.took 5.was,didn’t,better
Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given Chinese.
1.It’s ______ (多) colder than it was yesterday.
2.1 was in a ______(會議) room.
3.I think I can put the computer ______(修好) .
4.I do some ______ (鍛煉) and have a ______ (少量的) breakfast every morning.
5. He ______(開車) to his office every day.
6. It _______(花費) me forty minutes to get to my office.
7.I think every minute ______(計算) .
8.I plan my work very ______(認真).
Answers: 1.much 2.meeting 3.right 4.exercise; light 5.drives 6.takes 7.counts 8.carefully
Step 7 Homework
1. Finish off the workbook exercises.
2. Write a dialogue like the one in the book.
3. Review was and were
The design of the blackboard
Lesson 32 Why did the twins call Uncle Mike?How does Michael remember things? (He keeps a diary.)