Unit 1 Reatives in Beijing
I. Teaching contents:
a. Listening and speaking
Listen for specific information.
Open and maintain interactions by asking and answering questions. b. Reading
Scan texts to locate specific information. Read written language in meaningful chunks. c. writing
Gather and share information and ideas by using strategies such as brainstorming. Write a composition ---Lucy‘s holiday plan.
II. Teaching aims: a. Language targets
1. To grasp how to use the present perfect tense to relate past events to the present. 2. To know how to use adjectives to make comparisons.
3. To know how to use modal verbs to express preferences and ability. 4. To know to use the simple past tense to talk about past activities. 5. To know how to use ―going to ‖ to talk about future activities. 6. To know how to use proper nouns to refer to places. 7. To know how to use nouns and adverbs to show position 8. To know how to use ?How‘ questions. b. Ability targets:
1. To help the students practise listening reading speaking and writing. 2. To help the students how to make a holiday plan. c. Emotion targets:
1. To learn how to cooperate with thir classmates in learning English. 2. To arouse the students‘ emotion of loving their couintry. III. Important and difficult points: Importand position:
1. The simple past tense and the simple future tense.
2. To use the proper nouns and adverbs to express position Difficult position:
The present perfect tense.
Period One一.Language focus:
1. Using the present perfect tense to relate past events to the present. e.g. He has invited us to stay with his family in August. 2. Using adjectives to make comparisons. e.g. It‘s cheaper and more interesting. 二.Language skills: 1. Listening:
Listen to specific information. 2. Speaking:
Open and maintain an interaction by asking and answering questions. 3. Reading:
Scan a text to locate specific information. 三.Teaching steps:
I. Pre-task preparation：
1. Review the present perfect tense. Ask questions about places visited: e.g. Have you been to Beijing? To elicit: Yes, I have./ No, I haven‘t. Ask about local places of interest: e.g. Have you visited the zoo? Ask about travel: e.g. Have you traveled by plane/train/ship?
2. Ask Ss some questions. e.g. How many people are there in your family? Who is your father‘s father? Who is your father‘s mother?Ss will answer. Title: Relatives in Beijing II. While-task procedure:
1. Play the cassette for Listen and say. The students listen and repeat with their books closed. 2. Ask questions about the dialogue: 1).Who is the letter from?
2).Has Ben seen his cousins before? 3).Are plane tickets cheap? 4).What is cheaper?
5).How are the Lis going to travel?
3. In pairs, students practice the dialogue. Select pairs to read the dialogue. 4. Play the cassette for Look, read and answer. The students listen and repeat.
5. In pairs, students decide on the answers. Ask individual students the questions to check the answers.
III. Post-task procedure:
1. 写出下列动词的过去式、过去分词
see__________ __________ come _________ _____________ write _______ __________ do ___________ ________________ have _________ ____________ get __________ _________________ send ________ ___________ take ___________ ______________ go ___________ ___________ be ____________ ________________
2. 用动词的适当形式填空：
（1）He ________ already__________ (do) his homework. (2) I _____________ this film twice (see).
(3) ___________ you ____________ (have) your breakfast yet? (4) Tom ___________________ (be) ill for three days.
(5) Mr. Zhang __________ just___________ (arrive) in his office. 3. 翻译下列句子：
（1）我以前从未见过这种电脑。
(2) 我想邀请你去参加我的生日聚会。 (3) 这个周末我打算去拜访我的叔叔。 （4）这个问题比那个更难。
（5）昨天，爸爸从旅行社拿了一些小册子回来。 Consolidation:
Workbook 7A pages 1 and 3 教学反思：
开学第一课，主要是要消除他们对新学期的不适应感，所以通过复习以前的知识,让他们适应起来,通过同学间的讨论，培养学生说的技能，消除不适应感。不足之处是时间掌握
的不够好，学生对于音标的遗忘率很高，所以没有把预想的内容上完，要增加一个课时。
Period Two 一.Language focus:
1. Using modal verbs to express preferences. e.g. Yes, we‘d like to travel to Beijing by plane.
2. Asking How questions to find out the length of a period of time. e.g. How long does it take to travel from Garden City to Beijing by plane? 3. Asking How questions to find out prices. e.g. How much does it cost?
4. Using adjectives to describe objects. e.g. That‘s expensive. 二.Language skills: 1. Listening:
Listen for specific information. 2. Speaking:
Maintain an interaction by replying and asking. 3. Reading:
Skim a text to obtain a general impression and the main ideas. 4. Writing:
Gather and share information by using strategies such as questioning. 三. Teaching steps: I.Pre-task preparation:
1. Show the students the brochures. Ask individual students: Have you been to (place)? To elicit: Yes, I have./ No, I haven‘t.
2. Talk about costs: e.g., Say: It costs one thousand five hundred yuan to fly to (place).
3. Write some prices (in figures) on the board for flights to different places. Ask individual
students: How much does it cost to fly to (place)? Remind the students that hundred and thousand are singular in prices. II.While-task procedure:
1. Give the students time to look at Say and act. 2. Play the cassette. The students listen.
3. In pairs, students practice the dialogue. Select pairs to act out the dialogue. 4. Ask questions about the dialogue: 1).Where would the Li family like to go? 2).How long does it take by plane? 3).How much does it cost? 4).Is that cheap?
5. In pairs, students practice Ask and answer. Select pairs to say the dialogue. III. Exercises:
1. 介词填空：
1） We celebrated the Mid-autumn Festival ________ 14 September.
2） My father traveled __________ Shanghai _________ Hong Kong _______ plane. 3） Thank you ___________ your help.
4） I‘ll go to Suzhou ___________ the end of the month. 5） They are going to stay in Beijing __________ two weeks. 2. 改写句子：
1) It takes me half an hour to wash dishes every day.
__________ _________ _________ it take you to wash the dishes? （划线提问） I ___________ half an hour ___________ the dishes every day. （意思相同） 2) I don‘t want to see the film because it‘s too boring. （划线提问） _________ ________ ________ want to see the film? 3) The coat cost me 200 yuan. （划线提问） ________ _______ ________ the coat cost you? 4) I visited Guangzhou in July. （划线提问）
_________ ___________ you ____________ Guangzhou? 5) He‘s never late for school. (改为反义疑问句)
He‘s never late for school， _________ __________ ?
Consolidation:
Workbook 7A page 2
教学反思：句型最好板书出示，加以认读。加强音和形的联系。内容太多，比较级和现在完成时都是重难点，所以可以适当分课时来教授，这样学生也比较容易接受。通过做课堂练习巩固学生对新内容的记忆。
Period Three
一.Language focus:
1. Using going to to talk about future events. e.g. When are we going to visit Beijing?
2. Using How questions to find out length of time. e.g. How long are we going to stay there? 3. Using How questions to find out means. e.g. How are we going to get there?
4. Using adjectives to make comparisons. e.g. It‘s cheaper. 二.Language skills: 1. Listening:
Listen for specific information. 2. Speaking:
Maintain an interaction by replying and asking questions. 3. Reading:
Identify details that support a main idea. 4. Writing:
Develop written texts by using appropriate format. 三.Materials:
1. Student‘s Book 7A page 4 2. Workbook 7A page 4 3. Cassette 7A 4. Cassette player
5. Photocopiable page 1 6. A calendar
四.Teaching steps: I. Pre-task preparation:
1. Review the days of the week and months of the year using a calendar.
Ask: What day is it today? What month is it?
What‘s the date today?
2. Review going to. Ask: What are you going to do this evening/tomorrow/next weekend? II. While-task procedure:
1. Give the students time to look at the text. 2. Play the cassette. The students listen.
3. In groups of three, students practice the dialogues. Select a group of three to read a dialogue.