一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 They’re going to the opera (Module 1 People and places)
二、Targets for this period:
To get information from the reading material about what people are doing in different places
To get to know how to write a postcard
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-thing, restaurant, wash, start , hot dog, put on, at this moment, leave work, get dressed, see you soon, wait for…run for trains, have afternoon tea, walk to pubs, have a drink, go to the opera, watch a ballet
Key structures -Present continuous tense
四、Teaching methods:
Bottom-up approach, interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, OHP, handouts
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Revision
1. Ask students to do some actions and the others talk about what they are doing.
2. Write the expressions into English.
1) 玩得很愉快 have a good time
2) 买些礼物 buy some presents
3) 照相 take photos
4) 穿上衣服 put on the cloths
5) 中国长城 the Great Wall of China
6) 在太阳下 in the sun
3. Choose the right answer:
1) I’m ____ to you . A. talk B. talking C. talkes
2) Daming is ___lunch and ___ in the sun.
A . eating, lieing B. eatting, lying C. eating,lying
3) He’s ___ the school trip a lot. A enjoys B enjoing C. enjoying
4. Translate into English: 你在干什么? 我在等汽车.
What are you doing? I’m waiting for the bus.
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. To help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
Step Three Pre-reading
1. 请注意下列动词的现在分词形式:
1) It’s five o’clock and people are leaving (离开) work.
2) It’s nine o’clock and people aren’t getting up. (起床)
3) The child is putting on the clothes. (穿上)
4) They are visiting (探望) friends.
5) She is washing the sweater. (洗)
2. Explain “world time” to the students: The world’s surface is divided into 24 time zones, each one of 15° longitude, or one hour of time. The time is then given as the number of hours ahead (+) or behind (-) Greenwich Mean Time.
Beijing 01:00 = London 17:00 = Moscow 20:00 = Los Angeles 9:00 = New York 12:00
At this moment, in different places of the world people are doing different things.
此时此刻，在世界不同地方的人们正在做着不同的事情。
3. Show some expressions, and them students should remember them as quickly as possible
leave work 下班 wait for… run for trains 跑去乘火车
have afternoon tea 喝下午茶 walk to pubs 去酒馆的路上
have a drink 喝酒 go to the opera 去听歌剧
watch a ballet 看芭蕾舞 get dressed 穿衣服
Step Four Fast reading
Read and find words that have the following meaning. (Activity 1)
1. a place to meet friends and have a drink (pub)
2. music and dancing (ballet)
3. a place to have dinner (restaurant)
4. going to a place in a car or bus (driving)
5. music and singing (opera)
6. put on your clothes (get dressed)
Step Five To read again and check the true sentences (Activity 3)
B-B-B-A-B
Step Six To say what the people in the photos are doing in groups (Activity 2)
Picture 1 They are running for the train.
They’re waiting for the bus.
Picture 2 The people are watching ballet in the opera.
Picture 3 They are sleeping.
Picture 4 They ’re working in the office.
Picture 5 They ’re eating hamburgers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or Coke.
Step Seven Students practice reading the passage aloud
Step Eight Writing (Activity 4)
1. Students find out what time it is now in London, Moscow, New York and Los Angeles. Write sentences saying what people are doing or aren’t doing. Join sentences with and.
e.g. In London it’s five o’clock and people aren’t working. They’re going home. Some people are walking to pubs and have a drink.
2. Correct their sentences in groups.
Step Nine To read the postcard and answer the questions (Activity 5)
Answers 1. Betty’s mother is writing the postcard.
2. She is sending it to Betty.
3. She is sending it to No. 19 Xisanhuan Beilu in Beijing,China.
4. She is visiting her friends in Hollywood.
5. She is writing it on Monday.
6.Yes, she is.
Step Ten Additional exercises
1. 句型转换:
1) I’m writing the postcard.
否定句: I’m not writing the postcard.
一般疑问句: Are you writing the postcard?
2) Tony is having lunch.
否定句: Tony isn’t having lunch.
一般疑问句: Is Tony having lunch?
2. Fill in the blanks:
1) 现在是5点钟. 人们在喝下午茶.
It’s five and people are having afternoon tea.
2) 这小孩不是在穿衣服.
The boy isn’t getting dressed.
3) 他们在探望朋友.
They are seeing friends.
4) Tony在写明信片吗?对
Is Tony writing a postcard? Yes, he is.
Homework:
1. To write Betty’s postcard to her grandmother from the Great Wall
Monday
Dear Grandma,
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Love, Betty
2. To finish Unit2, Module1, 点中典