Unit 11 What time do you go to school?
No. 110 Middle School of Chongqing By Cao Yi
Teaching Goal:
1. General aims:
A. Talk about routines
B. Ask times
2. Particular aims:
A. Language Focus.
○1 Talk about daily routines
○2 ask and express clock times
B. Language goals
○1 study different time expression
○2 use what time and when questions
C. Language structures:
○1 When do/does sb v sth? (special sentence)
○2 What time do/does sb v sth?
○3 What time is it? What’s the time?
○4 adverbs of frequency: sometimes, never
D. Useful words and phrases:
Words: run, eat, breakfast, dinner, go, school, bed, o’clock, shower, morning, afternoon, evening, homework
Phrases: get up, go to bed, go to school, take a shower, eat breakfast, do one’s homework, go home, go home, best wishes, tell…about
E. Grammar language:
○1 Use of time prepositions: at, on, in
○2 The simple present tense
○3 The comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs
F. Learning strategies:
○1 Role playing
○2 Reflecting
G. Interdiscipinary:
○1 politics: train the students to form good habits
○2 geography: study the daytime and nighttime
H. Emotion and manner:
Teaching time: 6 periods Period One pp65-66 Period Two p67 Period Three p68 Period Four p69 Period Five p70 Period Six test
Teaching procedures:
Period One (pp65-66)
Step 1 Activity 1a match the words and the pictures
Draw simple pictures of your morning routine on the board and describe what is happening in each picture.
Task 1: Form sentence: morning plan every day, according to the phrase (daily routine) and some clock times and add a subject before them.
Step 2 Activity 1b listen and match the times and actions.
Draw lines from the clocks to the pictures.
Step 3 Activity 1c Pairwork
Task 2 Survey: use the sentence “what time do you …?” to ask your classmates about his/her daily life.
Step 4 Activity 2a Listen to the conversation. Complete the following sentences with words from the box.
Step 5 Activity 2b Listen again and complete this shower schedule for Rick’s family. Then read after the tape.
Make a shower, take a shower, a little longer
Task 3 Survey: Make a shower/work schedule a week/day alone and change each other’s.
Step 6 Pairwork
According to task 3, talk about changer’s shower/work schedule.
Step 7 Translation
Translate some times the teacher or students show on the screen.
Step 8 Classwork
Make your own working schedule a day
Period Two (p67)
Step 1 Review the last lesson about clock time expression
Ask students’ routine to talk about time: direction and indirection time (preposition)
7:21 seven twenty-one twenty-one minutes past seven, twenty-one minutes after seven (if time can’t be divided by five, we must use “minute”)
8:30 eight thirty thirty past eight, half past eight, two quarters after eight
9:15 nine fifteen fifteen past nine, a quarter after nine
10:48 ten forty-eight twelve minutes to eleven, twelve minutes of/to/till eleven
Note: If 24 hours is used, you must express plural of hour. For example: 19:00 hours means 7 o’clock. But you use 12 hours with singular. If time isn’t full clock, you can use the word “o’clock.”
Step 2 Activity 3a Read the passage. Then match the pictures with the correct clocks.
Read after the tape and talk about your own daily life. Then write them down on your exercise book and read to your classmates.
Task 4 Survey: Ask your friends about their family. Then make a routine schedule.
Step 3 Pairwork
Talk about times in 3a.
Step 4 Activity 4 Game
Ask the students about when they usually go to bed or get up and so on. Then complete the schedule.
Step 5 Classwork
Written According to your daily life, write down a passage about 50 words.
Do Ex.
Period Three (p68)
Step 1 Read your own composition to others. Then make marks.
Step 2 Activity 1a Match the actions and the time of day. Pay attention to the preposition.
in the morning/afternoon/evening (note: Don’t use preposition before a.m. and p.m.)
have /eat breakfast /lunch /dinner
Step 3 Activity 1b Pairwork
When or what time do you usually eat three meals in pairs?
Step 4 Activity 2a Listen and circle the activities you hear?
After listening and check your answers.
Step 5 Written
Write a passage with the words in the box of 2a.
Step 6 Activity 2b Listen again and write the times next to the actions.
After listening and check your answers.
Step 7 Activity 2c Pairwork
Ask and answer each other in a day about the routine.
Step 8 Classwork
Write an e-mail to your friend to tell him /her about three meals what and when you have for.
Do ex. In workbook
Period Four (p69)
Step 1 Read your e-mail to your classmates and make him mark.
Step 2 Activity 3a Read the passage and fill the line.
Step 3 Read the passage aloud in 3a.
Thanks for sth/ v-ing sth. Means Thank you for…
know (more/ a lot) about
at around/about 6:15
do (one’s) homework
tell sb about sth
Step 4 Activity 3b Complete the letter according to the letter in 3a.
best wishes to sb best wishes for festival, with one’s best wishes, give sb one’s best wishes (note: wish must be used plural)
Step 5 Activity 4 Pairwork
Imagine you are a famous movie or singer star. Talk about your things you usually do a week.
Step 6 Classwork
Write them down on your book above activity 4.
Do ex. In workbook
Period Five (p70)
Step 1 Activity 1 read the words and say their meanings.
Step 2 Activity 3 Talk about the pictures and write a passage.
Step 3 Read the passage after finishing the passage in 3
Step 4 Classwork
Do Tests and games package
Period Six
Testing (Weekly paper and Nan’an paper)
Note: