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Unit 11 How was your school trip?

1. Target language

 —How was your school trip? — It was great.

—Did you go to the zoo? —Yes , Yes, I did. /No, I didn't.

—Were the strawberries? —Yes, they were.

words , phrases & sentences. regular verb, irregular verb

2. Key sentences

—How was your school trip? — It was great.

—Did you go to the zoo? —Yes, Yes, I did. /No, I didn't.

3. Teaching important / difficult points

How to listen to and talk about recent past events.

4. Structures

Simple past tense; How questions; Yes/No questions and short answers; Adjectives of description.

5. Difficulties     Simple past tense.

6. Importance   How to listen to and talk about recent past events

7.Teaching aids    A tape recorder. Some picture. CAI.

8. Periods     Four periods.

Period 1 (Section A: 1a-1c)

Step I Warming up and lead-in

Greet the students and talk about weekend activities with them.

T: Hello! Everyone. Today we’ll learn to talk about recent past events. Now first please tell me what you often do on weekends.

S1: I often play basketball on weekends.

S2: I often watch TV.

T: (Point to the word “weekend”) What does this word mean?

S: Saturday and Sunday are the weekend.

S1: I played basketball last weekend.

S2: I cleaned my room last weekend.

Step II Talking about the picture (1a)

1. Ask the students to match the words with the pictures.

Check the answers.

T: Look at the picture. What did each person in the picture do?

S1: She played tennis.

S2: She did homework.

2. Ask the students to talk about the picture in 1a

T: Now please look at the picture on page 53. Suppose you are Lucy in the picture. What did you do last weekend in Picture a?

S1: I went to the movies.

T: What did you do last weekend in Picture b?

S2: I played soccer / football.

T: Please ask and answer in pairs

Step III Listening and speaking (1b, 1c)

1. Ask the students to listen to the conversation and fill in the blanks in the picture.

Check the answers.

2. Ask the students to read the conversation in 1c and then make conversations in pairs.

Sample conversations:

S1: What did you do last weekend, Lucy?

S2: On Sunday morning, I played tennis.

Ask the students to make their own conversations. Show the following.

—What did you / he / she / they do last weekend / last Sunday morning / last Monday / yesterday?

—I / We / He / she / They went to the beach / played computer games / did my homework / cleaned my room / went to the movies.

Step Ⅳ Homework

1. Ask the students to do Exercises 1 & 2 in the workbook.

2. Ask the students to learn the new words and expression.

教学反思：

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Period 2 (Section A: 2a-2d)

Step I Revision and lead-in

Check the homework.

T: Today we’ll go on talking about the recent past events. We know when we talk about the things we did in the past, we must use the past forms of the verbs. For example: clean→cleaned; visit→visited; look→looked; study→studied; do→did; have→had; go→went. Now read after me these words.

Then ask the students what they did last weekend.

T: What did you do last weekend?

S1: I played football last weekend.

S2: I did my homework last weekend.

S3: I cleaned my room last weekend.

T: Well! What did your brother do last weekend?

S4: He watched TV last weekend.

S5: He went to the movies last weekend.

Step II Listening (2a, 2b)

1. Listen to the recording and underline the words.

T: OK. Do you know what Carol, Ben and Emma did last weekend? Now let’s listen to a conversation between a teacher and three students. They will talk abot some of the activities and people, but they will not talk about others. Please under-line the words you hear on the recording.

Then check the answers.

2. Ask the students to listen and write.

Check the answers.

3. Ask the students to listen to and repeat the conversation after the recording.

Step III Pairwork (2c)

1. Ask the students to practice the conversation.

Ask the students to read the words repeatedly.

Ask the students to ask and answer in pairs.

Sample conversations:

1) S1: What did you do last weekend?

S2: I visited my grandmother.

S1: What about your friend, Carol?

S2: She went to a bookshop. What did you do?

S1: I stayed at home and did some reading.

2. Ask the students to make conversations.

Step IV Grammar

Ask the students to read the sentences in the Grammar Focus and underline the verbs in them.

Show the following.

What did you do last weekend?I played soccer. We went to the beach. She did her homework. He went to the movie. They played tennis.

T: The underlined parts in these sentences are called past form. And in English they formed the simple past tense. The simple past tense is one of the most common tenses in English. We use the simple past to refer to an action in the past that is finished.

Step V Homework

1. Ask the students to learn more past forms of irregular verbs in the dictionary.

2. Ask the students to read a short story and pay attention to the verb forms in the story.

教学反思：

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Period 3 ( Section A: 3a-3c)

Step I Revision

Ask the students to complete the part of the story from Cinderella.

Check the answers by asking some students to read the part of the story. The students may meet some new words during the reading, ask them to try to guess the meaning.

T: As we can see, nearly all the verbs are in past forms in the story. In fact, when we keep diary, we always use the simple past.

Step II Lead-in

Talk about recent past events with the students.

T: Good! Now answer my question: What did you do last weekend?

S1: I watched TV at home last weekend.

S2: I stayed at home last weekend.

S3: I played basketball last weekend.

T: Well done, everyone. You did many interesting things. But I stayed at home last weekend. I did much housework. I cleaned my room. I washed my clothes. It was not very good, because I was very tired. Now answer: How was your weekend?

Help them answer.

Ss: It was great / good / OK...

Write down and get the students to read the dialogue:

—How was your weekend?  —It was great.

Step III Reading and speaking (3a)

1. Ask the students to describe what each person in each scene did.

T: Look at the picture in 3a. Tell me what the person in each scene did.

S1: In Picture 1: She went to the beach.

S2: In Picture 2: He did his homework and watched TV.

S3: In Picture 3: She cleaned her room and studied for the math test.

2. Ask the students to read the expressions and the conversations.

T: Now please read the expressions above the picture and the conversations in the picture. The second part of each conversation is incomplete. They are listed above the picture. Read them and write the correct number on the blank lines in the speech bubbles to complete the conversations.

Then check the answers by asking some students to read the completed conversations.

Step IV Pairwork (3b)

1. Ask the students to read the conversation in 3b first. And then ask them to make conversations.

T: Now practice asking and answering questions about what the people in the pictures did last weekend. Practice in pairs. Use the dialogue as an example. Give the students two minutes to read and make the conversations.

A: How was Sarah’s weekend?

B: It wasn’t very good. She cleaned her room and studied for the math test.

Sample conversations:

1) S1: How was Tony’s weekend?

S2: It was OK. He did his homework and watched TV.

2) S3: How was Sarah’s weekend?

S4: It wasn’t very good. She cleaned her room and studied for the math test.

Step Ⅴ Homework

Ask the students to finish the exercises.

教学反思：

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Period 4  ( Section B: 1a-2c)

Step I Revision and lead-in

Check the homework.

T: Hi, class! Nice to see you again in a new day. Did you finish your homework yesterday?

S: Yes, we did.

T: Good. Who’d like to show us your answers?

Ask some students to read the answers and the story. Key to the homework in Period 3:

I. 1. got, yesterday morning       2. didn’t do

   3. What did, do   4. How was 5. was

II. went, sat, was, was, opened, was, said, said, said, put on, looked, went, was, was, asked, danced, said, was, forgot, rang, said, ran, lost, was, was, didn’t know, lived, went, said, went, opened, said, said, was, were

Then ask the students the following questions.

T: What did your parents do yesterday?

S1: My mother did some reading and my father watched TV.

S2: My father played computer games and my mother helped me with my English.

S3: My parents went to visit one of their old friends.

T: OK! Look at the pictures. Could you tell me what Lucy did yesterday?

S1: She watched TV yesterday.

S2: She cooked at home yesterday.

S3: She cleaned the car with her friends yesterday.

S4: She studied geography yesterday.

Help to answer and read the new word geography.

Step II Reading and writing (1a, 1b)

1. Ask the students to match the words with the pictures in 1a.

T: Jim studied geography yesterday, too. He also did other things. Now open your books and turn to page 56. Look at the pictures in 1a. Read the words and then write the letter of each picture in the blank in front of the correct phrase.

Check the answers.

T: Right. Now ask and answer in pairs, using the question: What did Jim / Sally do yesterday?

Sample conversations:

1) S1: What did Jim do yesterday?

S2: He did his homework.

2) S3: What did Sally do yesterday?

S4: She played the guitar.

2. Ask the students to draw a happy face or an unhappy face under each picture.

Help to answer.

S: No. I think doing homework is an unhappy thing.

T: What about playing the guitar?

S: It’s a happy thing.

T: In Picture b, the boy played the guitar. It was fun. The happy face shows it was fun. Now please draw a happy face or an unhappy face under each picture a, c and d.

Check the answers.

Step III Listening (2a)

1. Ask the students to listen to the conversation Sally and Jim and write the answers in the chart.

Check the answers.

Play the recording and ask the following questions.

T: First, what did Sally do last weekend?

S1: She stayed at home and did lots of things. She cleaned her room and did her homework. And on Sunday, she went to the library.

T: Good. What about Jim? What did Jim do last weekend?

S2: He played soccer on Saturday morning. On Sunday afternoon, he went to a movie. On Sunday night, he visited his friend’s house. 

2. Ask the students to repeat after the recording line by line and try to write them down.

T: I will play the recording twice again. First repeat after the recording and then try to write the conversations down.

Step IV Pairwork (2b, 2c)

1. Ask the students to read the dialogue first. And then make a conversation.

2. Ask the students to talk about what they did last weekend.

3. Then ask the students to write down what they did last weekend.

T: OK. You did very well. Now please write down what you did last weekend.

Give the students two or three minutes to write.

Step V Homework

1. Ask the students to do Exercise 6 in the workbook.

2. Ask the students to write something about what they did last week.

教学反思：

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Period 5 Section B: 3a-3c)

Step I Revision and lead-in

T: Today we will go on talking about the past events. We’ll learn an article about how kids spent the weekend. Now can you tell me what you did last weekend?

Sample answers:

S: Last Saturday I went to my aunt’s house. There I played computer games with

T: Well done. Now look at the pictures and say what they did yesterday morning?

S1: Lucy listened to the radio. Tom did some reading. Bill and Bob played soccer, and Jim went to school by bike.

T: Oh! Which school did Jim go to?

S2: He went to No. 4 Middle School.

Write down the new words: No.=number, middle, middle school. Teach to read the new words.

T: Which school are you in?

S3: We’re in No. 3 Middle School.

Step II Reading (3a)

1. Ask the students to read the article, and then answer the following questions.

1) How many students did their homework or studied?

2) Did two kids visit friends?

2. Read the article again and circle the activities you like. Underline the activities you don’t like.

3. Explain the key and difficult points in the passage.

1) spend 花费，度过

（1）spend money on sth 花钱买某物（在……上花钱）。

（2）spend time / money (in) doing sth. 花费多少时间或金钱做某事。

（3）“度过”。

2) on Saturday morning

Practice: Ask the students to read the following words and phrases and then make some sentences with them.

S1: I spent two hours doing my homework yesterday afternoon.

S2: Last week, I played tennis ball with my friends.

Step III Reading and writing (3b)

1. Ask the students to say something about the pictures in 3b.

2. Ask the students to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.

Step IV Writing (3c)

T: Great! We read the article about No. 3 Middle School. Now please write what you did with your parents last weekend.

Show the above pictures.

T: Now look at these pictures. Suppose you are the person in the picture. Last weekend you and your parents went to your grandmother’s birthday. Write a short passage telling what you and your parents did. You can use the following phrases:

Step VI Homework

1. Ask the students to do Ex 7 in the workbook.

2. Ask the students to write a passage about what they did last weekend.

教学反思：

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Period 6 (Self check)

Step I Revision

T: Hello, everyone! I’m happy to see you again. This class we’ll revise what we have learnt in this unit. First I’ll check your homework. Have you finished your homework? Now please read your writing.

Last week I was very busy. On Saturday morning, I got up early. I went to the farm to help my parents. In the afternoon, I did my homework at home. In the evening, I watched TV and read English. On Sunday morning I did some washing. In the afternoon, I played computer games with my brother. Then I took a bus to school.

T: Good! If you want to describe what you did last weekend, you must use the past form of verbs. Can you write some verbs and their past forms?

Step II Vocabulary (1, 2)

1. Check the words

T: OK. You did well. In this lesson we are going to learn more past forms. Now open your books and turn to page 58, read and check the words you know in 1.

2. Vocab-Builder

T: Next, please add five more new words to your Vocab-Builder. Then share with your classmates.

A sample list:

mended, had, helped, sent, gave, looked, took, geography, English, Chinese, art, music

3. Ask the students to make sentences with some of the words.

Sample answers:

S1: I mended my bike last Sunday morning.S2: We had a football match last Saturday afternoon.

S3: I helped Li Lei with his English. S4: Mr Yang sent me a present for my birthday.

Step III Speaking and writing (3)

1. Ask the students to read the story and answer the following questions.

T: Right. We know Jim had a busy weekend. I think he was very happy that day. But does Old Henry enjoy his weekends? Why not? What happened to him? Do you think he needs friends? Now read the passage in 3. Then answer the questions:

1) What did Old Henry do last month? 2) Why is Old Henry sad now?

Sample answers: 1) He went for a walk with Wang Wang.  2) Because he has no dog and no family.

Step V Homework ：1. Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this unit.

2. Ask the students to write a short passage according to the following.