人教新目标 (Go for it) 版七年级下册Section A教学设计

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 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.