Period 1 Function
Target language 目标语言
1. Words and phrases生词和短语
gift, shark, aquarium, seal, hang, hang out, souvenir
2. Key sentences 重点句子
Did you go to the zoo?
No, I didn’t.
Were there any sharks?
No, there weren’t.
Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to listen to the conversation and talk about school trip.
Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the students learn how to talk about school trips with “Did you...” and “were there...”.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
Did you, were there questions.
Simple past of some regular and irregular verbs.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A tape recorder, a projector, etc.
Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式
Step I Lead-in
Revise past forms of some verbs. Enable students to use them to make a list of their last school trip activities.
T: Do you still remember your last school trip? When was it? Where did you go?
Ss: ...
T: What did you do on the trip? Now make a list of the things you did on the trip. Remember, use the simple past tense of verbs because we are talking about the past event. Is that clear?
Help students to review the simple past of some verbs they have learned before.
Show the following chart. Let students write down the simple past of the verbs.
Ask a student to write the answers on the board. Then check the answer with the whole class.
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go |
do |
have |
eat |
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hang |
see |
buy |
take |
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Then let them make their own lists. Ask some students to share their lists with the class and make sure they use the correct simple past tense of the verbs.
The following chart shows the simple past of some irregular verbs. Students may find some useful while they are making the list.
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verb |
simple past |
verb |
simple past |
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buy |
bought |
teach |
taught |
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think |
thought |
catch |
caught |
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bring |
brought |
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ride |
rode |
write |
wrote |
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grow |
grew |
throw |
threw |
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drink |
drank |
sing |
sang |
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ring |
rang |
swim |
swam |
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sink |
sank |
begin |
began |
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sit |
sat |
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Step II Listening and Oral practice (Section A 1b)
T: Now Tina is talking about her school trip. Do you want to know what she did? Before we listen to the tape, go through the expressions in activity 1b first.
Go through the expressions with students and make sure students understand their meanings. Then get them listen and circle the expressions in the box.
Play the recording. Students only listen and get a general idea of the conversation.
Play the tape a second time. Students listen and circle the activities.
Play the tape a third time, students listen and read after the tape.
Correct their pronunciation and intonation mistakes.
Step III Pairwork (Section A 1c)
Point to the speech bubble in the picture of activity 1b. Let students practice the conversation between Tina and Kevin in pairs.
Call attention to the questions:
Did you ...?
Were there ...?
And their answers:
Yes, I did. No, I didn’t.
Yes, there were. No. there weren’t.
Then call attention to the picture at the top of the page. Ask:
T: Did Tina buy a souvenir?
S: No, she didn’t. Her friend Grace bought a souvenir.
T: Did Laura buy a souvenir?
S: No, she didn’t. She ate some ice cream.
Have students work in pairs and make more conversations about Joe, Toby and Grace.
Then divide the class into two groups (Group A and Group B), do some practice with the simple past tense.
A student from group A gives a sentence in present simple, and a student from group B change it into simple past. For example:
A: We go to the zoo every week.
B: We went to the zoo yesterday.
Step IV Summary and Homework
T: This class we have learnt how to talk about school trips with “Did you...” and “Were there ...”. We also learned the simple past form of some verbs. After class, please review the chart about the verbs. Did you have a good time in this period? I hope you did. Don’t forget to preview the next part of Section A (2a, 2b, 2c, Grammar focus).