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) 買些禮物 buy some presents

3) 照相 take photos

4) 穿上衣服 put on the cloths

5) 中國長城 the Great Wall of China

6) 在太陽下 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? 我在等汽車.

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. 請注意下列動詞的現在分詞形式:

1) It’s five o’clock and people are leaving (離開) 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.

此時此刻，在世界不同地方的人們正在做著不同的事情。

3. Show some expressions, and them students should remember them as quickly as possible

leave work 下班 wait for… run for trains 跑去乘火車

have afternoon tea 喝下午茶 walk to pubs 去酒館的路上

have a drink 喝酒 go to the opera 去聽歌劇

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. 句型轉換:

1) I’m writing the postcard.

否定句: I’m not writing the postcard.

一般疑問句: Are you writing the postcard?

2) Tony is having lunch.

否定句: Tony isn’t having lunch.

一般疑問句: Is Tony having lunch?

2. Fill in the blanks:

1) 現在是5點鐘. 人們在喝下午茶.

It’s five and people are having afternoon tea.

2) 這小孩不是在穿衣服.

The boy isn’t getting dressed.

3) 他們在探望朋友.

They are seeing friends.

4) Tony在寫明信片嗎?對

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, 點中典