Unit Four Then and Now
Ⅰ. Aims of the unit
1.Ability Aims
(1) Students are able to correctly use the central sentences and phrases below to describe the changes of a place or a person;
“There was/were (no) years ago. Now there is/are …”
“ Before, I/she/he/it was … Now, I/she/ he/it …”
(2) Students can understand the meaning and pronunciation of the new words and phrases “star, easy, look up, Internet”
2. Knowledge Aims
(1) Students can grasp the central sentences above in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
(2) Students can grasp the central phrase above in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
3. Other Aims
(1) Moral Aims : Students can express their sadness and fear to their parents to reduce stress and keep healthy
(2) Cultural Aims : Students can make good use of the world-famous media—Internet to study by themselves
(3) Strategy Aims :Students can get the main idea and some detail information from the text.
Ⅱ Content of the unit
Lesson One
(A Let’s learn)

Ⅰ.Teaching Aims:
Students can grasp the words and phrases “dining hall, grass, gym, ago”
Students can know the speaking and using of the sentences： “There was gym in my school twenty years ago.” “Now there’ s a new one in our school.”
3. Students can sing the song Changes in me
Ⅱ.Important &difficult points:
Students can correctly use the past tense and present tense among the new words and sentences.
Ⅲ Teaching Aids
1. PPT
2. Radio
Ⅳ Teaching Procedures
1.Warm-up
Go over the phrases of Unit 3: ate fresh food, went swimming, took pictures, bought gifts, rode a horse, rode a bike , went camping, hurt my foot , went fishing
2.Presentation
(1)Show the words :dining hall, grass, gym, ago.
Show the picture of grass.
T: What’s this? Ss: It’s grass.
Chant: Grass, grass. Play football on the grass.
Teacher write down the words on the blackboard and show other word “dining hall, gym”.
Chant: Dining hall, dining hall. Have lunch in the dinning. Gym, gym. Play basketball in the gym.
Teach the word “ago，... years ago, ... months ago. ”
T: I went fishing three days ago. I went to Beijing two years ago.
Show the pictures of schools and compare：There was no gym in my school twenty years ago. Now there’s a new one in our school. Then ask students to read after the radio and then let them to make sentences to describe the school before and now.
e.g. There was no computer room ten years ago. Now there’s a new one in our school.
3. Practice and Consolidation
Game “What’s missing”
Finish “ Find the mistakes”
Sing the chant Changes in me
4. Homework
Write and recite “ dining hall, gym, grass, years ago, months ago, last year, last month”
Lesson Two
( Let’s try Let’s talk )
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims
Students can grasp the words：star, easy, look up, and Internet.
Students can correctly use the sentences： “There was no library in my school. Tell us about your school, please. How do you know that? There were no computers or Internet in my time.”
Ⅱ.Important &difficult points:
Students can correctly use the sentences ：“There was no library in my school. Tell us about your school, please. How do you know that? There were no computers or Internet in my time.”
Ⅲ. Teaching Aids
PPT
Radio
Ⅳ. Teaching Procedures
1. Warm-up
Go over words of Let’s learn. Game “Golden Eyes”
Make sentences with “ ago”
2.Teaching Procedures
(1).Show the words: star, easy, look up, Internet. Then ask students to make sentences with them.
(2). Show pictures of schools with and without library and present the differences: “ There was no library in the school. Now there’s a new one.”
Show pictures of schools with and without computers and present: “There were no computers or Internet in my time.” Then ask them to read the sentences paying attention to was and were.
(3). Explain and read the sentences for students “Tell us about your school, please. How do you know that?”
(4). Students answer the question “What was Grandpa’s school like?” and help them to get the correct answer.
3. Practice and consolidation
(1)Students read after the radio
Look and express the differences
Homework
Recite the dialogue in groups