Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?
The second period---Section A (2a-2d)
Teaching aims and demands:
Knowledge objectives:
Key words and phrases: anyone, anywhere, wonderful, few, quite a few, most, Long time no see, be on vacation, take quite a few photos, most of the time;
b) Target language:
① —Where did you go on vacation? —I went to New York City.
② —Did you go with anyone? —Yes, I went with my mother .
③ —Did you do anything special last month? —No, I didn’t.
Ability objectives:
learn to listen for where Grace/Kevin/Julie went on vacation carefully；
have a better understand of Indefinite Pronouns and Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs;
make full use of the target language to talk about their own vacation;
Moral objectives:
Students learn to talk about their own vacation with Simple past tense and try to cultivate students’ sense of protecting environment and loving nature.
II. Teaching key and difficult points:
1. Master the expressions of different activities in the past;
2. Talk about one’s own vacation with the target language;
3. Learn the usages of Indefinite Pronouns and Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.
Teaching aids: Multi-media
Teaching methods: Task-based language teaching approach
Situational language teaching method
Teaching procedures:
Teaching steps
Teacher’s guide
Students’ activities (Activity patterns)
Aims


I. Pre-task
1.Present some pictures about different activities in the past and ask Ss to guess;
Q: Where did they go on vacation?
Ask and guess
(Teacher-student interaction)
1.Warm the class;
2.Review the last period;



II. While-
task
2.Introduce three new friends and ask Ss to listen for their names and places;
3.Present the chart of 2a and ask Ss to match the names with the places;
Q: Where did the people go on vacation?
4.Introduce some other activities in the listening and ask Ss to read them aloud;
Eg. go with someone/buy something special/meet someone interesting/do something interesting/go out with someone;
5.Ask Ss to compare these phrases with other phrases in the chart and find the differences;
6.Lead Ss to listen again and check Yes or No and ask Ss to ask and answer;
Q: Did Grace go with anyone?
A: Yes, she did.
7.Let Ss work in pairs and role-play conversations between Grace, Kevin and Julie;
8.First let Ss read the conversation 2d and underline the questions in it;
9.Ask Ss to match the people and places they went and give some explanations in 2d;
10.Let Ss act out the conversations in pairs.
Pre-listening

Look and match
Read aloud

Find the differences

Listen and check
Role-play
(Pair work)

Read and underline

Read and match
Act out in pairs
(Pair work)
3.Present and practice the target language in the forms of listening,
speaking;
4.Get to know the listening materials clearly through pre-listening/matching/finding differences/checking Yes or No;
5. Master the target language by pair-work;

III. Post-task
11.Do some exercises:
1)Did he go out with _______ (任何人)?
2)They didn’t buy ________ ______ (特殊的东西) there yesterday.
3)Tell us __________ __________ (有趣的事情) about your vacation, Jenny.
4)They caught ______ ___ ____ (相当多的) insects in the forest.
5) _____ __ ___ (大多数) students can get to school early.


Think and finish

Comprehensive use of
the target language;

Assignments
12.Summarize and copy the key words and phrases;
13.Complete the Exercise Book from P3-4;
14.Write some sentences about Grace/Kevin/Julie’s vacations with the information in the charts.

1.Summarize and copy;

2.Write and think;



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