Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A (1a-2d)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
1. 能听、说、读、写下列词汇：
unexpected，backpack, oversleep-overslept-overslept, ring-rang-rung
2. 能正确使用下列常用表达：
by the time, go off, wake up, put on, rush out, give…a lift, at least, be full of
3. 能掌握并熟练运用重点句式，谈论过去发生的事情：
4.了解过去完成时，并运用目标语言谈论过去发生的事情，特别是意想不到的事情。
5.通过本课的学习，学会合理安排时间，养成良好的学习习惯，增强做事的计划性。
重点
熟练运用所学句型谈论过去发生的事情。
难点
能正确使用有when、by the time等引导的时间状语从句表示过去发生的事情。
教学用具
ppt recorder
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
新课导入
Step. Lead-in
Free talk:
What do you usually do in the morning before school?
Do you like mornings? Why or why not?
Are you ever late for school? What happened?
课 程 讲 授
Step2.Presentation
1.PPT呈现图片，let students look at the pictures and discuss what happened in the past.
2.Teacher says “ Life is full of the unexpected.” Learn the new word “unexpected”.
3.Work on 1a.
(1).Have students look at the five pictures and guess what happened to Mary.
(2).Teacher gives the key words to help students understand the pictures..
wake up late
use the bathroom but someone in it
catch the bus
had just left
get to school, realize …had left …
.Give students some time to prepare. Then ask some students to describe the pictures.
4. Activities 1b1c
(1) Listen to Mary talking about her morning. Complete the sentences.
Before listening, go through the three sentences.
(2)After checking the answers, ask students to read the sentences carefully, and then tell the structure of past perfect tense: “had+过去分词”.
过去完成时用法：
（1）构成：由助动词had（用于各种人称和数）+过去分词”构成
否定式：had not+过去分词
（2）用法：过去完成时表示在过去某一时间或动作之前已经发生或完成了的动作或状态。
（3）它所表示的动作发生的时间是“过去的过去”，表示过去某一时间可用by ，before等短语来表示，也可用when，before等引导的时间状语从句来表示。
例如：By the time I came in, Tom had written his name on the blackboard.
当我进来时，汤姆已经把他的名字写在黑板上了。
When I got there, you had already eaten your meal.
当我到达那里时，你已经开始吃了。
5. Role-play
Look at the pictures in 1a and talk about what happened to Mary this morning.
A: Hi, Mary. You look so tired.
B: I am. I had a bad morning.
A:Really? What happened?
B:...
6. Activities 2a 2b 2c
(1)Before listening: Look at the four pictures in 2a; guess what happened next?
(2)While listening
1).Listen to the tape for the first time and finish 2a.
Listen to Mary continue her story. Number the pictures〔1-4〕in the correct order
2).Listen to the tape for the second time and finish 2b.
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Then listen again and check your answers.
(3)After listening
Work on 2c
Teacher: Make up an ending for the story and share it with your partner.
7.Work on 2d
1).Listen to the conversation for the first time, and then answer the questions.
What happened to Kevin today?
Why was Kevin late for school?
How did Kevin get to school?
Check the answers together.
2). Ask students to talk about Kevin according to the chart.
3).Pair work. Role-play the conversation in 2d.
小结
归纳过去完成时的构成及用法。
作业布置
Master the structure and usage of past perfect tense.
Make up your own story according to Mary’ and Kevin’s stories.
板书设计
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A（1a2d）
Words and phrases
oversleep-overslept-overslept by the time give…a lift
ring-rang-rung when be full of
put on go off rush out at least
Sentences
(1 ) By the time I got up, my brother had already gotten in the shower.
（2）But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
（3）Well, at least by the time you got to school, you were only
five minutes late for class.
课后反思
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A (3a-3c)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
1.能听、说、读、写下列词汇：block，work-worker, burn-burning, belief-disbelief, alive-living-live-lively, airport, till-until, west-east-north-south, stare
2. 能正确使用下列常用表达：in line with, show up, be about to, even though, take off, stare at, in disbelief, by the end of
3. 能掌握并熟练运用下列句型：
Life is full of the unexpected.
I was about to go up when I decided to get a coffee first.
As I was waiting in line with other office workers, I heard a loud sound
通过阅读训练，提高阅读理解能力，在理解故事情节的基础上对文章进行进一步的解读。
通过本课的学习，认识到生活中充满着许多出乎意料的事件，养成正确看待事物的积极心态。.
重点
掌握并熟练运用本课的重点词汇、常用表达及句型。
难点
学会用过去完成时叙述自己经历的特别的一天。
教学用具
ppt
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
复习
Step1.Check their work.
1). 快速读出英文单词，说出汉语意思。
2). 根据句意和汉语提示完成单词。
（1）. The _______ (work) work eight hours in a day in the factory.
（2） Don’t be too sad, we should feel lucky to be _____(live).
（3）. Smoke?surged from?the?_______(burn)?building.?
（4.）. Mary stared at him in_______?(belief), shaking her head.?
（5）.Walk two_________?(block) down the street and go past the city hall.
2. Free talk
Retell the story about Mary according to the pictures in 1a and 2a.
新课导入
Step2. Lead-in
Watch two videos about 9.11 and the big earth in England and guess what happened.
课 程 讲 授
Step3. Comprehension.
1.速读
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1).Which two events does the writer mention?
2). How did the writer end up missing both events?
3).Check the answers.
2. 细读
1). Read Paragraph 1 and answer the questions below.
(1). What time did the writer arrive at the World Trade Center on September?
(2).What did the writer decide to do first?
(3). How far was the coffee place away his office?
2). Read the 2nd Paragraph carefully, and then put the sentences in correct order.
Check the answers together.
3). Read the whole story again, and fill in the blanks.
Event
Date
Place
How did the writer end up missing both events?
1
2
3. 朗读
First, read after the tape twice. Then read by themselves.
Next, ask some students to read aloud.
4. 精读
Work on 3b. Find words from the passage with opposite meanings to the words below. Then write a sentence with each word.
Step4.Exercise
Work on 3c. Retell one of the events to your partner.
小结
归纳本课所学重点句型.。
作业布置
1.Retell the two stories.
2.Write down the unexpected in your daily life.
板书设计
Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A (3a—3c)
Date
Event
Place
How did the writer end up missing both events?
1
2
课后反思
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A (Grammar Focus-4c)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
1. 能听、说、读、写下列新词汇：cream, workday, pie, bean, market
2. 能正确使用下列常用表达：
Show up, by the end of , finish doing, become + adj., come back from
3. 能掌握并熟练用语法要点中的句型：
1) When I got to school, I realized that I had left my backpack at home.
2) By the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.
4.能运用所掌握的词汇句型和语法进行交流。
5.能比较流利地讲述自己曾经烦人特别的一天，养成积极看待事物的积极心态。
重点
总结过去完成时的不同句型。
难点
学会用过去完成时叙述自己经历的特别的一天。
教学用具
ppt
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
复习
Step1.Revision
以小组对话的形式复习巩固上节课所学重要句型，同时为本课学习Grammar Focus 夯实基础。
新课导入
Step2. Lead-in
呈现图片和本单元的重要句型，学生根据图片练习对话，观察这些句子的结构，总结本单元的语法要点。
1) When I got to school, I realized that I had left my backpack at home.
2) By the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.
3) Before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left .
课 程 讲 授
Step3.Presentation
1. 总结过去完成时的用法
（1）构成：由助动词had（用于各种人称和数）+过去分词”构成
否定式：had not+过去分词
（2）用法：过去完成时表示在过去某一时间或动作之前已经发生或完成了的动作或状态。
（3）它所表示的动作发生的时间是“过去的过去”，表示过去某一时间可用by ，before等短语来表示，也可用when，before等引导的时间状语从句来表示。例如:
By the time I came in, Tom had written his name on the blackboard.
当我进来时，汤姆已经把他的名字写在黑板上了。
When I got there, you had already eaten your meal.
当我到达那里时，你已经开始吃了。
Before I go to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
在我到达公交车站前，公交车已经离开了。
2.针对训练
1）当我进来时，他已经写完作业了。
When I came in he ________________(finish) his homework.
2）直到去年，她已经学了五年的钢琴了。
By the time of last year, she __________ (learn) the piano for five years.
3、Grammar Focus
Ask students to read the sentences, and understand the meanings of them. Pay attention to the expressions “ by the time, before and when”.
由by the time, before，when 等引导时间状语从句时，主句常用过去完成时表示动作发生在过去的过去。
根据汉语完成句子
1)当我到达学校的时候，我才意识到我把书包忘在家里了。
_______ I got to school, I realized that I ______ ______ my backpack at home.
2)到我返回学校的时候，铃声已经响过了。
_____ _____ _____ I got back to school, the bell ______ _______.
3）我到达公共汽车站之前， 汽车已经离开了。
Before I _____ _____ the bus stop, the bus ______ _______ ______.
Step4.Exercise
1.Activity 4a
1)Ask students to make sentences using by the time or before on their own.
2)Ask five students to write their sentences on the blackboard.
3)Check their sentences together in class.
2..Activity 4b
Let students read the words or phrases in the box and try to understand the meanings of them. Before starting, have them know the right forms of the verbs.
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. Before filling in the blanks, let students go through the six sentences to understand the meanings.
Check the answers together.
Give students some time to read the six sentences over and over again.
3.Group work: Activity 4c
Let students think about his/her day yesterday. Use the sentences in 4c to say three more statements about his/her day yesterday.
小结
归盘点语法要点。
作业布置
Review the new words and expressions you’ve learned today.
板书设计
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A (Grammar focus- 4c)
When, by the time, before + 从句（一般过去时），主句（过去完成时）
When I got to…, I realized… had left….
By the time I got back to…, the bell had rung.
Before I got to…, the bus had already left.
课后反思
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B (1a-1e)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
能听、说、读、写下列单词：fool, costume, embarrass-embarrassed-embarrassing,
能正确使用下列常用表达：costume party, trick sb., an hour earlier, happen to sb. get dressed
3. 能掌握并熟练运用本课句型。
4.通过听说训练，能从所听到的对话中获取基本的信息。
5.了解部分西方节日的文化常识。
重点
掌握一般过去时和过去完成时
难点
语言输出中熟练运用一般过去时和过去完成时
教学用具
ppt recorder
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
复习
Step1.Revision
竞赛游戏，读出英文单词，说出单词的汉语意思。
新课导入
课 程 讲 授
Step2.Presentation
1.Finish 1a. Put these words in the correct columns in the chart. Some words can go in more than one column.
Tell students nouns are probably about people, places, and things. Verbs are about action words. Description words are probably adjectives.
Explain new words to students.
costume: An actor’s or performer’s costume is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
embarrassed: feeling very shy or uncomfortable.
e.g. She was embarrassed because she wore jeans at the costume party.
(3) Share the answers with others in class.
(4) Ask students to make sentences with the words in 1a.
(5)Exercises.
2. Enjoy an English video: —— The flying penguins
Ask students what they know about April Fool’s Day.
T: When is April Fool’s Day?
Ss:
T: What did you do last April Fool’s Day?
…
3.Work on 1c
(1)Look at the four pictures in 1c, and ask students to make up a story.
T: Look at each picture carefully; what can you see? Can you guess how the person feels in the picture? Try to make up a story using at least two words in 1a.
(2)Listen to 1c
Dave, Nick and Joe are talking about April Fool’s Day. Listen and write each person’s name under the correct picture.Activity 1d
Listen to the tape for the second time and finish 1d.
Listen again. Who says each of the phrases below? Write D for Dave, N for Nick and J for Joe.
Read the conversation again and fill in the blanks.
4.Activity 1d
Listen to the tape for the second time and finish 1d.
Step3.Practice
Work on 1e
Talk about April Fool’s Day stories in your group. Use the information.in 1c and 1d.
小结
总结本课重点短语及句型。
作业布置
Write something that happened to you recently, choose at least 8 words.
fool costume change clock realize go off
get dressed show up embarrassed empty
板书设计
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B(1a- 1e)
went off, got dressed
Showed up, a costume party
had changed was really embarrassed
had fooled
课后反思
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B (2a-2e)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
1.能听、说、读、写下列单词：announce, hoax-hoaxes, discover-discovery, lady-ladies, cancel, office-officer
2. 能正确使用下列常用表达：sell out, get married, take place, around the world, play jokes /tricks on sb., as much as…, lose weight, end up, run out of, thousands of
3. 能掌握并熟练运用本节课句型：
4.通过阅读训练，提高自己的阅读理解能力,理解关键词和短语的能力。
5.通过本课的学习，了解愚人节，开玩笑不能伤害别人的感情。
重点
重点词汇、常用表达及句型及根据所学写一篇短文。
难点
叙述发生在自己身上的愚人节事件。
教学用具
ppt
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
复习
Step1.Revision
Ask students to tell their stories on April Fool’s Day.
新课导入
Step2.. Lead-in
Do you want to enjoy a video about April Fool’s Day.?
课 程 讲 授
Step3.Comprehension
1.After watching the video, ask students a question.:How much do you know about April Fool’s Day?
Tell the history and custom about April Fool’s Day.
Cards of April Fool’s Day
Sayings of April Fool’s Day:
2. 速读 (Fast Reading)
Ask students to scan the whole article quickly and match each paragraph with the main idea.
Paragraph 1 The most famous tricks played.
Paragraph 2 Examples of funny storied that happened on April Fool’s Day.
Paragraph 3 An introduction to April Fool’s Day.
Paragraph 4 A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day.
3. 细读(Careful reading)
Task 1. Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the chart..Then check the answers.
Time
Place
Trick
Result
On
In England
There would be
All of the spaghetti had
On
In
The special water would help people
More than 10,000people
Task 2. Ask students to read Paragraph 3 and fill in the chart. Then check the answers.
Time
Place
Trick
Result
On April Fool’s Day
A famous TV star asked his girl friend to
The TV star lost
Task 3. Ask students to read Paragraph 4 and fill in the chart. Then check the answers.
Time
Place
Trick
Result
In
1983
In
landed on the earth
Thousands of people
Task 4. Ask students to read Paragraph 4 again and find the answer to the question.
Why did so many people believe Orson Wells?
Answer: Orson Wells made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story.
Task 5. Retell the story according the mind-map.
4. 朗读 (Loud Reading)
Listen to the tape. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation.
Read the passage by themselves
Students’ show time
5. 精读 (Intensive Reading)
Work together to learn the important language points and take notes on your notebook.
Step4.Exercise
1.Work on 2d
1）.Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
2）.Check the answers together in class.1. Speaking work on Activity 2e:
Tell your funny story from 2a to the class. The class will vote for:
a. the funniest joke
b. the most embarrassing joke
c. the most creative joke
2. Writing
Write down your funny story from 2a and share with other students.
Step5.Speaking
work on Activity 2e:
Tell your funny story from 2a to the class. The class will vote for:
a. the funniest joke
b. the most embarrassing joke
c. the most creative joke
2. Writing
Write down your funny story from 2a and share with other students.
小结
The important language points
作业布置
1. Review the new words and expressions you’ve learned today.
2. Retell the stories.
板书设计
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B (2a-2e)
An introduction to April Fool’s Day
Time Place Trick Result
课后反思
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected
课题
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B (3a-Self Check)
课型
讲授课
教学目标
1. 复习并掌握下列单词和短语：
backpack, oversleep, give … a lift, miss, unexpected, block, worker, stare, disbelief, above, burn, alive, airport, till, west, cream, workday, pie, show up, bean, market, fool, costume, embarrassed, costume party, announce, spaghetti, hoax, sell out, discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing
2. 能熟练掌握运用过去完成时的句式：
（1）By the time I got up, my brother had already gotten in the shower.
（2）But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
（3）Well, at least by the time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for class.
（4）Before I could join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building.
（5）But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken off.
3.能够根据所学知识进行写作，提高写作能力。4.注意人们所持文化认同感和对玩笑容忍度的差异， 愚弄他人时应持审慎及得当的态度。
重点
掌握并熟练运用本单元的词汇、常用表达及句型。
难点
能够在写作中熟练运用一般过去时和过去完成时这两种时态。
教学用具
ppt
教学环节
说 明
二次备课
复习
Step1.Revision
Talk show (Speaking)
小组合作学习，复习本单元的重点词汇及句型，教师对学生展示的情况进行适当的指导和补充。
课 程 讲 授
Step2.Words and expressions
1. Have a dictation
Students write down some words and expressions. Then check each other.
Give students several minutes to review them.
2). 用括号内单词的适当形式填空。
(1). The little girl gets ______ (dress) herself every day.
(2). None of my friends showed up at 10, so I realized it was a trick and felt really________(embarrass). conversations with friends.
(3). We can trust what he said. He is a______ (believe) person.
(4). His parents are both _________ (office) in the army in Beijing.
(5). It will not be _________(expect) if Tom comes late again, because he is always like this.
(6). Tamara stared at him in______(belief), shaking her head.
(7). He was trapped in a _______(burn) house.?
(8).People _______(live )should try their best to live better.
(9).What do you do on April ________ (fool) Day?
(10). Tom got __________(marry) to Mary 5 years ago.
Step3.Practice
1. Group work Activity 3a
Can you remember a lucky or an unlucky day? What happened? Make some notes about what you remember.
2.Writing(3b)
Write a story about your lucky or unlucky day and tell your story to a partner or the class.
1).Show an example. And students finish their own writing. Then share it with others.
2).Check each other.
3. Grammar
1). Talk about Past Perfect Tense. (Grammar focus)
When I got to school, I realized that I had left my backpack at home.
By the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.
Before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
2).Finish the exercises on Exercise Book.
4.Self check1
Let some students read the words in the box. Make sure all the students know the meanings of the words .
Let students read the sentences in Self Check 1. Then students try to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in the box.
Let some students read their answers. Check the answers with the students .
5..Self check 2:
Tell students that they have to fill in the blanks with past perfect tense . More than one answer may be possible.
Students think and try to complete the sentences by themselves.
Let some students read their answers to the class.
Share their answers together.
小结
盘点本单元所学单词、短语及重要句型。
作业布置
1. Review Unit12.
2. Finish all the exercises.
板书设计
Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B (3a-Self Check)
My lucky/ unlucky day
Beginning: when, where, who, what
Body: And what happened next? What’s the end of the story?
Ending: Hoed do you feel? What do you think?
课后反思
