Unit 12 What did you do last weekend
教学目标 语言目标 描述周末所做的事情或所开展的活动。
能力目标 能够用一般过去时来叙述周末所做的事情,并写出一篇日记,用来介绍当天所发生的事情。
情感目标 通过学习课文使同学之间相互交流周末时间的安排,丰富课余生活和活动。
语言结构 1.A. What did you do over the week end B. I played tennis on Saturday morning.A. How was your brother’s weekend B. It was great.2.A. What did he do over the weekend B. He went to the movies. A. What about your friend, Anita B. He had a party.
语言功能 Past tense
教学重点 一般过去时:(1)过去时动词四种规则变化 A. play-played B. die-died C. stop-stopped D. study-studied(2)不规则变化is, am-was are-were do-did go-went have/has-had sit-sat get-got
教学难点 (1) He did his homework. 变成一般疑问句 Did he do his homework (2) How was your weekend (3) I was very busy last night. 变成一般疑问句 Were you very busy last night (4) She often came to help us. (5) …sth. terrible(nothing interesting, anything great等
学习策略与思维技巧 Teach Ss how to talk about things in their daily life in English
任务型活动
课时 Four Periods
Period One
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Knowledge Objects:
Key Vocabulary: was , did , went, beach, over
Target Language: What did you do last weekend
On Saturday morning I played tennis
2.Ability Object: Train students’ listening and speaking skills
3.Moral Object: From today on, try to talk about your weekend and other things in English. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. It is of great help to your English study.
Teaching Key Points: Key vocabulary, Target language .
Teaching Difficulties: Train students’ listening and speaking skills; Learn to talk about recent past events using the target language.
Teaching Aids: A tape recorder a projector
Teaching Procedures:
教学步骤 教师活动 学生活动 备注
Step 1 Assign the task Tell something about your weekend. Assign the task. Say: Well class. The weekend is just over. Now we are going to prepare a diary about what you did in the weekend.Then tell your friends in your group. 1.Listen to the teacher2.make clear the task of this lesson.3.Get ready for the task Gestures
Step 2 Warm-up 1a&1b Say something interesting Say: first, before the activity stars, I want to let you pay attention to the question: what did you do in the weekend Next, talk about your own weekend, and then listen to the others carefully. Then say, prepare some paper to write down others’ weekend Listen to the teacher’s question.Try to think of the question and then find an answer to it.Watch the sample carefully.Group work starts. Textbook
Step 3 Warm-up 1c The teacher writes several words on the blackboard: did played cleaned went visited studies had. Then ask the students to make sentences according to these words. Then ask the other students to ask: What did you do over the weekend Then ask students to practice similar conversations in pairs. Say, Student A , you are Lucy, Student B, ask Lucy about her weekend, Remind them to use the activities in 1a and the days and times in 1b. Ask students work , help with pronunciations as needed. After Ss have had a chance to pratice the conversations . Ask pairs to act out one of their conversations. Activity.Answer the question.Ask and answerAct out NotebookTextbook
Step 4Summary In this class, we’ve learned some activities first. Such as did my homework , played soccer. Then we’ve learned to talk about recent past events using the target language what did you do last weekend On Saturday morning, I played tennis Make notes
Period Two
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Knowledge Objects:
Key Vocabulary: test, What about… Have a party, do some reading
Target Language: -What did you do last weekend
-I played soccer. We went to the beach.
2.Ability Object: Train students’ listening skills. Train Ss’ communicative competence.
3.Moral Object: If you have some difficulty memorizing irregular verbs. Don’t worry. Take it easy and be confident, you’ll be sure to overcome difficulties and make progress.
Teaching Key Points: Key vocabulary, Irregular verbs
Teaching Difficulties: Train students’ communicative competence;
Teaching Procedures:
教学步骤 教师活动 学生活动 备注
Step1Revision Work in pairs. Ss talk about their weekends by asking each other. What did you do last weekend Work in pairs
Step 22a&2b Let’s listen to the tape about one student’s weekend. Write down the key words. Listen to the tape carefully. Finish 2aListen to the tape three timescheck the answer Tape recorder
Step 3 While-task Divide the students to several groups. Then let each group talk about their weekends and write down what they heard.Show them the reference materials in Section A.Invite someone to read what he has written down Follow the teacher’s instructions and form into several groups.For each groups, talk about the weekendGroup startsListen to the tape carefully TextbookPaper
Step 42c Call Ss’ attention to the list of activities in the box. Read them and have Ss repeat one by one. Write them on the blackboard. Say these pairs and have Ss repeat like this. Visit sb.-Visited sb. Allow Ss some times to practice reading these pairs of activities Point out the conversation. Please fill in the conversation using the past forms of the activities to talk about recent past events. Ask Ss to use the activities to make new conversations. After Ss have had a chance to practice their own conversations, ask several pairs to present them to the class. Read them and repeat one by one.read these pairs of activitiesfill in the conversationAct out the conversations
Step 5Grammar Focus Allow Ss some time to read these questions and answers in pairs. Call attention to the Regular verbs and Irregular verbs columns. The regular verbs ends with –ed while irregular verbs must be memorized one by one. Read and answer textbook
Step 6Summary In this class, we’ve learned the present and past forms of some verbs, including regular verbs and irregular verbs. And we’ve also practiced talking about recent past events using the present past tense. Make notes
Period Three
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Knowledge Objects:
Key Vocabulary: wasn’t = was not
Target Language: -How was your weekend It was great ! I went to the beach.
2.Ability Object: Train students’ read skills. Train Ss’ communicative competence.
3.Moral Object: Everyone has his merits. Maybe you are good at drawing but not good at English or math or Chinese. Don’t worry, and you’ll make progress with the help of your teacher and classmates. Be confident.
Teaching Key Points: Learn to talk about how was your or someone else’s weekend
Teaching Difficulties: Train students’ communicative competence; Learn to talk about how was your or someone else’s weekend.
Teaching Procedures:
教学步骤 教师活动 学生活动 备注
Step1Revision Review regular and irregular verbs forms. Answer one by one 小黑板
Step 2 Assign task What did you do yesterday Did you have a good time Now introduce your experience to your friends in your group Listen to the teacherMake clear the task of this lessonGet ready for the task Pictures
Step3 3a Before the activity begins think about: What did you do yesterday did you have a good time Next think about whether you were happy. Then say open your books.And look at 3a. Point out the sample answer. Invite two Ss to read the first conversation to the class. Please complete the other two conversations using the activities above the picture. The scene may help you with your answersGet Ss to write numbers 1-3 in the blanks on their ownCheck the answers. Listen to the teacher’s questions.Try to think of the question and then find an answer to it.Watch the sample carefully. Get ready for the group later on.Group workSum up the results Textbooks
Step 43b Point out the sample conversation and ask two Ss to read it. Now please practice asking and answering questions about Ming’s. Tony’s and Sarah’s weekends like this using information in 3a. Read the sample conversation first. Ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class Read Act out
Step5Summary In this class we’ve done much reading and oral practice talking about how was your or somebody else’s weekend. At the end of class we’ve practiced making statements using the simple past tense. Listen and make notes
Period Four
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Knowledge Objects:
Key Vocabulary: studied geography, played the guitar, went to the library
Target Language: What did Jim do Jim went to the movies.
What did you do last weekend I visited my sister
2.Ability Object: Train students’ listening kills. Train Ss’ communicative competence.
3.Moral Object: Everyone should take an active part in the activities.
Teaching Key Points: The target language. What questions
Teaching Difficulties: What questions. Train Ss’ communicative competence.
Teaching Procedures:
教学步骤 教师活动 学生活动 备注
Step1Revision Ask different Ss to report their interview results to the class. Vote to see who had the most wonderful weekend. Make a report
Step21a Read each one and have Ss repeat. Translate the word “geography” to the students. Please match the activities with the pictures. Write the letter of the picture in front of the correct activity. Point out the sample answer. Check the answers. Read after the teacher.match the activities with the pictures.
Step 32a Now you are going to have a conversation between Jim and Sally.They are talking about what they did over the weekend.Listen to the conversation and write about what each person did.Practise in pairs. Use the dialogue as an example/ Listen to the tape carefully then answer together.Listen again, write down the dialogue.Listen to the third time. Try to make a small speech about your weekend. Textbook
Step 42b Please practice asking and answering questions. Talk about what Sally and Jim did last weekend like this using information in 2a. Read the sample conversation first. Ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class.
Step 52c Divide the students into several groups. Now the activity begins.Let a student to read his friend’s weekend Follow the teacher’s instruction and form into groups(four persons a group)For each group: introduce the weekend experience; hearers listen to the introduce carefully and write down what he did in the weekendGroup workSum up the results PaperTextbook
Step 6 Summary In this class we’ve learned more activities first, such as played the guitar, studied geography. Then we’ve done much listening and oral practice using the target language What did you /Jim/ Sally do last weekend Listen and make a note
Task Two: How was your weekend
Task One: How did you do over the weekend
Weekend activities
Task Three: Write about what you did last weekend