Unit 1 What are you going to do at the weekend
Teaching aims:
1. To understand conversations about weekend plans.
2. To process inform ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ation of weekend plans in the listening material.
3. To talk about weekend plans with given information.
Main points and difficult points:
The key vocabulary and expressions—
picnic, housework, on, else, nobody, at, nothing, weekend, fantastic
go over, have a piano ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) lesson, help with..., check my email, see a movie, have a picnic,
at the weekend, do my homework, stay at home.
Important points:
The key structure—be going to
Teaching aids:
tape recorder, video
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warming-up
Get the students read ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) through the words in both boxes while the students follow them; then read through again and have the students repeat them.
The teacher p ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )lays the tape, get the students to read. Then get the students to match the words and phrases.
Ask some students t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )o read their answers and share the answers in the whole class.
Answers: Check my ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) email; have a picnic; go to a party; stay in bed; buy some clothes; have a piano lesson; get up early; revise for my test; do my homework
Step 2. Writing
Get the students ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )to look at the pictures on the book. Let them read through model, make sure that they can understand the sentence.
Get the students to fo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )llow the teacher to read the phrase. Work in pairs to write the phrases.
Get some stud ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ents to read their phrases and share their answers in the whole class.
Check the answers.
Say: 1. check my email 2. go over lessons 3. have a piano lesson
4. have a picnic 5. help with the housework 6. see a movie
Step 3. Listening
1. Get th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e students to listen to the dialogue, grasp the meaning of it.
Listen to the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) tape again and read through the dialogue by themselves.
Get the stude ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nts to read the dialogue again and answer the questions.
Share their answers with their partner.
The teacher gets some students to read their answers.
Check the answers.
Answers:
1. He’s going to check his email and do his homework.
2. She’s going to see a movie.
3. Lingling.
4. They are going to meet in the park.
2. 知识点讲解
做一些一般将来时练习(be going to do sth.句型)
Step 4. Practice
Using the words to complete the conversation.(4)
Betty: What are your plans for next weekend, Lingling
Lingling: (1)_______. I don’t have any plans.
Betty: Are you going to spend it (2) _____ at home
Lingling: Well, … what are you going to do
Betty: Tony and I are going to have a picnic in the park.
We’re g ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )oing to have a (3)_______ time. Are you going to come
Lingling: I’m not sure.
Betty: Don’t be (4)____! What (5)___ are you going to do
Answers:
Check the answers.
Nothing alone fantastic silly else
Step 5. Listening and repeat
The teacher plays the tape and asks the students to follow to read.
Play the tape again, ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) pausing for them to repeat. They should do this chorally as a whole class. In groups and individually.
Put them in pairs ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )to practice. Encourage them to be critical and help each other get the pronunciation right.
Circulate and monitor their production.
Step 6. Listening
The teacher plays the tape and asks the students to follow to read.
Play the tape again ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ), pausing for them to repeat. They should do this chorally as a whole class.
Put them in pai ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rs to practice the pronunciation of /ai/, /i/ /i:/ . Pay attention to the letter y in some words, like buy, my.
Ask some students to read the words. Correct their mistakes.
Circulate and monitor their production.
Step 7. Practice
Get the stude ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nts to read through the examples so that the students know what to do.
Say:
A: What are you going to do on Saturday morning
B: I’m going to check my email and do my homework
Get the student ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s to practice the example in pairs. And ask some groups to read.
Get the students to finish the board.
You Your partner
Saturday morning check email do homework
afternoon
evening
Sunday morning
afternoon
evening
Step 8. Writing and answering
Get the students to ask and answer.
Say:
What are you going to do at the weekend
What is your mother going to do at the weekend
Step 9. Oral work
In groups, tal ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )k about what your classmates are going to do at the weekend.
Choose one or two to give a report to see which is better.
Step 10. Writing work
Write a short passa ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ge to describe what your father/mother is going to do on Su