七年级 下学期unit10 Where did you go on vocation?

Unit 10: Where did you go on vocation
Ⅰ. Key words
New York City Museum Summer camp
Mountain Central Park Volleyball
Ⅱ. Key sentence structure
Where did you go on vocation I went to summer camp.
Where did they go on vocation They went to New York City.
Where did he go on vocation He stayed at home.
Where did she go on vocation She visited her uncle.
Where did Tina go on vocation She went to the mountains.
Did you/they/he/she go to central park Yes, I / they / he / she did.
No, I / they / he / she didn’t.
Ⅲ. Skill goals
a. Talk about the places they went on vocation in English.
b. talk about past events.
c. Practice past tense.
Ⅳ. Teaching important and difficult points
a. let students learn to use the sentence structures to talk about where did they go on vocation.
b. listening to the material about different places and completing the text.
c. working together with partners and making dialogs.
Ⅴ. Teaching methods
1. Ask and answer.
2. Discussion.
3. Listening.
4. Cooperative learning.
Ⅵ. Teaching aids
1. a recorder,
2. a computer
Ⅶ. Teaching procedures and ways.
1. warming up
1. Ask questions: what did you do last Saturday
2. Repeat students’ answers and write them on the blackboard, underline the verbs. Say, we use these words to talk about things that happened in the past.
3. Draw a table, write down some verbs. Ask a student to tell the past forms of the words.
2. Teach the new words.
Ask students to read and spell the words after the teacher.
3. 1a: Match activities with the pictures (a-g).
1. Ask a student to read the activities in 1a.
2. Finish 1a.
3. Check the answer.
1) stayed at home 2) went to the New York City 3)visited my uncle 4)went to summer camp 5)went to the mountains 6)went to the beach 7)visited museum
4. 1b: Listen and number the people (1-5) in the picture.
1. Point out the names, and read them.
2. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen. The second time, ask them to write the numbers of the names in the picture.
3. Check the answer.
1) Tina 2) Brad 3) Sally 4) Xiang Hua 5) Tom
5. 1c: Pair work: where did the people in activity 1a go on vocation Make conversations.
1) Point out the example conversation and ask the students to read the conversation together.
2) Practice the dialogue in the picture with a student.
3) Ask students to work with a partner; make their own conversations about the pictures.
4) Ask some students to show their conversations.
A: Where did Tina go on vocation
B: She went to the mountains.
6. 2a: Listen. Where did Nancy, Kevin and Julle go on vocation Match the person with the place.
1. Point out the people and places and read them.
2. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.
3. The second time, ask them to finish the table.
4. Check the answer.
5. Ask some students to answer where did the people in the table go.
people places
1 Nancy A The beach
2 Kevin B home
3 Julle C New York City
7. 2b: Listen again. For each question check (√ ) “yes, I did.” Or “no, I didn’t.” as you hear them talk.
1. Ask students to read the activities in the table.
2. Listen to the conversation again and put a checkmark in the blank after each activity.
3. Check the answer.
4. Ask students to read the sentences.
Did you…… Yes, I did. No, I didn’t
Nancy Go to central park √
Kevin Play volleyball
Swim
Julle Go to the movies
Study for exams
7. Do an exercise. Write the answers. Use the words in the parentheses.
Read the questions and ask students to answer them.
1. Q: Where did they go on vocation (Japan)
A: ______________________________
2. Q: Did they visit Tokyo (Yes)
A: ____________________________
3. Q: Did your father stay at home (No)
A: __________________________
4. Q: Where did he go (New York City)
A: __________________________
5. Q: Did your sister go to Tokyo (Yes)
A: __________________________
6. Q: where did you go (stay home)
A: __________________________
9. 2c: Group work. Role play conversations between Nancy, Kevin and Julle. You can talk about the activities in the chart and other activities.
1. Ask students to read the example conversation together.
2. Get into group of three. One of them will be Nancy, one will be Kevin, and one will be Julle. Ask each other about the vocation. They can talk about the activities from the chart in 2b or about any other activities they like.
3. Ask some students to show their conversations.
A．Nancy, where did you do on vocation
B．I went to New York City.
A．Oh, really Did you go to Central Park
B．Yes, I did.
10. Grammar focus.
Write down the important sentence structures in this lesson. Ask students to read and learn them by heart.
Where did you go on vocation I went to summer camp.
Where did they go on vocation They went to New York City.
Where did he go on vocation He stayed at home.
Where did she go on vocation She visited her uncle.
Where did Tina go on vocation She went to the mountains.
Did you/they/he/she go to central park Yes, I / they / he / she did.
No, I / they / he / she didn’t.
11. Home work. Do a survey.
Ask your classmates about their vocation.
Ask: 1.Where did you go on vocation
2. What did you do there
3. How was your vocation