Module 8 Story time
Unit 1 Once upon a time...
设计说明
本单元主要以对话形式展开，话题围绕《金凤花和三只熊》这个传统故事展开。通过童话故事训练学生的听说能力，并让学生了解在英语中叙述的事情要用一般过去时。童话故事的情节容易引起学生的兴趣，因此在教学过程中，可利用故事的内容展开听、读、说的训练，并利用语境帮学生理解一般过去时的意义和语法规则。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
掌握单词和短语：hair, gold, forest, once, upon, once upon a time, decide, go for a walk, basket, notice, all alone, dark, pick, pick up, soon, lost, around, little, towards, knock, door, answer, push, enter, bowl, hungry, right, finish。
2.能力目标：
（1）能听懂简单故事中的主要人物和事件；
（2）能用一些规则动词的过去式描述过去的事情或讲一个故事；
（3）能读懂简单的故事，明白主要人物和事件及情节的先后顺序；
（4）能用一些规则动词的过去式对故事情节进行描述。
3.情感目标：
通过金凤花的故事，学会选择最适合自己的；通过阅读童话故事提高对英语的学习兴趣，感受学英语的乐趣。
重点难点
重点：通过童话故事训练学生的听说能力，让学生了解在英语中叙述过去的事情要用动词的过去式。
难点：让学生掌握动词过去式的形式并正确使用一般过去时。
教学准备
PPT课件；有关通话故事的图片，如《白雪公主》、《睡美人》、《灰姑娘》、《美女与野兽》；活动1、3、6、7的录音。
授课时数
2课时
教学过程
Step 1 Warming-up
1.Ask the students to have a free talk in groups:
What fairy stories do you know?
2. Show some pictures of fair stories to help them.
Snow White Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella Beauty and the Beast
3. Play a guess game to practice some new words and expressions:
The teacher does some actions and lets the students guess: “What am I doing? (pick some flowers/notice a house/hurry towards the house/ knock on the door…)”
Step 2 Listening
1. Play the recording in Activity 1. Get the students to listen and check (() the true sentences.
2. Check the answers.
Answers: 1. ( 2. ( 3. (
Step 3 Making a small talk
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 2 and answer the questions.
(1)Who was Goldilocks?
(2)Where was she?
(3)What did Goldilocks notice?
2. Work in groups and discuss their answers.
Possible answers: (1) Goldilocks was a little girl with gold hair. (2) She was in the forest. (3) I think she noticed a house.
Step 4 Fast reading
1. Tell the students that they will learn a fairy tale.
T: Once upon a time, there was a girl called Goldilocks. One day, she decided to go for a walk in the forest. Then …What happened next? Let’s listen to the recording.
2. Ask the students to read the conversation in Activity 3 and choose the correct answers.
(1)What happened to her?
A. She was lost. B. She was wounded (受伤).
(2) Did she enter a house?
A. Yes, she did. B. No, she didn’t.
(3) Did she finish all the food in the little bowl?
A. Yes, she did. B. No, she didn’t.
3. Check the answers.
Answers: (1)A (2) A (3) A
4. Let the students read the passage again and number the pictures in Activity 2 in the correct order.
5. Check the answers.
Answers: a. 8 b.7 c. 4 d. 5 e.1 f. 6 g. 3 h.2
Step 5 Careful reading
1. Get the students read after the recording and imitate the pronunciation. Then let them read in pairs.
2. Ask some of them to act it out.
3. Let the students work in groups and answer the questions in Activity 4.
4. Check the answers.
Answers: 1. Yes, she did. 2. No, she didn’t. 3. Yes, it was. 4. Yes, there was. 5. Yes, she did. 6. No, she didn’t.
Step 6 Language points
1. The story begins: Once upon a time...这个故事开头是：从前……
once upon a time意为“从前”，常用于一般过去时。类似的短语有：long long ago 很久很久以前。这些短语常用作故事的开头。
Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Jenny.
从前，这儿住着一个叫珍妮的女孩。
2. She decided to go for a walk in the park with her basket.
她决定提着篮子去公园里散步。
(1) decide作动词，意为“决定”，主要用法如下：
①其后接名词或代词。
I can’t decide the date of the meeting.
我决定不了这次会议的日期。
②其后接动词不定式或“疑问词＋动词不定式”。
decide (not) to do sth.决定(不)做某事。
He decided to buy a car. 他决定买一辆汽车。
We can’t decide when to start.
我们无法决定何时动身。
3. Oh, did she often go for a walk in the forest alone?
哦，她经常独自去森林里散步吗？
alone此处作副词，意为“单独；独自地”，在句中作状语，相当于by oneself。还可作形容词，意为“单独的”，只能作表语，形容独自一人的状态，不含感彩。
【链接】lonely只能作形容词，既可作表语，也可作定语。修饰人时意为“孤独的，寂寞的”；修饰地方时意为“偏远的；荒凉的” 。
When?she?is?alone,?she?often?feels?lonely.?
当她一个人的时候，她经常感到孤独。
4. And soon she was lost.很快她就迷路了。
lost在此处作形容词，意为“迷路的”。be/get lost迷路。
I always get lost in new places. 我在新地方总是迷路。
【拓展】① 作形容词，还可意为“丢失的”。
I found my lost key.我找到了我丢失的钥匙。
②作动词lose的过去式，意为“丢失；输掉”。lose one’s way迷路。
I lost my keys yesterday.我昨天丢了钥匙。
5. Then she noticed a little house, so she hurried towards it, and knocked on the door. 接着，她注意到一幢小房子，于是她赶快朝那幢房子走去，敲了敲门。
(1) notice在此处用作及物动词，意为“注意”，其后可接名词、代词等。
He didn’t notice me just now. 他刚才没注意到我。
【辨析】 notice sb. do sth. 与 notice sb. doing sth.
①notice sb. do sth. 注意到某人做了某事（强调动作的全过程和完成性）
Did you notice Jack come in？你注意到杰克进来了吗？
②notice sb. doing sth. 注意到某人正在做某事（强调动作的进行性）
Did you notice him drawing a picture？
你注意到他在画画吗？
(2) little在此处用作形容词，意为“小的”，多用作定语，修饰名词。
There are several little towns along the river.
沿河有几个小镇。
(3) hurry在此处用作动词，意为“匆忙，仓促”，主要用法如下：
①“hurry＋副词/介词短语”意为“匆忙去……”，hurry习惯上不与go、come、move 等动词搭配使用。
He hurried home.他匆忙回家了。
②hurry up赶快。用于肯定句中，在否定句中通常不用up。
He told us to hurry (up)．他叫我们赶快。
6. She finished all the food in it. 她把里面的食物都吃完了。
finish在此处作及物动词，意为“吃完；完成”。其后常接名词、代词或v. -ing。finish doing sth.做完某事。
I finished my homework.
=I finished doing my homework.我完成了家庭作业。
Step 7 Practice
1. Get the students read the words from the box in Activity 5.
2. Ask them to work in groups and complete the passage with the correct form of the words.
3. Let some groups share their answers.
4. Check the answers together.
Answers: (1) picked (2) dark (3) around (4) towards (5) knocked
(6) nobody (7) pushed (8) entered (9) bowls
Step 8 Pronunciation and speaking
1. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and notice the different ways the speaker says the words in Activity 6.
2. Play the recording again and ask them to repeat.
3. Play the recording. Ask the students to repeat Activity 7. And then read them in pairs.
4. Ask some of the students to read in class.
5. Let the students work in pairs. Tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
—How does the story begin?
—Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks. She lived near a big forest. She had hair of gold…
Step 9 Homework
1. Retell the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears to your parents.
2. Tell your favourite story.
当堂达标
I. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. He often goes to bookstores ______ (lonely).
2. We _______ (pick) lots of apples on the farm last Sunday.
3. There _____ (be) no one in the house at that time.
4. Jane _______ (hurry) home and told her mother the good news.
5. _____ you _____ (go) to the theater yesterday?
II.根据汉语意思完成句子。
1.“你过去晚饭后经常散步吗？”“不。”
— _____ you often _____ _____ _____ _____after supper in the past?
— No, I _______.
2.从前，山上有一座庙宇。
_____ _____ ______ _____, there was a temple on the mountain.
3.我们决定讨论一下去哪里度假。
We _______ ______ talk about where to go for a holiday.
4.她端起那个很大的碗，但是她不喜欢它。
She _______ ______ the very big bowl ______ she didn’t like it.
答案：I. 1. alone 2. picked 3. was 4. hurried 5. Did; go
II. 1. Did; go for a walk; didn’t 2. Once upon a time 3. decided to 4. picked up; but
板书设计
Unit 1 Once upon a time…
once upon a time
decide to do sth.
go for a walk notice all alone pick up lost knock on hungry finish
She decided to go for a walk…
She noticed…so she hurried towards it, and knocked on…
一般过去时
教学反思
Module 8 Story time
Unit 2 Goldilocks hurried out of the house.
设计说明
本单元以培养学生的读写能力为主，兼顾听说，并包括词汇、语法学习活动，教授学生在实际的情景中理解一般过去时和规则动词的构成及应用。通过写作的设置，让学生均衡发展语言技能，进而发展语用能力。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
掌握单词和短语：either, piece, in pieces, asleep, return, cry, at first, point, point at, shout, jump, without, part。
2.能力目标：
（1）能够理解Goldilocks and the Three Bears的故事；
（2）能够运用规则动词的一般过去式复述故事；
（3）能够运用一些连词描述事情发生的顺序。
3.情感目标：
通过阅读英语童话故事，提高学习英语的兴趣，感受英语学习的乐趣。
重点难点
重点：正确书写规则动词的过去式并能灵活使用。
难点：恰当运用一般过去时向他人讲述故事。
教学准备
PPT课件；有关Goldilocks and the Three Bears的图片；活动2的录音。
授课时数
2课时
教学过程
Step 1 Retelling game
1. Show some pictures and give some hints about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. And ask the students to retell the story in groups.
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Goldilocks. One day,…
She decided to ____________ in the forest and ___________________.
Soon she was _______.
First, she_____________. Then, she_____________.
So, she____________and_____________.
Finally, she _____________and_____________.
There were three ______ on the table.
Goldilocks _________the small bowl and ________ all the food in it.
2. Let some groups present their stories.
3. Choose the best group.
Step 2 Prediction
Let the students predict what happened next in Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
A: I think Goldilocks decided to go home.
B: Maybe she stayed in the house.
Step 3 Fast reading
1. Read the next part of the story and number the pictures in the correct order in Activity 2.
2. Check the answers:
Answers: a.2 b.4 c.5 d.1 e.3
Step 4 Careful reading
1. Read Paras. 1 &2 and check (() the true sentences.
(1)Goldilocks liked the big chair.
(2)Goldilocks liked the small bed.
(3)Very soon Goldilocks was asleep on the big bed.
2. Check the answers:
Answers: (2) (
3. Read Paras. 3-5 and answer the questions.
(1)Why did Baby Bear cry?
(2)What did Baby Bear do when he noticed Goldilocks?
(3)What did Goldilocks do when she noticed the Three Bears?
4.Check the answers:
Answers: (1)Because there was nothing in his bowl and his chair was in pieces.
(2)He pointed at the little girl in his bed and shouted.
(3)She jumped out of bed and hurried out of the house without her basket.
5. Play the recording to correct the students’ pronunciation.
Step 5 Language points
1. Then she tried the middle chair. 然后，她试了试那把中等大小的椅子。
try在此处作及物动词，意为“尝试”。 try的第三人称单数形式是tries， 过去式是tried。
try to do sth. 设法/努力做某事 try doing sth. 试着做某事
She tried the shoes, but they didn’t fit her.
她试了这双鞋，但是不合脚。
Why not try going there by boat?
为什么不尝试乘船去那里呢？
2. It was not comfortable either. 它也不舒服。
either在此处用作副词，意为“也”，通常用于否定句的句末。
I don’t like the red shirt and I don’t like the green one either.
我不喜欢这件红衬衫，也不喜欢那件绿衬衫。
【拓展】either用作代词，意为“(两者之中)任一、任何一个”。在句中可作主语和宾语，作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。
Either (of the books) is popular with the students.
(两本书)随便哪一本都受到学生们的欢迎。
3. Very soon, she was asleep in it.她很快在上面睡着了。
asleep 形容词，意为“睡着的”，习惯上只用作表语，不用于修饰名词。
The girl is asleep. 这个女孩睡着了。
Look at the asleep girl. (误)
Look at the sleeping girl. (正)
瞧这个正在睡觉的女孩。
4. The Three Bears returned. 三只熊回来了。
return 作动词，意为 “返回，回来(去)”。return to…＝go/ come back to…回到某地
【注意】其后接地点副词时，地点副词前不加介词to。
She returned home at once after work.她下班后马上回家。
【拓展】return作动词还可意为“归还 (某物) ”。
常用短语：return sth. to sb. =give sth. back to sb.
We must return the books to the library in a week.
我们必须在一周内把书还给图书馆。
5. Baby Bear cried, “There's nothing in my bowl and my chair is in pieces！”小熊哭道：“我的碗空了，椅子也散架了！”
(1) cry 作动词，意为“哭，喊叫”，其过去式和过去分词均为cried。
Don’t cry, your mother is coming! 别哭，你妈妈来了！
(2) in pieces破碎；piece 作名词，意为“部件，碎片”。
I threw a ball at the window, and it was in pieces.
我朝窗子扔了一个球，窗户碎了。
6. Then Baby Bear pointed at the little girl in his bed and shouted…后来，小熊指着它床上的小女孩喊了起来……
point在此处用作动词，意为“指向”。
【拓展】①point out指出，使注意
The teacher pointed out the mistake. 老师指出了这个错误。
②point to指向
He pointed to the door and there I saw a girl smiling at me.
他指向门，我看见那里有一位姑娘朝我微笑。
③point at指着
The teacher pointed at the map.老师指着地图。
7. There’s the bad girl! 那个坏女孩在那儿！
此句为倒装句，其正常语序为：The bad girl is there! 当表地点或方位的副词、介词或介词短语放在句首时，若主语为名词，则句子常采用主谓完全倒装语序；但当主语为人称代词时，主谓不倒装。
—Look! There comes the bus! 看！公共汽车来了！
—Oh, there it comes. 噢，它来了。
Step 6 Practice
1. Let the students complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box in Activity 5.
2. Check the answers together.
Answers: (1)pieces (2)either (3)asleep (4)returned (5)pointed (6)shouted (7)without
3. Get the students to read the passage for a few minutes.
Step 7 Writing
1. Ask one student to read the sentences in Activity 6 in class.
1. First, she tried the big chair.
2. Then she tried the middle chair.
3. Finally, she tried the small chair.
2. Let the students work in groups and write some new sentences using first, next/then, and finally.
3. Divide the students into several groups. Let them imagine what will happen after Goldilocks leaves and write down their ideas.
4. Ask some groups to share their ideas in class.
Step 8 Homework
1. Retell the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
2. Write your favourite story.
当堂达标
I. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. The teacher________ (point) at the boys and said, “Don’t speak in class.”
2. The boys ________ (jump) up and down on the bed last night.
3. Did your grandfather________ (return) to his home town last Spring Festival?
4. My bottle fell off the desk and was in ______ (piece).
5. Jimmy could not sleep at first. He finally fell _______ (sleep) at midnight.
II. 根据汉语意思完成句子(每空一词)。
1.盒子里什么也没有。
________ ________ in the box.
2.莉莉没有说再见就离开了房间。
Lily left the house ________ saying goodbye.
3.对不起，我没有注意到这个标志。
Sorry, I _______ _______ this sign.
4.吉姆户外活动后又回到了学校。
Jim ________ ______ _______ after the outdoor activity.
答案：I. 1. pointed 2. jumped 3. return 4.pieces 5. asleep
II. 1. There’s nothing 2. without 3. didn’t notice 4. returned to school
板书设计
Unit 2 Goldilocks hurried out of the house.
piece in pieces
cry at first
jump point
return asleep
Finally, she tried the small chair.
It was not comfortable either.
Very soon she was asleep in it.
The Three Bears returned.
Goldilocks jumped out of bed and hurried out of the house.
教学反思
Module 8 Story time
Unit 3 Language in use
设计说明
本单元通过设置语法方面的练习，让学生熟悉一般过去时的用法；通过“世界各地”有关童话故事的介绍，让学生更多地了解童话故事的奇妙；通过设置讲故事的活动，让学生在具体的语境中灵活学习，并能激发学生的想象力与思维能力。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
(1)复习本模块新单词、短语及句型；
(2)复习规则动词过去式的用法。
2.能力目标：
(1)能够读懂简单的故事并就故事回答对应的问题；
(2)能够运用一些规则动词的过去式，描述过去的事情或讲述故事。
3.情感目标：
通过阅读童话故事，感受童话故事的魅力，更加热爱生活并体会童话中蕴含的道理。
重点难点
重点：掌握一般过去时。
难点：根据自己所学知识，运用过去时给他人讲故事。
教学准备
PPT课件；有关Goldilocks and the Three Bears的图片。
授课时数
1课时
教学过程
Step 1 Retelling
Show some pictures about Goldilocks and the Three Bears with some hints in class. Ask the students to retell the story together.
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Goldilocks. One day,…
go for a walk picked some flowers lost
First, looked around Then, noticed a little house
So, hurried towards the house knocked on the door
Finally, pushed the door entered the house
Then, picked up, finished tried the small chair, in pieces
returned to the house cried
pointed at jumped out of, hurried out of
Step 2 Language practice
1. Get the students to read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class.
2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.
Step 3 Grammar
一般过去时的用法
一、含义
1. 表示过去某个时间发生的动作或存在的状态。
I got up at six thirty yesterday morning.
我昨天早上六点三十分起床的。
I visited my uncle last weekend.
上周末我看望了我的叔叔。
2. 表示过去经常或反复发生的动作。
My father often went to work by bus last year.
我的爸爸去年经常乘公共汽车去上班。
He always carried an umbrella last week.
他上个星期总是带着一把伞。
二、时间状语
常用于一般过去时的时间状语有：just now, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last night (week, month, year …), (two days/a week/three years…) ago, in +过去的时间年份Once upon a time…等。
三、含be动词的一般过去时的句型
1.肯定句：主语 + be动词的过去式（was, were）…
He was busy yesterday.
2.否定句：主语 + be动词的过去式（was, were）+ not…
He was not busy yesterday.
3.一般疑问句：be 动词的过去式（Was, Were）+主语 …?
Was he busy yesterday?
四、含规则行为动词的一般过去时的句型
1.肯定句：主语 + 行为动词的过去式+其他.
He walked to school yesterday.
2.否定句：主语 + didn’t + v. (原形) +其他.
He didn’t walk to school yesterday.
3.一般疑问句：Did +主语+v. (原形) +其他?
Did he walk to school yesterday?
肯定回答：Yes, he did.
否定回答：No, he didn’t.
五、动词过去式的规则变化
1. 一般在动词词尾加-ed。
walk—walked
listen—listened
look—looked
2. 以不发音字母“e”结尾的动词后，加-d。
live—lived
notice—noticed
decide —decided
3. 以辅音字母加-y结尾的动词，变y为i，再加-ed。
hurry —hurried carry—carried
cry—cried try—tried
4. 以重读闭音节结尾且词尾只有一个辅音字母的动词，先双写后面辅音字母，再加-ed。
stop—stopped step —stepped
Step 4 Having a word game
1. Divide the students into several groups. Ask them to write the correct form of the words.
2. The group that answers the most quickly with the most correct answers wins.
Example: walk—walked
1. knock— 2.pick —
3. walk— 4.push—
5. like— 6.finish—
7. stop— 8.notice—
9. answer— 10.enter—
11. hurry— 12.live—
13. open — 14.decide—
Answers: 1. knocked 2. picked 3. walked 4. pushed 5. liked 6.finished 7.stopped 8. noticed 9. answered 10. entered 11. hurried 12. lived 13. opened 14. decided
Step 5 Practice
1. Work in groups and complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 1.
2. Check the answers.
Answers: 1. pointed 2. entered 3. jumped 4. hurried 5. answer
6. notice 7. return 8. try 9. like
3. Ask the students to complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box in Activity 2.
4. Check the answers.
Answers: (1) wanted (2) walked (3) picked (4) noticed (5) knocked (6) answered (7) entered (8) was (9) looked (10) asked
5. Let the students ask and answer the questions in pairs.
1. Did Tom want to go for a walk in the dark forest?
2. Did he pick a lot of blue flowers?
3. Did he notice a house?
4. Did he knock on the door first?
6. Check the answers.
Answers: 1. Yes, he did. 2. No, he didn’t. 3. Yes, he did. 4. Yes, he did.
7. Get the students to read Around the world in groups and find out the main idea.
Step 6 Writing and acting
1. Show the pictures in Activity 3 and ask the students to make a story in groups.
2. Ask them to use words like and, so, but, because, first, next, and then and finally.
3. Let some groups act their stories to the class. Choose the best one.
Step7 Homework
1. Go over what you’ve learnt in Unit 3.
2. Tell the story of Nüwa to your family after school.
3. Preview the words and expressions in Module 9.
当堂达标
I.单项填空。
1. We decided ______ the zoo.
A. to go to B. go to C. going to D. went to
2. My sister is a little girl ______ black hair.
A. in B. with C. of D. without
3. Don’t _____ flowers in the park.
A. pick up B. pick
C. picking D. picking up
4. The door is open, but he can’t _____ the house.
A. go B. walk C. arrive D. enter
5. The young man pointed _____ the strange thing and _____, “What’s this?”
A. on; asked B. at; asks
C. to; asks D. at; asked
6. — Could you lend me a pen? I came to school ____ my pen this morning.
— Of course.
A. with B. no C. not D. without
7. My mum didn’t _____ home.
A. return B. returned to
C. return to D. back
II. 用所给词的适当形式填空。
1. The old man _____ (die) last night.
2. Tom ________ (finish) all the food in his bowl.
3. My little sister _____ (cry) and ________ (shout) loudly when she saw the rat.
4. I __________ (not notice) that strange man over there.
5. I _______ (not be) busy last week.
6. Jack and I _____ (be) late for school yesterday.
7. I _______ (walk) to school last Monday.
答案：I. 1-5 ABADD 6-7 DA
II. 1. died 2. finished 3. cried; shouted 4. didn’t notice 5. wasn’t
6. were 7. walked
板书设计
Unit 3 Language in use
一般过去时态：含义、时间状语、句型
动词过去式的规则变化
教学反思
