Lesson 2 New Housing Estates
Period 3
Teaching Aims
1.Learn the reading by heart.
2.Review the usage of “used to”.
3.Compare housing estates in the past and the present.
Difficult Points and Important Points
Compare housing estates in the past and the present.
Teaching Aids
Text book, students’ book, a recorder and a computer
Teaching Procedure
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Teaching aims
Step 1
Making sentences with used to
Play the tape of Li Fang’s introduction of the improvement of her family's housing conditions
Give them two tasks
Do some exercises of used to
Listen and Complete Li Fang’s talk.
Suppose you are Li Fang. Tell your classmate about the improvement in your housing conditions
To review the usage of used to
Step 2
Let them read the passage and complete two tasks then check the answers.
Read the passage by themselves.
Do Task One: Choose the best answer.
Students read the passage together and check the answers.
To let them think about and practice how to compare housing estates in the past and the present.
Step 3
Make up some questions for this passage, and then ask and answer in groups.
Read the passage in pairs.
Ask some questions about the passage with each other
Step 4
Let them work in groups and discuss: What are the changes in Shanghai?
The streets
The shops
The rivers
The cars
Work in groups of three.
Talk about the changes in your life
Homework
1.Recite the reading.
2.Write five to eight sentences about your housing estate. Use the question cues.