Lesson 2 New Housing Estates
Period 2
Teaching Aims
1.Learn the text by heart.
2.Have a command of “used to”.
3.Compare housing estates in the past and the present.
Difficult Points and Important Points
Find out the usage of “used to”.
Teaching Aids
Text book, students’ book, a recorder and a computer
Teaching Procedures
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Teaching aims
Step 1
Introduce the background of the text
Ask students to describe the picture of the text.
Let’s look at the picture. This is Wang Qiang’s new housing estate. Can you describe the picture?
Listen to the tape, and then do Comprehension Check on the Text: True or False...
To let the students understand the text by questions
Step 2
Play the tape of the text Ask some questions
Where did the Wangs use to live?
Where do they live now?
Is Wang Qiang’s new flat in a high-rise?
What about the public transport?
When will Wang Qiang have a house-warming party?
What do you think of Wang Qiang’s new housing estate?
Listen to the tape, then do Comprehension Check on the Text:
listen to the text again, then answer the following questions:
Step 3
Let them imitate and repeat the whole text in roles.
Let them summarize the useful phrases by themselves.
Ask students to Act out the text.
Read the text in groups, then find the useful phrases.
Read the text in roles then act it out.
Learn some important sentences and phrases:
open space,
house-warming party,
used to, facility,
swimming pool,
a tennis court,
a green area, certainly.
Step 4
Summarize the usage of used to
Let them make sentences according to the model:
I / get up late / early
1.I used to get up late. But now I get up early.
Bob / go to school on foot / by bus
2.Did Bob use to go to school on foot?
No, he didn’t.
He used to go to school by bus.
Make sentences after the models by used to
Let the students notice how used to is used in affirmative ,negative and interrogative sentences
Homework
1.Recite the text and role-play it.
2.Practice the usage of “used to”.