新课标人教版八年级英语下册Unit 6 How long have you been collecting shells--SELF CHECK [ty].doc

Structures
Present perfect progressive; Simple past tense; Present progressive tense
Target language
How long have you been skating? I’ve been skating since nine o’clock.
When did you start skating? I started skating at nine o’clock.
Students are skating at the Hilltop School.
Vocabulary
collect, inline, marathon, skate, stamp, shell, globe, monster
particularly, run out of, be interested in
Learning strategies
Inducing; Cooperating
Unit 6 How long have you been collecting shells
Part 1: Teaching design

SELF CHECK
1 Filling the words
On page 49 is a box with uncompleted sentences. You will read them and complete them with words given. Then make your own sentences with the same words.
collect, run out of, know, store, raise
1. Our class is organizing a talent show to raise money for charity.
2. I need extra English lessons. Do you know a good English teacher.
3. My hobby is collecting old coins.
4. I didn’t finish writing test because I ran out of time.
5. During the winter I store my summer clothes in bag under my bed.
We collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts.
She doesn't know this composer.
I know that the President lied to the people.
I know that I left the key on the table.
She knows how to knit.
I know Latin.
I know the feeling!
I know this voice!
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some.
The President raised several million dollars for his college.
Raise my salary.
Raise your hands.
2 Reading and writing
On page 49 is an ad. Read it and write a letter to apply for the job
Dear Editor,
I am interesting in the writer job. I have been listening to music videos since I was seven years old. I have watching English movies since I was ten years old. As for sports I have been watching it for seven years. I like English, and write in English very often. I took part in a English Writer’s Competition last year. I got the first prize. I hope I can work at your newspaper as a writer.
Yours sincerely
Li Hua
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Just for fun!
Read this poem and try to write your own poem in English.
My Child
You are the poem I dreamed of writing,
the masterpiece I longed to paint...
You are the shining star I reached for
in my ever-hopeful quest for life fulfilled.
You are MY CHILD...
Now with all things I am blessed.
~Author Unknown~

Reading:I’ve been studying history in China.
On page 50 is An article you will read.
Before you read—please go over the vocabulary list for this unit at the back of your text book.
While you read—cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.
After you read—copy all the useful expressions into your Expression-Book.
teach in China for two years, teach in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, really an interesting city with a very colorful history, in Russian style, learn a lot about my family history, many years ago, more than a thousand years ago, be welcomed by the Song Emperor, study history at school, work in China, study Chinese history, study hard, understand any culture, for a foreigner like me, enjoy living in China, enjoy my time in China, live quite far from Beijing, the Olympic Games in 2008