1、ThemeUnit 2 Theyre going to the opera.Teaching objectivesabout peoples life in different places.Key vocabulary: car, put on, at the moment, thing, leave, work, at home, pub, restaurant, opera, ballet, midnight, good night, sleep, dress, midday, hot dog, coffee, see, greeting, look at, soon, visit, a
2、 good time.Key structures: Present continuous tense.Key pointsTo get information from the reading material.DifficultiesUnderstand present continuous tense.MethodsExplanation, practice and reading comprehension.PropertiesPPT and teaching CD.Writing on blackboardModule 1 Unit 2Module 1 people and plac
3、esUnit 2 Theyre going to the opera.Teaching proceduresTeacher activitiesStudents activityMethodsPreparation: Let one student write the theme of this lesson. Step I. Organizing the class1. Ask the students to get ready for class.2. Greetings between the students and the teacher.Step II. RevisionShow
4、some pictures to let students write sentences about Bettys mum, the girls, Lingling, they with present continuous tense.Step III. Showing aimsHave the students know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this lesson:Learn the words and know in different countries people have di
5、fferent life.Step IV. Leading in Give a worlds map, and some cities. Tell them there are 24 time tones in the world, and at the same moment, people in different countries will have different time and activities.First, let the students learn words they will use in the reading materials.Step V. Readin
6、g (Activity1, 3) Read the reading materials, and find out the sentences using present continuous tense and let them understand them.Let them do Activity 3. And the students give their answers. The whole class checks together. Write sentences on the blackboard. Know the aims.Practice.Learn the backgr
7、ound.Read and do Activity 3 (b, b, b, a, b); then fill in the blanks. Teaching proceduresTeacher activitiesStudents activityMethodsTo help them understand the materials right, fill in the blanks about place, time and what people are doing.Explain their difficulties.Use a table to compare what people
8、 are doing in different places at the same moment. Step VI. Culture box Ask them why people in different places have different times: London 12:00 = Beijing 20:00 = Moscow 15:00 = New York 07:00 = Los Angeles 04:00.World time World time is standardized form Greenwich in London, at the 0line of longi
9、tude. The worlds surface is divided into 24 time zones, each one of 15longitude, or one hour of time. The time is then given as the number of hours ahead (+) or behind (-) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). So far example Beijing is GMT + 8hours. New York is GMT -5hours. Step VII. Writing (Activity 2, 4)Eli
10、cit a couple of examples for the first pictures in a whole-class setting. (E.g. Theyre running for the train.)Pair the students to write about the otherPractice.Learn some geography knowledge. Teaching proceduresTeacher activitiesStudents activityMethodsphotographs. Encourage them to use the words i
11、n the box in Activity 2, not read what is written in the text.Find out what time it is now. Write sentences saying what people are doing or arent doing. Join sentences with and. Show an example in Activity 4 ( In London its five oclock and people arent going home. Theyre walking to pubs.) And let the students write sentences with the same structure.Step VIII. Summarization The words.The reading materials.Step IX. HomeworkPair works. Write sentences.Imitate.