新课标人教版八年级英语下册Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived--SELF CHECK [ty].doc

Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived
Part 1: Teaching design
Structures
Adverbial clauses with when, while; Questions and statements with past progressive; Past tense

Target language
What were you doing when the UFO arrived?
I was sitting in the barber’s chair.
The barber was cutting my hair.
While he was buying a souvenir, a girl called the police.
Vocabulary
Bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, UFO, alien, cutting hair, climbing, jumping
Loud, get out of, take off, scared
Learning strategies
Using context; Role playing

SELF CHECK
1 Filling the blanks
take off, get out, land, shout, shop
1. The girl was shopping when she saw a car accident.
2. I was so tired this morning. It was difficult to get out of bed.
3. My flight to New York took off from Beijing International Airport.
4. It was raining when the plane landed in London.
5. Don’t shout. I can hear you.
take off, get out, land, shout, shop
1. The UFO took off at 4:30.
2. The UFO landed, and an alien got out.
3. The rocket landed in the sea.
4. They were shouting at each other in anger.
5. He’s out shopping with his daughter.

2 Looking and writing
Go to page 23 and look at what He Yan did yesterday. Write what you were doing at the same time.
He Yan
I
9:00-9:30 at the doctor’s
While He Yan was the doctor’s, I was going to the class.
10:00-11:00 had English class
While He Yan was having his English class, I was in bed.
12:00-1:00 had lunch with her mother
While He Yan was having his lunch with his mother, I reading aloud to the tape recording.
2:00-3:30 visited aunt in hospital
While He Yan was visiting his aunt in hospital, I was calling up my sister.
4:00-5:00 went shopping
While He Yan was going shopping, I was listening to Teen Talk on the air.
3 Reading and circling
On page 23 you see a box in which there are 4 groups of words. Read them and circle the ones that don’t belong.
1. walk climb, jump down, alien
2. bathroom, bedroom, newspaper, kitchen
3. barber, UFO, cut hair, barber shop
4. when, scared, while, how long
Just for fun!
Wanna write an Alien Poem?
Kids always like to read about aliens and think about what life on other planets might be like.  Aliens make great ideas for poems, too.   Here are some things to think about before writing your alien poem.
· Did the alien come here?
· Did you go there?
· Is the alien your age?
· Is the alien an adult?
· What does the aliens' house and school look like?
· What does the alien look like?
· What do aliens eat?

Reading: Do you remember what you were doing?
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.
hear the news of important events, in history, one of the most important events, in modern American history, on this day, hear about the event, the most everyday activities, be now over 40, at that time, a bright, sunny day, have fun in the playground, close for the day, walk home, in silence, take place, in more recent times, be destroyed by terrorists, have meaning to most Americans, as terrible as this, of course, walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, in more recent history, become the first Chinese astronaut in space, go into space on October15, 2003, his flight around the Earth, last about 22 hours, become a national hero in China, become famous all over the world