外研社八年级英语Module 6 Unit 3.doc

MODULE 6 A famous story
Part 1: Teaching design
第一部分 教学设计
Function
Describing activities at different times
Structure
Past continuous
Listening/Speaking
Recognizing the characters of a story
Saying what you were doing at a specific time
Reading/Writing
Finding specific information in a story
Writing a biography
Around the world
Famous books in English
Task
Writing a short story about your past experience
Unit 3 Language in use
■ Warming up
Good morning, class! What were you doing yesterday evening? Were you watching TV or doing your homework?
Yesterday evening I was watching TV. I was reading a story. What were you doing last night? Were you reading an English book?
Now we shall go to page 46 to see what they were doing yesterday evening.
■Language practice
Yesterday evening my father was watching TV.
Were you reading a story?
What were you doing last night?
I was reading an English book.
1 Play the game. Work in groups of six. Find the thief.
On page 46, you see three pictures. What do you see in each of the pictures? Now, in groups of six, try to play the game, finding out the thief.
Policeman: What were you doing at nine last night?
Student A: I was doing my homework at home.
Policeman: What were you doing at nine last night?
Student B: I was sitting by the Fen River with my parents.
Policeman: What were you doing, Mr. Wang, at nine last night?
Mr. Wang: I was running for exercise, out of breath, on the playground.
Policeman: What were you doing, Liu Xiangdong, at nine last night?
Liu Xiangdong: I was going shoping with my parents.
Policeman: But your parents were not in the city then. They were on holiday in Japan.
Liu Xiangdong: I was swimming in the lake, then.
Policeman: No, you were not swimming. You were the thief. You took away Wu Jie’s computer at nine last night.
2 Write down what each member of your group was doing．
1 Sun Li was making dinner.
2 Student A was doing his homework at home.
3 Student B was sitting by the Fen River with her parents.
4 Mr. Wang was running for exercise, out of breath, on the playground.
5 Liu Xiangdong was going shoping with his parents.
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
4 Underline the correct form of the verb.
There are two verbs in each of the four sentences on page 47. Read them and underline the correct form of the verb.
1 Last night, I saw／was seeing my friend John. It was his birthday and he was having a party.
2 At five o'clock, my sister and I watched／were watching TV. There was a very good programme on.
3 Suddenly, all the lights in my house were going off／went off. There was a big storm outside.
4 I wasn't knowing／didn't know Mary until she started going to my school.
5 Write sentences about you．
1 Last night I was working by computer.
2 At five o'clock yesterday, I was still sleeping in bed.
3 Suddenly, l became out of breath.
4 Last summer, I had nothing important to do at home.
6 Work in groups．Play a chain game.
Talk as they do. (仿说)
Mike: What were you doing at eight o'clock this morning?
Jack: I was playing the organ! What were you doing?
May: You were playing the organ and I was playing the trumpet. What were you doing?
Mike: Jack was playing the organ, May was playing the trumpet and I was feeding my pets.
7 Read and check (√）the correct sentence in each pair.
In each pair of the sentences, one is right grammatically, and the other is wrong. Now read and check (√）the correct sentence in each pair.
1 a) I knew there was something wrong! (√）
b) I was knowing there was something wrong!
2 a) I was lying in bed reading at nine o'clock last night. (√）
b) I lay in bed reading at nine o'clock last night.
3 a) Suddenly, I heard the phone ring. (√）
b) Suddenly, I was hearing the phone ring.
4 a) I jumped out of bed and I ran downstairs. (√）
b) I was jumping out of bed and I was running downstairs.
5 a) It was my cat! He was playing with a ball in the kitchen. (√）
b) It was my cat! He played with a ball in the kitchen
8 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.
cat hole king queen rabbit smile strange tea party watch
Alice met some strange people when she went to Wonderland. She was sitting near the river feeling tired when she saw a (1) rabbit looking at its (2) watch. She jumped up and when the rabbit went down a（3）hole, she followed it. Then Alice came to a garden, found a cat. When she spoke to the (4) cat, she saw it was（5) smiling. When she met the Mad Hatter and the March Hare they were having a (6) tea party. Finally, she met a（7）king and a (8) queen.
9 Match the two parts of the sentences.
1 There are dozens of noises in my house last night. (b)
2 I was thinking of you on Saturday. (a)
3There were all kinds of strange characters in this story.(d)
4 I was out of breath because I ran to school. (c)
Now make a sentence with each of these phrases.
dozens of→I have lost dozens of pets last year.
all kinds of→He gave me all kinds of space shuttle models.
think of →I am thinking of my pocket money.
out of breath→He was running out of breath to raise money for the poor pupils.
■ Around the world
Now we have come to Around the world. Please listen to the passage first, paying attention to the pronunciation, stress, and the intonation of the native speakers.
For the second listening, try to read aloud the passage to the tape while listening.
Now let’s go on to read the passage Famous books in English. While reading try to cut(断句)/ the sentences into parts, blacken（涂黑） the predicates, shade（加影） the connectives and underline （划线）the expressions.
■Module task→Writing a short story about your past experience
10 Make notes. Think about
●what was happening at the time
●what you were doing
●what happened
●what happened next
●what happened finally
Write as they do. (仿写)
It was snowing.
I was writing my diary at home by computer.
Someone came to my door and knocked at my window. It was Mei Yu, the translator!
She said, "Would you give me something to translate? I am hungry!”
11 Use your notes to write the story.
It was raining and I was waiting at the bus stop when a car stopped and the driver opened the door.
It was Britney Spears! Then she said "Would you like going with me to the lake?” “Why are we
going to the lake?” asked I. She told me that the water in the lake was rising rapidly because of the
rain. We had to go there to help build up the dam.
We arrived in time to offer our help.
There were lots of people there. They were carrying earth and stones to the dam. We took part in
the work. We worked so hard. Then the rain stopped. The sun came out. We felt happy. We started
back home.