1、Unit 8 Natural disastersTeaching aims:教学目标知识目标1.To recognize the past continuous tense.2.To become familiar with the of structure of the past continuous tense能力目标To recognize and use the past continuous tense情感目标To develop the students abilities of listening and speaking教学重点The past Continuous Tense
2、教学难点To use the Past Continuous Tense correctly教学教具Some pieces of paper for a game Recorder. Pictures. etc.预习作业:1.内容:Learn the past continuous tense & Pre-learn Grammar I2.方法:Read & understand3.要求:了解过去进行时的构成,与现在进行时作比较教学活动过程:Step 1.Pre-checking完成句子:1.Eddie was sleeping when it started to rain.(提问)2.He
3、 was reading a story at eight last night.(否定句)3.They were playing basketball at that time.(一般疑问句)Step 2.Free talkHave a talk with the students and introduce some new words:Terrible. discuss. guidebook . break Step 3.presentationPresentation of the structure1.Ask and answer.Look at the pictures and a
4、sk:What wsa he/were they doing?Were they?Present:was/were +doing2.Work out the rules.3.Ask and answer in pairsStep 4 Practice1.Game:Pass words.Give some sentences using the past Continuous Tense for each group of the students to pass from the first to the last.2.Watch and describe.Show some pictures
5、 for the students to describe with the Past Continuous Tense.3.Get the sutdents to complete the passage in Part A1&A2,then check the answers.Step 5 ProductionShow some pictures for the students to make a dialogue using the Past Continuous Tense according to the pictuers.Ask some pairs to act out the
6、ir dialogues.Step 6Sum up 1.the sructure of the past continuous tense2.the positve and negative sentenceseStep 7.Exercises1.Revise the use of the Past Continuous Tense and make some sentences.2.Discuss and mak a project about natural disasters with your classmates.课堂评讲小结:_课后作业:1.Copy the new words and phrases.(4+1)2.Finish the exercises in 补充习题3.Prepare for next period.