七年级下英语 Unit 9 教案人教版.doc

Unit 9 How was your weekend?
Teaching Design (教学设计)
Unit goals
● Learn more activity phrases
● Learn the past tense of some verbs
● Learn to talk about recent past events
Words
did, went, stay, practice, was, spend, had, saw, wrote, change, sat, text, mountain, geography, week, anything

Expressions
How was your weekend?
It was great.
What did you do last weekend?
I studied for my math test.
I watched TV. I saw an interesting talk show.
What about...?
It’s time to go to school.
What about? regular verb, irregular verb, talk show
What did you do last week?
Sreuctures
I played soccer. We went to the beach.
What did he /she do last weekend?
He /She did his / her homework.
What did they do last weekend?
They played tennis.
Regular verbs: play...played, clean...cleaned
Irregular verbs: do...did, go...went
Section A
Teaching goals:
● Master the new words: did, went, stay, practice, was, mountain, geography, regular verb, irregular verb, test, what about
● Learn to ask and answer:
How was your weekend?
It was great.
What did you / she /he do last weekend?
I / He / She went to the beach.
Teaching procedures
Step 1: Warming up
Ask students about what they do on weekends.
Model: T: How is your weekend?
S: It’s great/ terrible, good, OK. / Not bad.
T: What do you usually do on weekends?
S: I usually play soccer / do my homework / clean my room ...
T: How about your friend?
S: She / He usually stays at home and watch TV.
Step 2: Presenting
1. Make a list of the verb phrases students said just now on the blackboard.
For example: play soccer, do my homework, clean my room, stay at home , watch TV ...
2. Go on asking students: What did you do last weekend?
How was your last weekend?
Help students answer, using the past tense of the verbs.
Pay attention to the change of verbs’ form
watch TV ... watched TV, play soccer ... played soccer
do homework... did homework, go to the beach ... went to the beach
am / is / ... was, are ... were
Model: T: What did you do last weekend?
S: I played soccer and did homework.
Step 3: Practicing
Activity 1
1. Students ask and answer in pairs about their last weekend in the same way.
2. Check some pairs.
Activity 2
1. Point to the pictures in 1a and ask students to tell what they see. Name each activity and repeat in the past tense.
went to the movies, played soccer, went to the beach, did homework, played tennis, cleaned my room
2. Ask students to match each activity with one of the pictures.
3. Check the answers.
1.d 2.b 3.f 4.c 5.e 6.a
4. Students read the phrases aloud.
Activity 3
a) Students work in pairs to ask and answer about what the girl in 1a did on different days.
Model: A: What did she do in Picture a?
B: She went to the movie.
A: What did she do on Saturday morning?
B: She played tennis.
b) Check some pairs.
Step 4: Listening. (1b)
1. Point to the activities in the picture in 1a. Ask students to listen carefully.
2. Play the recording the first time, students only listen.
Tapescript

Boy: Hey, Lucy.
Girl: Hi, Bob.
Boy: How was your weekend?
Girl: It was great.
Boy: So, what did you do?
Girl: Well, on Saturday morning I played tennis, on Saturday afternoon I went to the beach, and on Saturday night I went to the movies.
Boy: Cool.
Girl: Then, on Sunday morning, I cleaned my room. On Sunday afternoon, I played soccer, and on Sunday night, I did my homework.

3. Play the recording the second time. Students listen and write the day and morning, afternoon, night below each picture.
4. Check the answers. Picture a: Saturday night
Picture b: Sunday afternoon
Picture c: Saturday afternoon
Picture d: Sunday night
Picture e: Saturday morning
Picture f: Sunday morning
5. Students listen again and repeat.
Step 5: Listening (2a,2b)
1. Point to the 5 sentences and ask students to read them aloud.
2. Play the recording the first time, students only listen.
Tapescript
Teacher: So, did everyone have a good weekend?
Student chorus: Uh-huh. Yeah! Sure, Ms Clark.
Teacher: Good. What did you do last weekend, Emma?
Emma: I visited my grandmother, and I did my homework.
Teacher: Great. And how about you, Ben? What did you do?
Ben: I studied for the math test.
Teacher: Uh-huh. Carol, how about you? What did you do?
Carol: I went to the beach, and I played tennis.
Teacher: Sounds like you had fun.
3. Check the answers. These items should be underlined: grandmother, homework, math, beach, tennis
4. Play the recording the second time, students listen and underline the words they hear in 2a.
5. Students listen to the tape once more and write “C” for Carol, “B” for Ben, “E” for Emma next to the statements in 2a.
6. Check the answers. 1.E 2.E 3. B 4.C 5.C
Step 6: Practicing ( Pairwork)
Activity 1 2c
1. Students read the phrases in the box in 2c.
2. Students work in pairs to fill in the blanks in 2c, using the information in 2c.
3. Students practice their conversations with deskmates.
4. Check some pairs.
Activity 2 3a.
1. Students read the phrases 1...3 in 3a and know the meanings of them.
2. Ask students to complete the conversations in the picture in 3a and write numbers 1...3 in the blanks.
3. Check the answers. The conversations should be numbered as follows: 3 2 1
4. Students practice the 3 conversations in pairs.
Activity 3 (3b)
Students ask and answer questions in pairs about Ming’s, Tony’s and Sarah’s weekends.
Model: A: How was Sarah’s weekend?
B: It wasn’t very good.
A: What did she do last weekend?
B: She cleaned her room and studied for the math test.
Activity 4 Game. What did you do?
1. Play a model round of the game.
For example: Teacher draws simple pictures of 2 things teacher did over the weekend. Let students guess what teacher did according to the pictures.
2. Now ask students to practice the activity in groups of four.
Each student draws two things she / he did over the weekend on a piece of paper. Let others guess what she / he did.
3. Ask some individual students to show their pictures of two things to the class. Let classmates guess what they did last weekend.
Section B
Teaching goals
● Master the new words: geography, spend, week, had, saw, wrote, sat, talk show, middle school, change, cat, anything, it’s time to ...
● Learn to use new sentences:
I wrote a new song.
I practiced my guitar.
I had a busy weekend.
I read a book about history on Sunday morning.
Do you think everyone enjoys their weekends?
He sat down and watched Wangwang play with a friendly black cat.
It was time to go home.
He has no dog and no family.
Teaching procedures
Step 1: Making a revision
1. Ask students what they did yesterday and last weekend. Let them answer with the verbs in recent past tense.
Model: T: What did you do yesterday morning / afternoon / evening?
S1: I went to a movie.
S2: I visited my friends.
S3: I stayed at home and did my homework.
2. Students work in pairs or small groups. Ask and answer in the same way.
3. Check some pairs or groups.
Step 2: Presenting
1. Ask students: Did you have a good / busy weekend?
Where did you spend your weekend?
What did you see last weekend?
What did you write?
Help students answer the questions with the verbs underlined in past tense. (had, spent, saw, wrote)
2. Ask students to make up sentences with the verbs above.
For example: I had a party last week.
My friend spent her weekend with her parents.
I saw many people in the shop yesterday.
My uncle wrote a letter to me last Sunday.
Step 3: Practicing
Activity 1
1. Point to the 4 pictures in 1a. Say, here are some things that Sally and Jim did. Ask students:
What did he / she do?
2. Let students read the 4 phrases aloud.
3. Ask students to match the words with the pictures.
4. Check the answers. 1.b 2.d 3.a 4.c
Activity 2
1. Draw pictures of a happy face and an unhappy face on the blackboard. Write the word “fun” under the happy face and the word “not fun” under the unhappy face.
2. Ask students to name some activities they think are fun and some that are not fun.
For example fun ...- played the guitar
went to the movie
not fun... did homework
cleaned my room
3. Ask students to draw a happy face or an unhappy face for pictures a c and d
4. Check the answers
Step 4: Listening (2a, 2b)
1. Call attention to the names Sally and Jim and the write-on lines under each name.
2. Let students listen carefully. Pay attention to what they did last weekend.
3. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.
Tapescript
Jim: Hey, Sally! I didn’t see you last weekend.
Sally: No, I stayed at home.
Jim: Why?
Sally: Well, I had lots of things to do.
Jim: Like what?
Sally: Well, I cleaned my room. And I did my homework.
Jim: You did? Not much fun, huh?
Sally: Well, it wasn’t too bad. On Sunday I went to the library. How about you? What did you do?
Jim: Well, I played soccer on Saturday morning. On Sunday afternoon, I went to a movie. And on Sunday night, I visited my friend’s house.
Sally: Wow! You had fun.
Jim: Yeah, I had fun. But I didn’t do my homework, so school this morning wasn’t fun.
4. Play the recording the second time. Students listen and write down what Sally did in the chart.
5. Students listen to the tape once more and write down what Sally did last weekend.
6. Check the answers.
Sally Jim
cleaned her room played soccer
did her homework went to a movie
went to the library visited his friend’s house
7. Have students work in pairs. First talk about what Sally and Jim did last weekend. Then talk about their own weekend.
Model: A: What did Jim do?
B: Jim went to the movie.
A: What did Sally do?
B: She cleaned her room.
A: What did you do last weekend?
B: I visited my sister.
8. Check some pairs.
Step 5: Reading
1. Read the article to the class. Let students pay attention to the verbs in the past. List them on the blackboard.
Asked, did, was, went, played, watched, stayed, visited, cleaned
2. Students read the article alone. Circle the activities they like. Underline the activities they don’t like.
3. Ask some to students say their ideas . Answers will vary.
4. Help students understand some problems they may have.
Step 6: Writing
Activity 1
1. Call students attention to the six pictures in 3b. Say, here are some things that the boy did .
Ask students: What did he do last weekend?
2. Students work alone and fill in the blanks.
3. Check out their answers.
1) cleaned my room 2) did my homework
3) visited my aunt 4) went to the library
5) played soccer 6) watched TV
Activity 2

1. Ask students to take out a piece of paper. And write about what they did last weekend.
2. Let some individual students read their own articles to the class.
Activity 3
Game. “Who am I?”
1. Work in pairs . Suppose Student A is a famous person and write what he / she did last weekend. Then talk to his / her partner about his / her weekend activities. The partner tries to guess who he / she is.
For example: S1: What did you do last weekend?
S2: I wrote a new song. I practiced my guitar.
S1: I guess you are ....
Self-check
Teaching goals
● Help students to review all the key vocabulary presented in this unit.
● Help students practice writing a survey using the past tense.
● Give students an opportunity to use the target language in conversation.
Teaching procedures
Step 1: Learning words
1. Ask students to read words in Part 1 aloud and know the meaning of them.
2. Have students divide the words into 2 groups.
1) Verbs in past tense: watched, visited, studied, played, was, went,
2) Nouns: weekend, geography, homework, guitar
Call students’ attention to the changing forms of verbs in past tense.
1) regular verbs: watched, cleaned, visited, studied, played
2) irregular verbs: was, did, went
3. Ask students to write five or more new words of this unit in their vocab-builder.
Step 2: Learning a story
1. Give students some questions. Let students read the article about Old Henry alone and try to answer these questions.
For example 1.Does Old Henry enjoy his weekend?
2. What did he do last month?
3. What happened to his dog?
4. How is Old Henry now?
2. Check the answers.
Answer1: No, he doesn’t.
Answer2: He went for a walk with Wang Wang, his cute dog.
Answer3: His dog was lost.
Answer4: He’s very sad.
3.Students read the article alone again and write a report about now they helped Old Henry last weekend, using the suggestions given in the box.
Suggestions
clean the house, play chess, watch a movie, play the guitar, cook dinner.
4. Ask some individual students to read their report to the class.