1、Unit 9 How was your weekend? Language goal: l In this unit students learn to talk about recent past events. New languages: 1. Master the new vocabulary words. 2. Master the past forms of the regular and irregular verbs. 3. New target language: What did you do last weekend? On Satu
2、rday morning, I cleaned my room. On Saturday evening, I went to the movies. What did he/she/they do last weekend? He/she/they played tennis. How was your weekend? It was great/OK. 4. Be able to talk about the recent past events. Difficult points: 1. Master the past forms of the regular
3、 and irregular verbs. 2. Use the new language to talk about recent past events. Teaching aids: l recorder l some pictures of activities Teaching periods: l Period 1: Section A 1a—Grammar focus l Period 2: Section A3a—4 l Period 3: Section B 1a—2c l Period 4: Section B 3a—Self-c
4、heck Period 1 Teaching aims: 1. Learn the new vocabulary words: 2.Target language: What did you do last weekend? I played soccer/we went to the beach. What did he do last weekend? He played tennis. What did they do last weekend? They visited the library. 3. Master the past forms
5、of the regular and irregular verbs. 4. Learn to talk about recent past events. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warm-up Talk about the activities: —What’s your favorite sport?—My favorite sport is… —Do you play soccer/tennis/basketball? Yes/no… —Do you do your homework/clean your room? Y
6、es/no... Ask and answer more activities. Step 2. Learn the new vocabulary words 1. Get the students to read the new words in the vocabulary. Try to read them by themselves. 2. Practice reading the new words: (A) Ask the class to repeat the new words after the teacher. (B) Then read them to
7、gether/in parts/one by one. 3. Read and remember the new words. 4. Explain some words: The past forms of some irregular verbs: was; did; went Useful expressions: have a test; stay at home; what about=how about; practice doing sth. Step 3. Presentation 1. Teacher asks students: “What
8、did you do last weekend?” Help the students to answer the question with the past tense. For example: I cleaned my room/ washed the clothes/played basketball/went to the movies… Accept one word answers and rephrase the answers in completed sentences. 2. Have the students work in pairs, ask the ques
9、tion. And try to answer with complete sentences. Then practice asking and answering the conversation. Step 4. 1a Look and match 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the students. 2. Have students read the list of the activities first. Read each one and ask students to repeat. 3.Then lo
10、ok at the pictures and try to match the answers. 4. Check up the answers. Step 5. 1b Listening practice 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the students. 2. Get the students to look at the pictures, and then tell what the person did in each picture inactivity1a. 3. Play the recordin
11、g for the first time, students only listen. 4. Play the recording again. Students listen to the recording, try to fill in the day and “morning, afternoon, evening” by themselves. 5. Check up the answers. 6. Play the recording, let the students repeat after the recording. Then practice reading
12、the conversation. Step 6. 1cPair work 1. The teacher explains the instructions to the students. 2.Ask two students to read the example conversation in class. 3. Roles play the conversation about Lucy’s weekend in pairs. 4. Have some pairs of students work to the class. Step 7. 2a List
13、ening practice 1.The teacher explains the instructions to the students. 2. Get students to read the sentences in activity 2a. And explain: “You will hear a conversation. The people will talk about some activities and people. Now listen and try to underline the words you hear. 3. Play the rec
14、ording for the first time, students only listen. 4. Play the recording again, students listen and try to underline the words. 5. Check up the answers. Step 8. 2b Listening practice 1. The teacher explains the instructions to the students. Look at the picture in activity 2a, learn the names
15、 of Carol; Ben and Emma. Ask students to identify each person by name. 2. Look through the sentences in activity 2a. 3. Play the recording. Listen and try to fill their names in the blanks. 4. Listen again and check up the answers. 5. Play the recording and get students to repeat after the r
16、ecording. Step 9. 2cPair work 1. The teacher explains the instructions to the students. Practice the conversation with the words given in the box. 2. Students read the example and the words in the box. Do the activity in pairs and make their conversation. 3.Ask some pairs to present the
17、conversations in class. Step 10.Grammar focus l Review the grammar box first. Then students read the sentences and find if there are some questions. If have, explain them: the past forms of the regular verbs and irregular verbs. Step 11. Summary 1. The new vocabulary words. 2. The new
18、target language. 3. The regular and irregular verbs. Step 12.Homework 1. Remember the vocabulary words. 2. Write a passage about your last weekend by using the past tense. Period 2 Teaching aims: l Learn to talk about the past events using the past tense. Teaching procedures:
19、 Step 1. Warm-up 1. Check up the homework. 2. Get some students to read their passages about the past events. 3. Talk about your last weekend in pairs. Step 2. Presentation 1. Show the picture of a mountain. Teach the word “mountain”. Have the students read the word. 2. Make a conve
20、rsation between the teacher and the students. For example: T: How was your weekend? S: It was great/OK/ not very good. T: What did you do last weekend? S: I… 3. Then practice the conversation. Step 3. 3a Writing and speaking practice 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the stude
21、nts. Get the students to read three sentences first. 2. Students look at the picture and complete the conversation by themselves. 3. Check up the answers. 4. Practice the conversations in pairs. Step 4. 3b Pair work 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the students. 2. Get two st
22、udents to read the conversation in speech bubbles. 3. Practice asking and answering the questions about Ming’s, Tony’s and Sarah’s weekends. Practice in pairs. A: How was Ming’s weekend? B: It was … A: What did she do? B: She … 4. Have some pairs work in class. Step 5.Game-What did
23、 you do? 1. Teacher explains the instructions to the students. Be sure the students can know what to do. 2. Do an example for the students. Draw a picture of a TV, students guess “watched TV”. Draw a picture of a book, students guess “did some reading”. 3. Ask students to work in groups. Ea
24、ch student draws two things. Then take turns to make sentences about each other’s picture with past tense. 4. Get some students to work it to the class. Step 6.Summary l Talk about the past events. Step 7.Homework l Interview a friend of yours, ask what he/she did last weekend and
25、write a passage on your notebook. Period 3 Teaching aims: 1. Learn the new vocabulary words and useful expressions. 2. Learn the past forms of some irregular verbs. 3. Learn to talk about the past events. Teaching procedures: Step 1.Warm-up 1. Check up the homework. 2. Get
26、some students to read their passages about what your friend did last weekend. Step 2. 1a 1b Match and say 1. Get the students to look at the pictures, read the phrases and try to match. 2. Look at the pictures and check up the answers. 3. 1b. Teacher explains the instructions to the students
27、 Be sure the students can know what to do. Draw a happy face under the picture if you think the activity is fun. Draw an unhappy face if not fun. 4. Let the students say it to the class. He played the guitar. It was fun. He did his homework. It wasn’t fun. Step 3. 2a 2b Listening, writing
28、 and speaking practice 2a 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the students. Tell the students: You will listen to a conversation between Jim and Sally. They are talking about what they did last weekend. Listen and write the activities in the chart. 2. Play the recording for the first time,
29、students only listen. Play the recording, 3. Play the recording again, try to fill in the chart when you hear. 4. Check up the answers. Students look at the typescript, and repeat after the recording. 2b 5.The teacher explains the instructions to the students. 6. Look at the example in
30、the speech bubbles. Ask two students to read the conversation. 7. Practice talking about what Sally and Jim did last weekend in pairs. 8. Ask some pairs of students to work in class. Step 4. 2cPair work 1.The teacher reads the instructions to the students. 2. Get two students to read the
31、 conversation in the speech bubbles. 3. Have the students work in pairs. Ask your partner “what did you do last weekend?” and make a conversation. 4.Ask some pairs of students to present the conversation in class. Step 5.Summary l Summarize the useful expressions and the past forms of th
32、e irregular verbs. Step 6.Homework 1. Remember the useful expressions and the past forms of the irregular verbs. 2. Write down a passage about what your partner did last weekend. Period 4 Teaching aims: 1. Learn the new vocabulary words and useful expressions. 2. Learn the past for
33、ms of the irregular verbs. 3. Learn to talk about the past events. 4. Train the reading and writing abilities. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warm-up 1. Check up the homework. 2. Get some students to read their passage about what your partner did last weekend. Step 2. Learn the new voc
34、abulary words 1. Get all the students to look at the vocabulary words. Try to read the new words by themselves. Then the teacher gets one student to read the new words. 2. Practice reading the new words. (A) Read the words after the teacher. (B) Read them together/in parts/one by one. 3. Rea
35、d the new words and remember them. Step 3. 3a Reading practice 1. The teacher reads the instructions to the students. 2. Ask the students to read the article. Circle the activities you like and underline the activities you don’t like. 3. The teacher reads the article to the students and
36、checks up the answers. 4. Students read the article again and find their questions. Explain to them if they have. Step 4. 3b Writing practice 1. Get the students to look at the pictures first. Then read the passage and try to fill in the blanks according to the pictures. Attentions to use th
37、e past tense. 2. Get one student to read the passage and check up the answers. 3. Students read the article again and find their questions. Explain to them if they have. Step 5. 3cWriting practice 1.The teacher explains the instructions to the students. 2. Get the students to write their
38、 own passages. Get help from activity 3b. 3. Then correct your ads with your partner. The teacher can help them if they have some questions. Get a few students to read their passage to the class. Step 6.GameActivity 4 1.The teacher explains the instructions to the students. 2. Have student
39、s work in groups of four. Ask one student to write the activities he did last weekend. Then talk to the others about his weekend activities. And the others try to guess who he is. 3. Have students to work in groups. Take turns to talk about the weekend activities and guess who he/she is. 4
40、 Have some groups of students present their conversations in class. Step 7. Review the words Self-check 1&2 1. Students read the words in the box and check all the words they know. They can circle the words they don’t know. Then ask them. 2. Make their Chinese meanings clear. Then ask a
41、nd answer the Chinese meanings in pairs or in groups. 3.Ask each student to write five new words on their notebooks. Then share them with the others in groups. Step 8.Self-check 3 Reading and writing practice 1. The teacher explains the instructions to the students. Tell the students what t
42、o do. 2. Students read the passage about “Old Henry”. And find his problems. 3. Tell students that they have to image that they went and helped Old Henry last weekend. Think about the activities they could help him. They can get some help from the suggestion box. 4. Students write their own an
43、swers. After finishing, ask some students to read their passages to the class. Step 9.Summary 1. Summarize the new words and the useful expression 2. The past forms of the irregular verbs. 3. Talk about the past events. Step 10.Homework 1. Remember the words and expressions. 2. Write a passage about the activities your family members did last weekend.






