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

Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived
Language goals:
Talk about the past events and tell a story.
New languages:
1. Be able to read, write and use the new word:
UFO, alien, took off, landed, arrived, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom,
barber’s chair/shop, standing, getting out
2. New structures:
I was standing in front of the library when the UFO landed.
While the alien was buying a key ring, I called the police.
Difficult points:
Be able to use “while” and “when”.
Teaching aids: computer, recorder
Teaching periods:
Period 1: Section A 1a—2c
Period 2: Section A 3a—4
Period 3: Section B 1—2c
Period 4: Section B 3—Self—check

Period 1
Section A 1a—2c
Teaching aims:
1. Learn the new words:
UFO, alien, take off, landed, bathroom, kitchen, and barber’s chair,
barber shop, get out, while, when
2. Be able to use “while” and “when”, talk about the past events.
I was standing in front of the library when the UFO landed.
While he was buying a key ring, I called the police.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Free talk
Let students say some things you did yesterday or last weekend.
Step 2. Presentation
1. Ask the students: Where can you cook your meals? Present “kitchen”. Where can you have your hair cut? Present “barber shop, barber’s shop”. Where can you go to bed? Present “bedroom” and “have a shower” present “bathroom”. Then say the UFO, the alien, Present “landed, take off, get out”.
2. Get the students to read the new words of page18—page19.
Practice reading the words: together, in parts, in lines, one by one. Be sure the students can read the new words correctly.
Step 3. Look and match—1a
1. Get the students to look at the picture on Page 18, 1a.
2. Read the statements together and get their meanings.
3. Try to match the statements with the people by yourself.
4. Read the statements and match.
5. Check up the answers.
Answers: 1. d 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. e 6. f
Step 4. Listening practice—1b
Listen to the tape and circle the correct responses.
1. First read the responses by themselves.
2. Listen to the tape. For the first time, just listen.
3. Listen to the tape for the second time, and try to circle the responses.
4. Listen and check the answers.
A: standing in front of the library
B: sleeping late
C: cooking dinner
D: getting out of the shower
E: cutting hair
5. Read it after the tape. And practice reading it.
Step 5. Pair work—1c
Talk about what people were doing when the UFO arrived.
1. First read the example: Together, in parts, one by one.
2. Practice the conversation with the phrases in 1a, 1b.
3. Practice it by themselves then check up in class.
A: What was he doing when the UFO arrived?
B: He was sleeping late when it arrived.
Step 6. Listening practice
Listen and number the statements in the order you hear.
1. First, the students read the statements by themselves.
2. Listen to the tape, try to number the statements. The first time, just listen.
3. Listen to the tape for the second time, and number the statements.
4. Listen and check the answers:
5-4-1-3-2
2b Listen and complete the sentences with “when” and “while”.
5. Listen to the tape; try to fill in the blanks by themselves.
6. Listen and check the answers:
1. when 2. when 3. While 4. While
7. Listen and repeat, then practice reading the conversation.
Step 7. Group work—2c
Look at the picture and say what each person was doing when the UFO arrived. Then work in groups, ask and answer the questions:
1. Get the students to look at the picture, prepare the conversations by themselves.
2. Work in groups, ask and answer.
3. Get some groups to practice the conversations. Check it in class.
A: What was the girl doing when the UFO arrived?
B: While the girl was …
C: When the UFO took off the man was …
Practice the conversation.
Step 8. Grammar focus

1. Get the students to read the sentences, pay attention to the word “when” and “while”.
2. Ask differences between “when” and “while”.
Explain: The word WHEN comes before a quick action that happens only once. The word WHILE comes before an action that continues for some time.
3. Ask the students to make the sentences with the word WHEN and WHILE. They can say the sentences from this unit.
Step 9. Conclusion
1. Learn and master the vocabulary words.
2. Master the target languages.
Homework
1. Master the new words, be able to use and write them.
2. Write a short passage what your family did last night.

Period 2
Section A 3a—4
Teaching aims:
1. Learn the vocabulary words: experience, around, strange, follow, amazing, kid
2. Talk about the past events by using “while” and “when”.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warm-up
1. Check up the homework.
2. Read your passage about the past events for the class.
Step 2. Learn the new words
1. Get the students to read the new words by themselves.
2. Ask some students to read them and if they can read them correctly.
3. Practice reading them.
Read after the teacher or the tape recorder.
Read them together; in parts, one by one.
Be sure the students can read them correctly.
4. Explain some of them.
have an unusual experience, about =around (表时间)
follow sb,
the following time, amazing / amazed
Step 3. Reading practice—3a
Read the e-mail passage and number the pictures in the correct order.
1. First get the students to look at the pictures, try to know the meanings.
2. Let the students to read the passage, get their meanings.
3. Students try to number the pictures in the correct order.
4. Teacher reads the passage and checks the answers.
5. Students read the passage again and find if they have the difficulties.
The teacher explains them.
e.g. had a very unusual experience, in front of / in the front of, walk down, called the police, call the TV station
Step 4. Pair work—3b
Cover the passage; try to tell the story to your partner.
1. Get the students to retell the story by themselves with the help of the passage.
2. Take the turns to tell the story.
The teacher can give some words to help the students tell the story.
For example: on Sunday, at ten o’clock, walked down, when, landed imagine, strange, get out, followed, surprised, a souvenir shop, looking at, called the police, before, arrived, visited the museum, while, called, the TV station
3. Get the students to tell the story. Work in class.
4. Practice telling the story.
Every student says one sentence then takes turns.
Step 5. Group work
What were you doing at these times, fill in the table and interview your classmates.
1. Get the students to read the table, and then fill in the table. “What were you doing at these times?”
2. The teacher can say: You can interview your class and ask the questions like this:
A: What were you doing at 9 o’clock last Saturday morning?
B: I was sleeping .How about you?
A: I was doing the homework.
B: You are kidding.
3. Practice asking and answering the questions in small groups.
Check some groups in class.
Step 6. Summary
1. The vocabulary words.
2. The using of “when” and “while’.
Homework
1. Remember the vocabulary words.
2. Interview your classmates and writing a passage about your last week.

Period 3
Section B 1—2c
Teaching aims:
1. Master the vocabulary words: scared, shout, jump, rode, climb, ran, run away,
anywhere, met, come in, happen
2. Be able to talk about the past events. Using the word “when” and “while”.
3. Be able to tell a story by using the simple past tense.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warm-up
1. Check up the homework.
2. Ask one or two students to tell the things your classmates did last weekend.
Step 2. Presentation
1. The teacher show the pictures or do some activities of “jumping, shouting, riding a bike, climbing, running away, coming in”.
2. The teacher asks one student to read the new words.
3. Then practice reading the words.
Read after the teacher / the student who can read the words correctly; read together; read in parts; one by one.
4. Get the students to read and remember the words: the spelling, the Chinese meanings.
Step 3. Look and match Section B 1
1. Let the students look at the pictures, read the sentences and get their meanings.
2. Read the sentences and check the answers:

1. c 2. d 3. b 4. a
Step 4. Reading practice 2a, 2b
Read the instructions to the students. Listen and check six things as you hear.
1. Get the students to read the sentences in 2a, try to get their meanings.
2. Play the tape, listen and try to check the sentences you hear.
3. Play the tape again, and check the answers:
1 2 4 5 6 7
4. 2b Listen again, write the letter of who did the each thing in the chart above.
Students look at the persons in 2b, and remember the names.
5. Play the tape; the first time, just listen.
6. Listen and check the answers:
1. e 2. d 3 . a 4. f 5 . c 6 . b
7. Students read after the tape, and practice reading the conversations.
Step 5. Pair work
1. Read the instructions to the students: Talk about the people in 2a, Student A starts the sentences with “while”, Student B completes the sentences.
2. Students can do the conversation with the help of the example. Work in pairs.
3. Check up three pairs in class.
Step 6. Summary
1. The vocabulary words.
2. The simple past tense with “when” and “while”.
Homework
1. Remember the new words.
2. Try to tell a story you did or you heard.

Period 4
Section B 3 Self-check
Teaching aims:
1. Learn the new vocabulary words.
2. Practice reading and writing.
3. Tell a story by using the simple past tense.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warm-up
1. Check up the homework
2. Get a student to tell a story you did or you heard.
Step 2. Presentation
1. The teacher presents the new words with the stick pictures or the activities.
e.g. bell ring—-rang playground
2. Practice reading the new words: after the teacher, together, one by one.
3. Read and remember the new words.
Step 3. Reading practice
Part 3
Read the instructions to the students: Read the article and write the answers to the questions.
1. Get the students to read the article first.
2. Then read the questions and try to answer the questions by themselves.
3. Read the article, check up the answers:
(1) Linda was buying a newspaper at the train station.
(2) Linda couldn’t see Davy because the station was too crowded.
(3) Davy was outside the station.
(4) Davy met another dog outside the station.
(5) Davy was jumping and running with another dog.
Step 4. Writing practice 4a
Use the pictures to write the story.
1. Read the instructions to the students. Explain it to them.
2. Get the students to look at the pictures, ask one student to explain what is
happening in each picture.
3. Let students to write the story. Remember to use the time in the pictures.
4. Ask some students to read their stories. And see if there are different stories.
Step 5. Pair work 4b
Practice the students speaking and listening skills in this part.
1. Read the instructions to the students. Work in pairs, talk about what was happening at these times. Play the role of the police officer and the bicycle thief.
2. Ask the students to work the conversation by themselves.
3. Ask some students to practice the conversation in class. Role play the conversation. And choose the best role players.
Step 6. Self-check
Ex. 1.
1. The students read the sentences and fill in the blanks with the words given.
2. Then the teacher checks up the answers.
3. Get the students to make their own sentences in class.
Ex. 2. Writing practice
Read the things He Yan did yesterday; try to write what you were doing at these times. Use the word “when” and “while”.
e.g. While He Yan was in the doctor’s, I was going to the class…
Ex. 3. Circle the words that don’t belong.
1. The students do the exercise by themselves.
2. The teacher check up the answers:
1. alien 2. newspaper 3. UFO 4. scared
Step 7. Summary
1. The vocabulary words and the phrases.
2. The using of “when” and “while”.
Homework
1. Remember the new words and the phrases.
2. Tell the things you did last vocation by using “when” and “while”.
3. Preview Unit 4.