1、Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark
Period Four Section B 1a-1e
Teaching aims and demands:
New words: ant, insect
Key expressions:
Walk to school, on the soccer team, worry about ,all the time ,six-year-old brother
Key sentences:
1.I didn’t use to like tests.
2.I used to be on the soc
2、cer team.
3.I used to hate P.E. class.
4.We used to walk to school.
Step 1 Revision
Use “used to” and “but now” to describe some people.
Step 2 Self-learning
1a Check (√) the things you used to like when you were a child.
1b What other things did you use to like when you were a child? Write
3、 sentences in the box above. Then discuss them with a partner.
Step 3 Listen
Students read the statements in 1c and 1d first, then listen to the tape, complete the sentence. Listen to the tape once more, repeat out and check the answers.
Step 4 Role-play
Role-play conversations using the infor
4、mation in 1e
Language points:
1.my six-year-old brother
an eight-year-old girl a five-year plan
He is a ten-year-old boy.=The boy is ten years old.=He is ten.
2.worry about sb./sth.担心某人/某事
强调“担心”的动作。
be worried about 强调“担心”的状态。
eg. She always worries about some little things.
5、He is worried about me.
3. all the time“一直,始终”,常用于句末。
always 常位于实义动词前,助动词和系动词后。
eg. It rained all the time.
The sun always rises in the east.
She is always helping others.
4.hate: dislike
hate sb./sth.
hate to do sth.
hate doing sth.
Step7 Exercises
I. 单项选择
( )1. You
6、didn’t use to go to work by car, ___________?
A. didn’t you B. did you C. do you
( )2. My mother used to _____ my brother.
A. worry about B. be worry about C. be worried to
( )3. Tom is used to _____ in school.
A. live B. living C. lived
( )4. Don’t worry about him, he is a ______ boy.
A. 10-year-old B.8-year-old C. 10 years old
( )5. --How old are you? --I am ______.
A. 10-year-old B. 10 years old C. 10 year old