2. Learn to use them

1. Master the key words and phrases in Unit 1

2.　　 Useful sentence structures about the key words and expressions:

1)　　 Likes and dislikes

2)　　 Talking about duration

3)　　 Do you know 　　　　　?

4)　　 The Simple Present Tense

1.　　 Important words and phrases in Unit 1: also; be made of; either; have/ have classes; hate/dislike; look like; Miss/Mr./ Mrs./Ms.; not…anymore; paint; pair/ a pair of; pupil/student.

3.　　 Class closing

Homework: exercises in Ss’ activity book.

The next lesson in the students’ book

Ending today’s lesson by singing the song--- “On a School Day”.

Lesson 8 Unit Review

2.　　 New lesson:

Step 1: Lead in

T: I, together with my son, went to visit my parents last week. We had a good time there. It’s a small village and I enjoyed the fresh air. We also went to the fields. My son was very interested in the insects; he knew lots of plants, too.

What did you do last week? Where did you go? Did you enjoy your time there? What happened to you?

(Ask some volunteers to introduce their activities in the late weeks, guiding them by the above questions. Remember to praise them for their performance. Then others will be encouraged to share their experiences. Try “pair work” later.)

Step 2: Listening the tape

T: I’ve known what you did last week. Today’s we’ve got a page from Jenny’s diary book. Let’s share what happened to Jenny. There are two questions for you after listening to the tape.

1)　　 What did Jenny do after school yesterday?

2)　　 Where do Mary’s parents work?

Ok, let’s listen to the tape and get the answers to the questions.

(Check the answer with the class. 1) Jenny played basketball after school . 2) Mary’s parents work in a restaurant.)

Step 3 : Reading and discussion

T: Now it’s time for you to read the text by yourselves. Read it silently, please. You can get more about what Jenny did. Then have a discussion with the following questions:

1)　　 About basketball: Did Jenny make any new friends? Who was on Jenny’s team? Who was on the other team? Did Jenny’s team win the game?

2)　　 About last Saturday: Who bought Jenny a pair of jeans? Did she wear them to school? What other did Jenny and her mother buy?

3)　　 About yesterday’s lesson: What did they do in today’s English lesson? Who did Jenny talk to? Where did that girl invite Jenny go next Sunday?

(After the students practise in pairs , ask several pairs to discuss in front of the class. Encourage any new questions from the students.)

Step 4: Practice

To make the students remember the text well. Help them to retell the diary.

T: I will give you some key words about the diary. Then try to retell what happened to Jenny.

Paragraph 1: basketball, new friend, on one team, on the other team, lost, hate.

Paragraph 2: jeans, love to shop, a purple blouse, wore to school, liked.

Paragraph 3: English class, talked to, a girl, lunch together, invite.

Step 5: Explanation about the tense

Explain the difference between the General Present Tense and the General Past Tense. Use Chinese if necessary.

T: In English, we use different tenses to describe things happening in different time. We use the General Present Tense to express the usual state and activities happening often or regularly. If we describe something in the paste, we should use the General Past Tense. The key difference between the two tenses is the different forms of the verbs used as predicate. For the “usual things”, we use the verbs themselves and verbs’ past forms for things happening in the past. So we should remember the past forms of the words. Look at the list below:

play --- played ; introduce --- introduced; are --- were; is/am --- was; buy --- bought; lose --- lost; buy --- bought; wear --- wore; like --- liked; talk --- talked; have --- had; invite --- invited. (introduce the rules of getting the past form of verbs; make sure the students there are some special past forms that they should remember.)

Step 6: “Let’s Do It” section

T: All right, we’ve learnt Jenny’s diary. And we’ve known what she did after school, last Saturday and what happened in this morning’s English lesson. Now let’s try to write a letter to one friend of yours. Just like what Jenny wrote in her diary, you can tell your friend something about your first two weeks in school, for example, about lessons, teachers, classmates, or what you did after school. Also a funny story you got to know.

1.　　 Warming up:

1)　　 Check the homework of Lesson 6 in the activity book, giving them some explanations if necessary.

2)　　 Review yesterday’s lesson by using the card for inducing a teacher.

3)　　 Talk about daily activities to prepare for today’s lesson.

Prepare some paper for letters

1) Learn to write a diary talking about daily activities.

2) Learn to use the General Past Tense to describe activities in the past.

1) Writing a diary

2) Difference between the present tense and the past tense:

We played basketball.

Last Saturday, my mother bought a pair of jeans for me.

She has invited me to go to the movies next Sunday.

Mary’s parents work in a restaurant.