4. My father works in another city. I miss him very much.

3.1 have such poor sight that I have to wear glasses.

2. You don't have to worry about me.

1. She is afraid of falling behind the others.

2. Target language:

A: I used to eat candy all the time. Did you?

B:Yes,I did. And I used to chew gum a lot.

Period　 4

Teaching Procedures

Step 1　 Revision

Review the target language presented in this unit. Invite a student to come to the front of the classroom and demonstrate an activity. The rest of the class guess what he/she is doing first. Then make sentences using the words "used to" and the guessed activity.

Step 2　 Activity 3a

Teach the words right and comic. Call students' attention to the article. Invite a student to read it to the class. Point out the chart. Elicit the first answer from the class: Rose Tang then had so much time. Guide students to find out the information in the reading. It says when I was young, I used to have so much time,...

Say, Now read the article and complete the chart.

Get students to do the work on their own. Correct the answers.

Step 3　 Activity 3b

Read the instructions to the class. Read the letter to the class. Do the first one or two fill-ins with the class. Say, Please complete the letter on your own. You may use the information from the chart in Activity 2b.

Ask students to work individually.

Ask different students to read their completed letters to the class.

Step 4　 Activity 3c

Read the instructions to the class. Demonstrate how to do the activity. Ask students to take turns suggesting things that they used to do and that they still do. Make two columns with the headlines Used to and Now on the blackboard.

Say, Write an article about the things that you used to do and that you still do to describe how your life has changed since primary school. Use these suggestions on the blackboard with your ideas to write your article. You may also use the articles in Activities 3a and 3b as a model.

Ask students to do the activity individually.

Ask students to read their articles to a partner.

Step 5　 Activity 4a

Read the instructions to the class. Focus attention on the chart. Set a time limit of one minute. Students read the headlines at the top and at the sides. Ask students to complete the work on their own. They may remember or guess what their parents used to do. Assign part of their task to homework so that students may talk to their parents.

Step 6　 Activity 4b

Read the instructions to the class. Ask students to complete the work in groups. Ask a few students to tell the class about the other students they have talked to.

Step 7　 Summary

Say, In this class, we've done much practice in reading and writing as well as speaking the target language.

Step 8　 Homework

(1) Talking to their parents, students fill in the information in the chart in Activity 4a.

(2) Finish off the activity in Activity 4b. Write a passage about students and their parents.

(3) Preview Self check.

Blackboard Design

Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Section B

Period　 4

　Used to　　　　　　 Now

play chess　　　　 study very late

draw pictures　　　 wear glasses

not wear glasses　　 like maths

Period　 5

Teaching Procedures

Step 1　 Revision

Check homework. Ask students to exchange their articles in Activity 4b with a partner. Read each other's work. Then invite a few students to tell the class about his/her partner.

Step 2　 Part 1

Focus attention on the box. Invite a student to read the vocabulary words at the top. Say, You are to fill in the blanks with the words. In some cases, you may need to use another form of the word, for example adjusting for tense or subject/verb agreement. Ask students to fill in the blanks on their own. Check the answers. Five students each read a sentence filling in the blanks. The rest of the students check their answers. Ask students to make their own sentences with the words, preferably sentences that are meaningful. Collect a few students' answers with mistakes on the blackboard. Help correct the mistakes.

Step 3　 Part 2

Read the instructions to the class. Read the beginning of the article to the class. Get students to look at the pairs of pictures carefully and finish the writing on their own.

Have several students read out their articles to the class.

Check the answers.

Step 4　 Just for Fun!

Ask all the students to read the conversation. Ask, what is funny about this cartoon story? Help students to answer. The caterpillar doesn't understand that the butterfly meant she used to be a caterpillar. He thinks she means that she used to be an ugly butterfly. Invite pairs of students to present this conversation to the rest of the class.

Step 5 Summary

Say, In this class, we've done much writing practice using the key vocabulary words and the target language presented in this unit. Step 6　 Homework 1.　　 Review Self check. 2.　　 After class, please finish off the article in Activity 2 in your exercise books. 3.　　 Ask students to finish off the exercises on pages 6-7 of the workbook as well. 4.　　 Preview Reading in Unit 2.

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Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Self check

Period 5

Sample answers to activity 1:

1. Sample answers to Activity 1b:

(1)1 used to play football with my brother.

(2)1 used to eat hamburgers a lot.

(3)1 used to watch cartoons.

(4)1 used to run with my father in the morning.　

4. Did you use to play the piano? No, I didn't.

　Period　 2

Teaching Procedures

Step 1　 Revision

Check homework. Ask different students to read their reports about his favorite film star or a scientist. Then collect their writings and write comments on each paper before returning them. Display some better ones in the classroom. Show a student's work on the screen by a projector. Help him/her correct any errors.

Step 2　 Activity 3a

Point to the pictures and ask students to tell what is happening. Draw students' attention to the chart. Read each of the tour headlines and the list of items in the first column to the class. Demonstrate how to fill in the chart with a good student orally. Tell students where to put a check in the chart.

Ask students to complete the "I” column of the chart on their own by checking the items that they used to be afraid of and that they are still afraid of. Check the answers.

Step 3　 Activity 3b

Focus attention on the conversation. Ask a pair of students to read it to the class. Point out the list of items in the first column of Activity 3a. Say, Ask your partner about these items and complete the "My partner" columns of the chart in pairs. Ask several pairs to share their conversations with the class. When all the students have finished the chart. Say. Now let's check to see how many students used to be afraid or are still afraid of the same things. Invite a student to ask questions. S;Who used to be afraid of the dark? Raise your hands.

(Count the hands and let students keep a record. )

Do the same approach with the other items. Step 4　 Activity Part 4 Read the instructions to the class. Ask a good student to give an example from his or her own experience. Ask students to complete the work in groups of four. Ask a few students to tell the class about the other students they have talked to. Step 5　 Summary Say, In this class, we've talked about what you used to be afraid of and what you are still afraid of using the target language of this unit. Step 6　 Homework (1) Ask students to find out what their grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and old friends used to be afraid of when they were children. What did these people used to be afraid of that today's children are not afraid of?

(2) Finish off the exercises on pages 6-7 of the workbook.

　(3) Preview section B.

Blackboard Design

Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Section A

Period　 2

A: Did you use to be afraid of the dark?

b: Yes,I did.

　A: Are you still afraid of the dark?

B: No,I'm not. How about you?

A: Me? Oh, yes! I'm terrified of the dark.

B: So, what do you do about it?

A: I go to sleep with my bedroom light on.

Period　 3

Teaching Procedures

Step 1　 Revision

Check homework. Invite different students to report what his/her grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, or old friends used to be afraid of when they were young.

Step 2　 Activity la

Using pictures, teach students to practice the words spider and insect. Call students' attention to the pictures. Ask, What is happening in each picture? Say, Please check the things you liked to do when you were a child. Ask students to complete the work individually. Check the answers by inviting different students to report his/her work. Say each number to the class and ask students to raise their hands for each thing they used to like to do. Then discuss the results with the class.

Step 3 Activity 1b

Point out the box under the pictures. Read the instructions to the class. Say, You are to write some other things that you used to like to do when you were a children on the lines in the box. Remind students to write sentences. Get a student to write his/her sentences on the blackboard.

Step 4　 Activity 2a

Set a time limit of one minute. Ask students to look through the sentences in the box. Say, You will hear a boy and a girl talking about how life used to be when they were much younger on the recording. Listen and check the sentences you hear. Point out the sample answer. Play the recording, students check the sentences they hear. Check the answers.

Step 5　 Activity 2b

Call students' attention to the chart with the headlines In the past and Now. Set a time limit of one minute for students to look through the uncompleted sentences. Say, You are to listen to the conversation again and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Point out the sample answers. Play the recording again. Students listen and fill in the blanks. Ask a student to read these sentences, filling in the blanks, the rest of the class check their answers.

Step 6　 Activity 2c

Ask a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class. Write the conversation on the blackboard. Ask students to pay special attention to the question "Did you?" and the answer "Yes, I did." Remind students of the negative answer No, I didn't. Say, Now work with a partner. Start by reading the sample conversation with your partner. Then make new conversations.

Check the answers by calling on different pairs to say their conversations to the class.

Ask students to talk about good and bad habits. Then make sentences with "used to" to show which habits they have stopped and make sentences with "still" to show which ones they still have.

Step 7　 Summary

Say, In this class, we've learned the new vocabulary words spider, insect and chew and the target language I used to do sth. Step 8　 Homework 1.　　 Review Section B. 2.　　 After class, finish writing the sentences in Optional Activity. 3.　　 Preview the rest of Section B.

Blackboard Design

Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Section B

Period　 3

3. Did you use to have straight hair? Yes, I did.

2. You used to have long hair.

1.1 used to be really quiet.