Step I 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. Demonstrate how to play the game.

Step Ⅱ 3a

This activity provides reading practice using the target language.

Teach the words right and comic. Call students’ attention to the article. Invite a student to read it to the class. Correct any pronunciation errors to make sure the student provides a good model for the rest of 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. As they work, move around the classroom and offer help if necessary. Correct the answers.

Step Ⅲ 3b

This activity provides reading and writing practice using the target language.

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. Walk around the room checking progress answering questions as needed.　 Ask different students to read their completed letters to the class.

Step Ⅳ 3c

This activity provides writing practice using the target language. 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.

Show the following sample version on the screen by a projector as a guide.

Ask students to do the activity individually. As they begin to write, move around the room providing help as needed. It doesn’t matter whether they only write a sentence or a longer article. Ask students to read their articles to a partner.

If there isn’t enough time for all the students to finish the article, allow them to finish it after class.

Step Ⅴ 4a

This activity provides reading, writing, listening and speaking practice using the target language.　 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.

Demonstrate how to fill in the chart with a good students to provide a good model for the rest of the class.

Make a simple chart on the blackboard and ask Wei Ming to fill in his information in the chart.

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. Answers will vary.

Step Ⅵ 4b

This activity provides oral practice using the target language. 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　Ⅶ Summary

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

Step　Ⅷ 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.

Step Ⅸ Blackboard Design

The Sixth Period

1. A projector　　 2. A sample version

Write a passage about how someone’s life has changed.

Practice reading and writing using the target language.

3. Moral Object

　Talk to your parents as often as possible so that you can understand each other better.

2. Ability Objects

　(1)Train students’ ability to get information in reading or in conversation.

　(2)Train students’ ability to express their ideas using the target language.

1. Knowledge Objects

　(1)Key Vocabulary

　right, comic

　(2) Practice reading and writing using the target language.

Step Ⅰ 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 Ⅱ 1a

This activity introduces new vocabulary words and provides practice with the target language. Using pictures, teach students to practice the words spider and insect. Teach the word gum by holding up a gum. And teach the verb chew by chewing the gum.　 Call students’ attention to the pictures.

Say, Please check the things you liked to do when you were a child.

Ask students to complete the work individually.

Step Ⅲ 1b

This activity provides practice with the target language. Point out the box under the pictures. Read the instructions to the class.

Get a student to write his/her sentences on the blackboard. Help correct any errors.

Step Ⅳ 2a

This activity provides listening practice using the target language.

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 for the first time. Students only listen.

Play the recording again. This time students check the sentences they hear.

Check the answers.

Step Ⅴ 2b

This activity gives students practice in understanding and writing the target language. 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 Ⅵ 2c

This activity provides oral practice using the target language.

Ask a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class.

Ask students to pay special attention to the question “Did you?” and the answer“Yes, 1 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 Ⅶ Summary and Homework

Say, In this class, we’ve learned the new vocabulary words spider, insect, gum and chew and the target language I used to do sth. After class, finish writing the sentences in Optional Activity.

Step Ⅷ Blackboard Design

The Fifth Period

3. A gum

2. A picture with spiders and a picture with insects.