2. What are in the aquarium?

　 “Last weekend, I went to an aquarium (the pictures). I saw many interesting animals there (pictures to learn the animals).”

　 “Also, I did others things there (pictures to teach gift, autograph etc.)”

Step III Task-cycle

★ Task 1 Test your memory

Show some pictures on the slide for about 30 seconds, ask them to watch carefully.

Test their memories by using, “Were there …?” or “Did you see…?”

★　　 Task 2 News Conference

Show some photos about the students’ last school trip for a while.

Ask a student or two to act as a spokesman and the others ask him or her questions.

The slide shows them some questions for help, “Did you go…?”

★　　 Task 3 Listening

Have the students listen to the tape and do the listening exercise on page 47 & 48. Encourage them to give the answers by having a competition among them.

★　　 Task 4 A Sweet Memory

Get the students to make a survey about what they did in their school trip and fill in the chart below

When surveying, they can use the flowing sentence patterns,

-- How was your school trip?　

-- Where did you go?

-- Did you see any…?

-- Were there any…?

-- What else did you do?　

Step IV Post-task

1. What did he/she do last weekend?

Have a competition among the divided groups. The students say a sentence about each picture, and try to induce the rules of the past tense of regular verbs.

2. Greeting.

Step II Pre-task

1. Enjoy a song, This Old Man.

2. To learn how to talk about the past events by using “Were there…? Did you see…? Did you go…?”

Teaching Procedures

Step I Warming up

1. To master the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.

2. The ways of talking about the events in the past.

Teaching difficult points

1. Affirmative and negative statements in the past tense, “Did you…? Were there…?” questions.

4. To understand the two conversations and gain the information to foster the listening and speaking skills.

Teaching important points:

3. To learn how to talk about the past events by using “Were there…? Did you see…? Did you go…?”