3. 与Friday有关的：

Friday 忠仆，随从(源于鲁滨逊漂流记)

Man Friday 男仆

Girl Friday 得力助手(尤指女秘书)

Friday face 神色不佳之人。

2. 与Monday 有关的：

Blue Monday 沮丧，郁闷(相对与欢乐的周末而言。)

Mad Monday 忙乱的星期一

Monday morning feeling　 Monday feeling 美国人在周末休假后星期一不想工作的那样一种心情。

1. 与Sunday有关的：

Sunday best 高档，漂亮的衣裳

Sunday run 长距离

Sunday painter 业余画家

Sunday school truth 众所周知的道理或事实。

在日常生活中，同学们一定建国生日庆典活动中过生日的人吹灭插在蛋糕上的蜡烛(candles)的情景。那么你知道这个习俗的来历吗？

它最早起源于古希腊(ancient Greece)。据说，古希腊的月神和狩猎女神阿尔特弥斯(Artemis)过生日时，其崇拜者们(worships),在圣坛上摆上插有蜡烛的甜蛋糕(sweet cake)。

后来，古希腊人(ancient Greek)在其他人的生日蛋糕上也同样插上点燃的蜡烛(burning　 candle)，并增加了吹灭(blow out candles)的内容。他们相信，燃烧中的蜡烛具有神秘的力量(power)。如果人们在此时许下心愿(wish)，然后一口气吹灭这些蜡烛就能如愿以偿。这一习俗流传至今，已被世界各地采纳。　

2. Key sentences 重点句子

How old are you? I am ___ (years old).

How old is she/he? She/He is _____ (years old).

My father/ mother is a _____.

Where is it? It’s above/beside/below _____.

What are they doing? They are ____.

What is she/he doing? She/He is ______.

Ability goals 能力目标

Enable students to review the whole unit and use the words and the expressions well.

Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help students use the expressions they learned in their daily life.

Teaching important points 教学重点

Review the present continuous tense, the simple present tense, talking about the family members: their age and ask and answer the positions of the objects.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

The present continuous tense.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based speaking.

Teaching aids 教具准备

Audiotape.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Revision

a. Greeting

b. Correct the homework

Step II Task-based speaking

Every group will choose a task written on a piece of paper, finish it on time and show in class.

Group 1’s task: Show your family photos to each other and talk about them.

A sample dialog:

S1: Who is he?

S2: He is my brother, Tom.

S3: What’s his favorite color?

S2: His favorite color is blue.

S4: What’s his favorite food?

S2: His favorite food is dumplings.

S5: How old is he?

S2: He is twelve years old.

S6: Is he a student?

S2: Yes, he is.

Group 2’s task: Talk about your family members, names, ages, and jobs with each other.

A sample dialog:

S7: What’s your sister’s name?

S8: Her name is Mary.

S7: How old is she?

S8: She is nine years old.

S7: What is she?

S8: She is a student.

Group 3’s task: Talk about how you will celebrate your birthday.

A sample dialog:

S9: I will have a birthday party.

S10: My classmates will come to my birthday party.

S11: I will have a birthday cake with thirteen candles and presents.

S12: My friends will sing the song “Happy birthday to you”.

Group 4’ task: Talk about the positions of the things in your bedroom.

A sample dialog:

S13: Do you have computer in your bedroom?

S14: Yes, I do.

S13: Where is it?

S14: It’s on the desk. Do you have a telephone?

S13: Yes, I do.

S14: Where is it?

S13: It’s beside my bed.

Group 5’s task: Talk about what you usually do at home.

A sample dialog:

S15: I watch TV after supper. How about you?

S16: I do my homework. How about? (To another student)

S17: I play on the computer. How about you? (To another student)

S18: I listen to the radio.

Group 6’ task: Do actions and let your group members guess what you are doing.

A sample dialog:

S19: (Pretend to cry) What am I doing?

S20: You are crying.

S19: (Pretend to be making dumplings) What am I doing?

Group 7’s task: Play a game about numbers.

Work in pairs. One student calls out ten numbers between one and thirty. The other students write down the correct digits for those numbers. And then see who can do better.

Step III Homework

a. Finish the exercises in the activity book.

b. Sum up what they have learned in this unit.

c. Preview Lesson 41.

教学资源库

1. Words and phrases 生词和短语

　 family, father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, son, young, her, my, his, name, bus, comb, computer, name, party, radio, telephone, TV, bed, cry, play, talk, work, young, above, below, beside, thirty, her, his, my

3. 有些动词(如come, go, leave等)的现在进行时态可以表示将要发生的动作。

e.g. Mary is coming here. 玛丽就要来了。

e.g. The train is going soon. 火车就要开了。

Step V Sing a song

a. Guess

Let the students guess the meaning of “plus” in the sentence “One plus two is three.”

b. Listen to the tape and sing the song.

Step VI Homework

a. Finish the exercises in the activity book.

b. Practice reading the passage in this lesson.

c. Finish the Exercise I and Exercise II in Lesson 40.

Period 8 Task-based speaking

Target language 目标语言

2. 表示当前一段时间的活动或正在进行的动作。

e.g. They are working on the farm these days.

1. 表示现在正在进行的动作。

e.g. They are playing football. 他们正在踢足球。

e.g. We are reading English now. 我们正在读英语。

3.重读闭音节双写末尾辅音字母再加ing.

现在进行时态的用法如下：