1.　 Finish the exercises in the class.

8. Do the exercises.

　 The teacher have the Ss some exercises, and ask the Ss to do at once.

　<1>--What’s Li Lei doing?

　　 -- He_____________. ( read )

　<2>--What’s his mother doing?

　　 --She_____________. ( write )

<3>--What are they doing?

　 --They_____________. ( play soccer)

<4>--What are David and Mary doing?

　 --They_____________. (have dinner)

<5>--What’s Jenny doing?

　 --She______________. ( run )

(In fact, the Ss don’t have enough time to finish the exercises, so they can go on and finish these exercises after class.

Step 3.　 Homework

7. Self-assessment.

　 The teacher prepare for the Ss some listening exercises, and play the cassette, let them finish these exercises at once. Then, check the answer. The Ss can understand whether they have learned about the Present Progressive.

6. Guessing game.

　 The teacher prepare several pieces of paper and there are different actions on it. Ask a pair of Ss to act it out. (Each pair of Ss choose two pieces of paper and act.)

　 (The Ss must like to do it, so the teacher can ask many pairs to do this game and, the Ss can be familiar with the Present Progressive step by step. They can have fun in the classroom during this class, it’s the most important.)

5. Pair work.

　Ask and answer questions about what people are doing in the picture.

u　 What’s he doing?

u　 He’s reading.

　　 The Ss can practice different sentences upon the verbs on the blackboard.

4.　 Activities.

　The teacher acts several actions and say :”What am I doing?”, help Ss answer: ”I’m opening the door.”

　(The other actions: look at someone, clean the window)

Write down the three sentences on the blackboard, and ask the Ss to pay attention to the important words underlined:

n　 What am I doing?

n　 I’m opening the door.

n　 What am I doing?

n　 I’m looking at him.

n　 What am I doing?

n　 I’m cleaning the window.

3.　 Listen to the tape.

　Let the Ss get ready to listen to the tape (paper and ball-point pen).

　Check the answer:　 2　 4　 1

2.　 Tell the difference

　Write down the V-ing forms by another lines of go, watch, do, play and eat on the blackboard. Ask the Ss to have a look and find the difference between them. For example: go and going, watch and watching, do and doing, etc. Then, ask the Ss to read them again.

1.　 Introduction

　Tell the Ss what the Present Progressive is. (现在进行时表示现在正在进行或发生的动作, 它的表现形式为Be Verbs + V-ing ---- 这也即为它的结构式.)

3.Moral Object

Preview your lessons before class.

Teaching Key Points

doing homework, watching TV, cleaning, eating dinner, reading ,talking on the phone

Teaching Difficulties

What are you doing?　　　　　　 I’m watching TV.

What’s he doing?　　　　　　　　 He’s reading.

Teaching Methods

Listening and talking methods.

Pair work.

Teaching Aids

A tape recorder.

Some objects such as a book….

Teaching Procedures

Step I．

Greet the class as usual.

Step II．Section A, 1a

Today we’re going to learn Unit 5.I’ll act out some activities and you can guess what I’m doing.(pretend to eat bread, read a book, clean the board….)

Guide students to say: I’m eating.　 I’m reading.　 I’m cleaning the board.

Do more activities they see in the picture as they can.

Match each word or phrase on the list with one of the pictures.

Ansers:1d　 2a　 3b　 4c　 5f　 6e

Step III．1b

Now read these names after me.

Jenny, Dave and Marie, John

I’ll play a recording about these four people.

Write the number of the activity each person is doing.

(Play the recording the first time. Students only listen. Then a second time. Ask to listen and write the number of each action on the line after that person’s name.

Step IV．Pair work

Look at the pictures again.

Describe each picture. Say what they are doing.

Work in pairs: Ask and Answer.

Step V．Summary

This class we’ve leant some key words and the present progressive tense. Do you do your homework every day? Do you preview your lessons? We should form a good habit. It will help you make great progress.

Step VI．Homework

Copy sentences as 1b.