1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: What’s Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? What’re Scott and Lucy doing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc.

4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it.

　　 Step3. Brainstorming

3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook.. Compare cook with cooker.

2．Let’s see what Joe’s families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b.

1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: What’s he/she doing? and What’re they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements.

3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the seven dwarfs.

　　 Step2. Presentation

2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to read it to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations.

ⅥTeaching procedures

Step1. Warming up and revision

1. Daily greetings: How’re you today? How’s it going? How is the weather? Ask these questions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learned yesterday.

3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different people’s lives in different areas.

ⅡImportant points: the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense

2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe the activities people are doing