Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?
Ⅰ.Analysis of teaching materials:
This unit is around \ to carry out teaching activities.Students should learn to use past tense to talk about holiday activities. The content is close to students’ lives,it’s also a topic that students are willing to discuss and share with others .So in teaching process ,we can consolidate the key sentences “Where did you go on vacation? Did you ?How ?”through different methods such as pair work ,acting , reporting and interviews. Students can consolidate and study further about the past tense on the basis of original.Students can also use the past tense to write a diary about their vacations. Ⅱ.Teaching Aims:
1.Knowledge aims:
①Ss talk about travel activities correctly using “where” and “how”. ②Ss master questions with auxiliary “did”and the answers to the questions. ③Ss learn to express their feelings correctly. 2.Ability aims::
①Ss can ask and answer questions about the things in the past using the past tense. ②Ss can use description words to express their feelings.
③Ss can record a vacation in a form of a diary and express their feelings about the vacations. 3Emotional aims:
Ss get to know more about each other through the exchange of what they have seen, heard and felt.
Ss learn to express their feelings in a better way. Ⅲ.Teaching important and difficult points
1、Ss master and use the vocabulary and expressions.
2、Ss master general questions and special questions and the answers to the questions. 3、Ss master the past tense of regular and irregular verbs . Ⅳ.Teaching arrangements
1.Section A 1a~2c 2. Section A 2d~3c 3. Section B 1a~1e 4.Section B 2a~2e 5. Review of Unit 1. 3a~Self check 2
Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?
Period 1 Section A 1a~2c
I. Teaching Aims: 1.Knowledge aims:
Key words and phrases: New York City. Central Park anyone. anywhere interesting wonderful. Key sentences: Where did you go on vacation? I went to New York City. Did you buy anything special?
Yes. I bought something special for my dad.
2. Ability aims: Students learn to discuss their vacations in the past using key sentences. Students improve their listening and speaking skills.
3. Emotional aims: Ss exchange their feelings about their vacations and know more about each other.
II. Teaching important and difficult points
Ss master key words and sentences, then use them correctly. Ss learn to talk about what they did in the past. Ss improve their listening and speaking skills. Ⅲ. Teaching Aids: mufti-media, tape
Ⅳ. Teaching Procedure Teacher’ s activities Step 1 Greeting and lead-in Greeting: Long time no see. Did you have a good time during your summer holidays? What did you do during summer holidays? Did you go on vacation? Say : Most of you went on vacation, Now let’s talk about your vacations. Step 2 Presentation Ask four students the following questions: Did you go anywhere interesting? Where did you go on vacation? Did you go with anyone? Did you do anything interesting? What did you do on vacation? How was the vacation? Ss’ activities Ss say something about their activities during summer holidays. Purposes 1.Ss answer the questions and then remind of past tense 2. To present a new lesson. Four students answer the questions. Other students listen carefully and learn the questions. Get the fifth student to ask another student the same questions instead of the teacher. Then they should pass on the questions, choose anyone they want to ask. 1.Ss learn the key sentences. 2.To help them learn better, Ss ask the questions instead of the teacher .It makes them get more chances to speak Step 3A Guessing Game Ss guess the place where I 1. To help Ss to consolidate
I also went somewhere interesting. Can you guess? Show Ss some pictures of different places. Teach: New York City,Central Park. Step 4 An interview Get Ss to make an interview about my vacation and answer students’ questions. Ask: How was your vacation? ( teach “wonderful”) Step 5 Pair work Ask:Do you want to know more about your partner’s vacation? Now let’s ask and answer questions in Pairs. Try to use the questions you have learned. Choose some of them to act out. went. They should guess the sentence structure. using“ Did you go to ?/ 2.To enliven the atmosphere visit ??” of the class. 3.Make them interested in my vacation. Ss watch a video. Try to ask the teacher as many questions as they can Ss work in pairs. When some students are acting. The other students should listen carefully and take notes. Then another pair should ask and answer question using“Where did she\\he go on vacation? Did she\\he ? How was ?” To help Ss to consolidate the sentence structure. 1.To help Ss to consolidate the sentence structure. 2.Make Ss listen to others carefully while acting 3.To improve their listening and speaking skills Step 6 Work on 1a and 1b Say: We had vacations. So did the students in Section A 1a, Unit 1. Ask:Where did they go on vacation?. Who went to the mountains \\stayed at home?? Step 7 Pair work Say :You know where the people went ,now let’s make conversations about their vacation. Step 8 Listening Say: We know where Tina, Xiang Hua, Sally, Bob and Tom went on vacation. How about Grace. Kevin, Julie? Ask: Do you want to know more about their vacations?Here are some questions about the vacations. Step 9. Role-play conservations Say :Read the conversations in 2a and 2b then role play the conversations. Get Ss to use at least five questions about each vacation. Say :While two students are acting. The others should listen and say at least five
Ss finish 1a. Ss listen to 1b, then number the people in the picture. To help Ss to consolidate the knowledge they have learned and improve their listening skills. Ss make conversations To improve their speaking about the people in the skills. picture. They should use at least two questions like “ Did ?” “ Where ?” Ss listen and finish 2a. Ss listen again and finish 2b. Ss read the conversations and some of them role play according to the information in 2a and 2b. Others listen carefully and say something about To train their listening skills. To train their speaking skills. To develop students’ good listening habits.
sentences about the conversation they the information they hear. hear like this:Grace went to ?, she went with ?. She ?. Step 10. Homework 1. Memorize the words and sentences in the period. 2. Read the conversations in 1b and 2a. Try to memorize key phrases and sentences. 3. Make a conversation about vacations with partners. Use at least 6 questions. 4. Workbook 1. Period 1. Bb design: Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation? Period 1 Long time no see. Did you go anywhere (interesting) on vacation? Yes, I did. Where did you go on vacation? I went to New York City. Did you go with anyone? buy anything special? meet anyone interesting? How was the weather / food / vacation? It was wonderful/ excellent / great?? Teaching reflections
Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?
Period 2 Section A 2d~3c
I. Teaching Aims: 1.Knowledge aims:
Key words and phrases: most of the time, quite a few ,something, anything / nothing fun, everyone, of course , myself , yourself, hen, pig, seem to be bored, someone, diary, Huangguoshu Waterfall.
Key sentences:Did you do anything fun on your vacation? Yes, I did. I went to ?. How was your vacation? How did you like it? It was wonderful.
Did you do anything interesting\\buy anything special?
The only problem was that there was nothing much to do in the evening but read. Still no one seemed to be bored.
2. Ability aims: Ss learn to talk about their vacations using key sentences.
Ss improve their speaking skills.
3. Emotional aims: Ss express their feelings about vacations. II. Teaching important and difficult points
Ss get to know how to talk about their vacations using past tense.
Ss understand differences between different pronouns and know how to use pronouns correctly Ⅲ. Teaching Aids: mufti-media, tape Ⅳ. Teaching Procedure Teacher’ s activities Ss’ activities Ss regard this conversation Step 1. Revision and lead-in Greeting. as a model and work in Ask: Did you go anywhere interesting on pairs to make a similar one. your vacation? Share their conversations Where did you go on your vacation? about vacations. Did you go with anyone? (Teach someone) How was the vacation?(Teach:How did you like your vacation?) Some students are acting, Did you do anything interesting? the others listen to the buy anything special? conversations carefully and eat anything delicious? give a report like ( Teach something\\nothing ) this: ...went somewhere How was the weather? interesting. She went How were the people?(Teach everyone, to ?.She went there with no one) Say :Let’s share your vacations .while two students are acting ,the others listen carefully and then say something the vacation you hear . Step 2. Work on 3c Say: I know some of your vacations. No one seemed to be bored on your vacation (teach: seem to be bored)and I want to know more about your vacations. Can I ask you some questions about your vacations? Ask: Did you eat anything at a restaurant? read anything interesting? visit anyone in your family? buy anything for yourself? Did you keep a diary? someone. She went there with her ?. She thought the vacation was wonderful. She did something interesting ? Five students answer the 1.To improve students’ teacher’s questions ,the listening and speaking skills others listen carefully and 2.To help students fill in the chart in 3c understand the differences of according to the different pronouns gradually. information they hear. Then give a report: In this group, ate something at a restaurant. __________read something interesting . visited someone in her family. Purposes 3. To help Ss to consolidate the knowledge they have learned and improve their listening and speaking skills. 4. To develop good listening habits. 5. To learn to use different pronouns.