Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?

The first period---Section A (1a-1c)

I. Teaching aims and demands:

1. Knowledge objectives:

a) Key words and phrases: stay at home, go to the mountains, go to New York City, go to the beach, visit my uncle, go to summer camp, visit museums;

b) Target language:

① -Where did you go on vacation? -I went to the mountains.

② -Where did Tina to on vacation? -She went to the beach.

③ -Did you go to summer camp? -No, I didn't.

2. Ability objectives:

a) have a good command of the words and phrases about past events；

b) have a better understand of Indefinite Pronouns and Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs;

c) make full use of the target language to talk about past events;

3. Moral objectives:

Students learn to talk about past events with Simple past tense and try to cultivate students' sense of protecting environment and loving nature.

II. Teaching key and difficult points:

1. Master the expressions of different activities in the past;

2. Talk about past events with the target language;

3. Learn the usages of Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.

III. Teaching aids: Multi-media

IV. Teaching methods: Task-based language teaching approach

Situational language teaching method

V. Teaching procedures:

Teaching steps Teacher's guide Students' activities (Activity patterns) Aims

I. Pre-task 1.Lead-in

1)Use some pictures of mine to introduce my last summer vacation;

2)Present some questions to ask students to think of:

Q1: Did you have a good time during your summer vacation?

Q2: Where did you go?

Q3: What did you do there?

Look and think

　　(Teacher-student interaction)

Have a free talk

1.Warm the class;

2.Arouse their interest;

II. While-

task 2.Presentation

1)Show some pictures of some people and present each activities of their last summer vacation;

T: Each picture shows

something a person did in the past.

Q: Where did they go on vacation?

2)Name each activity and ask students to pay attention to the Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs;

P: stayed at home/went to mountains/went to New York City/went to the beach/

visited my uncle/visited museums/went to summer camp

3)Match each phrase with one of the pictures and point to the sample answer;

Answers: 1. f 2. b 3. g 4. e 5. c 6. a 7. d

4)Present the sentence structure and ask students to answer with the phrases;

Q: Where did she/he go on vacation?

A: She/He ____________.

5)Present the names and the activities on the screen;

6)Ask Ss to listen and write down the letter of each activity under the names;

Tina---c Xiang Hua---b

Sally---f Bob---g Tom---d

7)Ask Ss to make sentences with the names and their activities;

S: Tina went to the mountains

8)Look at the picture and talk about where they went on vacation;

Q1: Where did Tina go on vacation?

Q2: Did Tom go to summer camp?

Help to learn the phrases about activities with the help of the pictures;

　　(Read aloud)

Look and find differences

　　Look and match

Ask and answer

(Teacher-student interaction)

Pre-listening

Listen and write down the letters

Listen and make sentences

Look and talk

(Pair work) 3.Present the key phrases about activities;

4.Present and practice the target language in the forms of listening,

speaking;

5.Get to know the listening materials clearly through pre-listening/writing down letters/making sentences;

6. Master the target language by pair-work;