Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?

The second period---Section A (2a-2d)

I. Teaching aims and demands:

1. Knowledge objectives:

a) Key words and phrases: anyone, anywhere, wonderful, few, quite a few, most, Long time no see, be on vacation, take quite a few photos, most of the time;

b) Target language:

① -Where did you go on vacation? -I went to New York City.

② -Did you go with anyone? -Yes, I went with my mother .

③ -Did you do anything special last month? -No, I didn't.

2. Ability objectives:

a) learn to listen for where Grace/Kevin/Julie went on vacation carefully；

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 their own vacation;

3. Moral objectives:

Students learn to talk about their own vacation 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 one's own vacation with the target language;

3. Learn the usages of Indefinite Pronouns and 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.Present some pictures about different activities in the past and ask Ss to guess;

Q: Where did they go on vacation? 　Ask and guess

　　(Teacher-student interaction) 1.Warm the class;

2.Review the last period;

II. While-

task 2.Introduce three new friends and ask Ss to listen for their names and places;

3.Present the chart of 2a and ask Ss to match the names with the places;

Q: Where did the people go on vacation?

4.Introduce some other activities in the listening and ask Ss to read them aloud;

Eg. go with someone/buy something special/meet someone interesting/do something interesting/go out with someone;

5.Ask Ss to compare these phrases with other phrases in the chart and find the differences;

6.Lead Ss to listen again and check Yes or No and ask Ss to ask and answer;

Q: Did Grace go with anyone?

A: Yes, she did.

7.Let Ss work in pairs and role-play conversations between Grace, Kevin and Julie;

8.First let Ss read the conversation 2d and underline the questions in it;

9.Ask Ss to match the people and places they went and give some explanations in 2d;

10.Let Ss act out the conversations in pairs. Pre-listening

　Look and match

Read aloud

Find the differences

Listen and check

Role-play

(Pair work)

Read and underline

Read and match

Act out in pairs

(Pair work) 3.Present and practice the target language in the forms of listening,

speaking;

4.Get to know the listening materials clearly through pre-listening/matching/finding differences/checking Yes or No;

5. Master the target language by pair-work;