The General Idea of This Period

In this period we're going to learn Reading and Speaking.

We'll learn people's childhood memories. Go over the past tense and time expressions referred to past.

Teaching Aims

1. Learn Reading and Speaking (Page 26).

3. To learn past tense.

4. Develop the students' ability by speaking and reading.

Teaching Important Points

1. To learn the Grammar.

(The past tense time expressions)

(recently /during the day/one night/at a midnight/in 1925)

2. Read about people's childhood memories.

Teaching Difficult Point

To use the past tense time expressions.

Teaching Aids

1. a computer

2. a projector

3. a blackboard

4. some colourful chalk

Teaching Procedures

 Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in

T: Good morning!

Ss: Good morning, teacher!

T: Do you remember your first visit to the zoo? Did you see wild animals? What wild animals did you see?

Then ask the students to change roles. To say something about their childhood.

 Step 2 Reading and Speaking

T: This class, let's talk something about people's childhood. Read the passage individually. And then decide which are happy and which are unhappy.

S: I can remember my first visit to the zoo.

I saw a lion and an eagle. The lion was very lazy and slept all the time. He was very boring. The eagle suddenly flew in the air and frightened me. I started to cry.

T: So you were unhappy, right?

S: Yes, I'm very sad.

T: Anyone else?

S: I remember the day my father tried to teach me how to ride a bicycle. I wasn't good at it. I said, "I don't want to do this!" But my father was very patient and very soon he taught me how to do it. Now I ride my bike every day and I'm much faster than my father!

T: How happy you were!

S: Yes. I was very glad.

T: Do you remember your first day at kindergarten very clearly?

S: Yes. There were so many children! I only knew one of them, a boy who lived in the