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;