Step 1 : Warm-up

1. Greetings.

2. Ask some students about their summer holiday

(Teacher shows a flashcard with the word Shanghai and asks one student.)

Teacher shows the others and teaches the word "flashcard" to the students.

Step 2: Revision

Read and translate some words they have learned.

Step2.Presentation

I. Language Study

Teacher writes the pattern on the blackboard:

-- How do you study for an English test?

-- I study for a test by + V.-ing

Make a list of their answers on the blackboard. Teacher can teach the "vocabulary" and "pronunciation" at the right time.

II. 1a

1.Check the answers, after checking, read the ways to the students and ask students to put up their hands to show which things they checked. Count the numbers.

2. Ask students to write down other ways they study for an English test. Then ask some to read their ways to the class.

III. 1b

1. Play the tape.

2. Check the answers with the students.

3. Read the sample answer to the class and ask students to say the other two.

Step3 Consolidation and extension

1. Read the instructions and the conversation to the class, and then ask students to make similar conversations.

2. Ask some pairs to present their conversations.

3. Small competition: group in four, make sentences using structure (verb + by/with gerund).

4.Make a survey : one student interview other students using the structures (How do you study ...? I study by + v-ing .)

Show the results.

Step4 Summary.

Answer the questions and talk about their holidays.

Review the new word.

1.Students can tell their ways freely with the pattern.

2. Students make conversations based on the pattern.( V. + by + V.-ing

Do exercise in 1a

Write some good ways what they use.

Students listen and write the letters for each one.

Make similar conversation by oneself.

Work in pairs to present their conversations.

Work in groups.

Interview. 作业布置 1.Work in pairs to present their conversations.2.Work in groups.

3.Ask some pairs to present their conversations. 教学反思： 学生在本堂课中得到了较为充分的口头训练，而且面比较广。尤其对九年级即将参加明年英语口语考试的同学，这一点尤为重要。课堂上在我极力鼓励和表扬下，一些原来在课堂上很难开口读英语的学生，本堂课上有极大的进步。 学科 English 课时 课题 Unit1 How can we become good learners? 2/5 教学要求 1. New words and expressions:specific, memorize, grammar, differently, frustrate, frustrating, quickly, excited not at all, end up

2. Talk about "How to study."3. Learn to use "by doing" 教学重点难点 Key words : Key Vocabulary &Target Language

Structure: verb + by with gerund. What about...?

verb + by with group 教学过程及教师活动 学生活动 Step1 Revision

Check homework. Invite different students to report their discovery of new ways of studying that haven't been introduced in the book or in class.

Step 2 Presentation

I. 2a

This activity provides listening practice using the target language.

Call students' attention to the picture. Ask, What do you think is happening? Who are they?

Point to the list of questions in the box.

Get different students to read them to the class.

Play the recording for the first time.

Play the recording again.

Check the answers with the whole class

II. 2b

This activity provides listening practice using the target language.

Point to the list of answers in the box.

Get different students to read the answers to the class.

Point to the checked questions in Activity 2a.

Play the recording

Check the answers with the whole class.

Step3 Consolidation and extension

This activity provides oral practice using the target language. Invite a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class.

Write the sample conversation on the blackboard.

Move around the classroom listening in on various pairs so as to check progress and help with pronunciation as needed.

After students have had a chance to practice several exchanges, ask pairs to come to the front of the room and act out their conversations.

Grammar Focus

Step4 Summary