Step 1 Revision

1．Check the homework exercises.

2．Ask some individual students their ways of learning English.

Step 2 Presentation

I.1a

　　This activity introduces the key vocabulary. Call students' attention to the chart with the headlines Appearance and Personality.

　　Get students to fill in the chart individually.

　　Check the answers by asking different students to read their lists to the class. Make sure that all the students understand what each word means.

II.1b

　　The activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.

　　Write two dates side by side on the blackboard. The first is today's date, including the year, and the second is the same day, but ten years ago.

　　Ask a student to stand up. Use words or phrases to describe that student now. Ask students to suggest words or phrases that describe him/her ten years ago.

　　Ask some more questions and add more examples to both columns.

　　Ensure that the blackboard ends up like this:

　　Sep. 10,2004 Sep. 10,1994

　　tall short

　　long hair short hair

　　... ...

　　Say, we use "used to" to talk about things that have changed.

　　Write the following on the blackboard:

　　Liu Chang used to be short, but she is tall now.

　　She used to have short hair, but she has long hair now.

　　Play the recording for the first time.

　　Play the recording again. This time,

　　Check the answers.

Step3 Consolidation and extension

1c

　　This activity provides oral practice using the target language.

　　Read the instructions to the class.

　　Call students' attention to the conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.

　　As students work. Listen in on various pairs checking progress and helping 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.

Step4 Summary

Answer the questions and say out their ways.

Work follow the teacher.

Look and say

Listen to the tape only.

Students listen and fill in the blanks.

Read .

Look at the picture in Activity 1b. Have a conversation with a partner about people in the picture. Talk about how the people look now and how they used to look.

Show their work.

复习。

复习词汇，为听力做准备。

从说到听，逐步递进。

训练听力。

反复练习，把知识口语化，达到熟练运用。

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Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Section A

The First Period

1．The structure: used to

Sep.10,2004 Sep.10,1994

tall short

long hair short hair

... ...

Liu Chang used to be short, but she is tall now.

She used to have short hair, but she has long hair now.

2．Target language:

A: Mario used to be short.

B: Yes, he did. Now he's tall.

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