Textbook：Go for it!(2B) Teacher:Zheng Jinshen

Content：Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived ?

Analysis of the Teaching Material：

The topic of this unit is about interesting events. It deals with something interesting about the UFO and aliens , so it can arouse the students’ special attention easily . In this unit , students will learn to talk about the past events and tell a story with the Simple Past Continuous Tense , so it is very important to grasp the structures and usages of these two tenses. Students will also learn the Adverbial Clause led by when and while , and mastering their differences is very important . In the Reading , students will know something about some important and interesting events which happened in the history . They will be taught to be good at looking back the days in the past and cherish the good time at present by recalling and describing the past events .

Teaching Aims：

1、Knowledge and skills

In this unit students learn to talk about past events and tell a story ; learn and master the ways to express the Adverbial Clause led by when/while ; learn and understand the differences between the Simple Past Tense and the Past Continuous Tense. Improve their abilities of listening , speaking , reading and writing ; improve their abilities of communication and integrating skills .

2、Processes and methods

With the studying strategies of Using context and Role playing , get the students to do pairwork to learn to talk about past events and tells a story by using the teaching courseware , pictures , flashcards or objects . At the same time , enable the students to tell a story and master the use of the Simple Past Tense and the Past Continuous Tense by writing sentences according to the pictures , drilling sentence patterns, describing real events and role playing conversations .

3、Emotion , attitudes and value

The content of this unit is close to the students’ life and the topic is about talking about past events and telling a story , so it can arouse the students’ special attention easily and inspire the students’ enthusiasm and exert their potential. At the same time , get the students to look back the days in the past and cherish the good time at present by recalling and describing the past events , enable the students to cooperate with others , help each other and complete the tasks together by going all kinds of activities .

Difficulties and Focuses:

1、Learn to talk about the past events and tell a story with the Simple Past Tense and the Past Continuous Tenes;

2、Learn the Adverbial Clause led by when/while；

3、Tell the differences between the Simple Past Tense and the Past Continuous Tense ;

4、Train students to use the target language correctly in speaking and writing.

Teaching Periods: 6 periods

The first period: Section A la-1c and Section A 2c

The second period: Section A 2a-2b 含 Grammar Focus and SectionA 4 Section B 4 b

The third period: SectionA 3a-3b and Section B 1 and Self check 2-3

The fourth period: Section B 2a-2c and Self check 1 含 Just for Fun!

The fifth period: SectionB 3-4a and Reading Section 1

The sixth period: Reading Section2-4

Teaching Plans

The First Period

Teaching content: Section A la-1c and Section A 2c

Teaching objectives: Talk about the past events

Target language:

Words: UFO barber barber shop bathroom bedroom kitchen get out take off while land alien

Sentences：

What were you doing when the teacher came in?

I was talking/reading/looking out of the window.

What was he doing when the UFO arrived/took off？

He was sleeping when it arrived.

He was riding his bike when it took off.

Language skills:

a、To get the information from the pictures and listening materials, and quickly deal with the information.

b、To learn the structures and the usage of the Past Continuous Tense by answering the reporter’s questions.

c、To get the Ss to learn how to express the statements with the Past Continuous Tense.

Self-learning ability:

To learn how to express the Past Continuous Tense.

Teaching methods

Task-based Language Teaching

Teaching by listening and practicing

Teaching aids: small pictures, a small blackboard and a recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step l. Leading in

1.1 Greetings and duty report.

(Organize the beginning of this class and have a student on duty to report.)

1.2 Ask and answer.

T: What were you doing when I came in?

S1:….

(Help the student to answer the question and then write the answer on the Bb.)

T:What about you?

S2:….

T:And you?

S3:….

(Ask the same question and have the Ss answer it. Of course the answers are various .While the students answer the question , write the real answers on the Bb.)

1.3 Look and learn.

Show some pictures and introduce the UFO and aliens , teaching new words UFO and alien. After that ask the Ss if they have heard of the UFOs.

(Get the Ss to look at the picture and tell them that the UFO is a strange object that some people think they have seen in the sky and that may come from another planet. The UFO is short for“unidentified flying object”. As for alien , it is a person or an animal that comes from another planet in space. )

1.4 Have the Ss read a passage about the UFO ,showing a small blackboard.

Step 2.Look and match (Section A 1a )

2.1 Show another picture and talk about it with the Ss.

T: What can you see in the picture?

S1:….

T: Can you see the UFO?

S2:….

T: Who is in the UFO?

S3:….

T: What else can you see? etc

S4:….

2.2 Books open at page 18. Look through the picture in activity la.

(Discuss the picture with the Ss .Point out the experience of each person when the UFO arrived , teaching new words.)

2.3 Match the statements with the people in the picture.

Step 3. Listen and circle (Section A 1b)

3.1 Read the instruction to the class .(Writing the title of this unit on the Bb.)

3.2 Talk about the people’s actions in the picture.

T: What was A doing when the UFO arrived?

S1: He was standing in front of the library.

T: What was B doing when the UFO arrived?

S2: He was sleeping in his bedroom.

……

(Help the Ss answer the questions. Pay attention to the structure and the usage of the Past Continuous Tense , writing the structure on the Bb.)

3.3 Listen to the reporter’s questions and circle the correct responses.

(Play the recording the first time .Students only listen. For a second time , ask the Ss to circle the correct phrases.)

3.4 Books open at page 88. Listen and repeat the conversation.

Step 4 . Practice (Section A 1c)

4.1 Ask and answer in pairs.

eg T: What was D doing when the UFO arrived?

Ss: He was getting out of the shower.

Have the Ss do like this.

4.2 Ask and answer according to the real actions.

T: What were you doing when they talked?

S1: I was listening to them.

T: What was A doing when B answered my question?

S2: He was looking out of the window. etc

4.3 Make a survey.

Get the students to do pairwork like activity 1c to talk about :What were you doing when they talked?

(As the Ss talk , move around the room and check their work .Offer language assistance as needed.)

Step5 Grammar Focus (Section A 2c)

5.1 Talk about the picture in activity 2c .Ask Ss to say what each person is doing.

5.2 Ask and answer.

eg. What was the girl doing when the UFO took off?

She was walking down the street.

5.3 Present two more ways of saying.

The girl was walking down the street when the UFO took off .

(a) When the UFO took off , the girl was walking down the street.

(b) While the girl was walking down the street , the UFO took off.

5.4 Point out the Adverbial Clause led by when/ while.

5.5 Ask the Ss to work in small groups like the sample dialogue in activity 2c.

(Move around the room checking the progress of the groups and offering assistance as needed)

Step6. Homework

Make some sentences including the Past Continuouse Tense and when or while.

Writing on the Bb

Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived?

What were you doing when I came in? UFO alien bathroom kitchen

I was doing my homework/reading/resting. get out of the shower cut hair take off /land

What was A doing when the UFO arrived? be (was/were)+V.ing

He was standing in front of the library.

The girl was walking down the street when the UFO took off.

(a)When the UFO took off ,the girl was walking down the street.

(b)While the girl was walking down the street, the UFO took off.

Teaching Backthoughts

本單元的教學目標有三個，談論過去發生的事情，其一；學會講故事，其二；熱愛科學、探索科學，其三。作為本單元的第一課時，教學內容直截了當地點擊本單元的教學目標，特別是引入過去進行時這種新時態，結合When和While的使用，在談論過去發生的事或講故事時，得體地使用這種新時態，重點表達在過去一時刻或某一段時間內正在進行的動作，適合描述過去某一動作的實際需要。

語法教學，不是老師生硬地灌輸，而是啟發學生通過大量的語言練習，在運用中讓學生自我總結，自我歸納，悟出語言規律，是一種自我習得語言的過程。本節課筆者通過聽、說、讀、寫等方式，設置具體的語境，如詢問學生當老師走進教室時在干什么（What were you doing when I came in ?），圖文并茂，看圖說話（What was A doing when the UFO arrived?），聽音選詞等等，都是用感知的方式讓學生接觸過去進行時，通過具體的語言情境，讓他們在有意義的交流中感悟語言規則（What were you doing when they talked?），通過實踐去領悟，通過觀察去總結規則（如比較when與while 的使用），最后指出過去進行時的構成be（was / were ）+V.ing 可以說是畫龍點睛之舉。

因時間關系，本節課沒有很好地把握時機，利用UFO知識對學生進行熱愛科學、探索科學的相關教育，在以后的課時必須補充。

附：小黑板閱讀材料

Do you know about the UFO?

Today many people enjoy reading stories about the UFO .Many people in different countries are studying the UFO .But what is the UFO?

The UFO is a kind of objects.It seems to fly much faster than the plane on the earth . It often carries visitors coming from other stars.

UFO scientists and many people believed there are UFOs. Some people said they saw some strange visitors coming out of the UFOs. Some even said they were carried away in the UFOs, and then they were sent back by the strange visitors.

Maybe these people made mistakes. Perhaps they saw a weather balloon (氣球)or an uncommon plane. Sometimes they saw the light from the ground or the moon.

But there are a lot of things we can’t understand. Now people still can’t understand the UFO clearly. It may take many years to find a clear answer, and then people will give UFO another name.