Lesson 59

Period: The Third Period

Properties: Blackboard, Tape-recorder

Teaching objectives: Get the students to know the differencs between the simple present tense and the past tense.

Language points:

1. taste, feel

2. do some cooking, do some cleaning

3. help somebody do something

4. neither…nor…

Teaching Procedures:

a) Organizing the class

T: Good morning, class.

Ss: Good morning, teacher.

T: Sit down, please. Well, who’s on duty today? Please!

b) Revision

T: Help the students with the phrases on the blackboard.

1. A: This dish tastes good, doesn’t it?

B: Yes, I think so.

2. A: You look pale, what’s wrong?

B: I stayed up into the night.(it means I didn’t sleep.)

T: Tell the class different tenses here, and then write some adverbial phrases on the blackboard.

1. last week 2. last month 3. last October

Teacher: I taught(teach)you a few words last week.

Student 1: Sorry, I forgot(forget)them.

Give the students a few minutes to practice them with the past tense. You can ask them to work in groups. the students in one group talk them in simple present tense. The students in the other group talk them in the past tense.

For example:

A: I clean the room every day.

B: I cleaned the room yesterday.

c) Presentation

1. I swim every summer.

I swam last summer.

2. He cooks tomato soup every evening.

He cooks egg soup yesterday evening.

3. She is very happy now.

She was very sad yesterday.

d) Learn Part 1

The simple present tense:

1. I study every day.

2. He studies every day.

The past tense:

3. I studied last year.

4. He studied last year.

The present continuous tense:

5. I’m studying now.

6. He’s studying now.

T: Ask the students to know the keys, let them master “verb + to be or verb + to do”, especially the changing ways of verbs.

e) Practise

T: Get 3 students to practise the different sentences in the different tenses.

S1: My father works five days a week.

S2: My father worked last week.

S3: My father is working now.

f) Learn part 2

1.Questions first.

T: Are you a city girl?

S: Yes.

T: Do you often do the housework in you family?

S: Yes.

T: Why?

S: Because my parents both go to work.

T: Who does some shopping then?

S: Sometimes both of my parents.

T: Who cooks dinner on weekdays?

S: Either my father or my mother.

T: Who does the cleaning then?

S: I do.

T: What do you think about family activities?

S: I think everyone should do some housework.

2. Language points.

(1) both

① We are both students.

② They both work hard.

(2) go shopping/swimming

① I often go shopping at weekends.

② He seldom goes swimming in winter.

(3) sometimes: at times

① I sometimes go there with him.

② He sometimes helps me with my lesson.

(4) either…or…

① Either you or I am mad.

② He likes either English or Chinese.

(5) on weekdays(weekdays: from Monday to Friday)

① What do you usually do on weekdays?

② I often read novels on weekdays.

(6) do some cleaning/shopping/reading

① Do you do the cleaning once a week?

② He likes doing some reading on weekdays.

g) Practise

T: Write some key phrases on the blackboard. Get the students to make sentences completely.

1. either…or…

2. both…and…

3. neither…nor…

4. help sb. do sth.

5. help sb. with sth.

T: You are sure the students really understand the phrases above. Give them two minutes to recite the first paragraph, and them check the students’ homework.

T: Ask one of the students to tell the opposite word of city(country).If necessary, show a picture of a country girl to the class. Get the students to tell something about a country girl with a third personal pronoun. Begin with the word “she”.

→She is a country girl from (country).She feeds （動物）and does all the (家務)。

Keys:→Africa, animals, housework

T: Encourage the students in one group to finish the story of this country girl.

T: Learn language points.

(1)the busiest

She is one of the busiest women.

(2)feed: raise, keep

I like animals, I often feed them after school.

(3)all the housework

Lilei’s mother seldom does all the housework at home.

(4)neither…nor…

① I like neither him nor her.

② Neither he nor she is right.

(Pay attention to the underlined works.)

h) homework

1. Prompts to the class.

At the restaurant

At a friend’s house

2. Make dialogues based on the text.

3. Do exercises on page 63.

i) Summary

1. pass somebody something=pass something to somebody

2. give somebody something=give something to somebody

3. bring somebody something=bring something to somebody

4. show sb. sth.=show sth. to sb.

5. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

(1)Please pass me the ball.

(2)Ask him to show the class his photo.

(3)The girl in red often brings the teacher flowers.

(4)Can you give them two cups of tea?

Keys:

(1)請遞給我那個球。

（2）讓他向全班展示他的照片。

（3）那位身穿紅色衣服的姑娘經常帶給老師一些花兒。

（4）你能給他們兩杯茶水嗎？