How was your school trip? Unit 8 How was your school trip? Lou Wei

I. Analysis of the Teaching Materials The topic of this unit is the continuation of the past tense. By using the Simple Past Tense, which is essential in junior English, students will talk about their past. This topic is about their school trip. So it helps bring back their memories and learning motivations.

II. Students’ characteristics Although students have been learning English for several years and have got some essential information about past tense, they could not express themselves as imagined. In this class, students will get the chance of expressing their ideas and learn to describe their past experiences.

III.Teaching objectives: 1. Knowledge objectives a.   To enable students to read, spell, and understand the vocabulary correctly. b.    To help students ask and answer the new sentence pattern: Did you ~ ? And the positive and negative answers.

2. Ability objectives: a.   To improve students’ skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. b.   To encourage students to communicate with others using the new sentence pattern. 3. Emotion objectives: a.  To train the Ss to cooperate well in groups and in pairs. b.  To be interested in communicating in English.

IV. Teaching Key Points 1.    Key vocabulary gift, shark, aquarium, seal, hang, hang out, souvenir, win, autograph, prize 2.   Key structures --Did you ~~~? --Yes, I did. /No, I didn’t. V. Teaching Difficulty Learn the key structures

VI. Teaching Methods 1.  Task-based method I’ll let students finish 1 listening task and make short dialogues along with the actions to help the students get a better understanding of the key structures. 2.   Communication method Students will communicate with each other using the sentence pattern to get the information they would like to know about their last school trip.

VII. Learning Methods 1. Listening--speaking method 2. Communicative strategy We all know that the best ways to learn English are to imitate, to practice, to listen, to speak and to communicate more constantly. VIII. Teaching Aids In this lesson, the CAI, cassette, a tape recorder will be used.

Ⅸ. Teaching Procedures:

Revision clean the room play computer games

stay at home play basketball

What did you do last weekend? visited a friend watched TV

Pairwork Did you … last weekend? Yes, I did. / No, I didn't. visit your aunt go to the beach

go fishing surf the Internet go skateboarding play soccer

Unit 8 How was your school trip? aquarium

Whose school trip was the most colorful? Your school trip! Whose school trip was the most colorful? 1、四人一组，分别介绍自己的上次学校旅行。 2、比一比谁的发言最精彩。

What about Tina? What did she do on her school trip?

hung out with her friends saw some seals bought some souvenir What did Tina do on her school trip? Listen and circle the expressions in the box. went to the aquarium took photos went to the zoo had pizza ate some ice cream hung out with her friends saw some seals bought some souvenir saw some sharks

1c Pairwork 1. A: Did Tina go to the aquarium? B: Yes, she did. 2. A: Did Tina buy a souvenir? B: No, she didn’t. Her friend Grace bought a souvenir.

2a Listen and check( )the questions you hear. ______ Did you buy that hat? ______ What else did you do? ______ Did you see any sharks? ______ Did you win that hat? ______ Did you get his autograph? ______ Were there any seals? ______ Did you take any photos?

Listen again and circle “T” (true) or “F ” (false). 2b

Tina took Jake Dean’s photo. Tina met a famous actor. T F 2. Tina got Jake Dean’s autograph. T F 3. Toby won a prize. T F 4. Tina won a hat. T F 5. There were many actors at the T F aquarium. Tina took Jake Dean’s photo. Tina bought a hat. She only saw Jake.

Groupwork: Make a survey! What did you do on your last trip? Did you …? name Activities Li Ping went to Guangzhou, went shopping Zhang Ming went to West Lake, went boating Liu Mei went to her aunt’s house, had pizza I went to the beach, went swimming

Report: In my group, Li Ping went to Guangzhou. He went shopping… Zhang Ming… Liu Mei… And I… We all had a fun day!

Homework 上个星期六学生们去西山进行了一次野餐, 请参考所给词语, 描述此次活动。 　go to West Hill, by bike, a short rest, after, at the foot of , sing, dance, climb, see, hear, take some photos, eat, happy

Thanks for listening!