Unit 8

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 Points1.    Key vocabularygift, shark, aquarium, seal, hang, hang out, s

ouvenir, win, autograph, prize 2.   Key structures --Did you ~~~? --Yes, I did. /No, I didn’t. V. Teaching DifficultyLearn the key structures

VI. Teaching Methods1.  Task-based methodI’ll let students finish 1 listening task and make sho

rt dialogues along with the actions to help the students get a better understanding of the key structures.

2.   Communication methodStudents will communicate with each other using t

he 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:

clean the room play computer games

Revision

play basketball stay at home

watched TV

What did you do last weekend?

visited a friend

Pairwork

Did you … last weekend?

Yes, I did. / No, I didn't.

go to the beach visit your aunt

go fishing

go skateboarding

surf the Internet

play soccer

aquarium

Unit 8How was your school trip?

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?

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

What did Tina do on her school trip?

Listen and circle the expressions in the box.

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.

______ 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?

2a Listen and check( )the questions you hear.

2b Listen again and circle “T” (true)

or “F ” (false).

1. 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!

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, s

ee, hear, take some photos, eat, happy

Homework

Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening!