Unit 3 Language in use

Unit 3 Language in use ⅠTeaching model Revision and application ⅡTeaching method Formal and interactive practice ⅢTeaching aims 1. To encourage students to share and express what they are doing using what they have learned in this module. 2. To learn how to write a postcard. ⅣTeaching Objectives 1. Function: How to describe and ask what the people are doing at the moment. 2. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense. ⅤTeaching aids Tape recorder, OHP, handouts ⅥTeaching Steps Step 1 Revision Review the text of Unit 1 and Unit 2. Step 2 Language practice 1. Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class. 2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box. 3. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense. 现在进行时 (1) 1. 定义：表示现在正在进行的动作。 2. 构成：be + 动词的现在分词。 Be (am is are) 随着人称、数的变化而变化。 1) 动词后面直接加ing: do → doing buy → buying 2) 以e结尾的动词去e加ing : have → having take → taking 3) 以重读闭音节结尾的单词，双写最后一个字母，然后加ing: run→ running swim → swimming 4) 特殊形式的变化：lie → lying 4. 现在进行时的否定句结构：sb. + be not + doing e.g. I’m not visiting my friends now. He isn’t writing a postcard. 5. 现在进行时的一般疑问句结构：be + sb. + doing + 其他? e.g. Is she enjoying her visit? Are they buying postcards? 6. 常与现在进行时态连用的词:now, listen, look 等。 e.g. 1. I’m reading now. 我现在正在读书。 2. Listen! She is singing.听, 她正在唱歌。 3. Look! My parents are watering the flowers. 看, 我的父母亲正在浇花。 Step 3 Work in pairs 1. Look at the picture. 2. Ask and answer: What can you see? What are they doing? 3. Ask the students to talk about the picture. 4. Read through the example sentences with the whole class. Tony is calling a friend. Step 4 Complete the conversation in Activity 2. 1. Read through the conversation with the whole class. 2. Ask the students to complete the conversation between Tony and his dad with the correct form of the words in brackets with a partner. 3. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers. Keys: 1. are visiting 2. are writing 3. is taking 4. are enjoying 5. are looking 6. are looking 7. are having 4. Read the conversation together. Step 5 Write about the pictures in Activity 3. 1. Read through the sentences with the whole class. 2. Look at the pictures in Activity 3. 3. Ask the students. What can you see? 4. Read through the example sentences. Some boys are playing football. They aren’t playing basketball. 5. Ask the students to write about the pictures with a partner. 6. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers. Keys: 1. are playing, aren’t playing 2. isn’t watching; is working Step 6 Work in pairs 1. Read through the expressions in Activity 4 with the whole class. driving a car getting up going to sleep lying in the sun playing basketball running for a bus studying history taking photos watching TV writing postcards 2. Mime an action for your partner to guess. 3. Read through the example ... ...