牛津译林版高中英语选修六Unit2WhatishappinesstoyouGrammarandUsa

Unit 2《What is happiness to you》

Grammar

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to use the past and the future tenses properly.

2. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to use the past and the future tenses.

Teaching important points 教学重点

The usage of the past and the future tenses.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to teach the students to use the past and the future tenses.

Teaching methods 教学方式

Explaining and practising.

Teaching aids 教具预备

A multimedia computer.

Teaching procedures ＆ ways 教学进程与方式

StepⅠ Revision

T: Yesterday, we learned some words and also some English idioms about emotions. Let’s have a revision.

Try to explain them in English. The first one: hot under the collar?

S: The idiom means that somebody is very angry.

T: Do you agree?

Ss: Yes.[来源:学科网ZXXK]

T: Next one: down in the dumps?

S: Let me have a try. The idiom expressed the feeling of sadness.

T: You are right. The last one: on cloud nine?[来源:学*科*网]

S: That means someone is very happy.

T: Correct!You all have done a good revision.

StepⅡ Presentation

Show students the following sentences, and ask them to speak out the difference.

1. He went to Paris two years ago.

2. He will go to Paris next year.

T: Please look at the two sentences. Can you tell the difference between them?

S: The first sentence talks about something that happened in the past and the second sentence talks about

something that happens in the future.

T: Exactly!

Step Ⅲ Explanation

Get the students to talk about the different forms of the past tense and the future tense.

T: We have learned what the past tense is and what the future tense is. There are many forms of each tense.

Let’s deal with the past tense first. Please look at the following sentences.

Show students the following sentences.

1. Sang Lan was born in Ningbo, China in 1981.

2. She knew that in those years she was making her parents proud.

3. Instead of crying about what she had lost, Sang Lan thought about what she could do to get better.

4. By the time she competed in the New York Goodwill Games, she had been a dedicated junior gymnast

for eleven years.

T: First, look at the four sentences. Do they have something in common?

S: Yes! They all use the past tense.

T: But there are also differences among them. Can you tell the differences? Next, discuss with your

partners. Pay attention to the italic words.

Several minutes later.

T: Can you show your opinions now?

Ss: Yes.

S: In the first sentence we use the simple past tense to talk about something happened in the past.

T: Very good. What about the second sentence?

S: I think it means something happened in the past and continued for some time.

T: Very good! Thank you! Now let’s move to the last two sentences.

S: They are both used in the past perfect tense. By looking at the two sentences, I think we use the past perfect tense to talk about things that happened in the past and stopped before another past action

began.

T: Excellent! But I think you are partly right. Do the two sentences express the same meaning?

S: The fourth sentence means the thing happened in the past and at that time another past action began.

T: That’s it! Just now we talked about different forms of the past tense. And later, we will do more

practice about them. Now let’s move to the future tense. Please look at the following sentences. Can

you tell the difference?

Show students the following sentences:

1. She will come with us to watch the football match tomorrow.[来源:学科网ZXXK][来源:Z|xx|]

2. I shall work hard and learn to become a gymnast.

3. Today, I’m going to talk about how to find happiness.

4. Dr Brain will be talking about success next time.

5. Before she went to the Goodwill Games, Sang Lan told her parents she was going to win her event.

Several minutes later

T: Are you ready to show me your answers?

Ss: Yes!

S: I will have a try. In sentences1, 2, 3 the simple future tense is used. When the subject is the first

person, we usually use shall instead of will.

T: You are right. Then when shall we use “be going to”?

S: I think when we want to talk about future plans and intentions, we can use “be going to”.

T: Very good. You got the answer. What about sentence 4?[来源:学§科§网Z§X§X§K]

S: Sentence 4 uses the future continuous tense. This sentence is used to talk about something that will

start in the future and continue for some time.

T: Excellent! The fifth sentence is used in the future in the past. When shall we use this tense?

S: When we want to talk about an event which was in the future at the time when it was discussed.

T: You got the answer. Good job! Next I’ll show you further explanations about future tense.