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Unit 9 How was your weekend?

Part 1: Teaching Design

第一部分：教学设计

Functions

Talk about recent past events

Structures Simple past of regular and irregular verbs;

What question- What did you do last weekend?

Target

language —What did you do last weekend?

—On Saturday morning I cleaned my room. On Saturday evening I

went to the movies.

Vocabulary had, went, did, was, were, learned, watched, practiced, stayed,

stopped, played, visited, lived.

Learning

strategies Inducing; Cooperating

Period 1: Matching, Listening and Speaking (Page 53)

(How was your weekend?)

Teaching aims

● Knowledge aims

1. Learm some new words

2. To learn to use simple past of regular and irregular verbs

3. Grammar: Simple Past tense

● Ability aims

1. To talk about what you did last weekend?

2. To learn to use What questions

3. To improve their listening and spoken abilities 2 ● Emotion aims

1. To rich students’ extracurricular activities by communication

2. To raise their interests in learning English

Key points

1. Simple past of four kinds of regular verbs

watch---watched practice---practiced

stop---stopped study---studied

2. Simple past of irregular verbs

is

have was had am has

are-were do-did go-went

Difficult points

1. Simple past of irregular verbs

2. Sentence pattern transformation

I was a student. Were you a student?

We went to Chengdu with the teacher.

Did you go to Chengdu with the teacher?

Mary has a scarf. Did Mary have a scarf?

Teaching tools: PPT, chalk, exercise paper

Time of duration: 45 minutes

Teaching Procedures

■ Warming up by making a list of verb phrases

Hi, class. We play a game first. We will make a list of verb phrases. Have a try.

Now let’s try to put the verb phrases in their past forms.

play sport, have a look, go to a movie, go to school, take a shower, go to work, go to bed, do 3 homework, go home, take a walk, have fun, go to school, go to work, have fun，take a walk,

wait for, take a photo, have a good time, look for, talk about, do some reading, go shopping, go

for a walk

played sport, had a look, went to a movie, went to school, took a shower, went to work, went to

bed, did homework, went home, took a walk, had fun, went to school, went to work, had fun，took a walk, waited for, took a photo, had a good time, looked for, talked about, did some

reading, went shopping, went for a walk

1a Looking and matching

Please look at the picture on page 53. What are they doing? They are talking about their last

weekend doings.

do my homework did my homework

play soccer played soccer

clean my room cleaned my room

go to the beach went to the beach

play tennis played tennis

go to the movies went to the movies

When we talk about the actions in the past we should use the past forms of verbs. Just like that

above. There are two kinds of verbs, regular verbs and irregular verbs. For a regular verb we

should add ed at the end of it, and for an irregular verb it has a different form, its past form. For

example:

Regular verbs Irregular verbs

present past present past

play played do Did

clean cleaned go went

study studied have had

Now please match the words with the pictures. 4 did my homework d

played soccer b

cleaned my room f

went to the beach c

played tennis e

went to the movies a

1b Listening and writing

Here is a conversation. Let’s listen to the tape and write the day and “morning”, “afternoon” or

“night” below each picture.

Have you got the answers? The right answers are like these:

Picture b: Sunday afternoon

Picture c:

Saturday afternoon

Picture d: Sunday night

Picture e:

Saturday morning

Picture f: Sunday morning

Listen again and repeat what you hear. Try to be familiar with these phrases and sentences.

Now go to page 87 to read the tape scripts. While reading underline all the expressions and

copy them in your notebook. .

Useful expressions from the conversation

How was…? On Saturday morning, played tennis, on Saturday afternoon, went to the beach, on

Saturday night, went to the movies, cleaned my room, player soccer, did my homework

1c Pairing and speaking

Since you just heard the tape, let’s do a role play practice. Ask each other about her weekend

like this:

A: What did you do last weekend?