课题：7B Unit 4 Amazing things

Teaching aims：

1. Grasp the important words, phrases and sentence patterns in Unit4

2. Grasp the formation and usage of simple past tense

3. To write an article about amazing things

Teaching important points:

Grasp the important words, phrases and sentence patterns in Unit4

Teaching difficult points

1. Grasp the structure and usage of simple past tense

2. To write an article about amazing things

Teaching aids:

 CAI

Teaching steps：

Step1. Oral English.

Teacher: Look at the screen.

Step2. Check preview

Teachers: Now let’s check the preview.

Step3. Explain difficult points

Do you have any other questions.

Step3. Lead-in

Teacher: boys and girl, the world is full of the amazing things. What funny things do you know? Well, look at these pictures. Please

1. Find out the information about these amazing things(amazing animals, amazing nature and sciences and amazing human beings) according to the passage .

Group activities：Group1: Page60- Page65

     Group2: Page66- Page70

     Group3: Page71- Page75

Teacher: I have some pictures for you. Choose and answer. one picture, one point.

Let’s see the result. In this part ,….is the winner.

Teacher: Well, there is also something amazing in the sunshine park. Let’s go and see. Please read the story on page 62 and fill in the blankets.

1.      Read the story and fill in the blankets.

 One Sunday morning, Millie and Andy ______to SunshinePark. They love to ______there. They ____ under the tree as usual. Suddenly, they ______ a whisper from the bushes behind the tree. They________ round, but _____ nothing unusual . They were frightened.

 Millie asked if anybody was there. But nobody answered. They ________ carefully and heard the strange noise again. They _____ away quickly. They _____ Andy on their way.

  Andy wanted to help them. Millie _____ Andy everything. Andy _____ to the park again. He _________ carefully after he heard the whisper.

   He _______ a cat in the bushes. The cat was very weak. When it miaowed, it ______ a sound like a whisper. Later that day, they _____ the little cat to the animal center. People there would ____ care of  it.

  The following Sunday, Millie and Andy _____to Sunshine Park again and _____ a good time there. They _____ not afraid any more.

Step4. Grammar: Simple past tense

Teacher: OK, then look at the screen. Complete the sentence. Can you tell me what the tense is ?

Teacher: yes, what is the simple past tense? We use the simple past tense to talk about the things in the past. Yesterday, last week, a week ago ,they are some time expressions for the simple past tense.

Teacher: we usually form the simple past tense by adding ‘-ed’ to regular verbs. Tell me the rules. We form the simple past tense of irregular verbs differently. We should remember them by heart.. Read irregular verbs on page 120 by heart after class.

Teacher: now let’s do some exercises.

 1. Grammar：The simple past tense

(1) We use simple past tense to talk about the things in the past。

(2)Changing rules for regular and irregular forms。

2．Phonetic rules for V+ed

3. Exx.

Teacher: let’s check the answer.

       Now let’s have a competition. You can get points after you answer the questions correctly. Each group has two chance.

      In this part, ……. is the winner.

Step5.Writing.

Teacher:

Do you know how to write the passage about amazing things

1. We must make notes first.

2. Then we can write the composition after the notes.

What is the title of your article?

u     What is the amazing thing?

u     Why is it amazing?

u     What do you think of it ?

Pay attention to subjects.

Tips :

sleep with their eyes open

live in water and sleep in water

sleep in the day time but some sleep at night

sleep when they do not move

sleep and float (漂浮) in water, sometimes 

stay on the sea bed( 海床)

       not have eyelids

Do fish sleep?

     Do you know that fish____________? Do you want to know why?

     Fish live ______________. Some fish sleep _______ but some sleep at night . If fish do not move in the water, they__________. They may float in water or _____________when they sleep. They do not close their eyes because they do not_________.

     I think you must know how fish sleep well now. Isn’t it strange?

 Ok, group1 can get … points.

Now let’s see your total points.

Step6 Summary

 Well ,boys and girls, what have you learned during this period?

 Some important words, phrases and sentence patterns.

 The simple past tense.

 Some funny story.

Step7 Homework

   Finish off the paper in this unit.