Module 9 Life history

Language goals:

Writing about people in the past.

New languages:

月份的表达；

一般过去时的用法；

Vocabulary：

January, February, March, April, May, June, August, September, October, November, December, be born, start school, finish school, marry, work, have children, die, build, poet, rich, successful, language, theatre, around the world, young, etc.

Difficult points:

1. Improve the students’ reading and writing abilities according to the reading materials.

2. Do more reading to raise the ability of speaking.

3. Raise the ability of writing about people in the past.

4. The past tense.

Emotional attitude：

通过对莎士比亚的了解，培养对文学家的崇仰之情以及对文学的兴趣。

Teaching aids:

computer, video, recorder

Teaching periods:

Period 1: Unit 1

Period 2: Unit 2

Period 3: Unit 3

Unit 1 He left school and began work at the age of twelve..

Teaching aims:

1. Grasp the most important words and expressions:

Key vocabulary:

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, writer, find out, real, at the age of, newspaper, exact, date, become v. ( became ), in the 1860s ,

2. Target languages:

1) To understand conversations about life in the past.

2) To understand and be able to ask questions with “did”.

3) To learn months of the year.

3. Train the speaking and listening abilities.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Warming-up

Match the festivals with the months.

January          Teachers’ Day          July                  

February         Women’s Day          August

March          Christmas             September

April           National Day           October    

May            New Year’s Day        November

June            Children’s Day         December

                Labor Day

Step 2. Presentation　

Read and write the names of the twelve months. And then put the months of the year in the correct order.

April August  December  February January  July 

June  March  May  November October  September

Step 3. Match

Match the months with the seasons.

spring:February, March, April;  summer：May, June, July； autumn：August, September, October; winter: November, December January.

Step 4. Listen and choose

Listen and choose the correct answer. Check the answers together.

Step 5. Listening

Listen again and check.

Listen and Read. Now complete the table about Mark Twain.

Step 6. The past tense

1）在确定的过去时间里所发生的动作或存在的状态。
　       时间状语有：yesterday, last week, an hour ago, the other day, in 1982等。
         Where did you go just now?
     2）表示在过去一段时间内，经常性或习惯性的动作。
         When I was a child, I often played football in the street.  　

3）句型：
　       It is time for sb. to do sth. “到……时间了”　 “该……了”
　       It is time sb. did sth. "时间已迟了"　 "早该……了"
　       It is time for you to go to bed. 你该睡觉了。
　       It is time you went to bed. 你早该睡觉了。
Step 7. Practice

4 Find the past form of the verbs in the conversation.

be   become begin   do   get  go   know  leave   read   take   write

be —                    become —

begin —               do —

get —                   know —

leave —                read—

take —                 write —

5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box.

age become

1 He began work at the ____ of 12.

2 His _____ name was Samuel Clemens.

3 He wrote for a(n) __________.

4 He ________ very famous.

5 He went to ________ but he didn’t come to.

6 He is a great _________.

Step 8. Pronunciation and speaking

6 Listen and repeat.

/a:/ March  Mark  market

/ei/  day    May   stay

/i:/  read   teacher  

/u:/ food    school   too

/u/   book  good

Step 9. Speaking

Work in pairs. Ask and answer about Mark Twain.

      — Did  Mark Twain stay in Missouri?

—No, he didn’t.

1 Was Mark Twain his real name?

2 Did Betty read Tom Sawyer?

3 Did Mark Twain leave school at 16?

4 Did Mark Twain become a newspaper writer?

5 Did Mark Twain come to?

Step 9. Exercise

一、用所给词的正确形式填空

1. March 8th is __________ (woman) Day.

2. Lucy and Lily are good at _______ (dance).

3. Shakespeare decided _________ (is) an actor.

4. The boy was _______ (bear) in December, 1998.

5. Shakespeare _______ (die) at the age of 52.

二、单项选择

1. He is one of ______ writers in the world.

A. the most famous     B. more famous 

C. most famous        D. famous

2. ---____ were you born?

---I was born in November, 1997.

A. what  B. when   C. why D. where

3. My parents ____ on Saturday evening.

A. Watched a television    B. Watched television

C. Watched the television   D. Watched their television

4. He decided ______ an actor.

A. Being   B. to be   C. doing  D. to do.

Homework:

1. Revise the vocabulary words in this lesson.

2. Write something about your parents when they were children.