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Grammar Teaching: the Present Perfect Tense

NFLS 初中英语组 曾晓

Teacher: Zeng Xiao

Place: Nanchang Foreign Language School

Students: from Nanchang Foreign Language School, Junior Two, Class Four

Time: 45 minutes

Part 1  Analysis of the topic:

   Grammar is really important in language learning. The Present Perfect Tense is a really important part of grammar learning for students in Junior high school. It enables students to talk about recent events and experiences.

Part 2  Analysis of the Ss

   Students have already learnt some basic knowledge about the Present Perfect Tense, either from after-schools or self-learning. Furthermore, the teacher (I) gave a brief introduction about it during the last period. However, some students are still confused.

Part 3  Teaching Goals and Important and difficult Points

A. Teaching Goals

1. Knowledge goal: To enable students to have a systematic understanding of the Present Perfect tense.

2. Ability goal: To make the Ss be able to talk about recent events and experiences.

3.  Moral goal: To help students better understand the influence of the past and realize the importance of taking action.

B．Key teaching points and difficult points

1. The definition of The Present Perfect Tense

2. The structures of The Present Perfect Tense

3. The forms of past participles of verbs

4. The temporal adverbials used in The Present Perfect Tense

Part 4. Mainly Teaching Methods and Aids

Task-based Language Teaching; Situational Teaching Approach

Multi-media aid, including music, pictures and PPT.

Part 5.  Teaching procedures

Steps

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Purposes

Step1.

Lead-in

(5minutes)

1. Share a song “ Have You ever”

2. Ask students to fill in the blanks

1. listen and enjoy at the first play

2. Do dictation at the second play

3. Check and enjoy at the third play

To introduce the topic,

To arouse students’ interest in learning the new topic.

Step2. Task1 (3minutes)

1. Demonstrate the definition of the present perfect tense by sharing two sample sentences.

2. Create a situation (opening the door) to make students understand more clearly.

1. Listen and think.

2. Follow the teacher’s order. For example, “Open the door, please.”

To make students know when to use the tense. (we use the past participle tense to talk about things happened in the past, but are connected to the present.)

Step3. Task 2

1. Ask students to predict the main idea of the passage. (encourage students to use “conjectures” to answer the questions. For example: I guess…, maybe…., perhaps…, it is likely that….)

2. Give students scanning task: find out how Li Qiang got to the future and what his first impressions of it are.

1. Talk about their predictions before reading the passage.

2. Scan the book and find out how Li Qiang got to the future and what his first impressions of it are.

Step4. Careful Reading (20 minutes)

1. Play the tape of the text.

2. Go through the questions in P19, T1.

1) Why did Liu Qiang go into the future?

2) How did he feel when he left his own time?

 3) How did he get to the year 3008?

4) What did he notice first when he arrived in AD 3008?

5)What else did he find that was different?

3. Guide students to find out what each paragraph is about.

1. Listen to the tape and make notes.

2. Read the passage again, and try to answer the questions in P19, T1.

3. Draw lines of each paragraph.

To help students grasp the gist of the text.

To help students learn some new words and expressions that might hinder their comprehension.

To help students understand the text by reading in detail.

To help students be clear of Liu Qiang’s imagination about the future.

Step5. Post-reading. (8 minutes)

1. Show a chart with five aspects ( time travel, transport, houses, towns and air quality) and both their good changes and bad changes, as well as their reasons.

Ask students to have group discussion. The topic is “What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future? Optimistic or pessimistic?”

1. Fill in the chart carefully according to the passage.

2. Discuss about Liu Qiang’s opinions and share their own opinions.

To help students have a review on the text.

To make sure that students has get the big pieces of the passage.

To encourage students to have critical thinking on Liu Qiang’s opinions towards future.

Step6. Homework ( 1 minute)

1. Figure out each paragraph’s main idea and get some details.

2. Retell the whole passage briefly.