Teacher’ s activities

Ss’ activities

Purposes  

Step 1 Greeting and lead-in

Greeting: Long time no see.

  Did you have a good time during your summer holidays?

  What did you do during summer holidays?

  Did you go on vacation?

Say : Most of you went on vacation, Now let’s talk about your vacations.

Ss say something about their activities during summer holidays.

1.Ss answer the questions and then remind of past tense

2. To present a new lesson.

Step 2  Presentation

Ask four students the following questions:

Did you go anywhere interesting?

Where did you go on vacation?

Did you go with anyone?

Did you do anything interesting?

What did you do on vacation?

How was the vacation?

Four students answer the questions. Other students listen carefully and learn the questions. Get the fifth student to ask another student the same questions instead of the teacher. Then they should pass on the questions, choose anyone they want to ask.

Ss learn the key sentences.

To help them learn better, Ss ask the questions instead of the teacher .It makes them get more chances to speak

Step 3A Guessing Game

I also went somewhere interesting. Can you guess? Show Ss some pictures of different places.

Teach: New York City,Central Park.

Ss guess the place where I went. They should guess using“ Did you go to …/ visit …?”

To help Ss to consolidate the sentence structure.

2.To enliven the atmosphere of the class.

3.Make them interested in my vacation.

Step 4  An interview

Get Ss to make an interview about my vacation and answer students’ questions.

Ask: How was your vacation? ( teach “wonderful”)

Ss watch a video.

Try to ask the teacher as many questions as they can

To help Ss to consolidate the sentence structure.

Step 5 Pair work

Ask:Do you want to know more about your partner’s vacation?

Now let’s ask and answer questions in Pairs. Try to use the questions you have learned.

Choose some of them to act out.

Ss work in pairs.

When some students are acting. The other students should listen carefully and take notes. Then another pair should ask and answer question using“Where did she\he go on vacation? Did she\he … How was …”

1.To help Ss to consolidate the sentence structure.

2.Make Ss listen to others carefully while acting

3.To improve their listening and speaking skills

Step 6 Work on 1a and 1b

Say: We had vacations. So did the students in Section A 1a, Unit 1.

Ask:Where did they go on vacation?.

Who went to the mountains \stayed at home…?

 Ss finish 1a.

Ss listen to 1b, then number the people in the picture.

To help Ss to consolidate the knowledge they have learned and improve their listening skills.

Step 7 Pair work

Say :You know where the people went ,now let’s make conversations about their vacation.

Ss make conversations about the people in the picture. They should use at least two questions like “ Did …” “ Where …”

 To improve their speaking skills.

Step 8 Listening

Say: We know where Tina, Xiang Hua, Sally, Bob and Tom went on vacation. How about Grace. Kevin, Julie?

Ask: Do you want to know more about their vacations?Here are some questions about the vacations.

Ss listen and finish 2a.

Ss listen again and finish 2b.

To train their listening skills.

Step 9. Role-play conservations

Say :Read the conversations in 2a and 2b then role play the conversations. Get Ss to use at least five questions about each vacation.

Say :While two students are acting. The others should listen and say at least five sentences about the conversation they hear like this:Grace went to …, she went with …. She ….

Ss read the conversations and some of them role play according to the information in 2a and 2b.

Others  listen carefully and say something about the information they hear.

To train their speaking skills.

To develop students’ good listening habits.

Step 10. Homework

1. Memorize the words and sentences in the period.

2. Read the conversations in 1b and 2a. Try to memorize key phrases and sentences.

3. Make  a conversation about vacations with partners. Use at least 6 questions.

4. Workbook 1. Period 1.