Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
（实验二中 八年级英语备课组）
Period One SectionA (1a-2c)
Language goals:Talk about future plans
1. New words and expressions: babysit camp plan
2. Key sentences:
What are you doing for vacation? She’s babysitting her sister.
Who are you going with? I’m going with my parents.
When are you going? I’m going on Friday.
Ability goals:
Enable students to talk about future plans with what, who and when.
Learning ability goals:
Help students learn how to talk about future plans with be + V-ing.
Teaching important and difficult points:
be + V-ing
What are you doing for vacation?
Who are you going with?
When are you going?
Teaching aids: Tape-recorder
Teaching Procedure:
StepⅠRevision
Task 1: Brainstorming
Review some verb phrases.
T: What do you usually do on weekends?
S1: I usually watch TV.
S2: I often play basketball.
S3: I sometimes exercise.
... ...
Step Ⅱ Presentation
Task 2: Free talk
1.T: This weekend is coming, what is your plan? What are you doing this weekend?I’m looking after my daughter. ( Write these two sentences on the blackboard.)What about you?
Ss: I’m meeting my friends/ playing baketball / exercising ... ...( Write down)
Ss read the sentences and V-ing phrases.
2. T: Oh , our plans are the same. Let’s go to see others’ vacation plans. Books open. Turn to Page 13. ( Write the topic of Unit 3 on the blackboard.)
Ss think over and write down some activities on their books.(Finish 1a)
3. Check the ideas: ( One student write out the five activities in the pictures, three students write other ideas on the blackboard.)
camping, relaxing at home/ watching TV, visiting her grandmother, talking with her friends, babysitting sister, hiking, fishing, playing baketball......
Step Ⅲ Practice
Task3： Listening
1. Listen to the tape twice, then answer :
What are the students doing for vacation?
2. Pairwork: check the answers,then work in pairs like the conversation in 1c.
A: What's she doing for vacation?
B: She is babysitting her sister.
3. Check the answers with the whole class by reading the dialogues on Page 86 together .
Step Ⅳ Listening
1. T: Listen! Hector, Susan and Molly are talking about their vacation plans. Let’s go to see what are their plans? Look at Page 142a. ( Listen twice )
2. Ask three students to write the answers to What and other three write about When on the blackboard. Then check them together.
3. Listen again and answer another question:
Who is Molly going with ? ( 板书 )
She is going to the beach with her family.
4.Pair work: Make a conversation in pairs according to 2a like 1c.
Eg:What is Molly doing for vacation?
She is going to the beach.
5.Make a oral report according to the table in 2a like 1c.
Eg: Hector is going to Canada.And Susan is going to sports camp on the 11th.
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StepⅤ.Consolidation
Make a conversation in pairs according to 2c.Then act it out (three pairs).
StepⅤI Project
Task 4 : Make a survey.
Make a survey about your classmates’ vacation plans in groups of four , then give a report to the whole class in a word.
For example,
Questions: What are you doing for vacation? Where are you going ? When are you going ? Who are you going with? .....
A report : Lu Le is visiting his cousins with his grandpa this Saturday.
... ...
Step ⅥI Homework
1. Preview Section A3a, 3b and 4.
2. Translate Grammar Focus.
3. Let students to write down the reports about survey.
Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
Period Two SectionA (3a,3b,4)
Teaching aims : 1. Revise the new words in section A.
2. Learn to talk about the future plan .
3. Be able to understand the dialog.
Difficulties and focus : 1. Master the new words
2. Master the target language below
How long are you staying?
What are you doing for vacation ?
Just for 4 days.
Step Ⅰ Revision
1.Ask and answer
National day is coming ,what are your vacation plans ? Work in groups to discuss it.
Where are you going ?
When are you leaving ?
Who are you going with ?
2.Ask the reporters of some groups to report their results.
Step Ⅱ Presentation
1.( T: Tony and Lin Hui are talking about their vacation plans ,too.Please read the dialogue to fill in the chart of3a)
2. Check the answers.
Step Ⅲ Practice
1. Students find out the new words and try to pronounce them in pairs
2. Teach the new words that the students can’t pronounce correctly.
3. Play the tape twice ,the students read the dialogue after the tape.
4. Students practice the dialogue in pairs
Step Ⅳ Consolidation- pairwork
1.Students find out the target languages in groups.
For example:
(go hiking , in the mountains. show sb. sth. . How long are you staying? Just for 4 days. Go away. send sb. sth. . have a good time.)
2.T:Well, what are Dave, Zhu Yan ,Mary and Mike doing for vacation?Do you want to join them?(Sure).OK,Let’s go!.
Go through the information chart of 3b.Learn: San Fransisco , sports camp.
3.Practice the dialog of 3b in pairs then make some similar dialogs
4.Ask several groups to act out their dialogs
Step Ⅴ Project
Work in pairs
Talk about your vacation plans or vacation dreams and report your partner’s vacation plans to the class.
Step Ⅵ Homework
Write a simple passage as your homework like Activity 4. You can name your passage “ Vacation Dreams”.
Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
Period Three SectionB (1a,2b,2a,2b,2c)
Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Knowledge Objects
Key Vocabulary.(略)
Target language.
Listening,speaking,reading and writing practice.
2.Ability Objects
Listening and speaking skills.
Reading and writing skills.
Communicative competence.
Teaching Key Points
1.Key vocabulary (1a)
2.Target language
Where are you going ?
How long are they staying ?
Who are you going with ?
Teaching Difficulties
Listening,speaking,reading and writing practice.
Teaching Methods
Listening,speaking,reading and writing methods .
Pairwork
Teaching Aids
A projector.
A big paper bag.
Teaching Procedures
Step Ⅰ Revision:
Talk about your dream vacation
Last class you have dicussed your dream vacation. Now ,please read it to class.
Step ⅡPresentation:
1.Learn SectionB 1a
Here are some other vacation activities.(show some pictures to Ss,learning some phrases)
Look at this picture, what is he doing?
----He is going bike riding.
going sightseeing
taking walks
going fishing
renting videos
Step Ⅲ Practice
What do you like to do on vacation? Use the words you know, make conversations.
Ask a Student to be my partner and make a conversation.give the other Ss a sample.
---------What are you doing for vacation,xx?
---------I am going to the countryside with my friends.
---------That sounds like fun.What are you doing there?
---------I am going bike riding.
---------When are you going?
---------On Friday.
---------How long are you staying?
---------I am staying for only a day.
Step Ⅳ Listening:
1. Explain the questions in 2a,then make the Ss listen to the tape with these questions.
2. Listen to the tape again,check the questions the reporter asks.
3. Listen again,write He Yu’s answers to the questions you checked.
StepⅤ Consolidation
Performance role play,St A is reporter,St B is the He Yu .St A interviews St B.
A:Hey, HeYu .Can I ask you a few questions about your vacation plans?
B:Yes.
A:What are you doing.......?
2.Make a oral report
Get students to report He Yu’s vacation.
Step Ⅵ Homework
1.《芝麻开花》Section B
2.Write down a short passage about He Yu’s vacation.
Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
Period Four SectionB(3a,3b,4)
Language goals
a. New words: famous, Europe ,etc.
b. Key sentences
Ben is going to Canada’s Great Lakes.
Ability goals
Enable Ss to read and write about vacation plans.
Help Ss learn how to write their vacations
Teaching aids
Projector and slide
Teaching procedures and ways
StepⅠ Revision
Task :Role play
We’re learned something about HeYu’s vacation plans .Let’s review it .
T:Where is she going ?
S1:She is going to the South of Italy.
T:What’s the weather like there ?
S2:Sunny and warm.
T: …
S3 …
Step Ⅱ Reading
We’ll know another famous singer --- Ben Lambert . Let’s read a magazine article about his vacation plans.
Read the article and write down the number in the blank.
Answer following questions:
a:Who is Ben Lambert?
b:Where is he going?
c;What’s he doing?
d:How long is he staying there?
e:Is he love nature? Why?
3.Recite the Paragraph2 according to the pictures.
Finish 3b
Step Ⅲ Writing
T:Who’s your favorite singer or football player?
Ss: …
T: If you are …What’re your vacation plans? Write a passage about it .
Step Ⅳ Survey
Task and Report
Now make a survey about your classmates’ weekend plans.Look at the chart on p82.Find out someone who is doing any of the activities in your class. Write down the name next to the activities.
Ask some Ss to make a report ,other Ss listen to it carefully and retell it.
Step Ⅴ Homework
If you are a famous singer or soccer player, write an article for your vacation plans.
Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
Period Five Self check
Tasks
Knowledge task
Review key vocabularies and sentence patterns
Writing
Ability task
Revision skills
Moral task
Read the cartoon and find what’s funny
Project
Make a plan for the National Day
Teaching procedures
Step Ⅰ Warming up and Review
1. Read the cartoon and find what is funny.
2. Ask and answer
Greet the class as usual and free talk about:
What are you doing for vacation ?
When are you going ?
Who are you going with ?
How long are you staying ?
3.Make a small vacation plan and practice in pairs
4.Summary ，use be + Ving to talk about future plan
5.Exercises
①He’s ____ _____（go, camp） with his parents.
②____ you _____ (play) basketball tomorrow ?
③She ____ _____ (leave) for Wuhan next week.
④---Why are you so hungry?
---I____(meet) my friends at home.
⑤The famous singer ____(fly) to London soon.
Step Ⅱ Self check Ⅰ
1. Ask students to fill in the blanks. Write some of students’ answers for each blank on the blackboard. Underline any mistakes and ask students to suggest how to correct the mistakes.
2. Make similar sentences using the key words in the chart.
Step Ⅲ Self check Ⅱ
1.Imagine you are a tourist guide. You plan schedules for tourists who visit your city. Write the schedule for this weekend. Answer the questions below in your schedule.Then finish 2
Where are you going ?
What are you doing there ?
What should tourists take with them ?
Where are you leaving from ?
When are you leaving ?
What are you eating ?
Ask the students to write them down and the teacher moves around the classroom offering language support as necessary
2.Make a survey :Help your parterner to make a plan for the National Day and fill in the chart below
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StepⅣ Homework
1. Review Unit 3.
2. Preview Unit 4 vocabulary.
3.《芝麻开花》 Unit 3 综合测试部分
2015年