Unit 24 What were they doing?
Teaching Plan
Tianjin Experimental High School
Xiejing/謝靜
天津市實驗中學 英語 學科課堂教學素質教育目標
章、節課 題 Unit 24 What were they doing?
教養性目標 基礎知識 To master the following new words and phrases: get on well with, ever, be angry with, usual, sound, choose, knock on, politely, a pair of, painter, chalk, neighbor, upstairs, take off, boot, downstairs, as usual, PE, chemistry, sweep, truck, seller, biology, be fed up with, refuse, scissorsTo understand the following: Bang, racket
學科能力 To master the following: Past Continuous Tense: statement forms and question forms.To revise the following: 1. 5 basic sentence structures; useful expressions in checkpoints 2. Modal verbs-can & may. 3. Talk about food and ways to a certain destiny.
思想方法 To use the language and fulfill the tasks of listening, speaking, writing and other exercises in the unit.1. Check points of Unit 15-22. 2. Self-revision with the help of the teacher’s instructions.
教育性目標 德育滲透 通過課文的學習，增強遵守社會公德的意識。
發展性目標 良好心理素質的培養 1. 通過比較現在進行時態和過去進行時態，能體會兩者之間的相似點和不同點。2. 通過復習15單元至22單元，培養學生的自學能力
Unit 24 What were they doing?
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss learn the new words and expressions of the unit.
2. The Ss learn to use the Past Continuous Tense according to different tasks.
3. The Ss learn to self-revise what they learnt in unit 15 and unit 16.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. get on well with, ever, be angry with, usual, sound, choose, knock on, politely, a pair of, painter, chalk, neighbor, upstairs, take off, boot, downstairs, as usual, PE, chemistry, sweep, truck, seller, biology, be fed up with, refuse, scissors
2. Reading the text “The Man Upstairs” and “A Bad Neighbor”.
3. Revision of unit 15 and unit 16.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. How to make the Ss fully perform the tasks designed by the teacher in revision of U15&16
IV. Teaching Methods:
Group work, task-based learning, and reductive approach.
V. Teaching Media:
Tape, recorder, computer, multi-media sys. courseware.
VI. Time Allocation:
Period 1: Finish off unit 23; Lesson93 and 95; demands for the Revision Periods.
Period 2: Lesson 94 and revision of unit 15 and unit 16.
Period 3: Lesson 94 and revision of unit 17 and unit 18.
Period 4: Lesson 96 and revision of unit 19 and unit 20.
[From June 9th to June 14th]
Three Levels of Learning Goals for Unit 23
Contents of learning Basic Goals Higher Goals Top Goals
New Words I can spell them. I can use them. I can use them and their changed forms.
Useful Expressions in unit15-22; unit 24 I can understand them. I can use them. I know other phrases related to them.
Dialogues I can understand them. I can recite some of them. I can recreate similar dialogues.
Text I can understand it. I can retell it with the help of key words. I can retell it and tell another related story.
Grammar 1. Five basic sentence structures. 2. Modal verbs: can; may; must; have to.3. Past Continuous Tense. 1. Adverbial clauses for time and condition.2. Use of link verbs.3. Using indefinite pronouns/adverbs. 1. The compound sentences.2. Using reflexive pronouns.3. Comparison structures.
Others I can understand what the teacher said about the unit. I can react to what the teacher said in class. I can fulfill all the tasks the teacher asks us to do.
Demands for Unit 23
1. Read all the dialogues and texts 3 times and have one of your parents sign his/her name. Group leader checks the next day. Copy the new words of this unit.
2. Duty tasks: a. Prepare an English Song for your classmates to learn.
b. Lesson 94: Role-play the text.
c. Lesson 96: Role-play the text.
d. Tell something about your neighborhood.
e. Finish the story in Ex 3. (WB-P116)
3. Individual tasks: a. Revise unit15-unit22 and design test paper for each unit.
4. Group task: Design a test for unit15-unit22.
Period 1: Finish off unit 23; Lesson93 and 95; demands for the Revision Periods
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. Finish off unit23-lesson 92.
2. Learn the dialogues of lesson 93 and 95.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Lesson 92; lesson 93 and lesson 95.
2. Practice using the Past Continuous Tense.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
The Ss can recite the dialogue and use the Past Continuous Tense.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. English Song Enjoyment
Step2. Lesson 92
1. Puzzle Dialogue.
Check it and mention the phrases “match … with…”, “What size does she wear?”, “almost/nearly”.
2. Read “Mark Twain”
播放視頻文件：Mark Twain，讓學生對整個故事有個大概了解，然后找出答案。
Teach the new words: speaker, lose, hide, conductor, check, lie, deaf
Explain the phrases: make sb. do sth., play a joke on sb.(可播放音頻進行講解)
Play the tape again and have the students listen and repeat. And answer the following questions.
○1What does Mark Twain like to do?
○2 What did his friend ask him to do?
○3 What did Mark Twain say to his friend?
○4 How many tickets did he buy at last?
○5Was his friend a really strange man?
○6 Why did everyone laugh?
○7 What do you think his friend’s feeling is?
○8 What do you think of Mark Twain from this story?
Give the key words and have the Ss retell the story.
Step3. Duty Report: talk about a famous person you know to your classmates.
Step4. Exercise Checking
1. SB-P45-Write.
2. WB-P110-Ex3; P111-Ex1; P112-Ex2; P112-Ex3, Ex5
3. Duty Report: Ex4 on P113.
4. WB-P114-Ex7.
Step5. Lesson 93
1. Ask and answer: Look at the pictures and talk in groups about it.
Ask a group to represent their talk.
2. Play the tape and teach the new phrase.
○1 try to do sth. The boy is trying to climb the tall tree.
○2 quite a nice. . . He owns quite a nice car. (rather)
3. Ask the student the change the dialogue into the situation of Wednesday.
Step6. Lesson 95
1. Divide the whole class into two groups and read the dialogue in roles.
2. Teach the new phrases.
○1 at noon, last night, in the morning/afternoon, yesterday morning/afternoon.
○2 be having a PE(physical education) class.
○3 chemistry lab; physics, history, geography, English, Chinese, Politics
○4 feed – fed –fed = give food to
○5 sweep- swept-swept = clean the floor with a broom/mop
3. Look at the pictures and write as many sentences as you can.
Step7. Homework
1. WB-P115-Ex3 & P117-Ex1: in Homework Book; 2. WB-P117-Ex3: in WB.
3. Design a test paper: 關于Unit15&16, QTB的綜合練習1、2和形成性中每單元25道題，5道詞匯詞組翻譯，5道單選題，5道單純填空，5道正確形式填空，5道翻譯或完成句子。用所給紙張大小1-2頁，標明單元、題型及出題名。
Period 2 Lesson 94
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. Learning the text “The Man Upstairs”
2. Finish off Lesson 93 and Lesson 95.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Finish learning “The Man Upstairs”;
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. How to finish so many items within one period.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song (5min)
Step2. Quiz about unit23. (QTB; QFT. 10min)
Fill in the blankets with the right articles if necessary.
1. _______ English is ________ useful language.
2. _______ China is one of ________ largest countries in _______world.
3. He borrowed _______ dictionary from ________ school library.
4. _______ book on ________ desk is mine.
5. _______ Blacks visit China every year.
6. I’m good at playing ________ football but he isn’t.
7. What ________ exciting match it is!
8. ________ sun is much bigger than ________ moon.
9. She likes playing ________ piano very much.
10. He went to school before ________ breakfast this morning.
Write the correct word according to demands(要求).
11. The car runs at the _______ of 80 miles per hour.
12. I dream to be a scientist in the f______.
13. It was an u________ trip. I will not forget it forever.
14. I hate the d______ called TB.
15. _______(幾乎) nobody believes him.
16. Bill Gates d______ to give millions of dollars to help those poor people.
17. Mark Twain was also a good _______(演說家).
18. I am very ______ (please) to hear the _______ (excite) news.
19. An old man ______(躺) on the ground. Let’s go to see what is the matter with him.
20. In 1975, Bill Gates began _______ (開發) software ______ ______ computers(為個人電腦).
答案：
1. /, a 2./, the, the 3.a, the 4.The, the 5.The
6./ 7.an 8.The, the 9.the 10./
11. speed 12. future 13. unusual 14. disease 15. Almost
16. decided 17. speaker 18. pleased; exciting 19. was lying
20. developing; for personal
Step3. Lesson 93 (5min)
1. Teach the new phrase.
○1 try to do sth. The boy is trying to climb the tall tree.
○2 quite a nice. . . He owns quite a nice car. (rather)
2. Ask the student the change the dialogue into the situation of Wednesday.
Suppose it is now Wednesday, and what were they doing when the teacher came in on Monday? (Slides) Answer together.
Discuss the form of the Past Continuous tense.
Step4. Lesson 95 (5min)
1. Divide the whole class into two groups and read the dialogue of part1 in roles.
2. Teach the new phrases.
○1 at noon, at night, in the morning/afternoon, (/)yesterday morning/afternoon.
○2 be having a PE(physical education) class.
○3 chemistry lab; physics, history, geography, English, Chinese, Politics
○4 feed – fed –fed = give food to
○5 sweep- swept-swept = clean the floor with a broom/mop
3. Look at the pictures and make as many sentences as you can.
4. Watch the video and answer the questions.
Step5. Lesson 94 (15min)
1. Pre-read: This story is about a man who lived in a tall building in Moscow. He liked living there. It was usually very quiet, and he could see the park from his window. There was one problem for him. That is, he couldn’t sleep well.
Duty Report: role-play the text “The Man Upstairs”.
2. Watch the video of the text and explain the difficult points:
How can you get along/on well with your neighbors? Do your neighbors ever do anything that disturbs you?
Then explain the language points paragraph by paragraph.
3. Do the in-class exercise by the video.
Step6. Homework
1. QTB and QFT: Test Paper of Unit 17 and Unit 18.
2. English Weekly: till Vol41.
3. Check everything on Monday; and test about unit15 and 16 on Monday.
4. Group A come to my office for help.
Period 2 Lesson 94 and Lesson 96
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss learn the phrases as following: get on well with, disturb, the city of…, upstairs/downstairs, take off, one…the other, be angry with, one day, decided to, trouble, happen, when, every time.
2. The Ss can retell the story “The Man Upstairs” and they can say something of their neighbor.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Reading comprehension of Lesson 94, the difficult language points in the story.
2. Checking of the test for Unit 23.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. Two ways of using “when”. 2. Use of past continuous tense.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Multi-media system, flash courseware, etc.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song (5min)
Step2. Check the test for Unit 23 by showing the slides. (5min)
Step3. Pre-read (3min)
1. We have enjoyed the play acted by the group on duty. The story that we are going to study is about a trouble between neighbors. Now discuss in group about the following questions:
How do you get on/along with your neighbors?
Do your neighbors do anything that troubles/disturbs you?
2. Ask two students to answer them after 2 minutes’ discussion.
Step4. Read (7min)
1. Now let’s watch a flash about the text and I will write the key words on the Bb. After watching it, you are going to answer my questions and retell it in your own words.
○1 Where did this story happen? ○2How did he try to solve the problem?
○3 Was the problem solved successfully? Why not?
2. The key phrases needed:
lived… usually quiet… one problem… came home late… threw his boots on… noise… woke up… decided to talk to… the next evening… as usual… took off the first boot and dropped…remembered… put the other boot under his bed very quietly… was just falling asleep when… waiting for the sound of…
3. Help the students to go through the text carefully paragraph by paragraph.
Step5. Language points (15min)
1. get on/along (well) with = to have a friendly/nice relationship with sb.
e.g. He is easy-going and gets on/along very well with his classmates.
2. disturb [v.] to interrupt or trouble sb.
e.g. I am sorry to disturb you but you are making a lot of noise and I can’t go to sleep downstairs.
3. in the city of Moscow = in Moscow City (同位語)
4. upstairs à downstairs [adv.,adj.]
5. take off à put on
6. one … the other…/ one … another…/ one… the others/the other +pl. n.
e.g. Two students came to my office. One is Jack, the other is Judy.
I have given you one apple. If it is not enough, I can give you another (one).
One student is going to stay here and look after our bags while the others/the other students are going to visit the museum.
7. be angry with sb./at sth. = be mad with/at
e.g. He didn’t come to school yesterday and went to a net-bar instead. The teacher got very angry at that and even angrier with him because he lied that he had been sick all day yesterday.
8. decide to do = make up one’s mind to do
9. knock at/on
10. With a smile, with these words, with a good-bye, with a book in his hand
11. every time + adverbial clause for time
e.g. Every time my mother goes shopping, I go with her.
12. trouble [v./n. ] e.g. What’s the trouble with you?
May I trouble you to pass me the book?
Don’t trouble about that.
[Proverb] Never trouble a trouble till trouble troubles you.
13. drop [v.] = let sth. fall
e.g. Look out for dropping the glass on the ground.
You’d better drop the bad habit of throwing your shoes everywhere.
a drop [n.] of water/tear
14. happen [vi.] e.g. The accident happened at night.
It happened to rain hard when the class was over.
I happened to meet a good friend of mine on my way here.
15. wake sb. up / wake up
e.g. We need not wake him up in the morning because he can wake up by himself at six o’clock.
16. as (it is) usual
e.g. She did her homework first thing after she got home from school as usual.
17. was/were about to do….; was/were doing when …did… =at that moment, suddenly, 注意when 分句一般在句尾，后面是一般過去時態； 表示在前一個動作過程中或即將發生第一個動作時，第二個動作突然發生，when后跟第二個動作。（一般考試中when后沒有用過去進行時的，如果見到，相當于while, during the time when）
e.g. I was walk along the river when I met her.
We were playing cards when the light went out.
He was just about to work out the problem when the bell rang.
Step6. Check the homework (5min)
1. P115-Ex3:
When the teacher came into the classroom, Lin Feng was drawing a horse on the blackboard.
When I came home, grandpa was reading a newspaper.
We were holding a sports meeting when it started to rain yesterday morning.
Her mother was cooking when the telephone rang.
The painter was painting at home on Saturday morning.
She was wearing/wore a red short skirt when she went dancing last night.
2. P117-Ex3：See WB.
Step7 Lesson 96
1. Duty report 3 and 4: a role-play about a police issue
a report on the neighborhood
Step8 Homework
1. Test paper for Unit 19-20.
2. Big checking this noon: group A comes for help.
3. WB-P116-Ex2; WB-P118-Ex2; WB-P119-Ex3;
4. Read the passage on P119-Ex4, answer the questions after it. [Check on Tuesday.]
Period 3 Lesson 96 and Lesson 97
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss can use past continuous tense in asking questions and answering them.
2. Finish off Unit24.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Test of unit17 and 18. 2. Listening of lesson 96; checking exercises.
3. Read “A Bad Neighbor” 4. Practice making dialogues of lesson 97.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. Run-on questioning and answering. (For practicing the Past Continuous Tense.)
IV. Teaching Medias:
Multi-media system, flash courseware, etc.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song (5min)
Step2. Finish the 94th lesson (10min)
1. happen [vi.] e.g. The accident happened at night.
It happened to rain hard when the class was over.
I happened to meet a good friend of mine on my way here.
2. wake sb. up / wake up
e.g. We need not wake him up in the morning because he can wake up by himself at six o’clock.
3. as (it is) usual
e.g. She did her homework first thing after she got home from school as usual.
There are more people in the supermarket than usual.
4. was/were about to do….; was/were doing when …did… =at that moment, suddenly, 注意when 分句一般在句尾，后面是一般過去時態； 表示在前一個動作過程中或即將發生第一個動作時，第二個動作突然發生，when后跟第二個動作。when 引起的是過去的時間點，所以通常用一般過去時態；而主句是指這個時間點上正在發生的事，所以用過去進行時態。如果主從句顛倒一下，則可用while引導過去進行時。（一般考試中when后沒有用過去進行時的，如果見到，相當于while, during the time when）
e.g. I was walking along the river when I met her. /at 5 o’clock.
While I was walking along the river, I met her. (側重I met her)
We were playing cards when the light went out.
He was just about to work out the problem when the bell rang.
5. Check the homework on page 115.
Step3. Listening text of Lesson 96 (5min)
Step4. Duty Report 3: a role-play about a police issue (3min)
Step5. Run-on Questioning: (5min)
1. P49-Part3: one student asks a question like “What was David doing at 8 o’clock yesterday morning?”, the following students answers “ He is having an English class. “ and then the second student goes on to ask another question to the third student.
2. So shall we do with the first part of lesson97 on P51.
Step6. Quick reading of “A bad neighbor” (5min)
1. What was the trouble for Masha and Sasha?
2. be fed up with = be tired of/about
e.g. I am fed up with your lies. I’m rather fed up with your restless talk in class.
3. be doing sth + always 有時可以表達厭煩和埋怨或稱贊的語氣。
e.g. He used to be my neighbor but because he was always talking to me in class, Mr. Liu moved him to the front.
You are making a lot of noise in class again.
He is always thinking of others first.
4. return = give back return sth. to sb.
5. refuse + sb. / + to do sth. [反：agree]
e.g. If he invites you to his party, don’t refuse him.
She refused to go with us.
6. Duty Report 4: My neighbors
Step7. Check the exercises of unit24 (10min)
1. WB-P116-Ex2; WB-P118-Ex2; WB-P119-Ex3.
2. P119-Ex4: answer the questions after it.
3. Duty report on Ex3 on P116.
Step8. Part 2 (5min)
1. Listen to the dialogue and explain the language to the students.
2. Work in pairs and change the dialogue with the phrases in the boxes.
Step7. Test for Unit17-18(at noon)/Homework
1. Grade your own paper unit 17-18 and correct the mistakes.
2. Design the test paper for unit 21-22.
3. WB-P122-Ex1. (On your own workbook and be checked tomorrow)
4. 課后收條測修改后的和Test paper of unit 19-20.
5. 提醒：下周二中午英文拉歌比賽�？捎么笳n間練習。
聽英文歌在課前5 分鐘，unit26 沒有duty。
周三quiz of unit23 and 24. 單詞和課文句子。
中韓對抗賽。
復習重點還是在unit21-unit26.
周三教案（簡明）
UNIT 25 THE ACCIDENT
Lesson 97, 99 and listening
Step1. Watch the video of the dialogue on P51.
Step2. Replacing Drill the dialogue.
Step3. WB-P121-Ex2: (flash-exercise).
Step4. Listening (flash/WB-P124-Ex1).
Step5. Duty-report of Lesson99.
Check Part 2.
Step6. Quiz for unit 23-24.
1. 當老師進教室時，李蕾正努力在黑板上畫一匹馬。
2. 你可以花一個月來嘗試以一種新方法來學英語。一個月是一段相當長的時間了。
3. 每次小明上課遲到，老師對他都相當生氣。
4. 那個街道小販正在賣菜，一輛車在他面前突然停了下來。
5. 他喜歡物理勝過生物。
6. 當樓上的人正要扔另一只靴子，他突然想起樓下的人跟他說的話。
7. 他們煩透了那個鄰居因為他總是從他們那兒借走東西而且從來不還。
8. 他買給她一副園丁剪刀，但她禮貌地拒絕接受。
9. 你穿多大尺碼的衣服？6號�？催@件，它可以很好地與你的鞋子搭配。
10. 我認為數學比英語有用， 但我還認為數學沒有英語有意思。
Step7. Homework
1. WB-P123-Ex2.
2. Design test paper for unit23-24.