Section A
Additional materials to bring to class:
large monthlycalendar showing the days of the week
large paper bag
Display a large calendar that shows the days of the week.
Point to Saturday and Sunday. Say, This is the weekend.
Saturday and Sunday are the weekend. Repeat.
Weekend. Students repeat Weekend. Then say, Listen and repeat. How of ten do you play tennis? Students repeat.
Point to Monday, then Wednesday, then Friday, and say, I play tennis three times a week. Repeat. I play tennis three times a week.
1 a This activity introduces the key vocabulary.
Focus attention on the picture. Ask a few students to say what they see in the thought bubbles. Say, Each thought bubble shows something a person does on weekends.
Name each activity, asking students to repeat each one, saying. One girl is shopping. Another girl is reading. This boy is exercising. Another boy is watching TV. These girls are skateboarding.
Point out the sample answer. Then ask the students to list all the activities in the thought bubbles. They can use bilingual dictionaries to help them. Ask the student who finishes first to write the answers on the board.
Check the answers on the board and students to correct their own activities.
Answer：：
watching TV reading
skateboarding exercising
shopping
1b This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
Point to each scene in activity la. Ask students to look at each picture and tell what the person does on weekends.
Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.
Play the recording a second time. Point to the pictures.
This time say, Listen to the conversation. The people are talking about what they do on weekends. Listen to the recording and write the letter of one activity (a through e) after the word in the list. For example, on the recording someone says, I always go shopping. Shopping is letter a in the picture in activity la. So you put an a after the word always in this list. Repeat the explanation, if necessary.
Ask students to complete the activity individually.
Correct the answers.
Answer：：
always: a usually: c often: e
sometimes: d hardly ever: d never: a
Answer
Reporter: What do you usually do on weekends?
Boy 1: I usually exercise.
Girl 1: I always go shopping.
Boy 2: Eeeeew... 1 never go shopping.
I can't stand shopping.
Girl 2: I often go skateboarding.
Boy 2: And 1 sometimes watch TV
Reporter: How about you?
Girl 3: I hardly ever watch TV 1 love reading.
Reporter: Oh, why is that?
Girl 3: Oh, I don't know. I guess I just like books.
1 c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Point to the example in speech bubbles. Ask two students to read the dialogue to the class.
Say, Now work with a partner. Make your own conversations about the people in the picture.
Say the dialogue in the picture with a student.
Point to the first picture and say, What does she do on weekends? Guide the student to answer, She often goes to the movies. Do a second example, if you wish.
Then have students work in pairs. As they talk, move around the room monitoring their work.
Offer language or pronunciation support as needed.
[See Follow-up activity 1.]

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