第一册Unit 4教案
英语》七年级·上 Unit 4教案
Unit 4 Having Fun outside the school
In this unit students learn to express their activities outside the school, for example, going shopping, having a picnic , and going to the zoo. Let's discuss the three activities separately.
Let's go shopping
In this part students learn to ask for and state prices, talk about clothing, making suggestions.
Target language
Can I help you? Yes, please. What can I do for you? How much is it ?It's 70 yuan.
Grammar focus
Can/How much questions /uncountable nouns/ coutable nouns/Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
The teacher asks the students if they like going shopping. Says "Today I'll take you to go shopping."
Section A
Teaching objectives: Students know how to ask and state prices.
Step1. Organizing the class.
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
Step 2. Listen, read and say
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
1.Call attention to the picture. Ask who are the people and where they are.. "A mother takes her daughter to go shopping. They are talking with a salesman in a store."
2.Point out the conversation and read it with a student. Explain the meaning of "look for" if necessary.
3.The teacher takes out a piece of paper with a tall building in it. Says "This is the first floor, this is the second floor, and this is the fourth floor." Read "fourth" for several times. And there are different sections on the fourth floor. Say "This is the clothes section, this is the trousers section, and that is books section." Then, the teacher ask the students to read "fourth" and "section" for several times.
4.Ask the whole class to read the dialogue together, paying attention to "What can I do for you?"
Step3. Pair work
Ask pairs of students to practice together. Later ask several pairs to present their conversations to the class.
Step4. look, listen and say
This activity provides several numbers for the students to learn.
1.The teacher helps the students to review the numbers 1-10, Ask "Do you want to know more numbers in English?" Then the teacher makes use of the video to present the numbers 20, 30, 40,... and so forth. Say "There are twenty books. Twenty, twenty. " "There are thirty trees. Thirty, thirty." So that the students can learn these words in a context.
2.Focus attention on the numbers and ask them to read together.
3.Play a game
Ask the students to read these numbers one by one according to their seats. All the groups can have a match and see which group can get full marks. The best group can get a prize.
Step5.Listen and say
This activity asks the students to distinguish the difference between "-teen" and "-ty".
1. First listen to the tape, asking the students to pay attention to the differences of each two words.
2. Listen to the tape again and read after it word by word.
3. Write some numbers on the Bb, and see if the students can master them well.
Step6. Listen and circle
This activity provides listening practice using the target language.
(1) listen and circle the numbers they hear in the sentences.
(2)From this part, the students can get more attention to the difference between "-teen" and "-ty".
Step7. Read and say
This activity gives the students practice in recognizing the target language in spoken conversation.
1. Say, "Please look at the picture. The mother is buying a dress for her daughter. She is talking with the salesgirl now. Listen carefully to the recording of the conversation. Then tell me how much the yellow dress is."
2. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen. Then ask them to find out the answer to the question" How much is the yellow dress."
3. Play the tape a second time. This time students read after the tape sentence by sentence. While they're reading, they should circle some difficulties they don't know.
4. Make a brief explanation of the difficulties, such as "try on", "off", "on sale" and so on.
5. Ask the whole class to read this dialogue together.
Step8. Pair work
Ask the students to practice the conversation with their partners. Later ask several pairs to present their conversations to the class.
Section B
Step1. Organizing the class.
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
. This activity provides students practice in recognizing the target language in this section.
1.Say, "When wo go into a shop, we can see many kinds of things. Now, please tell me what you can see in a shop or a supermarket?" Students may give different answers.
2."Please look at the screen, what are these?" Students can give their answers in Chinese. Say "You're right. Let's recognize them in English."
3. While students are looking at the picture , the teacher plays the broadcasting of each word so that the students can follow the pronunciations of the words.
Step2.Listen and say
This activity provides listening practice using the target language.
1. Play the recording. Students listen and number the words they hear.
2. While they're listening , move around the classroom checking on their progress.
3. Check out their listening answers. Point out some difficulties some students have.
Step3. Read and practice
1. Call attention to the picture A. Ask a student to read it to the class. Ask the whole class to read it together. Explain "What can I do for you?" "Can I help you ?" We often used by salesclerks. Guide the students to provide different answers to the questions.
2. Call attention to the picture B. Ask two students to read it aloud. After reading, ask them to focus on what the saleslady says.
3. Have students work in pairs. Ask they work together, move around the room checking progress and answering questions as needed.
4. The teacher takes out a pair of pants. Ask several pairs to come to the Bb to act their conversations out to the class.
Step4. Read
This activity provides a comprehensive reading of an ad for sale.
1. Say "Usually when we go to a supermarket, we can find some things are on sale. That's to say, you can buy these things with less money than before. Now we are going to read an ad for sale for a food shop. Please read the ad yourselves and fill in the price tags."
2. While they're reading, the teacher moves around the classroom, providing help when necessary.
3. Ask students to find out the meanings of any words they don't know. They can do this by reviewing the lesson, and found out their own weak points.
4. Ask students to finish the true or false exercise for one minute. Then check out their answers.
5. The whole class read the ad together to get more attention to write an ad for sale.
Step5. Write
This activity provides a writing practice using the target language.
1 .Suppose you a shopkeeper of a clothing shop. Write an ad by yourself.
2. Ask students to think about it for a thile. Ask what they can acquire from the ad above, such as "Come and have a look." "There's more." "Come and have a lood for yourself."
3. Ask students to do this job at home. The teacher will check it the next day.
Section C
Step1. Organizing the class.
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
.Step2. Look, read and say
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target lamguage.
1. Say "Dad is buying something in a store. Now please look at the picture,Dad is talking with the salesman Ben. What are they talking about?"
2 Call attention to the conversation on the right. Ask two students to read it to the class.
3. Have the students fill in the shopping lists according to the conversation.
4. Ask the whole class to read the conversation after the teacher, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
5. Ask students to work in pairs. Have each student take a turn asking and answering the question.
6. Ask several pairs of students to act out the conversation. The teacher can provide the real things for the students to perform, like salt, eggs and milk.
Step3.Match
. 1. Ask students to match word halves.
2. While students are matching, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
3. Ask some students to speak out the answers.
4.The teacher says Chinese words , and asks the students to speak English and spell each word. This activity can be done one by one.
Step4. Look, listen and say
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language of "How much"?
1. Say "Boys and girls, when you are buying something, will you cut the price down?" "I like bargaining very much. Sometimes when I cut the price down, I feel very proud."
"Next we are going to learn how to bargain."
2. Ask the students to listen to the recording of the conversation. Have them find out the answer to the question, "How much is the watch at last?"
3. Play the recording again and ask students to listen carefully and repeat it sentence by sentence.
4. Ask the students to practice with their partners. Then choose several pairs to act out the conversation.
5. Say "Sometimes when we are choosing something, maybe we don't buy it if the pric is not fit for us. Then what shall I say?"
6. Play the tape and guide students to answer "Thanks anyway we're just looking."
7. Ask students to practice with their partners. As they talk to each other, move around the room checking on their progress.
Step5.Listen and say
This activity provides listening and speaking practice by using the alphabets "h" and "w"
1. Play the recording. Students listen carefully and repeat it one by one.
2. Divide the class into four groups. Each group read two words, and see which group can do the best job.
3. Play a game. Choose several students to come to the Bb. When the other students read those English words, they have to act out each word by using their body language.
Section D
Step1. Organizing the class.
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
Step2. Listen read and say
. This activity provides listening and oral practice by using the target language.
1. Say "Do you know Mickey Mouse? Do you like it? Today, I'm going to tell you something about Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse opens a new shop, which sells a lot of food. He sells vegetables to the earthworm, and he sells com and wheat to the ant. He is so kind that he helps the ant carry the food home. Then, a cat comes. He is not friendly. Do you want to know that happens next? Please listen to the recording, fill in the blanks and find out the answer."
2. Play the recording. Students listen carefully and fill in the blanks.
4. Check their answers and ask several students to read the conversation out.
5. Ask students to look through the conversation an find out the questions they don't know. Teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
Step3.Pair work
1. Ask students to act out the short play with their partners.
2. Ask several groups to come to the Bb to perform.
Step4.Grammar focus
1. Review the grammar focus. Ask students to say the questions and answers.
2. Point out that the sentence pattern "How much is /are.. "is to ask the price. And the words "is" and "are" are used according to the singular or plural forms of the things.
3. Pay attention to the pronunciation of "$20" and so on.
4. Take out some pictures, with shoes, computers, eggs, coats, water and something else in them.
5.Ask students to guess what are countable nouns and what are uncountable nouns.
Call attention to those nouns in the textbook. Ask students to repeat each word.
Step5.Useful expressions
1. Point out that these expressions are very useful when going shopping.
2. Ask students to repeat them one by one
3. Divide the students into two groups. Have them read these expressions separately. See which group can be better.
Step6. Write
This activity provides writing practice by using target language.
1. After a short guidance, let students complete the conversations with the correct words.
2. Check students' answer. Ask two pairs of students to read the conversations.
3. Have the .whole class practice the two conversations. And each pair much take turns to do this job.
Let's have a picnic
Section A
Teaching objectives: Ask students to master how to make telephone calls about invitaions and suggestions.
Language focus: what's up?
Would you like to? / Let's......
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 : Organizing the class. Organizing the class.
1.Greetings between the teacher and students.
2.Duty report.
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Step 2 : Revision
Get students to talk about "How much......?" questions by showing them some pictures with the objects and prices in them.
Step 3 : Presentation
Say "Please look at the picture. There are two children in it. They are Jane and Kangkang. What are they doing? What are they talking about? Please listen to the recording. After a while, I'll ask you to tell me the answers."
Step 4 : Listen, read and say
1.Ask students to listen to the recording for the first time. Then answer the questions.
2.Listen to the recording again. While listening, ask students to follow it sentence bu sentence.
3.Ask the whole class to read the conversation together.
Step 5 : Work alone
1. Say "After reading, let's see when Jane is going to discuss the picnic and visit a friend, and what Jane is going to do on Sunday. Now, please look at the table. Fill in the blanks according to the conversation."
2.While students are writing, the teacher moves around the classroom, providing help when necessary.
3.After finishing the exercise, the teacher checks their answers.
Step 6 : Pair work
1. Divide the whole class into two groups to read the conversation.
2. Ask them to practice this conversation with their partners. They should change their roles.
Step 7 : Work alone
Ask students to read Kangkang's plan and give him suggestions on the picnic. The teacher can five some advice. For example, don't forget the food and so on.
Step 8 : Pair work
1.Ask students to number the sentences to make a telephone conversation. Before doing, the teacher points out how to make a telephone call and how to make suggestions.
2.Whole the students are doing exercise, the teacher moves around the classroom to provide help when necessary.
3.Ask students to practice the conversation with their partners.
Step 9 : Practice
Say "Tom wants to go swimming on Saturday, and Mary has no plan on that day. Suppose you are Tom, and your partner is Mary. You want to invite Mary to go swimming with you. Please make a telephone call according to these information." The teacher moves around the classroom and provide help when necessary.
Step 10 : Homework
1. Practice the conversations in this lesson with your partners.
2. You ask your friends to have a picnic next Saturday. Please write down a short conversation about it.
Section B
Teaching Objectives : Go on to learn about making telephone calls and making suggestions.
Language Focus : May I speak to ......, please?
Can I give her a message?
All right.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 : Organizing the class.
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
Step 2 : Presentation
Say "Sometimes when you call your friends, but he or she is not in, and someone else receives the call. Then what will you say to her / him? Now, I'd like you to listen to the conversation between Jane and Maria's mother. After that, you can find out the answer."
Step 3 : Listen, read and say
1. Play the recording for the first time, and ask the students to find out the answer.
2. Play the recording again, and ask the students to follow it.
3. Ask the whole class to read the dialogue.
4. Let the students practice with their partners.
Step 4 : Listen and write
This activity provides listening and writing practice by using the target language.
1. Say " Please look at the table. There are six sentences for you to choose. You have to fill in the blanks by listening to the recording."
2. Have two students to read the conversation and check if they are right or wrong.
3. Ask the whole class to read it together.
Step 5 : Pair work
This activity asks students to practice with their partners. As they talk to each other, the teacher moves around the room checking their progress.
Step 6 : Listen and follow
This activity is to train students' pronunciation.
1. Ask the students to listen to the recording first, and find out some characteristics of these sentences.
2. Play the recording again, and ask students to repeat.
3. Ask some students to read, and check if they can make some progress.
Step 7 : Listen, read and say
1. Say "If you dial the wrong number, what will you do? Now, please listen to the recording. You can get the answer."
2. Play the recording for the first time, ask students to find out something they don't know. Then help them to solve.
3. Play the recording again and ask students to repeat.
Step 8 : Work alone
This activity provides oral practice by using target language.
1. Say "There is a message for you, and you have to make a dialogue according to this information. Please practice with your partners."
2. While students are practicing, the teacher moves around the classroom, providing help when necessary.
3. Ask some pairs to act it out.
Step 9 : Homework
1. Practice the conversations in this lesson with your partners.
2. If you call your friend Tom, but he isn't in, and his brother receives your call. Please write down a conversation between you and Tom's brother.
Section C
Teaching Objective: Lead students to master present continuous tense.
Language focus : What are they doing?
They're having a picnic.
What's she doing?
She is ......
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Organizing the class.
Greetings between the teacher and students.
Step 2: Presentation
Say "When we have a picnic, what shall we do? Please look at the picture. The children are having a picnic. They are doing a lot of things here, for example, carrying water, collecting firewood and so on. Now, please listen to the recording and tick the words you hear.
Step 3 : listening
Play the recording and ask students to tick the words they hear.
Step 4 : Pair work
1. Ask two students to read the two samples.
2. Then tell the students who is Maria, Jane and Michael.
3. Ask students to do this exercise with their partners. One asks, and the other answers. For example, one student points to a girl, asks "What's Maria doing?" The other students answer "She is washing the dishes."
Step 5 : look, ask and answer
1. Say "There are eight pictures here, and what are they doing? Please look at the first picture, what is she doing?"
2. Ask one student to answer the question. Say "Now, you can ask and answer like us according to these pictures."
3. Ask the students to practice with their partners. While they are practicing, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
4. Ask several pairs to act it out.
Step 6 : listen, read and understand
1. First ask students to look at the picture and listen to the recording.
2. Ask the whole class to repeat it after the recording.
3. Do some understanding problems about this passage,
4. Ask several students to repeat it.
Section D
Teaching objectives: Students can master how to practice present continuous tense.
Language focus: What are they doing?
What is she doing?
What is he doing?
May I speak to...?
Can I give her a message?
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Organizing the class
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report .
Step 2: Presentation
Say "There is an old Mcdonald living in the forest. He is very lonely. He'd like to have a picnic with his friends .Will his friends come to have a picnic with him? Please read these pictures and then tell me your answer . "
Step 3: Look, read , and say
1. Ask students to look at these pictures and read the sentences . Then let them speak out the answer.
2. Ask several students to read the story to the whole class .
3. Have students do the role-play .
4. Ask students to look at the last picture. Asks "What are they doing now ?"
Step 4: Group work
1. Ask students to discuss these questions. While they are discussing, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary .
2. Ask some pairs to act it out .
Step 5: Grammar focus
1. Ask students to read these sentences.
2. Present some pictures on the blackboard . Ask "What are they doing ? What is she doing ?" Let students practice themselves .
Step 6: Useful expressions
1. Say "These are very useful expressions about making telephone calls. First, I'd like you to read them together ."
2. Ask students to make a telephone call to their friends according to these useful expressions .
Step 7: Pair work
1. Ask students to look at these pictures. Ask "What are they doing ?"
2. Ask students to discuss with their partners and fill in the blanks.
3. Let students do pair work with their partners. While they are practicing , the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary .
Step 8: Pair work
1. Ask students to number the sentences to make a conversation individually.
2. The teacher checks their answers. Ask the whole class to read the conversation out.
3. Ask students to practice with their partners about the conversation.
Step 9: Homework
1. Ask students to listen and read the conversation at home.
2. Preview next lesson.
Let's go to the zoo.
Section A
Teaching Objects: Learn some new words about animal names. Students can talk about their favorite animals.
Language Focus : What animals do you like best?
What's your favorite animal ?
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Organizing the class
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report .
Step 2. Presentation
Say "Please look at the picture . There are four children here. They are going to the zoo on Saturday . They are talking about their favorite animals. Please listen to the recording, then answer my questions .
Step 3. Listen, read and say
1. Play the recording for the first time. Ask students to find out the answer to the question "What are the children's favorite animals?"
2. Play the recording for the second time .Ask students to repeat it sentence by sentence.
3. Ask students to practice this dialogue with their partners.
4. Ask some pairs to act it out .
Step 4. Work alone
1. Ask students to complete the chart themselves, according to the conversation.
2. Ask some of the students to read their answers out.
Step 5. Pair work
1. Says "What animals do you like in the zoo ? Please talk with your about your favorite animals."
2. While students are practicing, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
3. Ask some pairs to act out their conversations.
Step 6. Look, listen and read
1. Says "Look at the four children. Where are they ? What are they talking about ? Do you want to know where they are going ? Please listen to the recording, and then answer the questions ."
2. Play the recording for the first time, ask students to answer the questions above.
3. Pointing to the picture, says "Now they are in the zoo. They are asking something from a guide .Listen to the recording, then tell me what they are talking about ."
4. Play the recording for the second time. Ask students to repeat it.
Step 7. Look, listen and circle
1. Ask some students to read these animal names.
2. Play the recording, ask students to circle the animals' names they hear.
3. Check their answers.
Step 8. Homework
1. Ask students to write down a dialogue about their and their friends' favorite animals.
2. Finish the exercise in the exercise books.
3. Ask students to recite the dialogues in the lesson.
Section B
Teaching objectives: Train the students' comprehensive ability of four skills.
Language focus: Let me help you.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Organizing the class
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report .
Step 2: Work alone:
1. Say "Please look at these pictures. These pictures are about a story. Look at the first picture. There is a baby monkey crying. Why is he crying? Who helps him at last? Please read the story alone. Then I'll ask you to answer these questions."
2. Ask students to read the story and finish the true or false exercise.
3. Check their answers.
Step 3: Pair work
1. Say "It's a very interesting story. I'd like you to act it out with your partners."
2. Ask students to practice the story with their partners. While they are practicing, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
Step 4: Listening
1. Ask some students to read the animals' names.
2. Play the recording. Ask students to number the words they hear.
3. Check their answers.
Step 5: Listening
1. Ask students to listen the conversation. Then fill in the blanks.
2. Check their answers.
Step 6: Class activities.
1. Say "Look at the picture. There are four children here. What are they doing? They are chanting. Would you like to chant like them? Let's do it."
2. Ask students to read the chant after the teacher.
3. Ask the whole class to read it together.
4. Divide the class into several groups. Have a competition among them.
Step 7: Homework
1. Finish the exercise in their exercise books.
2. preview the next lesson.
Section C
Teaching Objectives: Let students master how to ask the time.
Language Focus: What time is it?
What is the time?
It's one o'clock.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Organizing the class
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report .
Step 2: Presentation
Draw some clocks on the blackboard. The time is different. Says "What time is it?
It's twelve o'clock. What's the time? It's six o'clock. Please look at the picture in your text books. It's time for the children to go home.
Step 3: Look, listen and say
1. Play the recording for the first time. The students just listen.
2. Play the recording again. Students repeat it.
3. Ask students to read the dialogues with their partners.
4. Ask several pairs to act it out.
Step 4: Look, listen and learn
1. Say "Do you know how to recognize the time in English?" There are six pictures in your books. Each picture stands for one time. Now, Let's go to learn them."
2. Ask students to look through the six pictures to be familiar with them.
3. Play the recording for the second time. The students just listen.
4. Play the recording for the second time. The students repeat it.
5. Point to "past " and "to", explaining the difference between them.
6. Ask the whole class to read the time again.
Step 5: Pair work
1. Ask students to look at each picture and read the time out.
2. Ask one student read the activities out. Let every one knows what each picture stands for.
3. Ask two students to read the model. Point out the sentence pattern "It's time to do something"
4. Have the students to make conversations about each picture with their partners.
5. Ask some groups to act the conversations out.
Step 6: Listen, read and say
1. First ask students to recognize their animals.
2. Play the recording and ask students to find out the ways of asking time.
3. Play the recording again. Have students repeat it.
4. Ask students to practice the two dialogues with their partners. While they are practicing, the teacher moves around the classroom and provides help when necessary.
5. Ask some pairs to act out the conversations.
Step 7: Homework
1. Write down two conversations about the time according to part3.
2. Practice these conversations after class.
3. Preview next lesson.
Section D:
Teaching objectives:
1. Review the present continuous to consolidate what students have learned.
2. Master the pronunciations of "m, n, igh".
3. Master the ways of expressing time.
Language Focus: What time is it?
What's the time?
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Organizing the class
1. Greetings between the teacher and students.
2. Duty report.
Step2 : Listen.
1. Asks "What are they doing? What are they doing like?"
2. Play the recording for the first time, and students just listen.
3. Play the recording again and ask students to match the pictures with actions.
4. Check their answers.
Step3: Pair work
1. The teacher acts drinking water without any words, and asks students what she is doing.
2. Ask students to make actions, and let their partners guess what they are doing.
3. Ask some pairs to perform to the whole class
Step 4.listen and follow
1. Play the recording and ask students to repeat.
2. Ask the whole class to read these words.
3. Point out some errors they may make.
4. Point out how "igh" is pronounced .
Step 5.Grammar focus
1. Ask two students to read these sentences.
2. Write down some time on the blackboard ,and ask students to make conversation .
3. Ask some pairs to act the conversations out.
Step 6.Useful expressions.
1. Says"These are the useful expressions of this Unit .You must know how to use the them First ,please read them".
2. Provide some expression about some sentences .For example ,point out "could you tell me the time ?" is a polite way of asking the time .
Step7.Look and answer .
1. Say "There are six picture here ,Each picture stands for one time ,Now please make some conversations according to these pictures,"
2. Ask students to practice with their partners .
3. Ask some pairs to act out ..
Step 8.sing the song
1. Play the recording ,and ask students to listen.
2. Play the recording again and ask the students to follow.
Step 9. Homework
1. Practice these dialogues with Partners after class .
2. Write down a conversation about asking the time ,with "past" and "to" being used .
3. Review the whole unit .
Unit 4 Having fun outside the School Let's have a picnic
The First Period
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1. Knowledge Objects
Key vocabulary.
Target language.
Oral practice.
2. Ability Objects
Listening skill.
Communicative competence.
Making telephone calls.
Making suggestions.
Ⅱ. Teaching Key Points
Key vocabulary: have a picnic, make plans, right away, be free, have to, visit, tell...about, must, first, forget, swim, Saturday, Sunday
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficulties
Target language
What's up?
Are you free this Saturday?
Would you like to go out for a picnic?
How about...?
Let's....
Don't forget...
Ⅳ. Teaching Procedures
Step 1. Section A 1a Listen, read and say
1. Show a telephone (or draw a picture of one) to the students and say: "My telephone number is 4366783. What is your telephone number?"
2. Imitate the sound of the telephone ringing and show two pictures, saying: "This is Kangkang and this Jane. They are making a telephone call. Please listen to the tape."
Play the tape for the students. Play it again and ask the students to repeat.
Step 2. Section A 1b Work alone.
Show the table and tell the students: This is Jane's plan. Please finish it according to the conversation.
Ask two students to write down their answer on the blackboard and check the answer.
Answers:
Time Activity
Tomorrow afternoon discuss the picnic
Saturday visit a friend
Sunday go out for a picnic
Step 3 Section A 1c Pair work
Give the students a few minutes to practice the conversation and ask two pairs to act it out.
Step 4 Section A 1d Work alone
Ask the students to find out the following sentences from the conversation in 1a:
1. Would you like to go out for a picnic?
2. Then how about this Sunday?
3. Let's discuss it in our classroom...
Tell the students when we make suggestions we can use the sentences and we can also use "Don't forget..."
Get the students to read Kangkang's plan and give him suggestions on the picnic.
Possible answers:
Don't forget your lighter.
Don't forget two pails.
Don't forget to have a discussion at 4: 30.
Don't forget to do shopping at 5:00.
Ask a group of students to read their answers one by one.
Step 5 Section A 2 ,A 3 Pair work
1. A 2 Pair work
Ask the students to number the sentences to make a telephone conversation.
Answers: 2,5,6,8,3,4,1,7,9
Check the answers with the students and let the students practice the conversation with their partner.
2. A 3 Pair work
Show Tom's schedule and Mary's schedule to the students and say: Suppose you are Tom and your partner is Mary. You want to invite Mary to go swimming with you. Make a telephone call.
Step 6 Summary and Homework
1. Review some key words and target language
have a picnic, make plans, right away, be free, have to, visit, tell...about, must, first, forget, swim, Saturday, Sunday
What's up?
Are you free this Saturday?