8A Unit6 Natural disasters 教案
3. finish the exercise on page 100 and check the answers.
4. do more exercises.
5. show the differences between the simple past tense and the past continuous tense.
step 7 homework
finish the workbook exercises.
8a unit 6 natural disasters grammar (2)
teaching objectives:
to learn more about the past continuous tense.
to learn the usage of “when” and “while” in the past continuous tense.
teaching contents:
words: discuss, terrible, break, snowball, snowman, hit
phrases: search the internet discuss…with… plan a trip to tangshan
on the side of the road drive you to school as usual break down
some others: project guidebook a terrible snowstorm
teaching preparations:
tape recorder
computer
pictures
teaching procedures:
step 1 revision
t: can you talk to your partner about your morning? and tell them what you were doing at each time. make a dialogue.
work in pairs and then ask some of the pairs to and act it out.
then let the students guess what i was doing this morning, using “were you…?”
do more exercises to consolidate the rules we learnt.
step 2 presentation
t: what were you doing when i came into the classroom just now?
ask some students and write down the sentences on the blackboard.
i was talking to the classmates when you came in.
i was reading the english book when you came in.
i was cleaning my desk when you came in.
t: ask two of the students to come to the front and do different actions, ask, what was a doing while b was…
write down the time and the students’ different activities on the blackboard and ask: what was a doing while b was doing something?
what was b doing while a was doing something?
he was playing football when the snowstorm hit liyang
they were talking loudly when the bell rang.
our teacher was talking to amy when i came into the office.
my mother was preparing the breakfast when i got up.
compare when and while, tell the students the differences between when and while.
step 3 practice
do some exercises
1. my wallet dropped on the ground _______ i was running.
2. __________ i was falling asleep, there was a loud knock on the door.
3. __________ he was reading, an earthquake started.
4. were the students listening to the teacher carefully __________ the teacher was giving a lesson?