Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

s: i think the two idioms “over the moon” and “on cloud nine” describe one’s feeling of happiness.
t: you are right. what about sad?
s: “down in the dumps” and “feel blue”.
t: excellent. you have done a very good job.

step ⅳ summary and homework
t: in this period we’ve learned some words related to emotion. and we also did some exercises to use the nouns and adjectives.
homework for today:
1. review what you have learned in this period.
2. preview grammar and usage.

the fourth period  grammar

teaching goals 教學目標
1. ability goals 能力目標
enable the students to use the past and the future tenses properly.
2. learning ability goals 學能目標
help the students learn how to use the past and the future tenses.
teaching important points 教學重點
the usage of the past and the future tenses.
teaching difficult points 教學難點
how to teach the students to use the past and the future tenses.
teaching methods 教學方法
explaining and practising.
teaching aids 教具準備
a multimedia computer.
teaching procedures ＆ ways 教學過程與方式

stepⅰ revision
t: yesterday, we learned some words and also some english idioms about emotions. let’s have a revision. try to explain them in english. the first one: hot under the collar?
s: the idiom means that somebody is very angry.
t: do you agree?
ss: yes.
t: next one: down in the dumps?
s: let me have a try. the idiom expressed the feeling of sadness.
t: you are right. the last one: on cloud nine?
s: that means someone is very happy.
t: correct!you all have done a good revision.

stepⅱ presentation
show students the following sentences, and ask them to speak out the difference.
1. he went to paris two years ago.
2. he will go to paris next year.
t: please look at the two sentences. can you tell the difference between them?
s: the first sentence talks about something that happened in the past and the second sentence talks about something that happens in the future.
t: exactly!

step ⅲ explanation
get the students to talk about the different forms of the past tense and the future tense.
t: we have learned what the past tense is and what the future tense is. there are many forms of each tense. let’s deal with the past tense first. please look at the following sentences.
show students the following sentences.
1. sang lan was born in ningbo, china in 1981.
2. she knew that in those years she was making her parents proud.
3. instead of crying about what she had lost, sang lan thought about what she could do to get better.
4. by the time she competed in the new york goodwill games, she had been a dedicated junior gymnast for eleven years.