Integrated Skills of unit 5 period 8 9
integrated skills of unit 5 period 8 9a simple past tense
task-based teaching aims:
1. cognitive development
make sure students can recognize the tense freely.
2. proficiency level
to develop their integrated skills through listening, reading, speaking and writing. they can use the tense to make up sentences and dialogues freely after learning. they can also recognize and use adverbs to order events.
3. affective learning
to develop their enjoyments of life and things around them, especially the success of learning, through interactive teaching and student-oriented teaching.
step 2 talk to students about what you did last weekend and ask some questions as you go along, e.g. i had a really good weekend.
did you have a good weekend?
i played tennis for two hours.
what did you do?
i watched a film on saturday evening. it finished at 11 p.m.
what did you do last saturday?
on sunday, i took a bus from wangfujing.
there were a lot of people.
what did you do on sunday?
step 4 teach them how to use the simple past tense to make positive and negative sentences, ask and answer questions. have them complete the conversation. check answers and clarify any misunderstandings.
mrs wang: did millie ask grandma about the dress on monday?
andy: no, she didn’t. she went to the reading club. did she help you with the shopping on tuesday?
mrs wang: yes, she did. did she play volleyball on wednesday?
andy: yes, she did. but she cleaned her bedroom.
mrs wang: i know! did she do her maths project?
andy: no, she didn’t. but she did some work for the fashion show.
b sequencing events
step 1 to recognize and use adverbs to order events. tell them to pay attention to the simple past tense. we use these adverbs to show the order in which things happen. we put the adverbs at the beginning of a sentence as they connect the sentences. we often use them to clarify a process or a particular sequence of events.
( first, then, next, afterward, finally)
step 2 ask students to do a presentation about their own day using the adverbs they have learned. encourage them to include more information. help them choose a title. remind them to use the simple past tense.
b1 briefly review the adverbs, using the picturesfor support.
ask students to write the letters in the boxes in ppart b1 individually. students check each other’s sequence of sentences. monitor the class as you walk around.
b2 set the context by reminding students about the fashion show described earlier in the unit before asking students to do b2. link simon’s experience to any other events your students may have been involved in. introduce the idea of woriting a picture story as a narrative using adverbs and the simple past tense to order events.