irregular and regular verbs to talk about past activities. Teaching Tools:Recorder
Teaching Steps:
Step one : Warm up
sing a song.
Step two:listen and point
1.Ask questions about the pictures in Chinese,e.g. What was Daming thinking about in Picture 1? What was he thinking about in picture2?What was Daming thinking about in picture3? How did Sam carry the watermelon in picture4? What happened to Daming in the last picture? What did the girls do in the last picture?
2.Write the words'then','and' and'so'on the board.Explain that these words link sentences or clauses together.Say that 'so'indicates result,e.g. I went to bed at 11p.m.,so I was late for school.Point out that 'and' means 'following this' Show the example in Pictures5and 6,i.e.Then Sam fell off his bike!And the watermelon bumped my head! The adverb 'then'means'after that'.We often use 'then'when we are giving a sequence of instructions.
Step three:Tell the story
1)Write the following on the board:
I ate ten nangoes,so...
I didn't do my homework,so...
I cleaned my teeth and then I...
I fell over and...
2)Have the students work in pairs and complete the
sentences.Explain that there is no one correct answer for this exercise,however,the sentences must be grammatically corret and they must make sense.
Example Answers:
I ate ten mangoes, so I was sick/went to bed/went to the doctor.
I didn't do my homework, so my mother was angry/the teacher was angry.
I cleaned my teeth and then I went to bed/watched TV/read a book.
I fell over and hurt my knee/I cried.
Step four: Homework
Unit 2 Sam had lots of chocolate biscuits.
Teaching aims:Sam had lots of chocolate biscuits yesterday, so today he's got a stomachache. Teaching importance:Talking about illnesses
Teaching difficulities:Using conjunctions 'so' and'and' to link ideas
Teaching Tools:Recorder