Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Learn the differences between the Past Simple Tense and the Past Perfect Tense
2. Understand the rest of the text
3. Learn some useful words and expressions
Language focus:
lazy, final/ finally, performance, never mind, boring, be pleased with
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showily the teaching aims
II. Revision
Check homework. Get the students to retell the story.
III. Leading in
Ask: Do you want to know who won the match at last? Get the students to read the end of the story. Try to find the answer quickly.
IV. Reading
Ask more questions about the passage. Who was the first to score in the second half? What happened in the last six minutes? Why did the girls' team win the match?
Get the students to discuss them in pairs.
V. Practice
Play the tape for the students to listen and read after the tape, then explain some language points. Let the students retell the story.
VI. Teaching Grammar
The Past Perfect Tense shows an action happening before a certain time in the past. It is formed by “had + vpp” For example:
1. Did you see the football match?
No, I didn’t. When I got there, it had already finished.
2. Did you go to Beijing last Sunday?
No. The train had already left when I got to the station.
VII. Practice
Go through Part 2, Explain some words.
1. miss: miss somebody (想念) , miss the bus (错过), My watch is missing. (丢失)
2. boring: not interesting
Then do Exercise 2 in the workbook, and check the answers with the whole class.
The answers are: 1. had left 2. had gone 3. had begun 4. had heard 5. has been put 6. had disappeared 7. had worked 8. had been stolen
VIII. Presentation
Part 3. Speech Cassette, Books closed. Play the tape for the students to listen to and find the answer to this question: Did Duhui see the match?
Books open, play the tape again for the students to listen and repeat. Pay attention to the phrases: 1. talk about 2. amazing 3. be angry with somebody 4. be pleased with somebody 5. by the time
IX. Workbook
For Exercise 3, get the students to work on it individually, then check the answers with the whole class. The answers are:
1. When I got to school, the students had already left school.
2. Before we moved into the city, our car had broken down.
3. Twenty minutes later when we got to the airport, he had already gone to the hotel by taxi.
4. When the police began to catch him, he had already gone to Canada with his family.
5. She said she had already got everything ready before I came.
X. Summary
Exercises in class
Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 当我昨天到达电影院时，电影已经开始了。
2. 他说他没读过如此有趣的故事。
3. 这个法国人想起来他学过“cough”这个词。
4. 他记得钥匙忘在房间里了。
5. 当我到家时，妈妈已经睡觉了。
IX. Homework
1. Retell the story.
2. Do Exercise 1 in the workbook.