Period: The First Period

Properties: Overhead projector, some objects

Teaching aims:

1. Knowledge aims

Students should grasp: ①the Past Continuous Tense; ②the Superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs; ③the subjects they learn.

2. Ability aim

Students should make some sentences with the past continuous tense.

Language focus:

1. The Past Continuous Tense

2. The Superlative forms: the most popular, the best

3. as … as; not so/as…as

4. The subjects they learn.

Chinese, English, maths, physics, politics, art, PE, music, history, geography, biology, chemistry

5. New words

rob, hard-working

Teaching procedures:

a). Organizing the class

greetings and a duty report.

b). Revision

Dictate some words: while, repair, alone, steering wheel, breathe, diver, jump, another, ring, be worried about

c). Ask and answer

Students answer the question, “What were doing between 12:30 and 3:30 last night?” according to the picture, then give their own answers. Try to find out the “robber”.

Explain the word rob. rob means “to steal money or property from a person or bank” etc. robber is a person who steals money or property.

d). Practise

Students ask and answer questions in pairs, then share their answers with the whole class.

Hard-wording means “working with a lot of effort”.

e). Explaining and Practice

Students compare the subjects after the model “not so/as…as”.

Here are some other things to compare.

1. rice, noodles, dumplings, mooncake, porridge, etc ….(not) as delicious as …

2. basketball, football, volleyball, tennis, baseball, etc … (not) as interesting as…

3. elephants, monkeys dogs horses, tigers, lions, etc ….(not) as big/lovely/strong, etc.as…

f). Homework

1. Review the grammar for today.

2. Prepare sth. About “Titanic” (film or the accident).

3. Do exercises on page 127.

g). Summary

Fill in the blanks with proper forms of “rob” and “steal”.

—Have you ever been ?

—Well, yes, I had my watch once, but I wasn’t really ,because I left it in my club. All the same, someone it.

—Yes, though it’s not the same as being of everything you are carrying. Somehow, if something is form the place where you leave it, it’s not so bad as when you are
personally and cannot prevent it.

Keys: robbed, stole, robbed, stole, robbed, stolen, robbed