Teaching Objectives:
　　Students should master the dialogues, useful expressions about the present perfect tense.

Language Focus:
　　What's the surfing like today? Have you ever been to … How long have you been to …

Properties:
　　Tape recorder, topic cards, etc.

Teaching Procedures:
　I. Revision
　　Ask student answer the questions of Have you…
　　T: Have you finish you homework? /Have you got your notebooks?
　　S: Yes./ No.
　　T: What have you done for English study?
　　S: (They may have different answers.)

　II. Leading in
　　After a long vacation, Ss may remember something about their travel, let them think about where they have been. How to speak in English?

　III. Presentation
　　Write the sentences on the blackboard:
　　Have you ever been ______?
　　I have already been _______ several times. / I've never been there.

　　Explain the meaning of sentences and the word ever, already and never.
　　Open the textbook and turn to page 6, lead the Ss to read the word Bondi Beach, Cape Town, Hawaii, Newquay, surfed, water-skied, canoed, dived in part 2.
　　Let Ss read part 2 dialogs in pairs.

　IV. Practise
　　Let them close the textbook. Show a topic to Ss: Ted and Bruce's talk beside the beach. Say to Ss: 'Please image that you are Ted and Bruce, you are talking about your trip and water sports, you'd better use Have you ever been …, surf, uncle. Five minutes later, go to the front to show your talk with your partner.'
　　Check their talks in pairs, encourage them to speak aloud and practise as the actor.

　V. Presentation
　　Play the tape of Part 1 for the students to listen three times. The first time, let one or two Ss speak the main sentences in the dialog. The second time, volunteers repeat what they hear. The third time, try to rewrite the whole sentences.
　　Ss open their textbooks, and check what is not remembered.
　　Ss could find any problem about this dialog, T give them the answer.
　　eg. have a try, I don't know how to surf, Since last Wednesday, None of us has, etc.

　VI. Exercises in class
　　T read the questions below, and Ss give their answer, to improve and impress what have learned.

　　1. They are good ___________. Do you like __________? (surf) answer: surfers, surfing
　　2. We have been to Hawaii __________. (two) answer: twice
　　3. Mike hasn't done his homework _____.
　　A. already B. just C. yet D. either answer: C
　　4. Ted has been a bus driver _____ five months ago.
　　A. for B. since C. from D. in answer: B
　　5. - _____ have you been to Cape Town?
　　- Since last Wednesday.
　　A. How often B. How many times
　　C. How long D. How soon answer: C
　　6. She is very busy. He hasn't had a day _____ for three weeks.
　　A. busy B. free C. off D. on answer: C

　VII. Homework
　　1. Finish your dialog design after class, try to use what you have learn.
　　2. Finish the exercises on page 97.
　　3. To read Surfing in page 7, find the main sentences, and think about what kind of water sport you like best, why?