Lesson 38

Period: The second period

Content: Lesson 38

Properties: Tape recorder; picture

Teaching objectives:

　　1. Study the grammar: the passive voice in the Past Simple Tense.

　　2. Learn some new words and useful expression.

Language Focus:

　　1. be interested in…

　　2. on display

　　3. be covered with

　　4. in the 1920s'

Teaching Procedures:

　　Ⅰ. Organizing

　　Greetings.

　　Ⅱ. Revision

　　1. check the homework

　　2. Revise the useful expressions and some new words.

　　Ⅲ. Presentation

　　Take out a picture and ask the students:

　　What's this animal called?

　　Ask some students to talk about the dinosaur.

　　Ⅳ. Pre-reading

　　Read over the questions with the students. Have the students guess the meaning of 'on display' from the context. Then have the students discuss the questions in pairs.

　　Ⅴ. Listening

　　1. At first, ask students to read over the questions in the Exercise 1 in the workbook.

　　2. Then close books and listen to tape.

　　3. Play the tape again and answer the questions.

　　Ⅵ. Teaching Language Focus

　　Explain some useful expressions in the passage.

　　1. be on a visit to…

　　2. be interested in…

　　3. try to do something　　

　　4. be covered with

　　e.g. He is on a visit to Shanghai.

　　Tom is interested in English.

　　I'll try my best to pass the exam.

　　The ground was covered with snow.

　　Ⅶ. Teaching Grammar

　　1. Let the students find out these sentences with the Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense.

　　2. Have the students make sentences with the Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense.

　　Ⅷ. Workbook.

　　Do Exercise 2 , and write down the answers.

　　Ⅸ. Exercises in class

　　Change the active sentences into the passive sentences:

　　1. We bought a new TV last year.

　　2. They didn't find the lost boy.

　　3. My Uncle built a new house last year.

　　4. My brother finished his homework yesterday.

　　5. Dinosaurs laid the eggs long long ago.

　　Ⅹ. Homework

　　1. Read the passage.

　　2. Finish off the workbook exercises.