Period: The First Period

Content: Lesson 45

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Objects.

Teaching Objectives: the Passive Voice, be used for doing

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

　　Check homework.

III. Leading in

　　Revise the Passive Voice again. Take out some objects to ask and answer.

　　What’s this in English?

　　What’s it made of?

　　Where was it made?

　　Do you want to buy a …?

IV. Presentation

　　Ask the individual: Do you have a computer? Does Laura have a computer? Where was it made? Listen to the tape or watch the flash and answer the questions, then read and act it out.

V. Practice

　　Part 2. Discuss the model with the students. Point out that “by people” is usually omitted.

　　Do the first one with the whole class as an example, then let the students work on their own, write down the answers in their exercise books. Check the answers with the whole class. Explain the new words and expressions.

　　1. put… into

　　Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it.

　　2. point at

　　He is pointing at the map.

　　3. information: news

VI. Writing

　　Let the students practise this structure: be used for doing.

　　Show pictures: satellite, universe

　　Then let the students make sentences in their exercise books, Finally, check the answers with the whole class.

VII. Exercise in class

Fill in the blanks:

　　1. The moon travels round the earth. It’s our ___________.

　　2. There must be ___________ wrong with the radio.

　　3. She ___________ me a letter last week.

　　4. Sheep are ___________ by farmers for producing wool and meat.

　　5. Most of us are ___________in English. ( interested)

VIII. Homework

　　1. Finish off the workbook.

　　2. Make five sentences using “be used for doing”.