初中英语人教版七年级下册Unit7Section A 2d—3b.docx

Unit7 Section A (2a-2c)Teaching aims 1. Knowledge Words: cook, study Sentence structures: What are you/ they doing? We/ They are What is he/she doing? He/ She is Yes/No questions and short answers. 2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe the activities people are doing 3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different peoples lives in different areas. Important points: the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense Difficult points: Describe the weather and activities with the Present Progressive Tense Teaching procedures Step1. Warming up and revision 1. Daily greetings: Howre you today? Hows it going? How is the weather? Ask these questions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learned yesterday. 2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to read it to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations. 3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the seven dwarfs. Step2. Presentation and listening test 1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: Whats he/she doing? and Whatre they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements. 2Lets see what Joes families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b. 3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook. Compare cook with cooker. 4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it. Step3. Brainstorming 1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: Whats Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? Whatre Scott and Lucy doing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc. 2. Guessing game. Guess the activities people are doing. Step4. Game. Find the differences! 2 Ss in a group. Student A looks at the picture on P84 and Student B looks at the picture on P86. Each picture has the same people in it, but they are doing different things. Take turns talking about what the people doing in the picture. Attention: dont look at the partners picture. And the weather in 2 pictures could be compared too. weather sunny raining person P81 P82 Uncle Edsleepingcooking Aunt Betty playing soccer watching TV Nancy playing socce reading a book Rick swimming playing computer games Get Ss to describe the 2 pictures orally. Step5. Grammar Focus 1. Ask 2 Ss to read the sentences loudly and make interpretations. 2. Some oral exercises ab