英语人教版八年级下册Unit 5 What were you doing whe.doc

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?教学目标1.语言目标：谈论过去事情相关的词汇及句型。 2. 技能目标：能听懂谈论过去事情的对话材料；能讲述过去发生的事情；能写出重点单词和重点句型，并能讲故事。3. 情感目标：通过谈论过去的事情，培养学生处理问题的能力。教学重点短语: go off,pick up,fall asleep,die down,in the playground,in silence,at first句子: .What were you doing when the rainstorm came?I was doing my homework.2.What were people doing at the time of the rainstorm?3.My alarm didnt go off so I got up late.4.Ben was helping his mom make dinner when the rain began to beat heavily against the windows.5.Kate realized her bag was still at home.6.We were having fun in the playground when the school bell rang.教学难点1.掌握过去进行时的含义、构成及用法。2.区分过去进行时与一般过去时的区别。第一课时 Section A (1a 2d)Step 1 Warming up Play a guessing game: Ask a student to do an action, then ask and answer questions like this:T: What is he/she doing?S: He/she is reading/watching TVCall some students to do other actions, then have some pairs ask and answer. Explain the structure of the present continuous tense.Step 2 PresentationShow a picture of playing basketball and ask:T: What is the boy doing?S: He is playing basketball.Then say: If the action happened at this time yesterday,how can we talk about it?Help students say: What was the boy doing at this time yesterday?T: What was the boy doing at this time yesterday?S: He was playing basketball.Explain the usage and the structure of the past progressive tense:was/were + v.-ingShow the pictures of doing the homework, reading, going to work, waiting for the bus and shopping.Have students work in pairs , let them ask and answer.Step 3 Presentation1a. Look at these people. Where were they and what were they doing at he time of the rainstorm?Ask them to talk about it.Then ask some students to answer the questions.Have students read the instruction in 1a and match the statements with the people in the picture.Check the answers in class.Step 4 Listening Have students read the phrases in 1b and the question the TV reporter asked aloud.Ask them to listen to the tape and circle the correct responses in the conversation.Check the answers.Step 5 PracticeLet students work in group of four.One is the reporter, and others are the people in picture a, b , c,d. Then ask them to think about what their family were doing at the time of the rainstorm and make their own conversations with their partners.Call several pairs to act out their conversations in class.Step 6 Listening Teach the new words “alarm” and the phrases “go off” and “take a shower” by using pictures.Have students look at the pictures in 2a and describe them.Tell students that this is a story about a boy yesterday morning.Have them look at the pictures and guess the order of the story happened.Play the tape the first time, students only listen and get a general idea of it.Play the tape the second time. This time ask them to write the numbers in front of the pictures.Check the answers in class.Let students go through the sentences for each picture in 2a.Play the tape again and let them complete the sentences.Check the answers in class.Step 7 PairworkHave students read the sentences in 2a and 2c, and the teacher explains the adverbial clauses with “when” in 2a and 2c.Then ask them to describe the picture by using the adverbial clauses with when.Have students work in pairs to make up a conversation between the boy and a TV reporter to retell the story according to the information in 2a.Call some pairs to act out their conversations in class.Step 8 Role-play First, have students role-play the conversation in 2d in groups and choose the best one.In groups, students discuss the language points and solve the problems. The teacher walks around and gives them some help.Explain the key phrases “pick up”and the adverbial clauses with “when”and “while”in 2d.Then tell them the different usage of when and while.Let students do some substitution drills to practice the usuage of when and while.Step 9 Language points and Summary 1.pick up 1)意为“拾起；捡起；拿起”Jack picked up a wallet in the street.2) 意为“顺便接某人”Wait here and Ill pick you up at 3 p.m.2.Oh,I was in the kitchen helping my mom.句中helping my mom是现在分词短语作伴随状语。它所表示的动作与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生。Step 10 Exercises用所给词的适当形式填空。1. Mr. Wang _(mend)his bike at that time.2. My brother _(wash)the clothes when I got home yesterday evening.3. The children _(sing)under the tree at eight a.m. yesterday morning.4. Look!What _the boys _(do)over there?5. When I _(see)Jack yesterday aftern