英语人教版七年级下册unit 11 grammar focus.doc

Unit 11 How was your school trip? Section A Grammar FocusTeaching goal:1.Understand three different sentence structures of simple past tense: affirmative sentence, negative sentence and general question using did/didnt and know how to make sentences flexibly.2.Know how to make conversations and talk about past events in real situations by using different sentence structures. 3. Learn to describe what people did in the western culture and develop a positive attitude towards the past.Teaching key points: how to use simple past tense using “did” structure.Teaching procedure:1. Warming up: say hi to students and ask some basic questions. For example: How is everything ? What is the weather like today? 改： What was the weather like yesterday? What day is it today?/whats the date? 改：What day was it yesterday?/what was the date?2. Lead-in 1) Picture read and talk. What did you do yesterday? I visited my grandpa yesterday. 2) Pair work: talk in pairs and ask each other what did they do yesterday.3. V-ed word review.1) shout out the V-ed.1 Look at the verbs on the screen and shout out the past forms out loud one by one in groups.2 Read the words: students read the verbs togeter in order to remember well.3 Find the rules of changing v into v-ed: discuss first and then talk freely. And the teacher can help to conclude and emphasize the four rules of changing a verb into its v-ed form. 2) Chant-making (to practice v-ed) The teacher gives an example first and asks students to do the same while clapping their hands. For example: What did you do?what did you do? Play, played, played.3) Listen to music and fill in the blanks.Listen to a song “whatever will be will be” and write down the V-ed in the blanks.4. Sentence study1) Finish the letters (letter writing to talk about the past): finish the letters in 3A and ask students to read them out together. 2) Watch a video: video-watching and notes-making Questions: What is is talked about in the video? What did you learn from the video?3) Review the different sentence structures: encourage students to make sentences using did and then read the general questions in the book with a rising tone.5. Group work 1) Make a survey (according to the handouts given by the teacher): interview two other people in the group to find about what they did last weekend. A: Did you read English last weekend? B: Yes, I did. / No, I didnt. 2) Group report After the interview, each group is supposed to make a report in front of the class (everyone should have the chance to talk). While listening, others should find out the possible mistakes and correct them. 1.A and B read English yesterday, but C didnt read English. 2.A watched TV with his parents, but B and C didnt watch TV.6