英语人教版八年级下册Unit 5 Section A 1a-1d教案

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?Period 1 Section A 1 (1a-1d)Teaching Aims:1. Language Aim: Students can describe what they were doing at a certain time or period of the past.2. Ability Aim: Students can get a primary impression of the past progressive tense and make use of the sentence pattern.3. Moral Aim: Students can recall what was happening at a certain time in the past.Teaching Key Points:1. New words: rainstorm2. Sentence pattern: a. What were you doing at the time of the rainstorm? I was (taking a shower) at the time of the rainstorm.b. What were you doing when the rainstorm came? I was (reading in the library) when the rainstorm came.Teaching Difficult Points:Introduction and explanation of the past progressive tense.Teaching Tool: Multi-media equipmentTeaching Procedures:Step 1 GreetingT: Hello, students, how was your holiday? What did you do on Tomb-sweeping Day/Qingming Festival?Step 2 Lead inT: Today we are going to learn a new unitUnit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came? Before our class, Id like to ask you: what they are doing now? (repeat) Yes, I am/We are having an English class. OK. Thats very easy for you to answer. Then if I ask you what were you doing at this time last week. Guess how to answer. Have a try. Yes, you can say I was/We were having an English class.Step 3 PresentationT: Well done! This is the new tense we are going to learn, that is the past progressive tense. It is similar to the present progressive tense but its a different concept. Lets have more comparisons. Please look at the first picture. What is this boy doing now? Yes, he is playing soccer. Then, lets put the time back to 4:00 pm yesterday. What was the boy doing at 4 oclock yesterday afternoon? Yes, this time we say he was playing soccer. Lets look at the other pictures.Now we can summarize the differences between the present progressive tense and the past progressive sense.现在进行时过去进行时含义：表示现在正在进行的动作结构：is/am/are+doing例句：I am swimming.含义：表示过去某个时刻或者一段时间正在进行的动作结构：was/were+doing例句：I was swimming.Step 4 PracticeT: Now lets have a game. I will show you some pictures very quickly and you need to speak out what the people in pictures were doing. Round One. Are you ready? Lets start! OK. Times up. What was the first people doing? Whod like to have a try? Please raise up your hands.(Round Two is more difficult and so is Round Three.)She was sweeping the floor.She was doing her homework.He was reading a book.It was swimming.They were watching TV.They were cleaning up.They were playing basketball.They were running.She was making the bed.All of you did a really good job. Now lets go through these sentences together. Please read after me loudly.Step 5 Pre-listeningOK. Dear students, have you ever experienced a rainstorm (show a picture of rainstorm on the screen) . What is a rainstorm like? Yes, the rain is heavy and the wind is strong. People usually feel scared. Suppose there was a rainstorm in this area. Id like to know what people were doing when the rainstorm came.Now please work on 1a. Where were the people at the time of the rainstorm? Match the statements with the people in the picture.1. _ I was in the library.2. _ I was in my house.3._ I was on the street.4._ I was at the bus stop.Step 6 While-listeningLets listen to a TV report and find out what were they doing when the rainstorm came. Please circle the correct response in 1b. a. doing my homework / studying b. playing basketball / reading c. going to work / waiting for the bus d. walking home / shoppingStep 7 Speaking1. Now lets do some oral practice. First please work in pairs on 1c. Talk about what the people in 1a were doing at the time of the rainstorm.2. What we talked just now is what other people doing at the time of the rainstorm. But I also want to now what you were doing at the time of rainstorm. So lets do a group work. One of you will be the reporter and the other one will be the newscaster. The reporter needs to ask 4 people what they were doing at the time of the rainstorm, and the newscaster should take notes and then report the news. NameActivityYou can follow the following sentence patterns.Reporter and interviewees:R: What were you doing at the time of the rainstorm?A: I was .R: What were you doing when the rainstorm came?B: I wasNewscaster:Welcome to News 121. There was a rainstorm yesterday. When the rainstorm came, A was B wasThanks for your listening. Goodbye!Step 8 Summary and consolidationOK. Everyone does a good job and I am so proud of you. Now lets summarize what we have learned in this class. Today we learned a new word: rainstorm. And we got a primary understanding of a new tense, that is the past progressive tense. We did a lot of practice by listening and speaking and described what people were doing at the time of the rainstorm. Now please look at the picture. There are many people doing different things at the time of the rainstorm. Lets describe them once again.Step 8 HomeworkNow here is your homework.1. Ask 4 people what they were doing at the time of the rainstorm, and then write a news report.2. Preview page 34