Unit 1　The summer holidays

Teaching Plan for Lesson One

Step 1 Lead in questions
　　Introduce yourself to the class by saying " Hello everyone. I'm very happy to be your new English teacher this term. Do you like English? I am sure that we can become good friends and I will try my best to help you speak English well. Do you want to speak English as well as the native speakers? So you must study hard and do what I will tell you to do. Now I'd love to introduce myself to you so that we can become friends very quickly. My name is ……and it is really nice to see you. Now I would love you to introduce yourselves to us. In your introduction you have to tell us what your name is and what middle school you come from and then tell us what you are interested in or what you are good at. (The students can do this task one by one in a very short time.)

Step 2. Listen to the dialogue
　　Do you want to make new friends when you come to a new school?
　　Suppose you and a classmate of yours meet at the school gate for the first time at the beginning of the new term. But you don't know each other. So you will have a talk with each other in order to go to the classroom together. And maybe you and her/him will become very good friends later on.
Ask the students to listen to a dialogue that happens in such a case in order that they can know what they should say for the first time two people meet.
The students should find out the answers to some questions that the teacher shows them:
　　(1) Were Bill and Harry at the same school last year? ( No)
　　(2) Did Harry know Bob? ( Yes )
　　(3) How do you know it? ( They were in the same class )

Step 3. Listen to the second dialogue
　　Ask two students to come to the front of the class. Get to know their names by asking " What is your name ? " Then the teacher will point to these two students and speak to the whole class, " I am very glad to introduce you my new friends. This is Mary and this is John. "The students are then supposed to ask these two students some questions to get more information about them. Then let the students listen to the second dialogue which teaches the students how to make an introduction.

Step 4. Practice
　　The students are supposed to do group work---- four students make a group and each of them give a brief introduction about themselves. After they get to know each other they are supposed to ask and answer some questions about their summer vacation. The teacher may set an example----the teacher may let the students to then ask them some questions about her/ his summer holidays. 　　The questions can be:
　　What did you do during your summer holidays?
　　Did you enjoy your summer holidays?
　　Where did you go and who went with you ?
　　Then the teacher may answer these questions and put the above questions on the blackboard for the students. Then it is the students ‘ turn to practise.
　　The teacher may give the students five minutes for this task. The students are supposed to make a survey----every group chooses a leader who may write down all the answers and then in the end the group leader is asked to give a talk about the group members’ summer holidays.
“Mary stayed at home the whole summer holidays because she had to look after her mother. John went to some places of great interests and he enjoyed his summer holidays. Mike ┅┅”

Step 5. Useful expressions

Step 6. Practice
The students are supposed to do an exercise of their work books. P 57 Exercises 2 & 3

Step 7. Homework
　　Finish the exercise of workbook.
　　Review the new text.

Step 1. Revision
　　Ask the students to do an exercise in order to review some of the new words they learnt or used in the previous text. ( workbook P 59 Exercise 2. Fill in the blank with one word. The first letter of each word is given to help the students. )
　　First let the students do it by themselves then check the answers in pairs. At last the teacher checks their answers)

Step 2. presentation ( language study )
　　Ask the students “ What questions do you usually ask when you want to get to know a person for the first time you meet ?” ( collect their suggestions and then write them on the blackboard.)
　　(1) What is your name?
　　(2) Where do you come from?
　　(3) What class( grade ) are you in ?
　　(4) How many people are there in your family ?
Then the teacher may help them get more questions in order to get to know a new friend:
　　(5) Where did you go during the summer holidays ?
　　(6) What did you do in the summer holidays ?
　　(7) Did you see any new ( interesting ) films ?
　　(8) Did you read ( buy any new books?
The teacher may just gives the students the key words, such as “ books, films, and the question words ( what, where, how, and the more the better. The teacher may let the students form new questions by the given key words.)

Step 3. Oral practice ( pair-- work )
　　The students are supposed to ask and answer the above questions They can also talk about their plan for the next Sunday Then the students are supposed to say something about their partners to the whole class.

Step 4. Listen to the dialogue and then act it out.
　　Ask the students to listen to the dialogue. They are supposed to find out how to show others your love or best wishes when two people are having a talk with each other.
The useful expressions: Sb. sends his best wishes ( to you ).
Then the students are supposed to make up a similar dialogue and they can also use the useful expressions they learnt the day before. So three or four students form a group to make up the dialogue.
Introduce them some new expressions with the same meaning:
　　( the third part of Lesson 3 )
　　(1) Give my love to your sister ( family, brother……)
　　(2) Send my regards to your mother. ( parents )

Step 5. Language study
　　(1) When they use “Send my love to sb.” they must use it for family members or their very close friends.
　　(2) When they use “ Send my best wishes (regards) to sb.” they can use it freely but not for very intimate people.
　　(3) Usually when we can use the present continuous tense for future time. Although this tense is not a syllabus item, it is extremely common in English.
For example: What are you doing tomorrow? (It means what will you do tomorrow? )

Step 6. Doing exercise
　　The students are supposed to do the exercises on page 59 of their workbook . ( Exercise 1 & 3) They can do the exercises individually and then check the answers together.

Step 7. Homework
　　The students are supposed to do an oral report about what his / her partner did during the summer holidays.

Step 1. Revision
　　The students are asked to show their report to the whole class.

Step 2. Preparation for listening
　　Do the third exercise on page 127 of their workbook in order to review some useful expressions they may use every day.

Step 3. Listening ( workbook page 127)
　　(1) Ask the students to read the instructions first in order to know what they will hear after a while.
　　(2) After listening let the students check their answers in pairs then with the whole class. The students may listen to the tape for twice.
　　(3) Exercise 1 : Practise listening for specific words. ( names)
　　　　Exercise 2. Practise listening for specific information.

Step 4. Word study
　　Ask the students some questions about their subjects they have this term. For example:
　　(1) How may subjects do you have this term?
　　(2) What subjects do you like best? Why ?
　　(3) Which one are you good at?
　　Teach the students to pronounce these words correctly.

Step 5. Practice
　　The students are supposed to do pair work. Talk about the subjects they have just practise pronouncing. Their dialogue may based on the key words of the second part of Lesson Four.

Step 6. Writing
　　Sb Lesson 4. Part 3---- The students are supposed to write a passage about their summer holiday in the form of a letter to their good friends who are not at their school. After writing they can exchange their compositions with their partners and then help each other correct some of the mistakes.

Step 7. Homework
　　The students are supposed to finish the Workbook exercises on page 60. ( exercise 1.2 &3)