Module 9 People and places
一、学习目标:
1. 重点单词：
postcard, call, lie, sun, line, take, wait, walk, trip, few, sales, enjoy, anyway, back, drive, off, hot dog, leave, restaurant, moment, place, things, most, still, star, run, study
2. 重点短语：
lie in the sun , take photos, wait for, a few, on sale, walk up, on a school trip, go back, get off, at the moment
3.重点句子：
1) We’re enjoying the school trip a lot.
2) I’m standing on the Great Wall of China and talking to you.
3) Tony is eating a delicious ice cream.
4) Wang Hui is taking lots of photos.
5) Lingling is buying a few presents and postcards.
6) They’re waiting for buses or trains.
7) At this moment, in different places of the world people are doing different things.
8) They’re working.
9) People aren’t having dinner.
10) Some people are still working and some are going home from work.
11) They are eating hamburgers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or cola.
12) Some people are seeing friends, calling home or shopping.
二、重点及难点:
1. Function: How to describe and ask what the people are doing at the moment.
2. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.
三、教学设计:
Unit 1 We’re enjoying the school trip a lot.
ⅠTeaching model
Listening and speaking 
ⅡTeaching method
 Interactive approach
ⅢTeaching aims
1. To get to know the key vocabulary.
2. To understand the dialogue.
3. To be able to describe what people are doing at the moment.
ⅣTeaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary:
postcard, lie, sun, line, take, take photos, wait, walk, trip, few, a few, sales, enjoy, anyway, back, go back
2. Key structures:
1) We’re enjoying the school trip a lot.
2) I’m standing on the Great Wall of China and talking to you.
3) Tony is eating a delicious ice cream.
4) Wang Hui is taking lots of photos.
5) Lingling is buying a few presents and postcards.
ⅤTeaching aids
Tape recorder, OHP, video, a clock
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Show some pictures of birthday and say what they are.
2. Match the words with the pictures.
3. Read the words after the teacher.
4. Introduce the new words.
5. Read the new words after the teacher.
Step 2 Listening practice.
1. Look at the pictures in Activity 1.
2. Play the recording through once while they just listen.
3. Ask the students to listen to the recording.
4. Play the recording again, then they can number the pictures.
5. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Step 3 Work in pairs.
1. Read through the words and expressions and have the students repeat them. Make sure they understand them.
buy postcards, call, lie in the sun, shop, stand in line, take photos, wait for the bus, walk on the Great Wall
2. Read the words and expressions together.
3. Look at the pictures and talk about them.
4. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Step 4 Listen and read.
1. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the conversation.
3. Read the conversation.
4. Act it out.
5. Complete the table in Activity 3.
6. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Keys:
Betty: She is standing on the Great Wall of China and talking to her mother.
Tony: He is eating a delicious ice cream.
Wang Hui: He is taking lots of photos.
Lingling: She is buying a few presents and postcards.
Daming: He is having lunch and lying in the sun.
Step 5 Underline the correct words.
1. Ask the students to read through the passage.
2. Underline the correct words.
3. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Keys: 1. trip     2. a few     3. sale    4. are enjoying
Step 6 Work in pairs.
Say what people are doing in the conversation.
—Betty is talking to her mother.
— …
Step 7 Listen and repeat.
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Ask the whole class to repeat.
3. Ask the students to practice the sounds in pairs.
Step 8 Work in pairs.
Say what the people are doing at the moment.
I’m learning English. My teacher is talking…
Step 9 Grammar
现在进行时：表示正在进行的动作或状态。
1. 构成：助动词be+动词的现在分词形式( -ing 形式）e.g.
I am talking with a boy. 我在同一个男孩说话。
She is listening to me .她在听我说。
We are eating. 我们在吃。
2. 动词的现在分词的变化规则:（动词-ing 的构成）
1) 一般在词尾加ing，如：read-reading, look-looking, play-playing, eat-eating  
2) 以不发音的结尾的词先把去掉再加，如：take-taking  have-having
3) 以一个辅音字母结尾的重读闭音结尾的词，应双写最后的辅音字母，再加-ing，如：sit-sitting, run-running, get-getting, swim-swimming, shop-shopping , put-putting, set-setting, stop-stopping, begin-beginning
4)特殊 lie-lying
3. 现在进行时的各种句式:
1) 肯定句：
They are waiting for buses.
主语+be +动词-ing＋．．．
2) 否定句：
They are not  (aren’t) waiting for buses.
主语+be +not +动词-ing＋．．．
3) 一般疑问句：
Are they waiting for buses?
Yes, they are./No, they aren’t.
4) 特殊疑问句：
特殊疑问词＋一般疑问句？
What are they waiting for?
They are waiting for buses.
Step 10 Do exercises
A.单词拼写：
1.Can you c_____（打电话）me tonight?
2.Betty is e________（享受）herself at her birthday party now.
3.Tony is l_______(躺)in the sun and eating an apple.
4. A__________, what time is it now?
5. The boy is t_________ photos on the Great Wall.
Keys: 1. call     2. enjoying     3. lying    4. Anyway    5. taking 
B. 完成下列句子：
1.大明在等谁?  
   Who ____ Daming______________?
2.我们非常喜欢学校的这次郊游。
   We _______________ the school trip _____________.
3. 看! 珍妮正躺在床上看书.
    Look! Jenny _________in bed and  _________a book.
4. 他们在商店买一些特价明信片。
    They ______________________ on sale at the shop.
Keys: 1. is; waiting for     2. are enjoying     3. a lot    4. is lying   5. reading
6. are buying a few postcards