一、Teaching aims:<?
1. Master the Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense
2. Understand the text
3. Learn how to use some useful expressions
二、Language Focus:
a visit to …, be interested in …
a group of, on display,
be covered with, in the 1920s’
in the future
三、Important points:
1. How to use some useful expressions.
2. Get the students to retell the story.
四、Teaching methods:
1. Let the students sum up “What do you know about dinosaurs?” by reading the flashcards prepared.
2. Talking about the pictures.
五、Teaching aids:
A picture. A recorder. The flashcards
六、Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Let some students show their maps to the class, and tell something about their maps.
Get the students to look at Exercises 2 in P145. Choose some pairs to make dialogues.
Step 2 Leading in
T: In Lesson 37, we’re known that Du Hui went to the biggest science museum. He saw many old inventions on show. They were all invented in hundreds of years ago. Do you think it is very interesting to go to the museum? Yes. Today we’ll visit the <?
Step 3 Presentation
1. T: Can you say something bout dinosaurs in Chinese or in English? Let the students discuss it first. Then open the workbook. Look at Exercises 1. Read through the questions first, let the students read the passage quickly and answer the questions orally. The teacher may give them correct instructions. Ask them to find the answer in the reading.
2. Play the tape, get the students to listen and repeat after the tape sentence by sentence.
3. Ask two or three students to read the passage for the class.
4. Show language focus:
Be on a visit to…
He is on a visit to
Be interested in …
I am interested in English.
Try to something
I’ll try my best to learn English well.
Be covered with
The ground was covered with leaves.
Step 4 Teaching Grammar
T: The Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense. Let the students find out these sentences.
1. These eggs were laid by dinosaurs long long ago.
2. It was discovered in
