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Ⅰ Teaching Content

Unit 6 How long have you been collecting shells?

Ⅱ Teaching Goals

1. Learn and master some new words.

2. Improve the student speaking ability and listening ability.

3. Master the main sentence patterns.

4. Talk about how long you have been doing things.

5. To enable to ask for help when having difficulties in learning.

6. To train students’ reading skill.

Ⅲ Teaching Important and Difficult Points

1. Key vocabulary

raise, several, skater

2. Target language:

How long have you been skating？

I have been skating for five hours.

How long did you skate?

I skated for two hours.

Ⅳ Teaching Methods

1. Communicative Approach

2. Pairwork or Groupwork

3. Listening Method

Ⅴ Teaching Aids

A tape recorder

Word cards

Ⅵ Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Greetings

1. Greet the whole class as usual.

a. What is the date today?

b. What day is it today?

c. What the weather like today?

2. Duty report.

Step 2 3a

1. Read the instructions to the class. Say, This activity asks you to give answers using language from this unit and from past units.

2. Look at the picture. Ask students what is happening in the picture. Students may not be familiar with the word marathon, meaning a long race.

3. Help the students form groups of three or four students to discuss this article and fill in the table.

4. Write some new words on blackboard and learn these words together.

5. Ask students to read the passage. You may want to read it aloud with the students or ask some students to read it aloud.

6. Check the answers.

ANSWERS

Sam 4hours

Lu Ning 4hours

Li Chen 1hour

Step 3 3b

This activity asks students to calculate the times students started the race.

1. Read the instructions.

2. Ask students to complete the task.

3. Check the answers.

ANSWERS

Alison 9am Lu Ning 10am

Sam 10am Li Chen 1pm

Step4 4

1. Read the instructions.

2. Ask two students to read the dialogue .

3. Ask another pair of students to ask the questions with another sport.

4. Ask students to complete the work in groups of four or as a full class activity.

5. Ask a few students to share the sample conversation.

Step 5 Summary and Homework

This class we have read a passage and done a survey. Also we have done some exercises of the workbook. It made us strengthen the target language we had learned in Section A.

Ⅶ Blackboard design

Unit 6 How long have you been collecting shells?

A:Liu Ying,what sport do you play?

B:Tennis.

A:When did you start?

B:When I was eleven.

A:So how long have you been skating?

B:Three and a half years.

Ⅷ Feedback