一、Teaching materials:

Unit 2 I was born in Quincy. (Module 8)

二、Targets for this period:

To get information from the reading material about one’s past life

To match photos with paragraphs, words with meanings and questions with answers.

To join sentences with “and, but, because, so, too” and “with”

三、Key points:

Key vocabulary-bedroom, garden, kitchen, living room, pond, tree, favorite, movie theater, store

Key structures -There were lots of things to do in Quincy, with many stores, two movie theaters, and football and baseball teams too.

四、Teaching methods:

Task-based approach and bottom-up approach

五、Teaching aids

Reading material, blackboard, pictures

六、Teaching arrangements:

Step One Lead –in: new words learning

1. Show the students some pictures and ask questions

1) What can you see in the picture?

2) Were you in the bedroom last night?

3) Were you comfortable in the bedroom?

4) Were you in the kitchen to cook yesterday?

5) Were you in the living room to watch TV or to talk to your parents last night?

6) Do you often have a bath?

7) Were you in the bathroom last night?

Keeping our bodies clean every day is necessary, I think.

8) Were you in the pond to swim and to catch fish last summer holiday?

9) Do you like climbing a tree? It’s dangerous. Don’t do it.

10) When we go to a town or a city, we can do shopping at the store or the shop, and then we can go to the movie theater.

2. Students match the given words with their meanings. (Activity 2)

Step Two Pre-reading: questions

1. Were you born in a village or a city?

2. Can you tell me the place you were born?

3. Do you know where Betty was born?

Step Three Fast reading: to read the passage and answer the questions (Activity1)

1. Where was Betty born? In Quincy

2. Who were John Adams and John Quincy Adams? Two presidents of the USA

3. When was the last time Betty was in Quincy? In 2003

4. In what year was Betty looking forward to coming to China? 2003

Step Four Careful reading: to find out the answers to the questions and do pair work (Activity 3)

e.g: Where were you born? Where is it?

I was born in Quincy. It is on the east coast of America.

1. Were there lots of Children? Yes, there were.

2. What was there to do?

There were two movie theaters, many stores, football and basketball teams.

3. Was anyone famous born there? Yes, two famous persons were born there.

4. Who were they? They were presidents of the USA.

5. What was your house like? It was big.

6. How many rooms were there? There were six rooms.

7. What was your bedroom like? There were posters on the wall.

8. Was there a garden? Yes, there was a big garden.

9. When was the last time you were there? The last time I was there was in 2003.

Step Five Detail explanation

1. I was born in Quincy, a town on the east coast of America.

Quincy 和a town on the east coast of America 是同位語

2. There were lots of things to do in Quincy, with many stores, two movie theaters, and football and baseball teams too.

昆西有許多商店，兩個電影院，還有足球隊和棒球隊。在那里有很多事可以做。

不定式to do在句中充當定語，修飾things

e.g: There are many letters to write. 有很多信要寫。

I have some clothes to wash. 我有些衣服要洗。

3. This was our last home in the USA, and the last time I was there was in 2003.

這是我們在美國的最后一個家，我在那兒的最后一次是在2003年。

I was there定語從句用來修飾the last time，主語是the last time

4. one day 有一天 （常與將來時連用，也可與一般過去時連用）

e.g: One day, I will go to the moon.

Step Six Students practice reading the passage aloud

Step Seven To join the sentences with “with”

1. detail explanation

with (prep.)

1) 和…在一起

2) 用某種工具

3) 帶有, 具有…的特征(表伴隨狀態)

2. answers in Activity 4

1) There was a big living room with a TV.

2) There was a big garden with lots of trees.

3) There was a pond with fish in it.

3. Comparison:

My mother and I were in the garden yesterday. 昨天我母親與我一起在花園里。

My mother was in the garden with me yesterday. 昨天我跟著母親在花園里。

Step Eight Students complete the sentences (Activity 5)

Step Nine To make a conclusion

Where were you/they born? We /They were born in …

I was born in ...

Where was he /she/the dog born? He /She /It was born in….

The maths teacher was into the classroom with a ruler in her hand.

Homework:

1. To write a composition of your past life

2. To finish Unit2, Module 8, 點中典

Blackboard designing

Unit 2 I was born in Quincy.

Where were you/they born? We /They were born in …

I was born in ...

Where was he /she/the dog born? He /She /It was born in….

The maths teacher was into the classroom with a ruler in her hand