一、教学目标

1．知识目标

继续学习现在进行时的用法。

2．能力目标

熟练运用现在进行时造句，并能进行肯定句、否定句、疑问句之间的互相转换。

二、教学过程

Step 1 Revision

1　 Check the -ing form of the verbs learnt so far: help, take, carry, think, catch, mend, have, drink, eat, ride, fly make, jump, sing, go, come, work, read, write, listen, clean, give, put, swim, get, play ski, skate. Pay special attention to getting, putting and swimming as well as the -ing form of verbs ending in silent e.

2　 Revise What are you doing? I'm reading a book, etc.

Step 2 Presentation

1　 Get a student to perform some actions silently. (You could give the student a card with a list of actions on it.) Ask the class What's he / she doing? Help the class to answer I think he /she's …. See if any students can tell a story through actions, e.g. opening the door, sitting in a chair, reading a book, eating, drinking, watching TV, cleaning the room.

2　 Repeat the above procedures, but ask the class Is he / she reading / writing… ? Help the students to answer Yes, he / she is. or No, he / she isn't. Note that the question should be in the rising tone.

3　 Teach sleeping, cooking, and standing by having a student act these actions out and the class guessing.

Step 3 Ask and answer

SB Page 22, Part 1. In pairs, students ask and answer questions about each picture. Walk around the class and give help when needed. Now repeat the exercise with the words covered. Note that when adding -ing to verbs like put, sit, run, swim, etc., do not forget to double the final consonant.

Step 4 Presentation

Perform an action (e.g. cleaning the house) and get the students to guess what you are doing, by asking Are you making a cake? Write Are you…? on the Bb. Answer No, I'm not. Now have a student come and perform an action. You could give him / her a card with an instruction about what to do, for example, playing with a yo-yo, swimming, etc. The class tries to guess what he / she's doing by asking, Are you sleeping? etc. If the students don't know the English word, have them give the Chinese word and then write the English word on the Bb. For example, the students say 跳舞 and you write dancing on the Bb.

Step 5 Listen and answer

SB Page 22, Part 2, Listening Cassette Lesson 82. Let the students read the questions in the Wb Lesson 86, Ex. 1 before playing the tape.

Listening Text

A: Hi, Bill! Can you come out and play football with me?

B: Sorry, I can't.

A: What are you doing?

B: Look. I'm doing my homework.

A: Is Jim in?

B: Yes.

A: What's he doing? Is he doing his homework, too?

B: Let me see. No, he's making a plane.

The answers are: 1　 He is doing his homework.

2　 He is making a plane. 3 No, they can't.

Step 6 Game

SB Page 22, Part 3*. This part is optional. Read through the parts with the students and get them to play the game in Step 4. Now divide the class into small groups of 4-6. One person in the group performs an action on the list, and the others in the group try to guess. Once they guess, it's another student's turn to perform an action. By using small groups, everyone in the class is able to participate in this activity. Encourage students to invent actions with verbs they know.

Step 7 Workbook

SB Page 96, Wb Lesson 82, Exx. 2 - 4. Ex: 2 provides a chance to learn the -ing form of most of the verbs taught so far. If possible, you may ask them to make up verb phrases with these verbs.

Ex. 3 can be assigned as homework.

Do Ex. 4 orally in class. Note that in Chinese, the verb is not inflected.

Homework

Write Exx. 2 and 3 in the exercise book.