Teaching Objectives:

了解一些英美人的名字的缩写；

巩固现在进行时的运用。

Language FOCUS:

a lot (of) , many, much  the present progressive tense 

Properties: Tape recorder, cards with English names

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Show the cards with English names for students to tell which is family name, given name, how to call them.

Ask the students What’s your full name? What do your parents call you for short?

Step 2 Practise

Showing the English names cards, Ask Is … (name) a boy’s name?

Get the students to talk about the names in pairs after a model.

A: Do you know if Mary is a girl’s name?

B: Yes, it is a girl’s name/I m not sure, etc.

Point out the full and short forms of names. Practise the other question froms and answers in the same way.

Then. let them practise in pairs.

Step 3 Presentation

Teacher: What’s your name, please?

Students: My name is Zhang Da Min.

T: Can I call you Da Min?

S: Yes. (Sure)

S: What’s your name, please?

T: My name is Elizabeth, you may call me Liz, that’s short for Elizabeth.

Step 4 Read and act

Play the tape for students to listen, and ask Where is Sun Huifang from?

Have the students read the dialogue.

Then get them to work in pairs and act out the dialogue in pairs, they may use their own names or make - up names.

Step 5 Ask and answer

Have the students look at the picture and ask and answer questions about the picture.

— What is the boy doing?

— Which boy?

—— The boy standing by the window.

— Oh, he’s cleaning the window.

 Call individual student to the front, and make an action for the students to guess.

—Are you dancing?

—Yes, I am./No, I am not. (I'm not)

 Step 6 Exercises in class

  Write out the questions

  The boys are having a football lesson on the playground.

  ① Who — ?

  ② What — ?

  ③ Where — ?

  Answers: ① Who is having a football lesson on the playground?

  ② What are the boys doing on the playground?

  ③ Where are the boys having a football lesson?

Step 7 Homework

1.Describe the picture in present progressive tense.

2.Finish off the workbook exercises.