Teaching Objectives:

The simple past of action verbs.

Time adverbials of simple past

Grasp question form of the Simple Past Tense.

Properties: Tape recorder. Overhead Projector

Language Focus:

last week/night/month a moment ago  Yesterday morning just now  the day before yesterday, have-had  half an hour ago, call-called  do-doing  by the way

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Revision

What did you do yesterday /the day before yesterday/last night…?

Step 2 Presentation

Ask the student on duty?

Who isn’t here today? Where is he/she?

Who wasn’t here yesterday?

Where was he/she?

Help Ss to form the rule: am/is→was  are→were

Step 3 Ask and answer

Part 1

Read through the questions with the students and then let them ask and answer in pairs.

Part 2

1. Read through the choices with the students. Then choose two students to give a model for the class.

Let the students ask and answer in pairs. Choose several pairs to give several of their sentences to the whole class.

2. Ask students to remember time adverbials of simple past.

last week/night/month  just now = a moment ago …ago  yesterday/the day before yesterday.

3. Make sentences with the simple past adverbials.

Did you have a party on your birthday last year?

His grandpa went away just now.

He saw a film a few days ago.

Everyone came here yesterday.

Step 4 Read and say

1.Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.

2.Ask questions.

When did Sally call Lucy? Why did she call Lucy?

Was Lucy at home? Where was she?

What did Lucy do?

How did she like Guangdong food?

What did Lucy and her uncle have for dinner?

3. Ask students to form rules of past form of some action verbs.

call—called  do—did   have—had

4.Explain the words and phrases: just now, match, by the way, etc.

5. Have the students practise reading the dialogue in pairs.

Step 5 Exercises in class

Fill in the blank with the proper form of the given verbs.

1. She ____(come) to see me last night.

2. I____(get) to school late yesterday.

3. Mary ____(be) born on Apr. 20,1985.

4. My father____(go) to shanghai on business 3 days ago.

5. He ____ (leave) here just now.

Key: 1.came 2.got 3.was 4.went 5.left

Step 6 Homework

1.Finish off the workbook exercises.

2. Make a dialogue like the one in the book.

3. Remember past form of verbs.