Language focus:

1.    Learn to talk about something has done.

2.    Try to understand the content and read the dialogue fluently, the pronunciation and intonation should be right.

3.    Master the following materials:

4 skills Words: such, fail, practice, business

Phrases: so far, on business

Sentences: He’s gone to …

4.    Master the following materials:

2 skills Words: New Zealand

Teaching Materials

1.       Functional and notional items

Learn to talk about something has done

2.       Language materials

Words: such, fail, practice, New Zealand, business

Phrases: such great fun, on business, so far

Sentences: Time flies!

 He’s gone to New Zealand on business.

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures.

Teaching Procedures:

1. Organization of the class

We are going to talk about Bruce and Ted again. In grammar, we are going to talk about the present perfect tense.

Showing aims

   Get the students to know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:

   1. Master some useful expressions

   2. Practise the Present perfect Tense

   3. Practise speaking English

Ⅱ. Revision

   1. Check the homework.

   2. Revise the passage “surfing”. Ask one or two students to retell the story in front of the class.

   3. Revise the Present Perfect Tense. Get the students to make dialogues in pairs, then have some of them act out their dialogues to share with the class. Pay attention to the use of the Present Perfect Tense.

III. Presentation

1.       The teaching of the new lesson

A.    Lesson 7

In lesson 5, we know Bruce will show Ted how to surf. Can Ted surf now?

B.    Listen and answer

Can Ted surf? What has Bruce been doing every day? Why?

When is Ted leaving for home?

How about Bruce?

Where is Bruce’s uncle?

C.    Read and learn

Teach: *on Bondi Beach

*such great fun: very funny

such+adj. +n.(不可数/复数)   such beautiful flowers

such a + adj. + n.(可数名词单数) such a beautiful flower

so+ adj. So beautiful a flower

如果在数量词 “many, much, few, little”前，要用 “so”

eg: so much water, so many people

   * fail (in) the exam

fail to do sth.=can’t do sth.

eg:  fail the exam=not pass the exam

fail to catch the bus= miss the bus

   * need more practice

 practice: 练习， 实践 （为不可数名词）

 如： Practice makes perfect.

 Practice : 练习（为及物动词）

如：practice doing sth.

* Time flies.

* gone to去了，强调不在说话地点

been to 去过，强调对某地有所了解，可以在说话地点

  eg: Where is he?  He’s gone to his home.

* on business

IV. Practice

 Part 2. Go through the dialogue with the students. Then get the students to ask and answer in pairs. Remind the difference between “have / has gone to” and “have / has been to”

V. Practice

Each student interviews a student or a teacher by asking the following questions:

What places have you been to in China?

Have you ever been to…?  

How many times have you been there?

When did you go there?

How did you go there?

What interesting things did you do there?

Do you want to go there again?

Then ask the students to write a short passage about the interview, get one or two students to read for the class.

VI. Practice

Have the students give their own answers to the questions in the book.

Ask the students to ask and answer in pairs.

VII. Workbook

Do Exercise I with the class. First have the students do it individually, then check with the whole class.

The answers are: have got; Have been; went; gave; Have taken; took; be; has gone

Do Exercise 3 with the whole class. And get the students to learn the sentences.

Ⅷ. Homework

Finish off the exercises in the workbook.