Language focus: beat, goal, by the time, realize, check-out

Teaching Objectives:

1. Understand the dialogues.

2. Learn some useful expressions.

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

1.    Check the homework

2.    Revise the names of different sports.

3.   

III. Leading in

Just now we have revised some names of sports. Can you tell me what sports do you like best?

Which do you prefer, football or basketball? Why? Can you tell some football or basketball super stars in the world?

Show them some pictures about football stars. And ask: Do you know the football star? Which team is he from?

Then say today there is a football match, Did Jim watch the football match? Did Li Lei watch it? Play the tape for the students to find the answer, then check the answers with the whole class.

IV. Presentation

Let the students go through the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook, read the dialogue on P76. Answer these questions, then check the answer.

V. Practice

Play the tape for the students to listen to and repeat, then go through the dialogue. Explain some language points: 1. win - won - won/ winner, 2. beat somebody 3 .win the game/ match 4. think of

Let the students practise the dialogue, then act out the dialogue, then do Exercise 3 in the workbook. The answers are: saw, already, win, team, stronger, beat, thank, told, place, important.

VI. Teaching grammar

Draw this line on the blackboard:

now        before       last Sunday       before last Sunday

having a lesson     has (never)seen       watched a match     had (never)seen

Ask the students some questions:

1.What are you doing now? (having a lesson)

2. What did you do last Sunday? (watched a match)

3. Was it a good match? (Yes, a very good one)

4. Had you ever seen a good match before?

No, I had never seen such a good match before.

Yes, I had seen many like that one.

Explain: The Past Perfect Tense shows an action happening before a certain time in the past. Give the students more examples:

A: Li Lei said he had seen it.

B: The train had already left when I got to the station.

C: She had finished her homework by the end of last year.

D: They had never seen such beautiful places before they came to China.

VII. Homework

1.Write down the sentences from Wb Lesson61, Ex. 2 in the exercise book.

2. Make up four sentences using when, before, after, by. . .