Language focus: lazy, carry on, final, amazing, be pleased with, performance, teamwork, baseball, never mind, boring

Teaching Objectives:

1. Learn the differences between the Past Simple Tense and the Past Perfect Tense

2. Understand the rest of the text

3. Learn some useful words and expressions

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showily the teaching aims

II. Revision

1.    Check homework.

2.    Get the Ss to retell the story on SB Page 77.

III. Leading in

Get the Ss to listen to Cassette. Ask Who scored the last two goals?

Let them scan the end of the story and find the answer quickly.

What happened next?

IV. Reading

Ask more questions about the passage. Who was the first to score in the second half? What happened in the last six minutes? Why did the girls' team win the match?

Get the students to discuss them in pairs and check the answer in class.

V. Practice

Play the tape for the students to listen and read after the tape, then explain some language points. Let the students retell the story.

VI. Teaching Grammar

The Past Perfect Tense shows an action happening before a certain time in the past. It is formed by “had + p.p.” For example:

1. Did you see the football match?

No, I didn’t. When I got there, it had already finished.

2. Did you go to Beijing last Sunday?

No, The train had already left when I got to the station.

VII. Practice

Go through Part 2, Explain some words.

1. miss: miss somebody (想念) , miss the bus (错过), My watch is missing. (丢失)

2. boring: not interesting

Then do Exercise 2 in the workbook, and check the answers with the whole class. The answers are: 1. had left 2. had gone 3. had begun 4. had heard 5. has been put 6. had disappeared 7. had worked 8. had been stolen

VIII. Presentation

Part 3. Speech Cassette, Books closed. Play the tape for the students to listen and find the answer to this question: Did Duhui see the match?

Books open, play the tape again for the students to listen and repeat. Pay attention to the phrases: 1. talk about 2. amazing 3. be angry with somebody 4. be pleased with somebody 5. by the time

IX. Workbook

For Exercise 3, get the students to work on it individually, then check the answers with the whole class. The answers are:

1. When I got to school, the students had already left school.

2. Before we moved into the city, our car had broken down.

3. Twenty minutes later when we got to the airport, he had already gone to the hotel by taxi.

4. When the police began to catch him, he had already gone to Canada with his family.

5. She said she had already got everything ready before I came.

X. Homework

1. Retell the story.

2. Do Exercise 1 in the workbook.