一、学习目标:1. 重点单词：postcard, call, lie, sun, line, take, wait, walk, trip, few, sales, enjoy, anyway, back, drive, off, hot dog, leave, restaurant, moment, place, things, most, still, star, run, study2. 重点短语：lie in the sun , take photos, wait for, a few, on sale, walk up, on a school trip, go back, get off, at the moment3.重点句子：1) Were enjoying the school trip a lot.2) Im standing on the Great Wall of China and talking to you.3) Tony is eating a delicious ice cream.4) Wang Hui is taking lots of photos.5) Lingling is buying a few presents and postcards.6) Theyre waiting for buses or trains.7 ) At this moment, in different places of the world people are doing different things. 8) Theyre working.9) People arent having dinner.10) Some people are still working and some are going home from work.11) They are eating hamburgers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or cola. 12) Some people are seeing friends, calling home or shopping.二、重点及难点: 1. Function: How to describe and ask what the people are doing at the moment. 2. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.三、教学设计:Unit 3 Language in useTeaching modelRevision and application Teaching method Formal and interactive practice Teaching aims1. To encourage students to share and express what they are doing using what they have learned in this module.2. To learn how to write a postcard.Teaching Objectives 1. Function: How to describe and ask what the people are doing at the moment. 2. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.Teaching aidsTape recorder, OHP, handoutsTeaching StepsStep 1 RevisionReview the text of Unit 1 and Unit 2.Step 2 Language practice1. Read through the example sentences In the box with the whole class.2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.3. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.现在进行时 (1) 1. 定义：表示现在正在进行的动作。 2. 构成：be + 动词的现在分词。 Be (am is are) 随着人称、数的变化而变化。1) 动词后面直接加ing: do doing buy buying2) 以e结尾的动词去e加ing : have having take taking 3) 以重读闭音节结尾的单词，双写最后一个字母，然后加ing: run running swim swimming 4) 特殊形式的变化：lie lying 4. 现在进行时的否定句结构：sb. + be not + doinge.g. Im not visiting my friends now. He isnt writing a postcard.5. 现在进行时的一般疑问句结构：be + sb. + doing + 其他?e.g. Is she enjoying her visit? Are they buying postcards?6. 常与现在进行时态连用的词:now, listen, look 等。 e.g. 1. Im reading now. 我现在正在读书。2. Listen! She is singing.听, 她正在唱歌。3. Look! My parents are watering the flowers. 看, 我的父母亲正在浇花。Step 3 Work in pairs1. Look at the picture.2. Ask and answer: What can you see? What are they doing?3. Ask the students to talk about the picture.4. Read through the example sentences with the whole class.Tony is calling a friend.Step 4 Complete the conversation in Activity 2.1. Read through the conversation with the whole class.2. Ask the students to complete the conversation between Tony and his dad with the correct form of the words in brackets with a partner.3. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers.Keys: 1. are visiting 2. are writing 3. is taking 4. are enjoying 5. are looking 6. are looking 7. are having4. Read the conversation together. Step 5 Write about the pictures in Activity 3.1. Read through the sentences with the whole class.2. Look at the pictures in Activity 3.3. Ask the students. What can you see?4. Read through the example sentences.Some boys are playing football. They arent playing basketball.5. Ask the students to write about the pictures with a partner.6. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers.Keys: 1. are playing, arent playing 2. isnt watching; is workingStep 6 Work in pairs1. Read through the expressions in Activity 4 with the whole class.driving a car getting upgoing to sleep lying in the sunplaying basketball running for a busstudying history taking photoswatching TV writing postcards2. Mime an action for your partner to guess. 3. Read through the example conversation with the whole class.A: Youre running for a bus!B: No!A: Youre playing basketball!B: Yes!4. Use the expressions to help you.5. Work in pairs.6. Learning to learn When you revise your vocabulary, choose words which are useful for you, and write them in sentences.postcard: On holiday I usually send four or five postcards to my friends.Step 7 Around the world: 1. Ask the students to look at the pictures and discuss what they can see.Its morning in New York. Its midday in London. Its evening in Sydney.2. Read through the information with the whole class, and talk something about them.3. Ask and answer.4. Read the passage together.Step 8 Module task: Making a radio report.1. Work in groups of three or four. Plan a radio report.2. Talk about news you would like to report.3. List the activities you would l