Unit9 How was your weekend?
Structures: Simple past of regular and irregular verbs, What questions, How was your weekend? (formulaic)
Target language: What did you do last weekend? On Saturday morning I cleaned my room.
How was your weekend? It was great.
Vocabulary: played, went, did, was, cleaned, watched, visited, studied, geography, library, practice, test, mountain, talk show
Step1.Warming up
1.Greet each other as usual.
2.Listen to a song: yesterday once more
Q1: Is it good-listening?
Q2: Who knows the name of this song?
T: From this song, we know that when the writer was young, he liked to listen to the radio(liked listening to the radio). Can you tell me
Q3: What did you like when you were young?
Or: What did he like when he was young?
What did they like when they were young? (let the students practice the “like” sentence).
Q4: What did you do when you were young? (show some pictures on the screen: did my homework ,played soccer, cleaned my room, went to the beach, played tennis, went to the movies etc. Text book 1a)
Step2. Presentation
T: Well, from your answering, I know that some of you remembered the things you did when you were young: when you were young, you played sports etc. Now that, I think most of you must remember the things you did last weekend, yes or no?
Q5: What’s the date today? ----What was the date four days ago?(which festival?----Christmas Day)
Q6: What did you do four days ago? -----Did you have a Christmas party?
Step3 Guess
The whole class can be divided into four groups, Teacher prepared some papers which had written some activities, let one student of each group choose one piece of paper, the others guess.
Use the following sentence:
Q7: Did you do your homework that day?
Step4. Talking and have a competition
T: I had a Christmas party on that day, now, have a look, and what’s this? Yes, it’s a Christmas Father’s coat, it’s my gift that I received from that day, and I had a good time on that day.
1.Let Ss talk about their Christmas Day or last weekend.
2.Let Ss choose “who had the best Christmas Day or last weekend”, why? (Retell the story about their Christmas Day or last weekend).
Step5.Homework
Let Ss write down their great days.