1、Lesson 1 Whats So Funny?Teaching aims: To help students to understand the funny stories. To review the Past Perfect ContinuousTeaching important and difficult points: To master the Past Perfect ContinuousTeaching procedures:. Warm upAsk the students to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess
2、what happened according to the pictures. Pre-reading Task1: Match the words with the definitions. Learn some difficult words before reading. Reading . First readingRead the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the pictures with the headlines. Second rea
3、ding Read the three stories and then answer the following questions:1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50?2. why does the girl decide to change her response when her father asks her the second question?3. What does the man mean when he says “Do you know who I am?”. Speaking Voice your opinion
4、: Which of the stories do you like most? Why? retell your favorite story. Do you have your funny stories? If yes, share your own funny story with the whole class. Grammar Task1: Find out the sentences with the Past Perfect Continuous tense in the text.Task2: What is Past Perfect Continuous?a. long a
5、ctivities in the past that happened before other past events:eg: She was rescued by a man who had been working in a nearby garage.b. the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the pasteg: We had only been driving for about fifteen minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car.c . An action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past. eg: I had been waiting for the train for over an hour when they announced that it had been cancelled.Task3: ExerciseFinish exercise6,8 & 9 . Sum up . Homework
