Teaching Aims:
Knowledge Aims:
Students can master the usage of the simple future tense.
Students can recognize the simple future tense when they meet.
Ability Aims:
Students can use the simple future tense appropriately in daily communication.
Emotional Aims:
Students will have more confidence in learning grammar.
Students will pay more attention to the grammar during communication.
Teaching Key point:
To master the usage of the simple future tense and try to use them in communication.
Teaching difficult point:
Students would like to use this grammar item correctly.
Teaching methods:
Communicative teaching approach, task-based teaching approach, group work.
Teaching Aids:
Multi-media
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 warming up (8mins)
Greeting and free talk
Show four pictures about Jim, ask students to tell a story according to the story.
(Justification: arouse students’ interests in learning with games and make a good preparation for learning “the simple future tense”)
Step 2 Presentation (22mins)
Task 1 Read the sentences. Then teacher helps students to find the principle of “the simple future tense”
I’m watching TV.
She’s washing her clothes.
They’re listening to a CD
(Justification: During this activity, students can find the principle of “the simple future tense” actively)
Task 2 After learning the principle, ask students to do exercise “Write sentences following the examples.
1) Jenny/clean the house/now
Jenny is cleaning the house now.
2) Bob/make dinner/every Saturday.
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3) Mary’s parents/drink tea/after dinner.
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4) Bill/talk on the phone/ now.
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5) Becky and Bob/watch TV/ on weekends
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Task 3 Number the sentences in order to make a telephone conversation. Then practice it with a partner.
_____Do you want to go tomorrow then?
_____OK. See you tomorrow evening!
_____ I’m reading a book.
_____Let’s go at seven o’clock.
_____ No, this book is really interesting.
_____What are you doing?
_____Do you want to go to the movies now?
_____Sure, what time?
(Justification: in order to master the usage of the grammar item during practice)
Step 3 consolidation
Work in groups. Students will be asked to describe the pictures by the grammar item, which were shown before class.
(Justification: consolidate the usage of the grammar item in communicative way.)
Step 4 summary and homework
Review the language point by asking questions and write a short article by using “the simple future tense”
(Justification: students can review can consolidate what they have learnt.)
Class Reflection:
Blackboard Design: