二课时

Unit 1 When was he born?

Period 2 Section A 3a-4c

时间：2015.3.9 班级：使用人：主备人：审核人：

一、学习目标：

1、Vocabulary: works, besides, perform, Brazilian, national, loving,

grandson等。

2、掌握短语:be born, all over the world, enjoy doing, be made into

a film by……等。

3、掌握被动语态一般过去时的一般用法以及由when引导的状语从句和由how long/when引导的特殊疑问句。

二、学习的重难点：被动语态一般过去时的一般用法以及由when引导的状语从句和由how long/when引导的特殊疑问句。

三、课前准备：录音机，多媒体

四、教学过程：

Step 1: Great and lead-in.

Step 2: Warming-up and revision

(1) A guessing game

Get the students to review how to describe the famous people.

T:Let’s play a guessing game.I will tell you something about

a famous woman.Please listen to me carefully,and try to guess who she

is.She is Chinese.She was born in1971.

She plays ping-pong very well.She is short.She is very great.

Do you know who she is?

S:Is she Deng Yaping?

T:Yes,you are right.Now please try to describe the famous persons

Step 3:Presentation

This activity introduces the difficult points.

A:When did Deng Yaping start playing ping-pong?

B:She started playing ping-pong in1978.

A:When did she stop playing ping-pong?

B:She stopped in1997.

A:How long did she play ping-pong?

B:She played for19years.

1、Ask the students to practice the sample conversation,then make up similar conversations.

2、Ask several students to perform their conversations.

3、Learning the new words.

Step 4:Practice and listen

Now we are going to talk about two unusual people.

Look at this picture in section A2a and the chart.

T:What are their names?

S:The man is Charles Smith and the woman is Donna Green.

T:What are they doing?

S:Charles Smith is hiccupping.Donna Green is sneezing.

(Help them answer)

T:What kinds of world record did they have?

S1:Charles Smith had a world record for hiccupping.

S2:Donna Green had a world record for sneezing.

T:How long did Charles Smith hiccup?

S3:He hiccupped for69years and5months.

T:How long did Donna Green sneeze?

Let students listen to the tape and fill in the“How long”column in the chart.

Let students listen again and fill in the“started”and“stopped”columns.

Get the students listen and write,then check the answers.

Step 5：Drill

Ask some pairs of students to perform the conversations.

T:You got all the answers right now.Let’s come to section A2c pair work.Please fill in the blanks with information from the listening. Ask two pairs of students to Practice the conversations.

T:You did very well.