Teaching aims:

Knowledge aims:

Students can understand the meaning of the passage about Wu Yifan’s bad but good day.

Students can master when to use the simple past tense correctly.

Ability aims:

Students can improve their reading skills of getting detailed information.

Students can talk about their past things with partners.

Emotional aims:

Students are willing to share their life expirence with others and have an optimistic attitude towards life.

Teaching key points and difficult points:

Key points:

Wu Yifan’s holiday experience.

Difficult Points:

How to apply the simple past tense correctly to talk about a past day.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warm-up and Lead-in

1.Review and sing the song-- Happy, happy holiday

Let students stand up, clap thier hands and shake their body to sing the song, happy, happy holiday together.

2. Free talk

Ask them the question “What did you do for your holiday?” and “how do you feel about the holiday?” Teacher gives them reflections properly.

Step 2 Presentation

1.Show students the pictures about Wu Yifan’s holiday on the screen. Let students guess what Wu Yifan did for his holiday. Teacher can lead students by following questions.

a. What happened to Wu Yifan’s mother?

b. What did Max do to Robin?

c. What did Wu Yifan’s family do for their holiday?

2. Read Wu Yifan’s diary for the first time and try to write the right number of the pictures on the book.

3. let students read the passage and think about “What happened to Wu Yifan’s family?”(Something bad but something good happened to them.). Fill in the blank in the text about”What were bad for them?”(Mom ate some bad fruit and didn’t feel well.)and “What were good for them?”(1.rode a bike2.took the pictures of beautiful countryside3.bought some gifts4. ate some delicious). Then call some volunteers to tell the answers in their own words.

Step 2 Practice

Give students five minutes to think about a bad but good day of their own and write some sentences according to the following questions.

a.Why was the day bad, what happened?

b. Why was the good too, what happened?

c. What do you learn from the day?

At the same time, remind them to pay more attention to the simple past tense.

Step 3 Production

Ask students to share their bad but good day in a group of five and make a form to record the group member’s bad but good experience. Then let the representatives introduce it to the whole class.

Step 4 Summary and homework

Summary: Invite one of the students to be "a little teacher " and lead others to review what we have learned together.

Homework: Ask students to write a dairy to record a past thing and share with others in the next period.

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