Teaching Plan for
Unit 3  What were you doing when the UFO arrived?
(Go For It)
单元教材分析
Unit 3以“ What were you doing when the UFO arrived”为课题。谈论如何使用过去进行时。如何使用过去进行时是本单元的重难点。通过观察图片，利用图片进行情景思维，学会讲故事，俩俩对话，角扮演等形式和独立学习，合作交流，完成任务等来培养学生的综合语言运用能力，创新意识和实践能力。
本单元的教学向导和要求：
语言功能
语言目标
谈论过去发生的事情
学会讲故事
When were you doing when the UFO arrived?
I was sitting in the barber’s chair. The barber was cutting my hair.
While he was buying souvenirs, a girl called the police.
语言结构
重点出词汇
When ,while引导的时间状语从句
学习过去进行时
复习现在进行时
bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, UFO, alien, barber’s chair.
cutting hair, climbing ,jumping.
land ,get out of ,take off, in front of .
scared
学习策略与思维技巧
跨学科学习
联系上下文
利用情景思维
角扮演
自然科学知识
社会科学知识
总之，在本单元的教学全过程中，学生通过独立学习，角扮演，实践体验，合作与交流的学习方式和任务型教学途径，通过掌握本单元的英语知识和技能，开发学生思维能力和发展个性，使语言学习的过程成为学生形成积极的情感态度，主动思维，大胆实践，使枯燥的语言变得丰富多彩，容易接受。
课时安排5/6课时
第一课时： Section A  (1a –1c)
第二课时： Section A  (2a—Grammar Focus)
第三课时： SectionA (3a –4)
第四课时:  Section B 1—4a
第五课时： (Self Check—Reading)
教学计划
Period 1 (1a –1c)
Teaching key point: the usage of the past continuous tense
Teaching difficulties:
How to use the past continuous tense in the adverb clause of time leaded by “when”and “while”.
The Analysis of Teaching Process
Step 1 - - - Organization
1. Exchange greetings with the Ss.
Duty report: It is between two students. They are having a dialogue.
Enjoy a clip of film about the UFO
Step 2 - - - Revision
1.Show four animation pictures on the screen
After showing the pictures, ask:
----What is Peter’s mother doing?    ---She is cooking.
---What is Peter’s father doing?        ---He is watching TV.
---What is Peter doing?  ---He is sleeping late.
---What is Peter’s brother doing?. ---He is getting out of the shower
教学设计说明 复习进行时态
2. Lead the students into the real situations:
Ask one boy student: What are you doing now?
The student may answer: I am listening to you.
Ask the whole class: What is he doing?
The whole class answer:  He is listening to you.
Repeat this with one girl student. Practice with the whole class, trying to revise the tense with different personal pronouns.
教学设计说明 同样复习进行时态，不同的是从图回到现实。
Step 3 -Leading in: introduce the past continuous tense to the students
1. Ask one student (student A) to leave the room and wait outside the door
Then ask two students to do actions, one (students B) is writing on the blackboard and the other (student C) is drawing a picture. They keep doing it without stopping until I ask them to stop.
2. Ask student B: What are you doing?
Student B answers: I am writing on the blackboard.
(Write the sentence on the blackboard as blackboard work)
Repeat this with student C, write: I am drawing a picture
3. Ask the student outside to come in and sit down. Then ask the two students who are doing actions sit down too.
4. Ask the first student who was writing on the blackboard.
Ask: What were you doing when (student A) came in?
Help him to answer: I was writing on the blackboard when he came in.
(Wrtie I was wrting on the blackboard as the blackboard work)
I say to the class: He was writing on the blackboard when (student A) came in.
Ask the class to repeat this sentence.
5. Repeat this with the second student who was drawing a picture.
    (Write I was drawing a picture )
6. Ask some other students the question: What were you doing when (student A) came i
n?
Then students ask and answer in pairs: What were you doing when (student A) came in?
7. Point to the blackboard-writing( During my teaching above, I have written it on the blackboard step by step). Help them to find out the differences between the two pairs of sentences. Tell the students:
Today we are going to learn a new tense ----the past continuous tense.
Introduce the past continuous tense.
I am writing on the blackboard.
I was writing on the blackboard when A came in.
八年级下册英语教学计划
I am drawing a picture.
I was drawing a picture when A came in..
教学设计说明：通过真实的情景引入过去进行时态
8. More practice about continuous tense.
教学设计说明 通过更多的图片操练新学的时态。
9. Comparison : make a comparison between the two tenses.
时态
现在进行时
过去进行时
用法
表示现在正在进行的动作
表示过去某个时刻正在进行的动作
结构
is/am/are + doing
was/were + doing
例句
I am having an English class
I was having an English class.
教学设计说明 操练熟练后让学生比较两种时态的区别，这样就简单多了。
Step 4 Section A  1a
1. Show a picture of all kinds of UFOs and ask Ss:What is UFO?Do you know?