Step III Vocabulary
Do activity 4. Ask students to group the words first in order to make them remember all the words easily and then go on with activity 5.
T： There are some words in the box of activity 4. Please read these words first and then try to find out the words for “animals“.
S： Cat， mouse， rabbit.
T： Find out two words mean “important people“.
S： King and queen
T： The places outside home.
S： Garden， grass.
Ask them to read through the words chorally.
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For activity 5， tell them to guess the words and complete the sentences. Check the answers by asking some students to read the sentences.
Step IV Reading and grammar
Ask students to read the conversation individually and find out the sentences with the form of “v-ing“.
Write the sentences on the board：
I‘m reading.
She was sitting by the river.
She was not reading.
The queen was playing in the garden
What were they doing?
Point out the structure：
T： “Was/were doing“ is used to describe past on-goings. Now read aloud the following sentences.
Show the following.
I didn‘t hear the phone. My father was watching TV then.
I was reading a book at that time.
Explain the difference between the past simple tense and past continuous.
Show the following.
I wrote a letter yesterday morning. (The letter is finished)
I was writing a letter yesterday morning. (We don‘t know if the letter is finished or not.)
I saw a very good film last night. (It happened in the past)
I was reading a book this time yesterday. (It was going on during the past time)
Listening
Ask students to listen to the recording of the conversation and do activity 3.
Check their answer. Call their names from the whole class in order.
Step V Pronunciation and speaking
First ask students to read through the sentences in activity 6. Play the tape and have them follow. Then play the tape again， pausing to let the students repeat chorally and individually.
After this， ask them to do activity 7， write notes on a piece of paper and then have conversations with their partners， ask and say what they were doing at these times.
Sample answers：
S： What were you doing at 7 am yesterday?
S： I was going to school.
S： What were you doing at 1 pm?
S： I was helping my mother to do some washing.
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Step VI Homework
Ask students to：
1. read the conversation in activity 2 repeatedly.
2. do activities 1-4 in the workbook.
3. Try to find some information about the writer of the story.
Period 2 Reading and writing
Language goals 语言目标
1. Key vocabulary重点词汇
tired， nothing， twice， conversation， suddenly， pink， by， pocket， across， field
2. Key structures重点句式
Were/was doing
Ability goals能力目标
Enable students to read and write about fairy tales.
Teaching methods教学方法
Communicative approach.
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八年级英语A famous story教案