Period: The second period
Content: Lesson 38
Properties: Tape recorder; picture
Teaching objectives:
1. Study the grammar: the passive voice in the Past Simple Tense.
2. Learn some new words and useful expression.
Language Focus:
1. be interested in…
2. on display
3. be covered with
4. in the 1920s'
Teaching Procedures:
Ⅰ. Organizing
Greetings.
Ⅱ. Revision
1. check the homework
2. Revise the useful expressions and some new words.
Ⅲ. Presentation
Take out a picture and ask the students:
What's this animal called?
Ask some students to talk about the dinosaur.
Ⅳ. Pre-reading
Read over the questions with the students. Have the students guess the meaning of "on display" from the context. Then have the students discuss the questions in pairs.
Ⅴ. Listening
1. At first, ask students to read over the questions in the Exercise 1 in the workbook.
2. Then close books and listen to tape.
3. Play the tape again and answer the questions.
Ⅵ. Teaching Language Focus
Explain some useful expressions in the passage.
1. be on a visit to…
2. be interested in…
3. try to do something
4. be covered with
e.g. He is on a visit to Shanghai.
Tom is interested in English.
I'll try my best to pass the exam.
The ground was covered with snow.
Ⅶ. Teaching Grammar
1. Let the students find out these sentences with the Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense.
2. Have the students make sentences with the Passive Voice in the Past Simple Tense.
Ⅷ. Workbook.
Do Exercise 2 , and write down the answers.
Ⅸ. Exercises in class
Change the active sentences into the passive sentences:
1. We bought a new TV last year.
2. They didn't find the lost boy.
3. My Uncle built a new house last year.
4. My brother finished his homework yesterday.
5. Dinosaurs laid the eggs long long ago.
Ⅹ. Homework
1. Read the passage.
2. Finish off the workbook exercises.
探究活动
解读标志语
设计一次家庭作业，让学生去商店，旅店，街道上收集各种有关英文标识语，回到班级后进行交流以拓展知识面。在总结时，出示各种标志图或列出数个标志语，让学生用英语来解释每个标志的意思，以及用于何种场所、何种时间等。
EXIT 出口 ENIRANCE入口 CLOSED停止 OPEN营业 PULL拉 PUSH推 UPSTAIRS请上楼 DANGER危险 FULL客满 POISON有毒 OCCUPIED（厕所）有人
NO SMOKING请勿吸烟 NO SPITTING不准随地吐痰
NO PARKING HERE 此禁止停车 NO LITTERING不准乱扔果皮纸屑
NO DUMPING不准倒垃圾 NO VISITORS 游人止步
NO PHOTOS 不准拍照 NO FISHING禁止垂钓
NO SWIMMING禁水游泳 NO HANDLE 请勿用手
查找和整理资料
鼓励学生查找一些与恐龙有关的背景资料，然后进行整理，之后在小组之间进行交流。
Dinosaur Era (时代)
We know that prehistoric (史前的) animals once lived on Earth because of their fossils. Fossils are the remains of animals and plants（1） that lived millions of years ago. The largest known dinosaur is the largest land animal that has ever been found. Its name is Seismosaurus（地震龙）, and from its head to the end of its tail (2), it measured 120-150 feet. Seismosaurus was a plant eater and would not have been dangerous –unless it stepped on （3）you, for it weighed about 10 tons. Dinosaurs were reptiles (爬行动物), but very different from today’s reptiles. Many were giant-sized, and armed with ferocious（凶恶的） teeth and savage horns. Above them, great pterosaurs（翼龙） swooped（4）through the air on leathery（5）wings. The dinosaurs and pterosaurs ruled the Earth from about 200 million years ago until they died out about 65 million years ago. Many dinosaurs, including the biggest of all, Diplodocus（梁龙）, lived only plants. Others were flesh eaters and hunted the plant-eating dinosaurs.