Explain the difference between the General Present Tense and the General Past Tense. Use Chinese if necessary.

T: In English , we use different tenses to describe things happening in different time. We use the General Present Tense to express the usual state and activities happening often or regularly. If we describe something in the paste, we should use the General Past Tense. The key difference between the two tenses is the different forms of the verbs used as predicate. For the “usual things”, we use the verbs themselves and verbs’ past forms for things happening in the past. So we should remember the past forms of the words. Look at the list below:

play --- played ; introduce --- introduced; are --- were; is/am --- was; buy --- bought; lose --- lost; buy --- bought; wear --- w ore; like --- liked; talk --- talked; have --- had; invite --- invited. (introduce the rules of getting the past form of verbs; make sure the students there are some special past forms that they should remember.)

Step 6: “Let’s Do It” section

T: All right, we’ve learnt Jenny’s diary. And we’ve known what she did after school, last Saturday and what happened in this mornin g’s English lesson. Now let’s try to write a letter to one friend of yours. Just like what Jenny wrote in her diary, you can tell your friend something about your first two weeks in school, for example, about lessons, teachers, classmates, or what you did after school. Also a funny story you got to know.

3. Class closing

Homework: exercises in Ss’ activity book.

The next lesson in the students’ book

Ending today’s lesson by singing the song--- “On a School Day”.

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