3) About yesterday’s lesson: What did they do in today’s English lesson? Who did Jenny talk to? Where did tha t girl invite Jenny go next Sunday?

(After the students practise in pairs , ask several pairs to discuss in front of the class. Encourage any new questions from the students.)

Step 4: Practice

To make the students remember the text well. Help them to retell the diary.

T: I will give you some key words about the diary. Then try to retell what happened to Jenny.

Paragraph 1: basketball, new friend, on one team, on the other team, lost, hate.

Paragraph 2: jeans, love to shop, a purple blouse, wore to school, liked.

Paragraph 3: English class, talked to, a girl, lunch together, invite.

Step 5: Explanation about the tense

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 --- wore; 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 morning’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”.

Lesson 8 Unit Revi ew

Ⅰ.Teaching content:

1. Important words and phrases in Unit 1: also; be made of; either; have/ have classes; hate/dislike; look like; Miss/Mr./ Mrs./Ms.; not…anymore; paint; pair/ a pair of; pupil/student.

2. Useful sentence structures about the key words and expressions:

1) Likes and dislikes