TASK  The Ss are to survey what they could do when they were little

　　Teaching Objectives:

　　1.The Ss can use the following words and phrases:

　　clever, yourselves, find out, fall off, teach oneself, piano

　　2.The Ss can use the following expressions; using the reflexive pronouns

　　1) She didn’t hurt herself

　　2) She taught herself

　　3) Learn all by oneself

　　4) Could she swim when she was … years old?

　　Difficult points:

　　1. The modal verb “could” when talking about the past experience

　　2. The reflexive pronouns

　　Properties: Tape-recorder, Overhead projector，动画

　　Teaching suggestions

　　1.If possible, teach enjoy oneself, help oneself to wash oneself, itself

　　2.If possible, the teacher can ask some students to bring some photos when they were little.

　　Write a few instructions, talk about what they could do, what they couldn’t do when they were little.

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step One Warming-up  

　　1.Greeting

　　2.Chatting

　　The teacher is chatting with the students to revise:

　　1) What’s their favourite sport?

　　2) What do they like doing?

　　and the teacher can also present two new words “clever”, “piano”.

　　eg: What’s your favourite sport?

　　Do you like playing basketball / football…?

　　Do you like playing computer games?

　　Oh, but I like playing the piano (show a picture of a piano) Can you play the piano?

　　You’re very clever. You can play the piano.

　　Do you like playing games?

　　Do you like playing guessing games?

　　Are you good at guessing games?

　　Let’s play a game.

　　Step Two Language input  

　　1.Presentation

　　You’re good at guessing games. So let’s play a guessing game. I want to find out who is the cleverest student. There’re three people in my family. I like going shopping. I want to buy my husband a coat. I want to buy my daughter a beautiful skirt. Guess:

　　What do I want to buy myself?

　　You want to buy yourself … (let some Ss guess)

　　Oh, you’re clever. I want to buy myself a dress. What do you want to buy yourself?

　　2.Action chain in groups.

　　What do you want to buy yourself / yourselves?

　　What do they want to buy themselves?

　　What does he / she want to buy himself / herself?

　　3.Presentation and drill

　　1) I know you’re good at guessing games. I want to know if you are good at thinking?

　　(show a picture of Jim.)

　　The boy is Jim. He lives by himself on this island.

　　No one looks after him. No one helps him.

　　What does he have to do?

　　Help the Ss to answer: He has to look after himself.

　　He has to help himself.

　　2) Can you look after yourselves?

　　You must look after yourselves and keep healthy.

　　I think your English is quite good. Who teaches you?

　　The Ss may answer “Miss     teaches us” or “Mr       teaches us.”

　　Show a picture. (The twins are reading Japanese).

　　Look at them! They’re learning Japanese. Who teaches them? Nobody.

　　They learn Japanese by themselves.

　　They teach themselves.

　　3) Can you speak English?

　　Could you speak English five years ago?

　　Could you speak English when you were … years old?

　　(Help the Ss to say: Yes, I could / No, I couldn’t)

　　Could you look after yourself when you were four years old?

　　Could you ride a bike when you were five years old?

　　Who taught you?(I taught myself)

　　Look at the picture. (show a picture in a big gymnasium)

　　some boys are swimming, some girls are skiing, some are skating, some are playing computer games, some are playing cards / chess…).

　　Practice in pairs, let the Ss ask and answer in pairs.

　　eg: —Could he / she / they swim / skate… when he / she / they was / were 9 years old ?

　　—Yes, she / he / they could.

　　—Who taught her / him / them?

　　—She / He / They taught herself / himself / themselves?

　　4) Can you take photos?

　　Could you take photos when you were 7 years old?

　　Who taught you to take photos?

　　Do you want to see some photos.

　　Step Three  Listening and speaking  

　　1.Listening

　　Here are some of the twins’ family photos? (The teacher can show some of the twins’ family photos.)

　　First, the teacher asks the Ss to shut the books and listen to the tape. Find the right pictures according to the listening materials. Then let the Ss listen again and ask the following questions.

　　1) What’s wrong with Lily? (She’s falling off the bike.)

　　2) Did she hurt herself? (No, she didn’t.)

　　3) Could she swim? Who taught her ? (Yes, she taught herself.)

　　Work in pairs to discuss the answers. After the discussion, check with the tape.

　　2.Speaking

　　First, play the tape again for the Ss to listen and repeat, and then have them practice reading the dialogue in pairs, allowing them to make any change to it if they like. Choose some pairs to act before the class.

　　They may also choose some pictures about Lucy.

　　Step Four Survey  

　　1.Question and answer.

　　The teacher asks some students to find out what they could do when they were 4 years old?

　　2. Think and write. Every student writes what they could do when they were 4 years old, and make notes about it.

　　3. Write a questionnaire work in a small group. Write down what they could do when they were 4 years old?

　　4.Test your questionnaire.

　　Each student gives their questions to another two groups and makes some notes like.

　　Jim could play the piano, play cards, read English ,sing a song when he was 4 years old.

　　5. Discussion

　　Sit in groups again. Tell each other what was found. Then ask some students to report the results.

　　Step Five Exercises in class

　　用适当的反身代词填空。

　　1. Help________ to some fish, Lily and Lucy.

　　2. Jim is old enough to look after________.

　　3. We all enjoyed________ in the week-long National Day holiday.

　　4. I hope not many people hurt ________ in the accident.

　　5. My mother taught_________ English at the age of 40.

　　6. My parents went to travel and left me by _________ at home.

　　Keys: 1.yourselves  2.himself  3.ourselves  4.themselves  5.herself  6.mysel

　　Step Six Homework

　　1.Do Ex-1 of wb Lesson 81 in the exercise book.

　　2.Do Ex-2 of wb Lesson 81 orally in class.

　　3.Do Ex-3 orally in class.

　　4.Try to write down what you could do when you were 4.

　　5. Make sentences with reflexive pronouns.

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