Teaching Contents: A short conversation about a school trip. Teaching Objectives:

(1) Knowledge objectives

① Students can understand the words and the usage of simple past tense.

②Students can talk about past events in English after learning.

(2) Ability objective

Students can talk about their school trips fluently.

(3) Emotional objectives

①Students can build up their confidence of learning English.

②Students can develop the ability of cooperation.

Teaching Key Point:

Students can understand the usage of simple past tense.

Teaching Difficult Point:

Students can talk about past events by using the simple past tense.

Major Steps:

Step 1 Pre-listening (4 minutes)

(1) Teaching new phrases

Teach some phrases by using pictures, such as ride a horse, milk a cow and feed a chicken.

(2) Ask students to talk about two questions: Where did you go for your holiday How was your trip

(Justification: By teaching these phrases, students will have a better understanding of this article. And this stepcan arouse students' interest.)

Step 2 While-listening (9 minutes)

(1) Extensive listening

Ask students to listen to the tape for the first time and find the topic.

(2) Intensive listening

Ask students to listen to the tape for the second time and complete the exercise: True or False.

a. Carol rode a horse yesterday. ( )

b. Carol saw some chickens and fed these chickens. ()

c. Carol and friends went for a walk around the farm and talked with a farmer. ( )

(3) Pepeat

Play the tape for the students and let them listen and follow, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.

(Justification: By doing this, students can enhance their listening ability through listening in different ways andhave a chance to practice pronunciation and intonation.)

Step 3 Post-listening (7 minutes)

(I) Find the rule

a. I saw quite a lot.

b. I milked a cow.

c. I saw some chickens but I didn' t feed them.

d. My friends and I went for a walk around the farm and talked with a farmer.

Ask students to find out and summarize the rule of the simple past tense. Then the teacher explains the simplepast tense.

(2) Role-play

Please make a new conversation according to the National Day's holiday(or other holidays). Students are required to prepare the dialogue in 3 minutes, and after 3 minutes, invite some groups to share their performance infront of the class.

For example:

A: Where did you go on your holiday

B: I went to Qingdao.

A: What did you do in Qingdao

B: I went to the beach and saw the sea.

(Justification: This step can help students to find and master the rule of the simple past tense. Role-play is an interesting activity, students can improve their speaking ability and be not aft'aid of speaking in public.)