Unit 17 Lesson 1

Teaching aims:　　

① To help students to understand the funny stories.　　

② To review the Past Perfect Continuous　　

Teaching important and difficult points:　　

①    To master the Past Perfect Continuous　　

Teaching procedures:　　

Ⅰ. Warm up　　

Ask the students to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess what happened according to the pictures.　　

Ⅱ. Pre-reading 　　

Task1: Match the words with the definitions. Learn some difficult words before reading　　

Ⅲ. 　　Reading　　 　　

ⅰ. First reading　　

Read the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the pictures with the headlines.　　

ⅱ. Second reading 　　

Read the three stories and then answer the following questions:　　

1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50?　　

2.  why does the girl decide to change her response when her father asks her the second question?　　

3. What does the man mean when he says “Do you know who I am?”　　

Ⅲ. Speaking 　　

Voice your opinion: Which of the stories do you like most? Why? retell your favorite story. Do you have your funny stories? If yes, share your own funny story with the whole class.　　

Ⅳ. Grammar 　　

Task1: Find out the sentences with the Past Perfect Continuous tense in the text.　　

Task2: What is Past Perfect Continuous?　　

a.       long activities in the past that happened before other past events:　　

eg: She was rescued by a man who had been working in a nearby garage.　　

b.      the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the past　　

eg: We had only been driving for about fifteen minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car.　　

c . An action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past. 　　

eg: I had been waiting for the train for over an hour when they announced that it had been cancelled.　　

Task3: Exercise　　

Finish exercise6,8 & 9 　　

Ⅴ. Sum up 　　

Ⅵ. Homework