Period: The Third Period

Content: Lesson 51

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.

Teaching Objectives:

　　1. Review the comparative forms of adjectives.

　　2. Learn the Future - in - the Past Tense.

Language Focus:

　　1. Grammar

　　2. useful expressions: prefer to do something. rather than do sth.

Teaching Procedures:

　I. Showing the teaching aims

　II. Revision

　　Do some numbers practice orally. Then let some students retell the passage. Finally, choose one or two good students to give their own ideas about the worlds population.

　III. Leading in

　　Say: As you know, People's life is getting better and better, more and more people want to buy cars, if you have much money, you'll buy a car. Ask: Do you think cars will become cheaper when more people buy cars? Let the students discuss this question then ask the students: What is the most expensive car in the world?

　IV. Read and act

　　Let the students read the dialogue quickly and find the answer to this question. Then check the answer with the students. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Explain some language points:

　　1. prefer to do something…rather than do something

　　I prefer to stay at home rather than go out.

　　2. agree with: They didn't agree with each other.

　　3. Be worth: The book is worth 100 yuan.

　　Then let the students read and act it out.

　V. Teaching Grammar

　　Make up more sentences, such as: I don't know if he will come back next week.

　　I didn't know if he would come back the next week.

　　Point out the use of the Future - in - the - Past Tense in the object clause of these sentences, because the action would happen from a given past time mentioned in the main clauses. Let the students see grammar in the Appendix of the students' books.

　　Do some practice.

　　1. I didn't know if she would invite me to her birthday party.

　　2. He didn't tell me when he would come back.

　　3. She didn't say where she would go.

　　4. We never know that population would become a big problem.

　VI. Practice

　　Get the students to do Exercise 3 and ask the students to do more oral practice.

　VII. Workbook

　　Do Exercise 2 in the workbook, Fill in the blanks together. The answers are:

　　did…go, went, Did…buy, bought, were, found, hate, took, moved, know, was, was… crying, found

　IX. Summary

　　Exercises in class

　　Rewrite the sentences using the Future - in - the - Past Tense

　　1. I don't know if they will make friends with me.

　　2. Peter asks Betty when she will decide to stop drinking.

　　3. Mary says that she will take good care of that baby.

　　4. Lily hopes that you will catch up with the class.

　　5. We can't find out if the policeman will find him.

　IX. Homework

　　1. Revise the whole lesson.

　　2. Make up ten sentences using the Future - in - the - Past Tense.