Ⅰ.Analyis of teaching material
1.The topic of this unit is about free time actmties。Suchtopicisrelated to students’daily life. So it is helpful toraise learning interest of students. If students can learn this unit well，it will be helpful to make students learn the the rest of this book.
2 .Teaching Aims and Demands
(1) Knowledge Obj ect
In this unit students learn to talk about how often they do things.
(2)Ability Objects
To improve students’ability of listening，speaking，reading and writing.
(3)Moral Objects
To help students form a good eating habit.
To do exercise every day and keep fit.
3 .Teaching Key Point
To master the key vocabularyand the target language presented in this unit.
4 .Teaching Difficult Point
To train students how to use the key vocabulary and the target language by reading and writing.
5 .Studying Ways
Teach students how to use context.
Teach students how to do a survey.
Ⅱ.Language Function
Talk about how often you do things.
Ⅲ.Target Language
What do you usually do on weekends?
I sometimes go to the beach..
How often do you eat vegetables?
Every day.
Most of the students do homework every day.
Ⅳ.Structure
Wh-questions
What do…?
How often…?
Adverbs of frequency
All/most/some/none
V .Vocabulary
always，usually，often，sometimeshardly，ever，never, exercising，shopping，skateboarding once，twice，three times a week，month, every day, milk，junk，food, drink
Ⅵ.Recycling
reading，watching TV，go to the movies, fruit，vegetables
Ⅶ.Learning strategies
Using context.
Transforming information.
Ⅷ.Teaching times
Six periods
Period One
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn to talk about how often do you do things
2. To learn the words of the adverbs of frequency.
Teaching Difficulties:
1.words: exercise, skateboard, hardly, ever, shop, once, twice, time, surf, internet, program.
2.phrases:how often, on weekends, go to the movies, exercise, go skateboarding, always , usually , often , never , hardly ever , sometimes .
3.Sentence patterns: What does she /he do on weekends ? She often goes to the movies .How often do you shop ? Once a week / Twice a week ??? .
Teaching Aids: Tape recorder;Multi-Media.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 ：Greeting.
1. Teacher: Summer vacation is over. I think you had a wonderful vacation, am I right? Did you enjoy your summer vacation? Could you please tell us what you did in your summer vacation?
2. Encourage students to share their holidays with the whole class.
Step 2 ：Leading – in
Teacher: Oh, you had a happy and colorful vacation. Today we will talk about more activities on weekends. First, let’s think about what we can do on weekends. (Ask some questions and let students think it over).
Teacher: I often sing on weekends, what do you usually do on weekends?
S1: I often take piano lessons.
Teacher: What does she usually do on weekends? (Ask another student)
S2: She often takes piano lessons.
Teacher: What about you? (Ask S2)
S2: I often play basketball
Teacher: What does he usually do on weekends? (Ask another student)
S3: He often plays basketball.
(Ask more students in the same way)
Step 3：1a Look at the screen. Make a list of the different weekend activities.
First let students list different activities, then
Teacher: Now work in pairs, ask and answer
---What does he/she do on weekends?
--- She goes shopping. / She reads books. / He exercises. / He watches TV. / She goes skateboarding.
Step 4：1b Listen and write the letters from the picture above on the lines below.
Get students to focus on the six adverbs in activity 1b and help students to understand:
Always-100% usually- 90% often-80% sometimes-50% hardly ever-10% never-0%
Step 5：Lead-in:
Teacher: I always read English books on weekends.
I usually exercise on weekends.
I often go to visit my grandparents.
I sometimes go shopping on weekends.
I hardly ever play computer games on weekends.
I never play cards on weekends.
What does your English teacher do on weekends?
(Help students to say)
Students: Our English teacher always reads English books on weekends. She usually exercises on weekends…..
Teacher: I exercise every day. I go shopping once a week. I watch TV twice a week. I go dancing three times a month…
How often does your English teacher exercise/ go shopping / watch TV / go dancing?
Students: Our English teacher exercises every day….
Step 6： Listening (2a and 2b)
Teacher: My friend Cheng is talking about something about his different activities, let’s listen and number the activities you hear.
Teacher: Listen again. How often does Cheng do the activities above?
(Help students to finish 2a and 2b)
Step 7：.Do a survey:
Activities How often
Take a shower
Wash your hair
Exercise
Clean your room
Ask and answer: How often do you take a shower?
How often does he / she take a shower?
Let Ss ask and answer in pairs, using always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever or never.
Step 8:Homework
1. Do exercises on pages 1-2 of the workbook to practice the language presented in this unit.
2. Remember what we learn today.
3. Write a passage about what you often do on weekends and how often you do different activities.
