Theme: Letters from Abroad

　　Function: Understanding different cultures.

　　Target Language: Simple past tense. The man wore women’s clothes. The actors told lots of jokes. We laughed a lot. Simple future tense ‘be going to’ We are going to see you in three weeks. Mum bought new chopsticks for you.

　　Vocabulary: wore (wear), women, actor, told (tell), joke, funny, after, show, ready, soon, bed, room, history, question, borrow, evening

　　Pronunciation: / / / / / / / /

　　Song: Postman

　　一、Warmer:

　　1. Tell the Ss that you are going to mime some things you did yesterday and the Ss have to look and guess what you did.

　　2. Continue like this. Yesterday I ate an apple.

　　He borrowed some books.

　　She went to the park.

　　3. Say some sentences with ‘now, tomorrow, yesterday.’ E.g. We are going to see you in three weeks. Dad is going to put another bed in my room. We bought a bike for you. We are having our English class. He is play football.

　　二、Presentation:

　　1. Listen and say.

　　A. Listen to the tape and read this letter.

　　B. Read the letter again and answer the questions:

　　C. What is Dad going to put in Simon’s room?

　　Who bought new chopsticks?

　　Who read a book about Chinese history?

　　What did they but for Daming?

　　2. Look and say.

　　A. Yesterday he ate a hamburger.

　　B. He played football.

　　C. Now he is eating an apple.

　　D. Now he is playing table tennis.

　　E. Tomorrow he is going to eat a banana.

　　F. Tomorrow he is going to go swimming.

　　3. Listen and repeat.

　　( qu sh th th)

　　quick she this thank

　　quarter English with mouth

　　三、Activity book:

　　1. Write a letter to Lingling. Use the words ‘went/ wore/ saw/ drank/ ate’

　　Dear Lingling,

　　Last week I went to the zoo. I wore a red sweater. I saw some animals. I drank some juice. I ate an ice cream.

　　From

　　Liping

　　2. Listen and repeat:

　　A. Quick! Cut it in quarters!

　　B. She is English.

　　C. Eat with this spoon!

　　D. I say ‘Thank you’ with my mouth.

　　四、Homework:

　　Write a letter to your friend.