Unit 12: a vaction abroad

Period: 74
Date: February 6th, 2010
Unit 12: A vacation abroad
Lesson 2: Speak
Class Teaching date Ss’ absence Note
8A
8B
I. Aim
- get Ss to practice in making plans using tourist brochures and flight
information.
- The past progressive tense
II. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to make their plan on itinerary and
know how to record a travel.
III. Materials
Handouts, pictures, textbook…
IV. Procedure
T
Activities of T and Ss Main knowledge
5’
10’
10’
* Warm-up: Chatting
- Do you like traveling?
- What do you want to know before you
visit a place?
- introduces the lesson.
1.pre-speaking:
a)Act.1: Complete the Grids (P.113).
*)Answer:
- hangs on the Grid and checks the

understanding of each item.
- asks Ss to share their ideas in groups,
reading the itinerary and completing the
information.
- get the meaning of each item and
discover the task.
- share their ideas in groups to complete
the information.
2.while-speaking
a)Act.1: Make the similar dialogue
- elicits the language from Ss and then
writes the model on the board.
- elicits the used language and notices Ss
the way to ask about time, place for living.
- makes the model first and asks Ss to
* Complete the Grids
Depart Los Angeles: Flight 835 at
10.00 on Monday.
Arrive Boston: at 4.00
Accommodation: Revere Hotel
Sightseeing: Boston University,
Museum, Art galleries.
Depart Boston: Flight 710 at 10.00
on Thursday, 22.
*) Make the similar dialogue
Model dialogue:
A: What time does the flight to Los
Angeles sta B: At 10.
A: Where shall we stay?
10’

work in pairs, reading the itinerary in
order to make the similar dialogue.
- invites Ss practice to the front.
- give the used language.
- share their ideas about the structure and
use.
- make the model with teacher and then
make the same dialogue in pairs.
- make the itinerary
- T gives some situations and asks Ss to
give the usages and form of the past
progressive tense
* Warm-up
- T asks Ss to revise the past progressive
B: At Revere Hotel.
A: Where should we go for
sightseeing?
B: Paul Revere
/
s House.
* the past progressive.
* Study this example situation
Yesterday Tom and Jim played
tennis. They began at 10 o’clock and
finish at 11 o’clock?
What were they doing at 10.30?
-They were playing tennis
* Usages:
- It expresses am action happing at a
certain time

- It is used to indicate that a longer
action in the past was interrupted. The
interruption is usually a shorter action
in the Simple Past.
Ex: I was watching TV when she
called
- it expresses the idea that both
actions were happening at the same
time.
e.x: I was studying while he was
5’
5’
tense and do the exercise
Exercise: Put the verbs into the past
progressive tense
1. Ann……….(write) a letter in her room
2. The phone rang while I…… (have) a
shower.
3. I…… (read) a book in bed while my
sister ……….(do) his homework
4. At 9.30 she………(clean) her flat
5. At 3o’clock they…… (wash) some
clothes
making dinner.
- The Past Continuous with words
such as "always" or "constantly"
expresses the idea that something
irritating or shocking often happened
in the past.
She was always coming to class late

*)Structure:
S+ was/were+ V-ing +……….
V. Drawing on the teacher’s experience
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