四、Teaching Procedures

Ⅰ. Warming-up

1. Show six sentences on the screen with three sentences in simple present tense and three sentences in simple past tense. Ask students to read them and find the differences between these sentences. Then show the topic.

2. Check students if they can change some base form of simple verb into the past form to lay a foundation for today's lesson.

3. Show studying aims to students and let them know what we will learn today.

Ⅱ. Presentation

1. Give the students some pictures and learn some new words.

1) Show two pictures on the screen. One is about "do one's homework" and the other is about "play badminton".

2) First, the teacher asks "What do they usually do on weekends?" Students answer the question as "They do their homework" with the help of the picture. Then change the time. "What did they do last weekend?" Ask students change do to did. And use the full sentence to answer the question.

2. Teach other new words and phrases in the same way: want boating; went to the cinema; went to the beach.

3. After teaching the words, let students try their best to answer the questions in complete sentences.

4. Revise the key verb phrases. Students can speak out the phrases by seeing the Chinese meaning.

III. Practice.

Task one: Guessing game

1. Show the picture that is covered on the screen and let students guess what the person did last weekend.

2. Students can get the clue step by step. If they get the correct answer, they can get two points for their group.

3. After guessing, read the question and the answer toghter.

Task two: Ask and answer

Show the pictures that we have learned on the screen and ask students the