Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

Students learn to talk about future intentions.

Ⅱ. Teaching key and difficult points:

A. Vocabulary

1. computer programmer, professional, engineer, pilot

2. computer science, dream job, grow up, move to, fashion show, retire, save

3. resolution, get good grades, get a part-time job, make more friends

B. Target language

1. What are you going to be when you grow up?

I’m going to be a computer programmer.

2. How are you going to do that?

I’m going to study computer science.

C. Structures

Future with going to

Want to be

What, Where, When, How questions

D. Grammar

The simple future tense.

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; PPP

Ⅴ.This unit is divided into five periods.

Period One Listen and speak

Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

Students learn to talk about future intentions.

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

A. Vocabulary

1. professional, acting, take lessons, every day

2. computer programmer, engineer, baseball player, pilot, actor, actress, artist

B. Target language

1. What are you going to be when you grow up?

I’m going to be a computer programmer.

2. How are you going to do that?

I’m going to study computer science.

C. Structures

Future with going to

Want to be

What, How questions

D. Grammar

The simple future tense.

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; PPP

Ⅴ.Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

Task 1 Ask students to think about ways they already know to talk about future events. For example:

☆Where are you going next week?

I’m going to my grandmother’s house next week.

☆How long are you staying?

I’m staying for a week.

☆What are you doing on Saturday?

I’m playing tennis all day.

Task 2 Circle the –ing in each sentence. Say, We use ing words to talk about things that are going to happen in future. We are sure these things will happen.

Step 2 Key vocabulary

Task 1 Read each words to the class. Ask the students to point to the jobs that appear in the picture.

Task 2 Read the instructions and say, put a 1 after the most interesting job, put a 2 after the second most interesting job, and so on.

Task 3 Check to say which things are the most interesting in the class. Ask students to write the six jobs on the blackboard. Ask: How many students made engineer number 1?

Step 3 Target language

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Learn the target language:

What are you going to be when you grow up?

I’m going to be a computer programmer.

How are you going to do that?

I’m going to study computer science.

Task 2 Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.

Task 3 Play again. Ask students to draw lines connecting the jobs and the activities.

Task 4 Check the answers.

Step 4 Pair work

Task 1 Ask students to look at the pictures in activity 1a. Then ask students to read the sample conversations in activity 1c.

Task 2 Ask students to work in pairs and make their own conversations.

Task 4 Ask some pairs to present one or more of their conversations to the class.

Ⅵ Homework

1. Remember the vocabulary and the target language.

2. Review the simple future tense.

Period Two Listen , speak and Grammar Focus

Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

1. Revise the target language, and complete the listening practice;

2. Learn Grammar Focus.

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

A. Vocabulary

take acting lessons, move

B. Target language

1. What are you going to be when you grow up?

I’m going to be an actor.

2. How are you going to do that?

I’m going to take acting lessons.

C. Structures

Future with going to

What, Where, When, How questions

D. Grammar

The simple future tense.

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; PPP

Ⅴ.Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Task 1 Ask questions beginning with “What are you going to be when…” “How are you going to do…

Task 2 Practice the conversations using the target language students have already studied.

Step 2 Listening

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Ask some students to say what they say.

Task 3 Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.

Task 4 Play again. Ask students to check the pictures of the things Cheng Han is going to do.

Task 5 Check the answers.

Step 3 Listening

Task 1 Read the instructions and point out the sample answer.

Task 2 Ask a student to read the sample questions and sample answers to the class.

Task 3 Play again. Ask students to fill the chart.

Task 4 Check the answers.

Step 4 Pair work

Task 1 Read the instructions for the activity.

Task 2 Ask students to read the dialogue to the class.

Task 3 Ask students to work in pairs, ask and answer,

Task 4 Check the answers by asking different pairs to do one question and answer each.

Step 5 Grammar Focus

Task 1 Read Grammar Focus

Task 2.Explain the two different ways of saying the same things.

I’m going to take acting lessons.

﹦ I’m taking acting lessons.

Ⅵ Homework

1. Revise the target language.

2. Finish off the exercises on work book.

Period Three Read and speak

Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

1 Revise the target language, and complete the reading practice;

2 Go on learning the simple future tense: be going to

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

A. Vocabulary

Somewhere, Paris, sound like, fashion show, part-time, save, at the same time, hold, rich, retire, yet

B. Target language

1. What are you going to be when you grow up?

I’m going to be an actor.

2. How are you going to do that?

I’m going to take acting lessons.

3.Where are you going to work?

C. Structures

Future with going to

Want to be

What, Where, When, How questions

D. Grammar

The simple future tense: be going to

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; Control reading

Ⅴ.Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Review the simple future tense: be going to.

Step 2 Reading

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Ask students to read the diary on their own, and circle the words and phrases they don’t understand.

Task 3 Ask students to read the words and phrases they don’t understand, ask other students to explain.

Task 4 Ask students to underline the things that Tian Tian is going to do.

Task 5 Correct the answers.

Step 3 Writing and speaking

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Have students write down answers about themselves, and tell their plans to their partner.

Task 3 Ask students to answer these questions. Have them work in pairs to ask and answer, then change the roles.

What …? Where…? How…?

Task 4 Ask some students to say their dialogues to the class .

Step 4 Group work

Task 1 Read the instructions and point to the picture. Write the year 2008 on the blackboard. Ask the class why that is an important date for Beijing and China.

Task 2 Write going to on the board. Ask :What are you going to do to help make the Olympics a success?

Task 3 Divide the class into groups of four or five students. Ask them to make their own conversations.

Task 4Ask each group to present its conversation to the class .

Ⅵ Homework

1 Revise the target language.

2 Revise the simple future tense: be going to.

3. Finish off the exercises on work book.

Period Four Section B

Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

Learn some new language, and complete the listening practice;

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

A. New language

fax, few, food, resolution, grade, healthier, instrument, part-time job, harder, learn, letter, lots of, resolutions, money, New Year, next year, make the soccer team

B. Structures

Future with going to Want to be What, Where, When, How questions

C. Grammar

The simple future tense: be going to

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; PPP

Ⅴ.Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Discussion

Get the students discussion the New Year’s resolutions in group of four by asking the questions like the following:

What are you going to do next year?

Why are you going to do so?... ..

Step 2 New words

Task 1 Ask students to tell when New Year’s Day is. Ask students what they do on New Year’s Eve.

Task 2 Ask students to explain the resolutions in their own words.

Task 3 Ask students to match the phrases and pictures on their own.

Step 3 Pair work

Task 1 Read the instructions and read the conversations to the class.

Task 2 Ask students to work in pairs to discuss what things they are going to do.

Task 3 Ask several pairs to present their conversations to the class.

Step 4 Listening

Task 1 Read the instructions and the phrases in activity 1a.

Task 2 Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.

Task 3 Play again. Ask students to circle the resolutions in activity 1a that they hear.

Task 5 Check the answers.

Step 5 Listening

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Play again. Ask students to fill the chart.

Task 4 Check the answers.

Step 6 Group work

Task 1 Read the instructions for the activity. And read the sample conversations.

Task 2 Ask students to work in pairs.

Task 4 Ask some students to present their dialogues to the class.

Ⅵ Homework

1 Revise the target language.

2 Finish off the exercises on work book.

Period Five Self check

Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands:

Revise the content taught and complete the writing practice;

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

Future with going to Want to be What, Where, When, How questions

Writing practice

Ⅲ.Teaching aids :

A tape recorder

Ⅳ.Teaching methods:

Communicative Approach; Control reading and writing

Ⅴ.Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Review the simple future: be going to.

Step 2 Reading

Task 1 Read the magazine article to the class.

Task 2 Read the instructions to the class.

Task 3 Ask students to finish the activity on their own.

Task 4 Ask students to make a list of the New Year’s resolutions that the article mentions.

Step 3 Reading and Writing

Task 1 Read the instructions to the class.

Task 2 Have students writing a magazine article.

Task 3 Ask students to read their articles to the class.

Step 4 Writing

Task 1 Ask students to make a list of their resolutions.

Task 2 Ask students to write about their resolutions using the language learned in this unit.

Task 3 Ask some students to read their resolutions.

Step 5 Group work: Clean and Green

Task 1 Ask a student to read the instructions and the example answer for the class.

Task 2 Ask Ss to work in groups and write the group plans.

Step 6 Self check

Task 1 Fill in the blanks.

Task 2 Write a list about your plans what the American exchange students and you are going to do.

Task 3 Just for fun: read and act out.

Ⅵ Homework

1. Finish the writing practice.

2. Revise the words and target language of this unit.

3. Finish off the exercises on workbook.