Step 1 Greet the class and check the homework.

Step 2 Show the new words on the screen and teach students how to read. And ask them to repeat.

Step 3

Now please open your books at page 3. Look at 3 first. I’ll read each line of the survey to you.

Step 4 Group work

What can you do improve your English?

Collect the answers on the blackboard. For example

Read English books　　 Sing English songs　 　See English movies

How often do you do the things?

Step 5 An activity

Ask students to talk about how often their family members do things. For example,

My mother cooks dinner every day.　 We eat in a restaurant once a week.

My father goes to the United States once a year.

Step 6 Summary

This class we’ve read a magazine article and done an exercise. I hope you can study hard and to be good students. Your parents and teachers are proud of you.

Step 7 Homework

If time isn’t enough, leave the exercises of workbook as homework.

Step 8 Blackboard Design

　　 Unit 1 How often do you exercise?

　 How often do you …?

　 Read English books　　 Sing English books.　　 See English movies

　 Once a week 　　twice a week　 　once a month

Students’ names　 Who’s the best English student?

课后反思：

本课在设计上听说结合，相得益彰。首先给学生创造了一个语言环境，让学生自然融入，然后，缓缓导入阶梯状任务链，循序渐进，难度不断加大，但坡度平缓，铺垫充分且扎实，因此学生在完成最后的中心任务时亦不觉吃力，整堂课学生活动充分，教师的引导点到为止，给学生较大的空间发挥和创造。

A projector.

Reading method.　 Writing method　 Groupwork.　 Commnicative approach.

A magazine article.

2. How often do you read English books? I read English books about twice a week.

1. New words

3. Moral Object

Study hard and to be a good student.

2. Ability Objects

Reading and writing skills.　　 Communicative competence.

1. Knowledge Objects

New words.

A magazine article.

How often do you read English books?

I like reading. I read English books about twice a week.

4.Translating and completing the chart

Because you have read this article many times you are going to translate it into Chinese first and then complete the chart on page 4.

Who will be the first to have a try?

Ways of learning English
	Not successful	OK	Successful
Lillian Li	Studying grammar	memorizing the words of pop songs	reading English magazines
Wei Ming	watching movies	watching English movies	studying grammar
Liu Chang	having conversations/ with friends		joining the English club

3b Doing a pairwork

Silence, please! We are going to have a role play in pairs. One of the pair is to be one of the people in 3a. The other is to interview him or her about learning English.

4 Doing a pairwork

Turn to page 4 to check √what you do to learn English in the box.

Closing down by asking and answering-How did you learn English?

＊　　　　 I listened to English them every day.

＊　　　　 I read English books many times a day.

＊　　　　 I learned many English songs by heart.

＊　　　　 I sang the English songs to myself.

＊　　　　 I learned every new English word in the text.

＊　　　　 I learn English by going to English classes.

＊　　　　 I do English homework at school.

＊　　　　 I read English textbooks in the evening.

＊　　　　 I speak English very slowly.

＊　　　　 I play computer games in English.

＊　　　　 I read a lot of English sentences in the morning.

＊　　　　 I do well in class English tests.

＊　　　　 I get a lot of good advice on learning English from my teacher.

＊　　　　 I discuss English problems with my classmates.

＊　　　　 I follow the advice from my father.

＊　　　　 I learn English sounds from the tape.

＊　　　　 I use English-English dictionaries.

＊　　　　 I listen to recordings and English-language TV.

＊　　　　 I talk to native speakers every chance I got.

＊　　　　 I read books in English, mostly novels.

＊　　　　 I learn a lot of new words from English books.

＊　　　　 I write more and more e-mail in English.

＊　　　　 I use English more than my first language.

＊　　　　 Most of my reading (websites and books) is in English.