1. Copy the new words 4 times and the Grammar Focus.

2. Some oral exercises about the core materials in Section A.

　　　 Step6. Homework

1. Ask 2 Ss to read the sentences loudly and make interpretations.

2. Guessing game. Guess the activities people are doing.

　　　 Step4. Game. Find the differences!

　　　 2 Ss in a group. Student A looks at the picture on P84 and Student B looks at the picture on P86. Each picture has the same people in it, but they are doing different things. Take turns talking about what the people doing in the picture. Attention: don’t look at the partner’s picture. And the weather in 2 pictures could be compared too.

Get Ss to describe the 2 pictures orally.

　　　 Step5. Grammar Focus

1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: What’s Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? What’re Scott and Lucy doing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc.

4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it.

　　　 Step3. Brainstorming

3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook.. Compare cook with cooker.

2．Let’s see what Joe’s families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b.

1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: What’s he/she doing? and What’re they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements.

3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the seven dwarfs.

　　　 Step2. Presentation