Unit 9 How was your weekend?

－ By Zhou Zurong from Mianyang Foreign Languages School

Period 1

Monday May 9th, 2005

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat.

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－ What do you usually do on weekends?－ I usually play computer games/do my homework/go to the library/clean my room/visit my grandparents…

－ What did you do last weekend?

－ I played computer games/did my homework/went to the library/cleaned my room/visited my grandparents…

What did you do last weekend?

I played computer games. I did my homework.

I went to the library. I cleaned my room.

1a Match the words with the pictures.

1. did my homework _d_ 2. played soccer __b__3. cleaned my room __f__4. went to the beach _c_5. Played tennis _e_6. went to the movies _a_

1b Listen and write the day and “morning”, “afternoon” or “night” below each picture.

afternoon

Saturday

Sunday

afternoon

night

Pair work: Read the tape script on page 97. Find out the verbs of simple past tense. Then make your own conversation with the following expressions after the model of 1b.

is→was do→did play→played go→went clean→cleaned

A: How was your weekend, Lucy? B: It was great. A: What did you do? B: I played tennis and went to the beach. A: That’s cool. B: What about you, Tina? A: Well, my weekend was OK. I played comput

er games and cleaned my room.

Homework: Memorize the simple past tense of the following verbs.

do→did, go→went, is→was, are→were, have→had,

stay→stayed, play→played, visit→visited, practice→practiced study→studied,

Period 2

Revision

Q: What did you do yesterday/yesterday morning/afternoon/evening/last weekend/last Saturday/Sunday…?

A: I did my homework/played soccer/cleaned my room/visited my grandparents/went to the beach/stayed at home…

Listening practice

A: Pre-listening. Find the words or phrases that you don’t know in 2a.

1. did some homework/sports

2. studied for the science/math test

3. went to the pool

B. While-listening. Listen and finish exercise 2a & 2b.

1. ____ I visited my (aunt/grandmother).2.____ I did some (homework/sports).3.____ I studied for the (science/math) test.4.____ I went to the (pool/beach).5.____ I played (volleyball/tennis).

B. While-listening. Listen and finish exercise 2a & 2b.

1. E I visited my (aunt/grandmother).2. E I did some (homework/sports).3. B I studied for the (science/math) test.4. C I went to the (pool/beach).5. C I played (volleyball/tennis).

PAIRWORK Practice the conversation below. Use the information in the box.

visit (a person)

go to (a place)

stay at home

have a party

do some reading

practice English

study for the (math) test

A: What did you do last weekend?B: I_____________.A: What about your friend, Carol?B: She __________. What did you do?A: I _________ and _________.

Summary The rules to form the simple past tense verbs:

A. Regular verbs: 1. 动词原形 +ed e.g. play→played clean→clea

ned visit→visited stay→stayed practice→practiced ask→asked watch→watched stay→stayed

2. 以 e 结尾的 +d e.g. live→lived dance→danced

3. 辅音字母 +y 结尾，变 y 为 i+ed study→studied try→tried carry→carried

4. 重读闭音节结尾 , 且末尾只有一个辅音字母的动词，双写尾字母再加 ed

e.g. stop→stopped plan→planned

B. Irregular verbs:

am→was is→ was are→were do→did go→went have→had sit→sat see→saw read→read write→wrote spend→spent

Homework

Memorize the rules to form the simple past tense verbs.

Period 3

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PAIRWORK Ask and answer questions about Ming’s, Tony’s and Sarah’s weekends and fill in the following blanks.

A: How was Ming’s weekend? B: It was great. A: What did he do? B: He went to the beach.

Name How was his/her weekend?

What did he/she do?

Ming It was great. He went to the beach.

Tony

Sarah

It was OK. He did his homework and watched TV.

It wasn’t very good. She cleaned her room and studied for the math test.

Writing Write a report about Ming’s, Tony’s and Sarah’s weekends based on the box above.

Ming had a great weekend. He went to the beach. Tony…

Interview Interview your classmates about their weekends and fill in the following blanks. Prepare a report about

it. The teacher will check the work next period.

NameHow was his/her

weekend?What did he/she do?

Period 4

Geography

d

a

c

Sally Jim

cleaned her room

2a2a Listen. What did Sally and Jim do last weekend? Complete the chart.

did her homework

went to the library

played soccer

went to a movie

visited his friend’s house

3a Read the following questions and try to understand them.

1. Where were the students from? 2. How many students did homework

or studied? 3. When did the five kids go

shopping? 4.Did any kids visit friends? 5.How many kids cleaned their

rooms? When?

Answer the following questions. 1. Where are the students studying?

2. How many students did homework or studied?

3. When did the five kids go shopping?

4.Did any kids visit friends?

5.How many kids cleaned their rooms? When?

They are studying at No. 3 Middle School.

Ten kids did homework or studied.

They went shopping on Saturday afternoon.

Yes, two kids visited friends on Sunday.

Nine kids cleaned their rooms on Sunday.

Do you understand these language points?

1. spend (spent): spend time/money on sth./(in) doing sth.

2.…what they did last weekend? 3. went shopping (go + ving) 4. play sports=do sports

Homework

1. Translate this passage into Chinese.

2. Finish 3b.

Period 5

Homework check.

孩子们怎么度周末 ?

　　　上周 , 我们询问了十位三中的学生周末干了些什么。大部分孩子的周末都有趣味。十个孩子作了作业或学习。星期六下午，五个孩子购物，三个去图书馆。有两个孩子还玩了电脑游戏。星期六晚上，七个孩子去看了电影或呆在家里看电视。星期天，有两个孩子去拜访了朋友，九个孩子打扫了房间，还有五个孩子做了运动。

did my homework visited my aunt

went to the library

played soccer watched TV

What’s the simple past tense of these verbs?

1. have →2. cook →3. read →4. see →5. watch →

hadcookedreadsaw

watched

Do you know how to use these phrases?

1. a little difficult:

2. play (… ) with sb./sth:

3. talk show:

not very difficult. e.g. This dictionary is a little expensive. I won’t buy it.

玩 , 戏弄 , 摆弄 ; 不大认真考虑 ( 某一问题 ); 与 ... 一起玩e.g. play with fire; Tom likes to play chess with his grandfather.

Jay Zhou in TALK SHOW What did you do last month?

The following phrases will help you: acted in a film/held an individual concert /did an ad/wrote a new song/practice the piano/made an MTV

Writing

Write down what Jay Zhou did last month. The beginning is done for you.

Jay Zhou was really busy last month…_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Period 6

Read the story and find out what you don’t understand.

Do you think that everyone enjoys their weekend? Old Henry does not. Last month, he went for a walk with Wang Wang, his cute dog. It was a nice day and Old Henry was happy. He sat down and watched Wang Wang play with a friendly black cat.

Then it was time to go home. Old Henry looked for his dog. But Wang Wang wasn’t there…

Now Old Henry is very sad. He has no dog and no friend. He doesn’t want to do anything.

Discussion Imagine you work for the Heart-warming Project. Discuss with your classmates what will do to help Old Henry to be happy again.

Writing Write a report about how you helped Old Henry last weekend.

Last weekend, I went to visit Old Henry…