【同步课堂-视频】主讲：余佩青 英语人教课标版九年级--Unit2 I used to be afraid of the dark SectionA

Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark. Learning goals 1. Students learn to talk about how they have changed 2. Students learn to grasp the structure “used to” Period 1 Step 1 Revision (1) Check the homework exercises. (2) Ask some individual students their ways of learning English. Step 2 Presentation 1a. The activity introduces the key words. Read the instructions to the class. Tell them all the words in this chart will describe people. The words under Appearance will describe how people look and the words under Personality will describe what people are like. Ask two students to say the sample answers. Then elicit one answer to each column from the class. Get students to fill in the chart individually. Check the answers by asking different students to read their lists to the class. Note: Answers will vary from the sample answers below. Sample answers Step 3 Listening 1b. The activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation. 1) Read the instructions to the class. Point out the sample answer. Say, You will hear someone in the recording say that Mario used to be short. Listen and fill in the other blanks with words you hear. 2) Play the recording for the first time. Students only listen. 3)Play the recording again. This time, students listen and fill in the blanks. Check the answers. Step 4 Listening (2a.) 1)Point to the six words in the box and ask students to repeat each one. Make sure students know the meaning of each word. 2)Play the recording and ask students to put a check in front of the words they hear. Check the answers. Step 5 Listening (2b.) Ask students to read the conversation aloud saying blank when coming to a blank line. Play the recording. Students fill in the blanks with the words they hear. Correct the answers. Step 6 Pairwork 2c. This activity provides oral practice using the target language. Focus students on the conversation in Activity 2b. Ask a pair of students to read it to the class. Point t