内容正文:
Get Ready C Your Family Part Ⅱ(第一课时)
Lesson Focus
• Family members, jobs, meals
• Talking about people, time, and routine
• Revision of personal pronouns
Everyday English
Exercise 1
Purpose: to help students talk about time
· Show a large clock with hands you can move. You may use the one from Get Ready A, Part I , Exercise 1. Point out or elicit that the longer hand is the minute hand and the shorter is the hour hand. Demonstrate, using the clock, that one hour is 60 minutes, half an hour is 30 minutes, a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes, and three quarters of an hour is 45 minutes.
· Set the time to 2:00. Ask "What time is it?" Elicit It's two o'clock. Write the question and the skeleton answer ( It's _____ o'clock. ) on the board. Change to another time on the hour, for example, 8;00. Ask "What's the time?" Elicit It's eight o'clock. Continue until you feel students have revised time on the hour sufficiently.
· Then revise time on the half hour by setting the clock to 12:30. Ask the question and elicit the answer, writing the skeleton answer (It's _____ thirty. ) on the board. Continue until you feel students have revised time on the half hour sufficiently.
· Move on to time on the quarter hour, for example 6:15 and then 6:45. Ask the question and elicit the answer, writing the skeleton answers (It's a quarter to _____ . It's a quarter past _____ . ) on the board. Continue until you feel students have revised time on the quarter hour sufficiently.
· Proceed to five-minute increments past the hour, beginning with 10:05, moving onto 10:10, 10: 15 (point out that you can say quarter past ten or ten fiften) , 10:20, 10:25, revising 10:30. Show examples of minutes past the hour, for example, 10:01, 10:02, etc. Ask questions, elicit answers, and write examples on the board.
· Proceed to five-minute increments before the hour, beginning with 10:35, 10:40: 10:45 (point out that you can say quarter to eleven or ten forty-five), 10:50, 10:55, 11:00. For more proficient s