Ask the students to finish the following tasks:

1. Watch the video and sum up the usage of adverbs of frequency.

2. Watch the video and sum up the usage of the simple present tense.

3. Write a composition on the subject “My schedule” and tell us whether you lead an orderly life or not.

Organizing the class

1. Greeting

2. Roll-call

Lead-in

Show the schedules of many famous people and some excellent students in universities and ask them what we can learn from them.

Presentation :

U1 Workshop1 Time in your life

1. Useful sentences:

1) He never goes to meetings.

2) He spends most of his time with his customers.

3) He usually goes for something to eat at the snack bar next to the salon.

4) After dinner, he often goes out to a karaoke bar or the cinema with his colleagues.

5) He rarely gets home before midnight.

6) Her favorite time of day is late at night, but she doesn’t spend all her time at work looking at the stars through a telescope.

7) She spends a lot of time on the supercomputer at the university and in meetings, and she only uses the telescope one or two nights a week.

8) She sometimes thinks that the meetings are a waste of time because they last so long, but she likes talking to her colleagues.

9) He often gets up early to practice and he usually spends three or four hours playing.

2. The simple present tense

I/You/We/They work/don’t work. Do I/you/they/we work?

He/She/It works/doesn’t work. Does he/she/it work?

用一般現(xiàn)在時談論：

事實真理 I live in Spain.

習慣或重復性動作 He practices for five hours every day.

我們常把頻度副詞用于一般現(xiàn)在時中。頻度副詞要出現(xiàn)在主要動詞之前，但是要位于be動詞之后。

He usually arrives early. He’s usually early.

3. Adverbs of frequency.

% of the time

100% 50% 0%

always usually often sometimes rarely never

Practice

1. Underline the adverbs of frequency in the texts in a-d.

(Read the Grammar box with the class. Focus on the present simple table. Focus attention on the grammar reference section link. Give the students a few minutes to do the exercise. Check the answers.)

2. Complete the chart with adverbs of frequency.

Always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never.

(Lead students to remember them by cards and making sentences.)

3. Complete the sentences with the correct adverb of frequency .

(Tell students that in this exercise they should use each adverb of frequency once. When they have completed the sentences with the correct adverb of frequency, check the answers. Then lead students to practice the six sentences and try to recite them.)

Summary

1. Useful sentences

2. The simple present tense

3. Adverbs of frequency.

Homework

1. Recite and write the new sentences.

2. Do more exercises at Page 4.

3. Preview the new lesson and finish the tasks.

4. Write your own schedule.

知識目標：談論不同時段日常活動的句型、對話；一般現(xiàn)在時；頻度副詞。

能力目標：經(jīng)過訓練提高學生談論不同時段日常活動的會話能力。

素質(zhì)目標：培養(yǎng)學生形成健康有規(guī)律的日常生活習慣。

通過簡單的講解，讓學生自我練習。在自我練習的過程中，注意糾正學生的肢體語言的運用和語言表達。

問答法 、情景模擬法