第四课时
Unit 5  What were you doing when the rainstorm came?
教学目标：
1 语言目标：能运用过去时态描写过去发生的事情
2 技能目标：能听懂有关过去发生事件，能简单描写过去发后的事件
3 情感目标：能过学习本课，培养学生在困境中互帮互助的品质
教学重点
单词短语: rainstorm, suddenly, alarm , go off , pick up , strange, report, area, wood, light, window, match, beat, heavily, against, asleep, fall asleep, die down, rise, apart, passage, pupil, bright, play ground, bell, completely, silence, in silence, recently, date, tower, at first, realize, truth
句子:
1. What were you doing at eight last night? I was taking a shower.
  2. What was she doing at the time of the rainstorm?
She was doing her homework.
  3. What was he doing when the rainstorm came?
He was reading in the library when the rainstorm came.
  4. What was Ben doing when it began to rain heavily?
When it began to rain, Ben was helping his mom make dinner.
  5. What was Jenny doing while Linda was sleeping?
While Linda was sleeping, Jenny was helping Mary with her homework
语法：过去进行时。
教学难点: when, while引导的时间状语从句中的过去时和过去进行时
Section B 1 (1a-2e)
Step 1 Presentation
  1a  Think of a time when you were late for or couldn’t go to an event.
       What was the event?
       What was the reason why you were late or couldn’t go?
       Tell your partner the story.
Step 2 Listening
   What happened to the girl? Let’s listen.
   1b. Listen and write short answers to the questions.
      1. What event happened at the school yesterday?
2. Who missed the event?
3. Which team won at the event?
   1c Listen again. Number the events 1-6 in the order they happened.
      ____ Kate saw a dog by the side of the road.
____ Kate got to the bus stop.
____ Kate called the Animal Helpline.
____ Kate left the house.
____ Kate waited for someone to walk by.
____ Kate realized her bag was still at home.
Step 3 Speaking
1d. Talk about why Kate missed the school basketball
competition. Student A begins a sentence with while or when. Student B completes the sentence.
A: When she got to the bus stop, Kate …
B: When she got to the bus stop, Kate realized that her bag was still at home.
A: While she was running back home, …
B: While she was running back home, she saw a dog by the side of the road.
Step 4 Presentation
2a. Look at the pictures and the title in the passage. What do you think the passage is about?
阅读指导：
Read the title and first Sentences.
The title can be helpful for you to understand a text. It is also a good idea to
read the first sentence of each paragraph before you read the whole text.
Step 5 Reading
2b. Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. What are the two events in the passage?
2. When did they happen?
2c. Read the passage again. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F), or is the information not given (NG)?
___ 1. Everyone in American remembers who killed Dr. King.
___ 2. Robert Allen was eating lunch when Dr. King was killed.
___ 3. Robert’s parents were shocked to hear the news.
___ 4. Kate Smith was watching a movie when a plane hit the World Trade Center.
___ 5. Kate didn’t think her friend was telling the truth about the event.
2d. Underline sentences from the passage with similar meanings to the ones below.
1. Not everyone will remember who killed him, but they can remember what they were doing when they heard that he got killed.
2. No one said anything for the rest of dinner.
3. September 11, 2001---- the date alone means something to most people in the US.
4. I had trouble thinking clearly after that because I was very afraid.
Step 6 Language points
1. passage  n. 章节，段落
   passage 作“(文章的)段落”解时, 不限于文章的一个自然段, 也可以由若干句话或若干个 paragraphs 组成。
   passage 也可作“一段, 一节”解, 一般指讲话、文章或乐曲的一部分。
e.g. The teacher spent an hour in explaining this passage.
老师用了一小时来讲解这一段。
Choose the correct order of the following sentences to form a passage.
把下列句子排好顺序组成一篇短文。 
2. My parents were completely shocked!
completely  adv. 彻底地，完全地
e.g. I understand completely. 我完全明白。
    shocked   adj. 惊愕的；受震惊的
e.g. She was so shocked that she could hardly say a word.
她大为震惊，几乎一句话也说不出来。
[即学即练] 翻译下列句子。
1) 看到邻居那样对待孩子我很惊愕。
2) 他对她抽烟感到很震惊。
3. My parents did not talk after that, and we finished the rest of our dinner in silence.
  in silence 沉默，无声
  without speaking or making a sound; silently
e.g. Many patients were waiting in silence.
  许多病人在静静地等候着。
     A hundred and fifty reporters sat in silence.
  在场的150名记者静静地坐在那里。
4. I didn’t believe him at first.
   at first “起初，首先”，作为介词短语，只起副词作用（在句中用作状语）。 at first主要用于强调前后对照，暗示接下去的动作与前面的动作不同甚至相反，因此常有 but, afterwards, soon, at last 等相呼应。
e.g. At first we used hand tools. 首先我们使用手工工具。
At first I didn’t want to go, but soon I changed my mind.
我开始不想去，但我很快就改变了主意。
Step 7 Speaking
2e. How much do you remember about the events in the passage? Test your partner.
A: When did Dr. Martin Luther King die?
B: He died on …
Step 8 Summary
1. 在历史上              in history
2. 默默地                in silence
3. 首先                  at first
4. 讲实话                tell the truth
5. 做......感到吃惊         be shocked to do sth.
6. 做某事有麻烦          have trouble doing sth.
7. 如此......以致           so … that
Step 9 Homework              
1. Remember the words and phrases in this lesson.
2. Finish the exercises in the workbook.