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Unit5 Meeting your ancestor Learning about language Teaching Aims: 1.

Knowledge Aims: Enable the students to master the basic structure and the meaning of the Present Perfect Continuous Tense 2.

Ability Aims: Enable the students use the Present Perfect Continuous Tense to make sentences and distinguish the Present Perfect Tense from it. 3.

Emotional Aims: Develop the students’ interest in grammar and English language. Teaching Methods: training, practicing, explaining and cooperating. Key points of teaching: Enable the students to master the basic structure and use the Present Perfect Continuous Tense to make sentences. 4.

Difficult points of teaching: Enable the students use the Present Perfect Continuous Tense to make sentences and distinguish the Present Perfect Tense from it. Teaching Procedure: Step1.Warming Up Warming up goes by revising the verb tenses. Ask the students to write down the structures of eight verb tenses. Step2. Presentation Ⅰ. In exercise 1,students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions. Ⅱ.In exercise 2,students will complete the sentences using the prepositional phrases, whose Chinese meaning will be consolidated. Provide the students with usages of important prepositional phrases . because because of 1. He failed ________his laziness. 2. He failed ________he is lazy. 3. The teacher was angry ________what he said.

instead instead of 1.I can walk to work ___________going by car 2.He didn't reply. ________,he turned and left. 3.They didn’t meet her, they met her cousin________.

Ⅲ. The Present Perfect Continuous Tense 1.

Lead-in. Ask the students to read and translate three sentences. Then the students think over and conclude what the common point is. The students will get it is the tense. Then ask them what the structure is. Tense: Structure: Meaning: Usages: 2.

Teacher: Today we will learn the meaning and the usages of The Present Perfect Continuous Tense. Ask the students to read the definition together, and explain there are four situations to use The Present Perfect Continuous Tense Situation1: Let the students look at the sentence and the picture. The teacher will explain it and conclude the key point Situation2: Ask students to translate the sentences into Chinese and ask if the action has stopped. Then conclude the key point. Situation3: Ask students to translate the sentences into Chinese. Then conclude the key point. Situation4: Ask students to translate the sentences into Chinese. Then conclude the key point. Step3 Practice Ⅰ Cloze 1.We ________________(look) forward to our summer vacation. 2. Although these scientists _________________(work) on the project for nearly four years, I don't know how long it will last.

3.The girl has a great interest in sport and___________ (take)badminton classes twice a week over the last three years. Ⅱ Multiple choice 1. China sent up Shenzhou V manned spaceship into space successfully, which shows science and technology ________ rapidly in China. A. have been developing B. develops C. is developing D. had developed 2. Mrs. White became a teacher in 1985. She ______ for twenty years by next summer. A. will teach B. would have taught C. has been teaching D. will have been teaching 3. --Hi, Tracy, you look tired. --I am tired. I _________ the living room all day. A. painted B. had painted C. have been painting D. have painted 4. The two friends ________ on the Internet for three hours, and they would go on till the next morning. A. had been chatting B. had chatted C. were chatting D. have been chatting 5. Now that she is out of a job, Lucy ________ going back to school, but she hasn’t decided yet.

A. had considered B. has been considering C. Considered D. is going to consider 6. ----How long _________ in the factory? ----Since 1990. A. were you working B. have you been working C. had you been working D. will you work 7. The first use of atomic weapons was in 1945, and their power _______ increased enormously ever since.

A. is B. was C. has been D. had been 8. ----Hi, Alan, I have’t seen you for weeks. What _________ recently?

----Studying. A. have you been doing B. have you done C. were you doing D. did you do Step5 Homework 1.Do more exercises about the Present Perfect Continuous Tense 2.Memorize important words and phrases