Step 1 Revision

Ask What's the date today? Revise saying the ordinals, months and year. Practise with a calendar. （See Lesson 46, Step 4 of the TB）.

Step 2 Revision

Talk about a story in the SB（e. g. SB page 19, Part 2）. Practise as much vocabulary and as many forms as possible, using Simple Past Tense forms（had, was, went, did）： e. g. Where did the children go? Did Li Lei hold the ladder? DidJim have more apples than Li Lei?

Step 3 Word families

SB page 48, Part1. Speech Cassette Lesson 48.Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat.

Practise the individual sounds, then show flash cards randomly and get the Ss to pronounce the words written on them.

Step 4 Listening

SB page 48, Part2. Listening Cassette Lesson 48. Play the tape three times if necessary. Wb Lesson 48, Ex. 2. Find out what the student had for breakfast, lunch and supper last Sunday.

Listening text:

What did you have for your meals last Sunday?

A： Did you have fish for lunch last Sunday?

B： No, we didn't. There wasn't any nice fish in the shop, so we had meat.

A： Did you have porridge for breakfast?

B： No, we didn't. There wasn't any rice, so we had bread and milk.

A： What did you have for supper?

B： We had chicken and rice.

The answers are： bread and milk for breakfast, meat for lunch, chicken and rice for supper.

Step 5 Checkpoint 12

Go through the sentences in Checkpoint 12．Drill the question forms like this:

T： I had fish yesterday.

Ss： Did you have fish yesterday?

T： Yes, I did. She had rice for breakfast．

Ss： Did she have rice for breakfast?

T： Yes, she did. etc.

Drill the question forms using other verbs, likethis：

T： get up at six

SA： Did you get up at six yesterday?

SB： Yes, I did. /No, I didn't.

T： come to school on foot

SA： Did you come…? etc.

Discuss any problems that the Ss might raise.

Step 6 Test

Dictate the following dates:

July 1st, 1997; August 25th, 1983; September14th, 1742; February 22nd, 1660; January 30th,1549; December 3rd, 1895．

Step 7 Workbook

Wb Lesson 48, Exx. 1-3.

The answers to Ex. 1 are： cheap, child, touch, catch; village, June, train, truck; dress, drive, gates, needs; rides, grades, hands, starts.

The answers to Ex.3 are： Did, have; did; did, have; had; did; had. had; did; did; played; have; did; have; have.

Step 8 Listen and say

As the New Year is coming, tell the Ss to say Happy New Year! to friends and relatives on New Year's Day. The reply is usually Happy New Year（to you）! or The same to you!

Homework

Finish off the Workbook exercises.

Write out the words in Wb Lesson 48, Ex.1 in the exercise books.