教学内容:
the Present Continuous Tense for future actions现在进行时表将来
I. Teaching goals：教学目标
Knowledge aims: 识目标

1. Enable the students to use the Present Continuous Tense to express future action properly in different situations.
2. Enable the students to know how to express good wishes and farewells.
Emotional aim:
Enable the students to communicate with others well by properly using the patterns to express good wishes and farewells.
II. Teaching important points 教学重点
Get the students to master the usage of the Present Continuous Tense for future actions.
III. Teaching difficult points教学难点
Enable the students learn how to use the Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.
IV. Teaching methods 教学方法   
1. Task-based method teaching and learning
2. Cooperative learning
3. Discussion and practice
V. Teaching aid 教具准备
A computer, a projector and other normal teaching tools
VI.学情分析
学生在初中所学习的现在进行时只是表示此时此刻或现阶段正在进行的动作，而这个单元所学习的是现在进行时表将来动作，一时可能会无法适应。
VII 教学理念
1. Try to make the teaching material easier understood.
2. Brainstorms and discussions to make the students interested in what they will learn and further understand what they have learned.
Teaching procedures 教学过程
Step1.Revision
Check the students’ homework.
Step2. Lead-in
Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions
Hello, everyone! After reading the passage, we have got to know the usage of the words and expressions, but we should do more practice. Now turn to page 20 to find the correct words and expressions from the passage to finish the sentences. You are given two minutes to finish them and discuss with your partners. Two minutes later, check in pairs and then check with the whole class.
Step3.Learning about language
1.Reading and finding
Good, you have mastered these words and expressions. Let’s turn to page 17 and look at the questions in Warming up 4. Underline the verbs in the questions, and pay attention to the verb forms and do some explanations by yourselves.
2. Learning Grammar
We can see that the verbs are all used in the “-ing” form. They are “the present continuous tense”, but they express future actions or plans. The Present Continuous Tense may be used to denote an action that can be pre-planned or prearranged instead of the future indefinite in colloquial English. But please note that, not all verbs can be used in the “-ing” form to express future actions. Such verbs as come, go, leave, fly, walk, ride, drive, stay, meet, die, see, have, arrive etc. are mainly used in the “-ing” form to express future actions.
3. Do exercises No. 2 and 3 on page 21
Now turn to page 21 and do exercise 2. In the dialogue a newspaper reporter is interviewing Wang Wei about her plans for the trip along the Mekong River. However, they are not sure about some of the verb tenses. Can you help them complete their conversation?
Let’s continue to do exercise 3. Do you have any plans for the future yourselves? If you have any, please use the Present Continuous Tense to express your future actions. Give as much information as you can.
4. Ready used materials for the present continuous tense for future actions or plans
be + v.-ing与表示将来的时间连用，表示不久的将来，含义是“预定要做”。（这种结构中常用动作动词或去向动词：go, come, leave, start, arrive, travel, fly等，不适用于状态动词）
Sample sentences:
I’m leaving for Beijing this Friday.
My friends came over last night, and they are coming over this evening, too.
We are going to Lao shan this May Day holiday.
We had an English class this morning, and we are having another English class tomorrow.
We took six subjects last term, and we are taking seven subjects next term.
I have arrived in Beijing. I’m visiting the Great Wall tomorrow morning.
After class we are playing football on the playground.
We are flying to Shanghai next Friday.
Step4. Dialogue
Suppose you are planning a holiday trip. Make a dialogue with your classmate. You must pay great attention to the tense. The following questions can help you.
Where are you going for you holiday?
Who are you going with?
How are you getting there?
What are you doing there?
Where are you staying?
How long are you staying there?
What are you taking with you?
When are you returning?
Sample dialogue:
A: where are you going on holiday?
B: I am going to Hong Kong.
A: When are you leaving?
B: Next Sunday.
A: How are you getting there?
B: I am taking a plane.
A: How long are you staying there?
B: About three weeks.
A: Great. Have a good trip.
B: Thanks .
Step5 Homework
1. Finish off the workbook exercises.
2. Learn the important points by heart.