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《英语》（八年级上册） Unit 8 Natural disasters Grammar I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. use the past continuous tense to talk about things that were happening at a particular time in the past; 2. use conjunctions of time “when, while, as” to talk about things. II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: break down, because of 2. New structures: I was sleeping when the earthquake started. Outside, people were running in all directions while pieces of glass and bricks were falling down. Hours later, as I was trying to find my way out, I suddenly heard some noise above me. III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty Introduce the structure of the past continuous tense. Tell the differences among “when, while, as”. IV. Teaching procedures A Past continuous tense Step 1 Lead-in 1. Show some pictures of the Taiwan Earthquake, and ask three questions: What was Timmy doing when the earthquake started? What were people doing while pieces of glass and bricks were falling down? What did Timmy suddenly hear as he was trying to find his way out? 2. Watch a video and then answer a question What were people doing when the earthquake happened? 【设计意图】有目的、有意义地导入，既复习了阅读部分学习的内容，同时也引导学生思考过去进行时态。 Step 2 Presentation 1. Ask the students to read the sentences on the screen to discover the rule T: Today we will be learning about the past continuous tense. Please work in pairs. Read these sentences and try to find out the rule. 2. Circle the verbs in the past continuous tense 3. Work out the rule (1) Explain the structure of the past continuous tense. (2) Explain the usage of the past continuous tense. 【设计意图】采用归纳教学法，让学生自己发现语法规则更符合现有的心智结构，更便于记忆与运用。 Step 3 Practice 1. Make sentences Ask the students to watch the pictures and make sentences. The boys were playing football at 4 p.m. yesterday. The woman was shopping at this time yesterday. The girl was reading the whole night yesterday. 2. Change sentences Get the