TASK  The Ss are to survey what they could do when they were little

I. Teaching aims and demands

1.         The Ss can use the following words and phrases:

clever, yourselves, find out, fall off, teach oneself, piano

2.         The Ss can use the following expressions; using the reflexive pronouns

1) She didn’t hurt herself

2) She taught herself

3) Learn all by oneself

4) Could she swim when she was … years old ?

II. Difficult points:

1) The modal verb “could” when talking about the past experience

2) The reflexive pronouns

III. Teaching aids

1) a recorder      2) some pictures      3) some pieces of paper

VI. Teaching steps

Step One    Warming-up  

1.         Greeting

2.         Chatting

The teacher is chatting with the students to revise:

1) What’s their favourite sport?

2) What do they like doing?

and the teacher can also present two new words “clever”, “piano”.

eg: What’s your favourite sport?

Do you like playing basketball / football… ?

Do you like playing computer games?

Oh, but I like playing the piano (show a picture of a piano) Can you play the piano?

You’re very clever. You can play the piano.

Do you like playing games?

Do you like playing guessing games?

Are you good at guessing games?