Teaching Contents：
A short conversation about a school trip.
Teaching Objectives：
（1）Knowledge objectives
①Students can understand the words and the usage of simple past tense.
②Students can talk about past events in English after learning this conversation.
（2）Ability objective
Students can talk about their school trips fluently.
（3）Emotional objectives
①Students can build up their confidence of learming English.
② Students can develop the awareness of cooperation.
Teaching Key Point:
Students can understand the usage of simple past tense.
Teaching Difficult Point:
Students can talk about past events by using the simple past tense.
Major Steps:
Step 1
Pre-listening(4minutes)
(1) Teaching new phrases Teach some phrases by using pictures, such as ride a horse, milk a cow and feed a chicken.
(2) Ask students to talk about two questions: Where did you go for your holiday? How was your trip?
(Justification: By teaching these phrases, students will have a better understanding of this article. And this step can arouse students' interest.)
Step 2  While-listening(9 minutes)
(1) Extensive listening
Ask students to listen to the tape for the first time and find out the topic.
(2) Intensive listening
Ask students to listen to the tape for the second time and complete the exercise: True or False.
a. Carol rode a horse yesterday.(  )
b. Carol saw some chickens and fed these chickens. (  )
c. Carol and friends went for a walk around the farm and talked with a farmer.(  )
(3) Repeat
Play the tape for the students and let them listen and follow, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
(Justification: By doing this, students can enhance their listening ability through listening in different ways and have a chance to practice pronunciation and intonation.)
Step 3 Post-listening(7 minutes)
(1) Find the rule
a.I saw quite a lot.
b.I milked a cow.
c.I saw some chickens but I didn't feed them.
d. My friends and I went for a walk around the farm and talked with a farmer.
Ask students to find out and summarize the rule of the simple past tense. Then the teacher explains the simple past tense.
(2) Role-play
Ask students to make a new conversation according to the National Day's holiday (or other holidays). Students are required to prepare the dialogue in 3 minutes. And 3 minutes later, invite some groups to share their performance in front of the class.
For example: A: Where did you go on your holiday?
B:I went to Qingdao.
A: What did you do in Qingdao?
B:I went to the beach and saw the sea.
(Justification: This step can help students to find and master the rule of the simple past tense. Role-play is an interesting activity, students can improve their speaking ability and be not afraid of speaking in public.)