Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?It’s my great pleasure to present my lesson plan here. The lesson I’m going to talk about is unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came? I’ll interpret my lesson plan from the following aspects:Firstly, I’d like to analyze the teaching material and learners.This lesson is chosen from the section A of unit 5, Book 8B, PEP Junior English. The topic of this unit is unforgettable events. The main task for ss is to talk about past events. Even though ss have learned the simple past tense, they may still feel hard to talk about past events by using the past progressive tense. Thus, enough practice will be organized to help ss learn the new words, expressions and sentence structures.Based on the analysis above and the new curriculum standard, I set the following teaching aims: 1.Knowledge aim. After the class, ss will understand the function of the past progressive tense and the basic meaning of new vocabulary and the sentence structures, such as alarm, go off, heavily, began, What were you doing when the rainstorm came?2.Ability aim. By the end of the lesson, ss will be better able to talk past events by using the target language.3.Emotional aim. During the class, ss’interest in learning English will be increased by talking about unforgettable events.Next, let’s move on to the key point and difficult point.The key point is to talk past events using the past progressive tense, such as what were you doing at the time of rainstorm?The difficult point is to understand the adverbial clause of time guided by when.To achieve the objectives above, I’ll adopt audio-lingual approach, communicative approach and situational teaching method. And ss will learn through cooperation, communication, discussion and imitation.Now, I’d like to describe the teaching procedure.Step 1 is leading in.At the beginning of the class, I’ll lead in the lesson like this:Hello, boys and girls. I have some beautiful photos to share with you. Now, let’s look at them together. This is a magical astronomical phenomenon, called meter shower. It happened at 8 last night. Did you see it? No, wow, it’s a pity. But it doesn’t matter. Many people were not lucky last night, such as my parents. There was a heavy rainstorm in their city last night.This activity can arouse ss’ interest and lead them to the topic naturally.Step 2 is Presentation.Based on the former activity, I’ll present pictures of my family members. In the pictures, they were doing different things. I’ll talk with ss about what my family members were doing when the rainstorm came. Thus, the past progressive tense will be learned here. 板书What was/were sb doing when/while/at the time of---.After talking about what my parents were doing at the time of rainstorm. I’ll lead ss to match the pictures with the corresponding statements in 1a to see where were the people when the rainstorm came.This activity is used help ss smooth the way for listening.So, next step is listening.ss will listen to a TV report about the rainstorm. While ss listen for the first time, they will circle what people were doing when the rainstorm came. During the second time, ss will read after the recording and check the answers. When they finish, I’ll check the answers by asking questions like “What was the first girl doing when the rainstorm came? What was the man doing at the time of the rainstorm?”Step 4 is speaking.Ss’ll work in pairs to talk about what the people were doing when the rainstorm came in the pictures. Now, ss’ve listened and talked about how to past events. So, I’ll lead ss to the next listening. Here, ss’ll learn to tell a past event.While they listen for the first time, they will find out why yesterday was a terrible day. I’ll encourage ss to guess the meaning of new words and phrases according to the context. As for the 2nd time, ss will number the pictures in time order. When they finish, I’ll explain the new words and phrases. Such as alarm, go off, began, heavily. During the 3rd time, ss will fill in some blanks to complete the story.In this step, ss’ve listened how the boy tell his terrible yesterday. So, next step is a role play.One st will act as a TV reporter. The other st will be the unlucky boy. They will make a conversation about his bad day.Now, let’s talk about the summary.I’ll invite ss to summarize what they have learned from this lesson and then we’ll make a summary together.As for the homework, ss will do a survey in groups of 4. One st will interview the other 3 ss about what they were doing when the meteor shower came last night.At last, I want to introduce my blackboard design.Unit 6 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?What was/were sb doing when/at the time of ----RainstormAlarmGo offBeganHeavily。