Unit1 How can we become good learers? Period1 Teaching objectives: After the lesion, students will be able ● To learn to understand and use verb＋by … ● To listen, speak and read about how to study for a test Teaching procedures: ■ Warming up by studying the title “How do you study for a test?” Hello, everyone! From now on you are in the ninth grade. In the year to come, I believe, you will have more tests. Then how do you study for a test? Look at the title “How do you study for a test?” It is what we are going to learn this week. “How do you study for a test?” —“How do you study for a test?” —“I study for a test by going over the old exam papers. ” Now translate the dialogue into Chinese. Pay attention to the word in black. 问句中“how”就“方式、手段”提问，do和study for a test 是谓语部分，for a test 是介词短语，表示目的。答句中的“by介词短语”作状语，表示“方式、手段”。 For more examples, look at the table below. —“How do you study/ for a test?” —“I study/ for a test/ by reading the text aloud. ” —“How do you come to school?” —“I come to school/ by taking a taxis. ” 1a Looking and checking Next turn to page 2. Look at the pictures and check√the ways you study for an English test. Then add other ways you use sometimes. —How do you study for an English test? —I study for an English test___. （by reading to the tape/by underlining the expressions/by reading beyond the text/by doing used exam papers/by going over exercises books/by copying down the text/by learning the text by heart/by speaking with classmates/by watching English films Now raise your hand and report your added ways to the class. I will make a list of all the added ways on the blackboard. 1b Listening and speaking Listen to understand how these people in the picture on page 2 study for a test. While listening, pay your attention to examples of “verb＋by …structure” and the useful expressions in it. Now go to read on page 128 the tapescript. While reading try to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, indeed. Useful expressions from the conversation a big test, on Tuesday, really need some help, study for a big test, do really well on the last English, test, study by making flashcards, try that, by asking the teacher for help, be really happy, study by listening to cassettes, listen to music, get mad Now let’s talk as they do in the conversation. That is to say, we are going to talk in imitation of the conversation we have just heard and read. 1c Paring and asking Now in pairs ask your partner how he or she studies for a test. Blackboard design: How do you study for an English test? I study by asking others questions. 课后反思：This lesson is about how to study for a test. So most students are Interested in it . The result of this lesson is good.