The Fourth Period—Section B(2a－2e)
Teaching Important Points 【教学重点】
Key words & phrases：
discovery，lady，cancel，officer，believable，disappear
sell out
Key sentences：
1.By the time people realized that the story was a hoax，all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
2.By the end of the day，more than 10，000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Key structure：
by＋past time＋past perfect tense
e．g.By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax，thousands of people had left their homes.
Teaching Difficult Points 【教学难点】
★Use the words and past perfect tense to tell a story.
Teaching Aids 【教学工具】
A tape recorder，CAI or multimedia courseware.
Teaching Steps 【教学过程】
★Step 1 Leading in 【新课导入】
1．Greeting
2．Warming－up
①The teacher tells about his/her April Fool's Day story.
②Get the students to tell their stories about their April Fool's Day.
★Step 2 Cooperative inquiry 【合作探究】
1．Finish the task in 2a
Show a few pictures of April Fool's Day.Tell the class about the origin and customs of April Fool's Day.
play jokes on sb.，be fooled
2．Finish the task in 2b
①Teach the students how to read quickly.Read the first or last sentence of each paragraph quickly and get to know the main idea of the passage.
②Read the passage in 3－5 minutes.Finish the task in 2b.Find the main idea of each paragraph.
3．Finish the task in 2c
①Read the questions in 2c.Then carefully read the passage again and answer them.
②Ask individual students and check their work.
4．Finish the task in 2d
①Read aloud the passage and learn the new words and phrases in it.
take place，play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other，no more，be sold out，lose weight，by the end of the day，find out，end up being not very funny，get married
②Get the students to fill in the blanks in 2d.
③Ask some students to say the answers and check them.
5．Finish the task in 2e
