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Mary washes her hair three times a week. … times a day/week/month/year/century … 22 collect somebody from school 23have lunch with somebody have breakfast/lunch/dinner with … 24 return to school = go back to school 25 after school = after school is over after class is over after work = after work is finished 26 attend a club = take part in a club 27 Computer Club 28 ask somebody to do something always asks me to help her with herlesson Mum won39。clock. It continued raining all afternoon. 33. go to bed = go to sleep Synopsis by paragraph 1 Cheng Na described her morning routine and the background to herfamily puter business. 2 She is dri ven to school in her own car. 3 She discribes her studies. 4 At lunch time she sometimes has lunch with a businessclient. 5 She describes her afterschool activities. 6 In the evenings she works on writing her puter games. Consolidation 1 Copy the phrases. 2 Copy the passage and put it into Chinese. Period Three Teaching target 1 Introducing simple present tense A small checkup 1 Write out the following phrases. a) go to bed b] have violin lessons c] return to school d] after school e] in ones own car f] at breakfast g] discuss the business h] the manager of the pany i] achieve A degrees j] get up Language (1) Simple present positive 1 Have students read the first sentence in the passage. I get up at six, wash and put on my school uniform. (Write on theboard) From this sentence, we learn that: She gets up at six, washes and puts on her school unifo rm. (Writeon the board below the first sentence) 2 Say: We use verbs in the simple present tense (Write 39。 on the board) in these two sentences. But, why do w euse simple present tense here? Say: We use simple present tense to talk or write about things thathappen all the time or a number of times. Ask students to underline the first sentence on page 23 in ATalking about the present. 3 Say: From these two sentences, we found that we use 39。, 39。and 39。 for 39。, but 39。, 39。 and 39。 for 39。.Why? 4 Spelling rules: a) For I, you, we and they, we make the simple present tense fromthe infinitive of the verb. b) For he, she and it, we add s to most verbs. It rains a lot in London. 18