作者：曾芷曦
　　I. Teaching objectives： A. Knowledge objectives： 1. To familiarize students with the form， meaning and use of present progressive tense. 2. To guide students to figure out the differences between the simple present tense and the present progressive tense. 3. To help students master how to change an original verb to its present participle. B. Ability objectives： To enable students to talk about what they are doing using the present progressive tense. C. Affective objectives To encourage students to talk about the things they are doing in English.
　　II. Teaching focal points： A.To guide students to summarize the form， use and meaning of the present progressive tense. B.To lead students to distinguish differences between the simple present tense and the present progressive tense.
　　III. Teaching difficult points： To encourage them to express themselves in exchange using the present progressive tense.
　　IV. Teaching methodology： PPP model.
　　VI. Teaching procedures：
　　Step 1. Lead in （5’）
　　Activity： The teacher plays a song named Sailing to students and asks them to answer the following questions：⑴How do you feel like the song？⑵In the song， what is he doing？ What are they doing？（Purpose of design： Music plays an important role in lowering affective filter. Besides，， the song contains many sentences using the present progressive tense， which aims to activate their prior knowledge and lead in the grammar focus.）
　　Step 2. Presentation （15’）
　　The teacher guides students to figure out the form， meaning， use of the present progressive tense.
　　Activity 1： Look at the picture and answer questions.（5’）
　　T： Show a picture on the slide and ask what persons in the picture are doing now. Then write important sentences on the blackboard until responded with a correct answer.
　　Ss： Answer the teacher’s question at random.（Purpose of design： The Q&A activity aims to elicit the form of the present progressive tense and attracts students attention on the grammar.）
　　Activity 2：  Study the differences between the simple present tense and the present progressive tense. （5’）
　　T： Introduce the information of Jenny using the simple present tense and the present progressive tense and at the same time shows  sentences on the slide.
　　Ss： Work in group of four to discuss the differences between the sentences on the left and the ones on the right. （Purpose of design： This activity aims to practice students cognitive strategy of contrast analysis and learning strategy of cooperative learning.）