（在上课前，将学生分成八个小组，并且选取每组的组长，给小组长分配任务）
Step1 warm-up
Greeting and free-talking
T: Hello. Do you remember me? What’s my name?
S: Your name’s Miss Wu.
T: Yes, you’re right. Nice to meet you.
S: Nice to meet you too.
（评：教师以满腔的热情和亲切的笑容感染学生；并且给每个表现好的小组加分，充分调动学生的积极性。）
Step 2 Presentation
1.T shows a picture of herself about her childhood and asks students to guess who she is.
S: She’s Miss Wu.
T: Yes, you are very clever.
T: Look at my picture. Miss Wu was short before. She’s tall now.
I was short before. Now I am tall.
I was a student. Now I am a teacher.
My hands were small. Now my hands are big.
（评：通过照片对比，鲜明又有效地将be动词的过去形式呈现出来，不仅如此，教师用其丰富的肢体语言将抽象的知识形象化，及时帮助学生解决难点。此外，教师还鼓励学生运用be动词的过去与现在形式的句型去描述照片。）
3）。 say a chant
T: Now let’s say a chant. OK?
S: OK.
T\S: Is, is, is, is for today was, was, was, was for yesterday