镇江市实验初中八年级英语教案 Unit2 School life
Computer
Teaching steps: Step I. Warm-up
Try to memorize the main idea of John?s and Nancy?s articles according to the table. Who? Where? What? When? Why? John (Woodland School, near London) (Home Economics) (Reading Week) (Every year) (Because he likes learning to cook and sew.) (Because he can read anything he likes.) Nancy (Rocky Mountain School, Denver) (Softball.) (The ?buddy club?) (Twice a week.) (Every Monday) (Because she loves the game.) (Because she enjoys it a lot.) High Step II. Language points
1. Year8 (the Eighth Year) = Grade 8 (the Eighth Grade) 2. mixed adj. a mixed school mix v. Oil and water will not mix.
3. how to do things for myself (反身代词, 我自己,独自做某事)
疑问代词who, what. which等和疑问副词when, where, how等加动词不定式,在句中作主语、宾语、表语等成分. E.g. Where to go is a question.(作主语)
The question is how to learn English well.(作表语) I know where to find the boy.(作宾语) 4. tasty adj. The food is tasty.
taste link.v. The food tastes good. n. The food has a good taste. 5. as well, also, too, either, as well as
a. as well 副词短语,多用于口语,只用于句末. He is a teacher and a writer as
well.
b. also 较正式,不用于句末,用语肯定句中. He also plays football. c. too 多用语口语,通常在句末,也可在句中. He is a worker, too. d. either 用于否定句中,通常在句末.
Yesterday I didn?t watch TV and I didn?t see the film, either.
e. as well as 用于肯定句中,意为 “既……又……; 不仅……而且……”,起
连接作用.
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镇江市实验初中八年级英语教案 Unit2 School life
He gave me clothes as well as food. 6. have a great time talking to each other
have a great/good time doing sth.=have fun doing sth.
E.g. Mary had a god time dancing at the party. We have fun learning English.
Step III. Reading and retelling Task 1 Read the articles together.
Task 2 Fill in the blankets according to John?s composition.
John was in _______ at Woodland School near London. It?s a _____school. His favorite subject is ________________.So he can cook healthy and ___________meals now. His school has a_______ week every year. He and his classmates can read books from the school library. And they can also ________ in books and_________ from home. The reading week is too ______ because he wants to read others? books __________.
Task3 Fill in the blankets according to Nancy?s composition.
Nancy is 14 years old. She is in 9th g____ at Rocky Mountain High School. Her brother Denver had d______ lessons last year. It?s great for her because he d______ her to school every day. It?s f_____ than taking a bus. She plays s_______ twice a week. She spends lots of time p____________. Every Monday she goes to a b____ club. Her buddy is Julie. Julie h____ Nancy learn all about her new school. She helps Nancy with her homework and listens to her p_______. Nancy thinks Julie is a h____. During lunchtime, she has a good time t________ with her friends. Sometimes, they go to s_______ malls after school. Task4 Read the two parts by themselves.
Task5 Retell John?s life in a British school and Nancy?s life in an American school.
Step IV. Homework
Task1 Translate the sentences into English. 1、我最喜欢的科目是家政。
2、在我到这个学校之前我不知道该如何为自己做事。 3、李华喜欢打垒球，每天花很多时间练习它。 4、老师经常告诉我们课后也要练习英语。 5、我想学如何做健康可口的饭菜。
6、乘出租车去公园比骑自行车去要快得多。 Task2 Recite the article.
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镇江市实验初中八年级英语教案 Unit2 School life
Period 4 Vocabulary
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Learn about the school subjects.
2. Review and learn the adjective nouns about people?s opinion. 3. Grasp the opposites of the adjective nouns. Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. Grasp the new words such as art, geography, language, PE, science, useful, unimportant, useless, unpopular and so on.
2. Can give opinion on different school subjects. Teaching preparation: Computer and the timetable Teaching steps: Step I. Lead in
Ask some questions about the reading.
Ask 2-4 students to sum up John and Nancy?s school lives. Step II. Pre-task
Task 1 T: We know John?s favorite subject is Home Economics. Because he
likes cooking and sewing. What?s your favorite subject? S: Chinese, Math, English, PE……
Look at the pictures and teach the Ss the new words:
Ask: What class is it? What can you learn from each subject?(Teacher can give a table.) Art Computer Studies Geography History Home Economics Languages PE Science You can draw and paint pictures. Task2 Finish Part A on Page 27. Step III. While-task
Task 1 Some adjective words to show one?s opinion on different school subjects. T: I think Home Economics is very interesting, but History is very boring. What do you think of the subjects?
Is the Art lesson very easy/difficult/important/unimportant/useful/useless? S: Yes, it?s……/I think……
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Point out: useful careful unimportant unpopular useless careless
Encourage the Ss to say more words like this. Task 2 Finish Part B on Page 27. Step IV. Post-task
Fill in the blankets with the right forms.
1. The song is _________(popular) now, but I still like it.
2. I like Daniel because he can tell ___________(interest) stories. 3. The bus left 5 minutes ago. It?s _______(use) to run to the stop. 4. What a ______(bored) book. I can?t read it any more. 5. It is ___________(important). We don?t need to go there. Step V. Homework
1. Remember the new words. 2. Finish the exercises.
Period 5 Grammar A&B Teaching aims and demands:
1. Compare two things using ?more…than?, ?fewer…than? and ?less…than?. 2. Compare more than two things using ?the most? for the largest amount and
?the fewest?/ ?the least? for the smallest amount. Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. How to use ?more…than?, ?fewer…than? and ?less…than?. 2. How to use ?the most? ?the fewest? and ?the least?. Teaching preparation:
pictures, objects and computer Teaching steps: Step I. Lead in
Revise the words of school subjects and the adjective nouns. Step II. Pre-task
Look at the pictures and answer: （见课件）
What are they in the pencil-boxes?(Teach paper clips) Step III. While-task
Task 1 The use of “more… than” and “fewer…than”. T: Lucy has 4 pencils and Lily has 3 pencils. （见课件）
It means: Lucy has more pencils than Lily. (many—more) (Write on the Bb.) Lily has fewer pencils than Lucy. (few—fewer)
Lucy has fewer paper clips than Lily. (few—fewer)
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Lily has more paper clips than Lucy. (many—more)
Point out: We use “more/fewer…than” to talk about countable nouns. Ask the Ss to make more sentences with the pictures. Task 2 The use of “more…than” and “less…than”.
T: Look at the pictures of Daniel, Jam and Sandy. （见课件） T: Daniel has more juice than Jam. (much—more) Jam has less juice than Daniel. (little—less)
Point out: We use “more/less…than” to talk about uncountable nouns. Make more sentences with the pictures.
Task 3 Finish Parts A, A1、 A2 and A3. (Solve their problems) 【Look at the pictures of Part A on Page 28 and answer:
T: How many flowers does Millie have? How many flowers does Amy have? S: Millie has seven flowers and Amy has three flowers. T: Who has more flowers? S: Millie does.
T: Yes, Millie has more flowers than Amy. Amy has fewer flowers than Millie. Ask Ss to talk about the second picture in the same way. Use the same way to present ?less…than?.
Work out the rule: We use ?more…than? and ?fewer…than? to talk about countable nouns. We use ?more…than? and ?less…than? to talk about uncountable nouns.】
Task 4 The use of the most/fewest/least. T: Look at the pictures. （见课件）Peter has more beef than Leo. Leo has more beef than Jack.
That is to say: Who has the most beef?
Ss: ( Peter has the most beef of all.)
T: Who has the least beef? Ss: (Jack has the least beef of all.)
T: Nancy has more pears than Millie. Millie has more pears than Amy. That is to say: Nancy has the most pears of all.
Amy has the fewest pears of all. Ss try to work out the rules:
We use the most/fewest to talk about countable nouns. We use the most/least to talk about uncountable nouns.
Task 5 Practice the drills more with the things in the classroom. e.g.: pens, rulers, erasers, water, milk, etc. Finish Parts B1, B2 and B3.
Task 6 Make a conclusion of today and then finish Part B4.
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