牛津英语8Aunit2教案
Unit2 School life
单元三维目标:
一、知识与技能
1. 掌握课本中出现的重点词汇和句型
2. 熟练运用形容词比较级和最高级的构成和用法
3. 充分运用‘the same as’ ‘different from’进行比较
4. 学会谈论不同的学校及各类学生的学校生活
二、过程与方法
通过对比中外各类学校情况,借助课外媒体、材料,反复使用练习,在潜移默化中学好本单元需要掌握的知识点和语言点.
三、情感态度与价值
了解中西方学校情况,感受中西方文化如在教育、人文等反面的异同,为理解英语、学好英语奠定基础.
Period 1 Comic strip and welcome to the unit
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Talk about the school life and review the words about school life.
2. Learn different words which mean the same thing between British English and American English.
3. Learn the differences between British English and American English.
Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. Grasp the spelling of British words and American words such as lift and elevator, post and mail, film and movie, football and soccer, and so on.
2. Know the differences between British English and American English.
3. Grasp the words: British, lift, post, eraser, fall, elevator, math, movie, soccer
4. Grasp the phrases: be smarter than, be like doing
5. Grasp the sentences: Why don’t sb do sth?=Why not do
sth? What’s school like?
Teaching preparation:
pictures, recorder, computer, and the flags of Britain and England
Teaching steps:
StepⅠ Lead-in
T: Do you like our school?
What do you like?
How many subjects do you learn?
Can you tell me some names of them?
S: Chinese, Math, English, PE, Geography, etc. (Encourage the Ss to say more about it.)
T: Good. Is there another word for Math?
S: Yes. Maths.
T: Great. Maths is Math. Maths is British English. While Math is American English (write on Bb)
StepⅡ Pre-task (Welcome to the unit)
Show the flags of the UK and the USA. Tell them that people speak English in both Britain and the USA , but sometimes they use different words which mean the same thing.
T: I know many boys like playing football.
Do you know what it says in American English?
S: Soccer.(Write on Bb)
Do you know the same use of other words?
Please give me some examples.
Write other right answers of the students on the Bb.
Teach the students the new words:
BE=British English AE=American English
StepⅢ While-task
Task1 Practise the new words more. Pay attention to the pronunciations and spelling.
Task2 Finish Part A on Page 23. Teacher can give more words, such as sweets and candies, holiday and vocation, biscuit and cookie and so on.
Task3 Write down both the British and American words, then finish Part B.
StepⅣ Different spellings
(1) Say: There are also some differences in spelling between British English and American English. Make a table and write down some words. E.g. favourite and favorite, centre and center.
(2) Ask Ss to find more different words means the same thing and different spellings after class.
StepⅤ Comic strips
Do you remember Hobo and Eddie? They are talking about school life.
Listen to the tape and answer : What does Eddie think of the school life?
Listen again and read after it.
Point out: Why don’t you do sth?=Why not do sth?
be smarter than, be like doing sth, there be, few/a few
Look at the picture and practise the dialogue
Act the dialogue in groups and pairs.
StepⅥ Free talk about Ss’ ideal school
What do you like more about school, the assembly, the classes, lunchtime or the after-school activities? Do you like outdoor activities? Do you like fewer lessons? Do you like the lessons on the Internet? Talk about the above questions in groups and then make a report.
StepⅦ Post-task
Fill in the blankets with American English:
It’s my first day in high school. I felt a little tired, but I had a good time. Our classroom is on the__________ (ground/first) floor. So we don’t need an__________ (lift/elevat or). I like to go outside
playing___________(soccer/football) after class. It’s my____________ (favourite/favorite) sport. Today we had 6 classes. I still
found__________ (maths/math) was too difficult for me. But the new classmate next to me helped me work out a difficult problem.
StepⅧ. Homework
(1) Try to remember the new words and drills.
(2) Finish the exercises.
(3) Preview the next lesson.
Period 2 Reading (1)
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Know the school lives in British school and American school.
2. Learn to read and understand the article with different ways of reading.
3. Learn how to understand the writer’s opinion.
Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. Know the meanings of the new words: mixed, together, subject, myself, tasty, meal, guy(s), twice, softball, practice, buddy, senior, hero, close, article, admire
2. Understand the meanings of the phrases: in Year 8=in Grade 8，
a mixed school, Home Economics, learn how to do sth, do sth for oneself, cook healthy and tasty meals, bring in, a Reading Week, the end of sth,
as well, take a bus, twice a week, spend time doing sth, learn about, help sb with sth, each other, have a great time doing sth.
3. Can use this sentence: What does the word ‘hero’ mean?
It means someone you admire very much.
4. Catch the main information about Lives in a British school and an American school.
Teaching preparation:
recorder and computer
Teaching steps:
Step I. Lead-in
(1) Review the British and American words in different forms.
(2) Act the dialogue between Hobo and Eddie.
Step II. Pre-task
Use the pictures on Page 26 to teach some new words.
Ask: What are they doing in the pictures?
(Reading Week, driving lesson, Home Economics class, lunchtime, buddy club, softball game)
Step III. While-task
T: Eddie thinks school is like watching TV. Now John and Nancy are talking about their lives in school. Let’s see if it is like watching TV.
Life in a British school
Task 1 Read Paragraph 1 and answer:
1. What grade is John in?(In Year 8.)
2. Is it a school for boys? (No, it’s a mixed school.)
3. What’s his favorite subject? (Home Economics)
4. What can he cook? (Healthy and tasty meals)
Task 2 Listen to the tape and read after it.
Use Questions 1-4 to sum up Paragraph 1.
Task 3 Read Paragraph 2 and answer:
5. Does he have a Reading Week every year?
6. What books can they read ?
7. What can they do near the end of the reading class?
8. Why does he think the reading week is too short?
Point out: as well
Task 4 Listen to the tape and read after it.
Use Questions 5-8 to sum up Paragraph 2.
Point out: I like learning how to cook and sew.
We can even bring in books and magazines from home. Task 5 Practice the new words and phrases more.
Read John’s composition together/by thems elves.
Try to sum up the whole article.
Life in an American school
Task 1 Read Paragraph 1 and answer:
1. How old is Nancy? Where does she study?
2. How old is her brother? What did he learn last year?
3. Is it great that Denver drives her to school? Why? Task 2 Listen to the tape and read after it.
Use Questions 1-3 to sum up Paragraph 1.
Task 3 Read Paragraph 2 and answer:
4. How often does she play softball? (Twice a week.)
5. Where does she go every Monday? ( A buddy club.)
6. Who is her buddy? (Teach: senior)
What can they do there?
7. What does Nancy think of Julie? Why?
Task4 Listen to the tape and read after it.
Use Questions 4-7 to sum up Paragraph 2.
Task5 Read Paragraph 3 and answer:
8. Does she have a good time during lunchtime?
9. What do they sometimes do after school?
Task6 Listen to the tape and read after it.
Use Questions 8-9 to sum up Paragraph 3.
Task7 Read Nancy’s article by themselves and try to sum it up.
Step IV. Post-task
Task 1 Finish Part B1 on Page 25.
Task 2 Finish Parts B2 and C1 and check the answers.
Point out: tell sb about sth, during lunchtime, in 12th grade. What does the word…mean?
Step V. Homework
(1) Read the two articles carefully and try to sum them up.
(2) Finish the exercises.
Period 3 Reading (2)
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Can grasp the words, phrases and language points of the two articles.
2. Can retell the lives in a British school and an American school.
Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. Some important language points.
2. Retell the two articles completely.
Teaching preparation:
Computer
Teaching steps:
Step I. Warm-up
Try to memorize the main idea of John’s and Nancy’s articles according to the table.
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.
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.
Period 4 Vocabulary
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Learn about the school subjects.
2. Review a nd 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.)
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……
Point
out: useful careful unimportant unpopular usele ss 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)
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’.