Welcome to the unit
教学目标 1. 了解一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。 2. 确保学生能区别英式英语和美式英语。 3．激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
重点、难点 学习一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。 Step 1 Showing a world map
Get the students to know the English-speaking countries around the world, by showing a world map to them. Meanwhile write the name of different English-speaking countries in the world. Let the students know the differences between British and American English.
Step 2 Matching the two words that refer to the same things
Tell the students that people use different words to talk about the same things. Ask the students to open their books and match the two words that refer to the same things.
Get the students to read these words syllable by syllable to help them remember it.
Step3 Doing Part B on page 19
Get the students to finish doing Part B on page 19. Show the pictures and ask the students to speak out both the British and American words out loudly. Step 4 Guessing what they are talking about?
(1) Show the first picture of Comic Stripes to the student without the words. Ask the students to guess: “what are they talking about?”Play the tape for the students to listen and find out the answer to the questions.
(2)Get the students to read and feel the humor here. (In fact, Eddie has no idea what school is like and why people need to got to school. However, he still thinks dogs are clever. ) If the students have no problem in understanding the dialogue, get them to practice the dialogue in pairs and act out the dialogue in front of the class. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier and more interesting.
Step 5 Talking about the sentences
Talking about the following sentences: (1) We are smarter than people.
(2) There are fewer advertisements.
(3)What is school like? It’s like watching TV. Step 6 Giving some reasons for your ideas
Eddie thinks school life is like watching TV. What do you think of our school life? Encourage the students to give some reasons for their ideas It is very necessary for our teacher to lead the students to talk about the brighter side for the kid to develop an active attitude towards school life as well as to study.
STEP 7 Homework
Try to find more information about the differences between British and American English. 板书设计
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教学反思 8A Unit 2 Reading 1
教学目标 1. 学会运用各种阅读方式，读懂文章，了解英美国家中学生的学校生活。 2. 了解作者的个人感受和观点。
3. 让学生用所学的知识讨论学校生活，并了解英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
重点、难点 学习一些与学校生活相关的词汇，了解英美国家中学生的学习生活情况。 Step1 Lead in
Ask some questions about their school life. （1）How many lessons do you have every day? （2）What subjects do you learn?
（3）How often do you have a class meeting? （4）What clubs do you have?
（5）What after-activities do you have? （6）Do you have a Reading Week? （7）Where can you read books?
（8）Do you have a hero? Who is he/she?
When the teacher and the students talk about these questions, the teacher use the picture to teach some new words:
Mixed together hero and so on. Step 2 life in a British school:
Teacher says: Now I know something about your school life. Do you want to know something about the life in a British school? 1. Let’s listen to the tape: “life in a British school” Then answer the questions: (1). Who wrote the passage?
(2). What activity does the school have every day?
2.Ask the students to read the passage, then tell the sentences true (T) or false(F):
(1). John is in Year 9 at WoodlandSchool, It’s a mixed school. (2). John likes Home Economics best of all.
(3). He knows how to cook healthy and tasty meals before coming to this school. (4). There is Reading Week in this school every year.
(5). The students can read any books from the school but they can’t bring in books from their home.
(6). They think Reading Week is too short because they want to read more books. Step3 Life in an American school:
1. Now we know the life in a British school, let’s learn something about Life in an American school, Please read the passage, then answer the questions: (1) Who wrote the second passage? (2) What did her brother do last year?
(3) How does Nancy go to school now? What does she think of it? (4) What do the students do in the Buddy Club? (5) Why does Nancy say Julie is her hero?
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(6) What do the students do during lunchtime?
Step 4 Ask the students to read the whole passage ,then do Exercise C1, C2. Then check the answers.
Step 5 Listen to the tape and repeat after the tape. (1) Do Exercise B1 ,then check the answers.
(2) Ask the students to complete their conversation first,then ask two students to read the dialogue to check the answers. Practise in pairs. Step 6 Discussion:
Ask the students to talk about their school life, then write it down. 板书设计 Unit2 School life ----Welcome to the unit BE=British English AE=American English
BE autumn lift football maths rubber post ground floor secondary school
AE fall elevator soccer math eraser mail first floor school 教学反思
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