牛津译林版七年级下册Welcome to the unit公开课第一课时教学设计

Unit 5 Amazing things

Comic strip and Welcome to the unit

Teaching Periods:  ____1______

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn something vocabulary about UFOs, elephants, fish and so on.

Ability aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn how to talk about something amazing with some new sentence patterns.

Emotion aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should be interested in something amazing around them and have an active attitude to life.

Teaching procedures

    Step one-Studying  aims

To learn about some unusual things

To learn to talk about the fun facts

To learn the new words and useful expressions

Step two- Check the Preview

1.令人吃惊的 adj         amazing

2.同一的，相同的adj     same

3.出生，诞生 n          birth

4.停止做事              stop doing sth

5.(用于比较) 倍 n       times

6.骨头 n                bone

7.脂肪 n                fat

8.事实 n                fact

Step three-Part A

 Which one is larger?

The Sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth.

Are there any bones in the back of their feet?

There are no bones in the back of elephants’ feet, only fat .

How do the fish sleep?Do Humans（人类）sleep like fish?

Fish sleep with their eyes open .

Humans sleep with their eyes closed.

Are our eyes the same size from birth?

Are our nose and ears growing big ?

Our eyes are the same size from birth,but our nose and ears never stop growing

Check the answers

Fill in the blanks.

Fish sleep ____________________.

Our eyes are ______________ from birth, but our nose and ears never ___________  .

The sun is about 1,300,000  _______________  the Earth.

There are no bones   _______________________   only fat.

Step four- Part B

Kitty and Amy are talking about the fun facts in Part A. Read the conversation,   then work in pairs and talk about this topic with the words in the box.

Kitty: Do you know any fun facts about the world, Amy?

Amy: Yes. The sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth.

Kitty: That’s interesting! What about fish, Amy?

Amy:  Fish sleep with their eyes open.

Kitty:  Oh, really?

Amy:  Yes. Isn’t that amazing?

Try to fill in the blanks below.

Kitty: Do you know any fun facts about the

           world?

Amy: Yes. The Sun is about 1,300,000 times ______ _____ the Earth.

Kitty: That’s __________! _____ ______

           fish?

Amy: Fish sleep __________________.

Kitty: Oh, really?

Amy: Yes. _____ that ________?

Step five-Comic strip

Unidentified

Flying

Object

不明飞行物

Listen to the dialogue.

1.What does Eddie think it is in the sky?

A UFO.

2. Is it a real UFO? Why?

Yes, I think so. Because  there are bright lights.

No. I think it is a plane. Because they are only the lights on the plane.

Step six- competition

Practise reading in groups and act out the dialogue.

Retell the dialogue.

   One day Eddie and Hobo looks at the  sky(天空). Eddie thinks he sees a ____ but Hobo thinks it is a _____. Because Hobo saw one _________. Eddie thinks there are many bright _____ and it is too _____, so it can’t be a plane.

 Step seven-Language points

1. “with+名词+形容词/介词短语”在句中作状语.

    1) 我们不能开着窗户睡觉。

We can’t sleep with windows closed.

    2) 李老师 手里拿着一本进教室。

Mr. Li comes into the classroom with a book in his hand.

2. stop doing表示停止正在做的事情(只涉及到一个事件), stop to do 则表示停止正在做的事情再去做另外一件事情(涉及到两个事件)。

    下课了。让我们停下来去吃午饭吧。

Class is over. Let’s stop to have lunch.

    别哭了，我给你讲个笑话吧。

Stop crying and I tell you a joke.

3. The world is full of amazing things.

            be full of…   充满……

     be filled with… 被……充满

           杯子充满了牛奶（被牛奶充满）。

The cup is full of milk.

The cup is filled with milk.

           她的眼里充满泪水（被泪水充满）。

Her eyes are full of tears.

Her eyes are filled with tears.

Step eight-Homework:

1.Read the dialogue on page 56 and the 

   sentences on page 57.

2.Try to find some more amazing things

   you like. Make a poster about it.

3.Complete the exercises.

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