教学基本信息
学科	English		学段	初中	年级		八年级
单元	Unit 1		课题	Where did you go on vacation?	总课时数		6
课时	Section B (2a-2e)		课型	阅读课	授课时间
教学目标及教学重点、难点
教学目标： At the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1. read Jane’s diary to learn about her vacation. 2. learn to retell the diary. 3. keep an English diary to improve our English ability.
教学重点： 1. Key vocabulary: enjoyable, activity, decide, try, bird, bicycle, building, trader, wonder, difference, top, wait, umbrella, below, enough, hungry, as, hill... feel like doing, enjoy doing,walk up to, decide to do, because of, walk around... 2. Key sentences: a. I wonder what life was like here in the past. b. What a difference a day makes! c. When we got to the top, it was raining really hard. d. And because of the bad weather, we couldn't see anything below.
教学难点： Lead Ss to write a travel diary.
教学过程(表格描述)
教学环节		主要教学活动				设置意图
Step 1 Warming-up (PPT 3)		Ask Ss to make conversations in pairs. Where did you go on vacation? Did you go out with anyone? How was the food and weather? Did you buy any gifts?				编对话,复习上节课的内容，导入本节课的旅行日记。
Step 2 Lead-in (PPT 4-7)		1. Show some pictures and know more about Malaysia. 2. Ask Ss to make conversations about travel to Penang.				设计了几幅关于马来西亚的图片，激发学生的学习兴趣。
Step 3 Pre-reading (PPT 8)		Make Ss discuss the questions with partners. What do people usually do on vacation? What activities do you find enjoyable?				讨论问题并回答这些问题，激发学生对Jane’s diary 的好奇。
Step 4 While-reading (PPT 9-18)		Fast reading: Make Ss read Jane’s diary entries about her vacation and answer the questions. Did Jane have a good time on Monday? What about on Tuesday? Careful reading: 1. Make Ss read Jane’s diary entries again and fill in the chart in 2c. 2. Check answers in class. 3. Ask Ss to complete the conversation about Jane’s trip to Penang using the information in the diary entries. 4. Make Ss read the conversation in pairs.Then act out in class.				本部分是课文细读部分。阅读之后填空,完成对话。通过问题设计，让学生带着问题阅读，助于他们把握文章的重要信息。
Step 5 Post-reading (PPT 19)		Make a mind map of 2b, and retell the diary according to the map in groups. Work in groups.				根据导图复述两篇日记的主要内容，以此训练学生们的逻辑思维能力。
Step 6 Practice (PPT 20-21)		Work on 2e. Imagine Jane went to Penang Hill again and had a great day. Fill in the blanks in her diary entry with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Read the travel diary again and pay attention to the past tense of the verbs.				此处是对第2篇日记的一个延伸，用动词的适当形式填空。通过练习使学生熟练运用动词的过去式。
Step 7 Language points (PPT 22-29)		1. Ask some students to read the language points so that they can understand the language points deeply. 2. Explain the usage of decide, because of, below...				通过图例、表格、对比等方式使学生加深对below, decide...等单词用法和so...that....等结构的理解。
Step 8 Exercises (PPT 30-32)		Practice the language points by these exercises.				通过词形填空、汉译英等形式练习所学的语言点。
Step 9 中考链接 (PPT 33)		Practice the structure: adj. + enough				精选了adj. + enough 结构的中考题，使学生了解这个结构在中考中的重要地位。
Step 10 Homework (PPT 34)		1.Remember the words we have learnt today. 2. Preview the next lesson.				设计该作业主要使学生们巩固所学的词汇，预习下一节课的内容。
板书设计		Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation? Section B (2a-2e) 1. I wonder what life was like here in the past. 2. What a difference a day makes! 3. My father and I decided to go to Penang Hill today. 4. When we got to the top, it was raining really hard. 5. And because of the bad weather, we couldn’t see anything below.
教学反思		1. 本单元要求学生熟练掌握旅行日记体的写法，包括时间、地点、活动和感受等。 2. 强调日记体一般用过去时。 3. 通过本单元的学习，使学生熟练掌握不规则动词过去式的变化形式以及发音。