初中英语人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级下册Section B教学设计

Unit 7   What’s the highest mountain

in the world?

 Section B  1a-1c

I. Teaching Aims

1. Knowledge Aims

(1)Key Vocabulary: cm, weigh, birth, at birth, up to, adult.

(2) Target Language:

  many times more than   / 200cm taller than

  / weigh much more than /eat much more(less) than

 / eat many times more (less) than  /live up to

 / about one to two kilos

(3) Structure: comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs

2. Ability Aims

(1)Enable students to learn about something about pandas and other endangered animals, hope students to protect them.

(2)Teach students how to compare two kinds of animals.

3. Moral Aims  

   To know the importance of protecting animals and  environment.[来源:学网]

II. Teaching Key Points

  Students can grasp comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs

III. Teaching Difficult Points

 Comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs.

IV. Teaching method

 The cooperative learning method, and the situational teaching method.

V. Teaching Aids      

  The pictures about endangered animals; PPT.

VI. Teaching Procedures 

Step 1 Revision

According to the charts, review the expressions of large numbers and the cooperative sentences.

Step 2 Warming up

Ask questions about students’ favorite animals, and the watch o video “In the zoo”. Then introduce the T’s favorite animal----elephant.

Step 3 Presentation

Look at the pictures in 1a and the numbers under the pictures, describe elephants and using some simple sentences .

Eg: This elephant is 350cm tall.[来源:学&科&网]

      It weighs 5000 kilos.

      It eats 150 kilos of food a day.

 This panda is 150 cm tall when it is standing on two legs.

It weighs 100 kilos.

Step 4 Comparisons   

Ask the Ss to read and say the words and phrases by showing pictures.

Then ask Ss to make comparisons between elephants and pandas.

For example:

This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.

This panda is 200 cm shorter than this elephant.

This elephant eats much more than this panda.

This panda eats much less than this elephant.

Then compare the two kinds of animals about height, weight and food in detail.

Step5  Listening(1b,1c)

1. Play the tape for students to listen and check the numbers they hear.

2. Listen again and complete the sentences in 1c.

3. Ask students to read the sentences in 1c.       

  Students make sentences according to the chart as many as possible.

Step 6  Role –play(1d) 

  1. Make conversations according to the above chart in groups.

  2. Speaking: Speak out short descriptions about baby pandas and adult pandas.

Step 7  Language points

Explain the language points to the Ss by examples, 

 VII. Homework

1. Write something comparing the elephant and the panda in 1a.

2. Discuss in your group and make a list about how to save pandas.