初中英语Unit 1 Know yourself教学设计

牛津译林版九年级英语上册unit1 Period   One Comic strips and Welcome to the unit

Learning Activities

Learning aims

1. To identify the symbols that represent the star signs.

2. To learn the names of the symbols that represent the star.

Teaching procedures

Activity One Preview

I. New words (写出下列单词的划线部分的音标、词义和词性)

1. star sign ______________________  2.bull ______________________

3. centaur______________________   4. crab ______________________

5. ram   ______________________

II. The usage of some important phrases and sentences

   1. What’s your star sign?

star sign中文意思___________, 和中国的十二生肖相似，只不过它是按照出生的日期来划分，而中国的十二生肖是根据出生的年份来决定的。另外，star 常用复数stars 来表示人的“星宿，命星”。

You should read your stars.

   2. It’s nice of you to bring me the newspaper, Hobo.

     It’s +adj. + of sb. to do sth. 这种句型用来表示 ________________________。与  It’s +adj. +for sb. to do sth. 不同的是：It’s +adj. + of sb. to do sth. 这种句型sb 和 adj.之间存在一种_____________，而It’s +adj. +for sb. to do sth. 这种句型sb 和 adj.之间不存在_______________。

    It’s very kind _______ you to help me with my English.

    It’s necessary _______ you to take an umbrella with you.

   3. You shouldn’t worry about not having breakfast.

worry about (not) doing sth. 意思为_______________________

We worry about not __________ (catch) the early train to Nantong.

The students are worried about ___________ (lose) the match.

Activity Two Welcome to the unit

Step One Free talk

    1. Which animal do you like best? What animal sign are you?

2. Do you know all animal signs? What are they?

3. But in western countries, people use a different way. Do you know what it is?

Animal sign is based on the ______ that you were born in, but star sign is based on the ______ that you were born in.

Step Two Finish Part A on P 7 and check them

Play a game: Guess what the animal is.

1. It lives in rivers and uses its fins and tail to swim.          ____________

2. It is large, yellow and brown animal of the cat family, mainly living in Africa

and parts of Southern Asia. The male has long, thick hair around its neck.

                                                    ____________

    3. It is a creature in ancient Greek stories, with a man’s head, arms and upper body

on a horse’s body and legs.                            ___________

    4. It is a sea creature with a shell, eight legs and two large pointed arms for

catching things. It moves sideways on land.              ______________                     

    5. It is a fully-grown male sheep.                        ______________   

    6. It is the male form of cattle (牛), kept on farms to be the parent of young cattle.                                          _____________

Step Three Finish Part B on P 7 (Join the dots and colour the pictures)

Explain that there are ________ star signs in total—those in Part A and those in

Part B. Each star sign represents a 牛津译林版九年级英语上册unit1 Period   of time in a year.

Step Four Work in groups

Talk about the star signs, tell the others when you were born and what your own star sign is.

Find out when your friends were born and what their star signs are.

A: How old _________?

B: He is/ I am ________.

A: What’s your animal sign?

B: ___________.

A: When is your birthday?

B: It’s on ____________.

A: So you are a (an) ______. / Your star sign is ___________.

Activity Three Presentation of comic strips

Step One Listen to the tape and answer the following questions

  1. Who brings Eddie the newspaper?

2. What does Hobo ask Eddie to read? Why?

3. What happens to Eddie’s breakfast at the end of the story?

Step Two Read and try to act it out

Activity Four Fill in the blanks

    One morning, Eddie was having his________when he asked Hobo to bring him the_________. Hobo told Eddie to read his stars in the newspaper because it was very __________. Eddie got a piece of good news from the newspaper. It was he could have _______to eat and drink. But Hobo brought him a piece of ________ news. It was his breakfast had been eaten by______.

Exercises

一、请根据空格后的中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。

   1. I’m __________, could you give me something to eat?

   2. In Chinese culture, we use 12 animal signs while people in the West use ________ signs.

   3. There are many beautiful _________ (鱼) swimming in the river.

   4. Don’t __________ (担心) about not catching the early bus, it’s still early.

   5. Don’t forget to _________ (带来) your homework here tomorrow.

二、翻译下列各句。

   1. 在老师的帮助下，你不必担心你学不好英语。

You needn’t_______ ________ not _______your English well _______ the teacher’s help.

   2. 你帮助我带来我的报纸太好了。

It’s so nice ________ you to ________ me the newspaper.

   3. 我很饿，我要很多东西吃喝。

    I’m _________, I’ll have ________ to eat and drink.