冀教版八年级下册Lesson 42 North America教案

Unit 7 Know Our World lesson 42 North America

Teaching Content:

1.Master: square

2.Understand: million, Rocky, Spanish, Mexican

3.Using: square kilometre, The Great Lakes

Teaching Aims:

1.     Learn about the foreign culture and customs.
2.     Know about more about the world’s geography.

Teaching Important Points:

1.     Sum what we learn in this unit.
2.     Master something about the geography.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Demonstrate the things that have passed. Pay attention to the indefinite pronouns.

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Review the countries and the languages. Let some students make a list on the blackboard.

Step2. Listening task

Listen and finish Exercise

Can you say something about North America?

What do you know about North America

Step2. Read and check the answers. First read silently. Then read it loudly in class.  The teacher walks around the classroom to see if the students need some help.

Step3. Read the text again. Then discuss the questions in listening task. Discuss the details with the students to see if they have some questions to ask.

Step4. Make up sentences with the language points:

Keep doing: I keep thinking practicing the spoken English.

With an interview: Beijing is a city with many places of interest

Step5. Listen to the tape again. Pay attention to the intonation and pronunciation.

Step6. Let some students sum the main content in this lesson, but not word by word.

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Step8. Homework

1.     Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2.     Do the exercises on Page 69.