鲁教版 (五四制)八年级下册Section A第一课时教学设计

Unit 7 I used to be afraid of the dark.

【第一课时】

【教学目标】

1．知识目标：

（1）掌握并灵活运用本课的重点词汇kind, loving, swimmer born, lover, director, means, admire等。

（2）正确使用下列常用表达：get in trouble, drop out of school, try every means to do, at hand, break up等

2．情感目标：

了解一下中外名人轶事，体会他们的影响力并了解他们成功的原因，向名人学习，并拓展视野，了解中外文化知识。

3．能力目标：运用所学的知识进行人际交往，并做到学以致用。

【教学重难点】

when引导的时间状语从句和被动语态。

【教学过程】

Step 1: Warming–up

Task 1 Check new words of Unit 1.

Task 2 Free talk.

大屏幕展示Ryan Carter的几张照片，引导学生们来描述他的长相特点。

T: What does he look like?

S1: He has long curly blonde hair. 

S2: He has a round face, two big eyes. He’s a little heavy.

T: Does he like his hair?  Can you guess?

S: …

T: Do you want to know about his story?

S3: Sure. We’d love to. 

T: Ryan’s hair is soft and beautiful. His mother thinks it’s really wonderful. So she can’t stand cutting his beautiful hair. But some of Ryan’s friends say that Ryan can’t play with them because he looks like a girl. 

Step 2: Presentation 1a, 1c

1．Look at the chart in 1a, then discuss with your group mates. Try to fill in the chart with words to describe people.

Appearance              Personality

2．Let some Ss say their answers. Let other Ss add more.

Appearance: tall, straight hair, short, of medium height, straight/curly hair, long/short hair, heavy, thin, of medium built …

Personality: outgoing, shy, funny, serious, cute, quiet, kind, brave, friendly, active

3．Learn the new words with the Ss: humorous, silent, helpful, from time to time, score

4．Show two different pictures of some famous people. Talk about their differences.

（1）Jiang Wen:

Jiang Wen used to wear glasses, but he doesn’t wear glasses now.

（2）Zhang Yi Shan

Zhang Yi Shan used to be short, but he is tall now.

T: Explain the use of “used to do/be …” to the Ss. 

Step 3: Listening 1b

1．T: Bob hasn’t seen some of his friends for four years. Now he’s seeing his friends. What did his friends use to like? Listen and fill in the blanks.

（1）Mario used to be ______. He used to wear _______.

（2）Amy used to be _____. She used to have _______ hair.

（3）Tina used to have ______ and ______ hair.

2．Play the recording for the Ss to listen.

3．Ss listen and try to fill in the blanks with the right words.  

4．Play the recording again. Let Ss check their answers.

Step 4: Pair work

1．Look at the picture in 1a and make conversations in pairs.   

2．Ss work in pairs to ask and answer the appearance about Mario, Amy and Tina.

3．Let some Ss ask and answer in pairs.  

E.g.

A: Did Mario use to be short? 

B: Yes, he did．He used to be really short.

A: What’s he like now?

B: He’s tall now. 

Step 5: Listening

Work on 2a: 

T: Paula has changed a lot in the past few years. Do you want to know what she used to be?

1．Look at the words in 2a. Let some Ss read the words aloud. Make sure all the Ss know the meaning of the words.

（1）humorous adj. 有幽默感的；滑稽有趣的humor (幽默) + ous→ 有幽默感的

E.g. Cartoons are humorous pictures with words.  漫画是附有文字的幽默图片。

（2）silent adj.  不说话的；沉默的  silent  adj.  → silence n. 沉默

E.g. Peter seems silent today. What’s the matter? 彼特今天似乎很沉默，怎么了？

（3）helpful adj. 有帮助的  help  n. (帮助) + ful→ helpful  adj. 有帮助的

E.g. His explanation was more or less helpful. 他的解释多少是有帮助的。

2．Play the recording for the Ss to listen and check the words they hear.

3．Play the recording again to check the answers.

Keys: friendly, outgoing, silent, active, brave, quiet

Work on 2b:

1．Let Ss read the sentences below. Explain some main sentences for the Ss. make sure they know what to do.

In the past

（1）Paula used to be really ______. She was always silent in class. She wasn’t very ________. She was never brave enough to ask questions.

（2）She got good grade in ___. She was also good in ___. She used to play the ____.

Keys: quiet   outgoing   science   music   piano

（3）Now she’s more interested in ______. She plays ______ almost every day.

She’s also on a ______team.

（4）She still plays the _____ from time to time.

Keys: sports   soccer   swim   piano

2．Play the recording for the Ss to fill in the blanks with the right words.

3．Play the recording again to check the answers. 

4．Play the recording once more and answer the questions.

（1）What class were they?

（2）What was Paula never brave to do in class?

（3）What subjects were Paula good at?

（4）What is Paula interested in now?

Step 6: Pair work

1．Tell Ss to make conversations about Paula using the information in 2a.

2．Let some pairs act out their conversations before the class.

E.g. A: Paula used to be really short?

B: I know. She was always silent in class.

Step 7: Role-play

1．Read the conversation and Let Ss read after the teacher. 

2．Read the conversation again and complete the blanks.

Bill has changed so much! He used to be ____ and _____. His face always ______ ___ when he talked to girls! He studied hard and got good ______ on his exams. He used to be ____, but now he is ___ and _______.

Keys: shy   quiet   turned   red   scores   thin   big   strong

3．Ask Ss to role-play the conversation in groups.

Step8: Language points

1．I used to be afraid of the dark.

used to do sth.  过去常常做某事

表示过去经常性或习惯性的动作或状态，暗指现在已经不存在了，强调过去与现在的对比。used to的否定形式有两种：didn’t use to或usedn’t to。

used to用于疑问句时，可借助助动词did，也可以将used提到主语前。

E.g. They used to be good friends. 他们过去是好朋友。 (暗示现在不是了)

Mrs. Brown didn’t use to / usedn’t to travel in summer. 布朗夫人过去夏天不旅游。

Did you use to / Used you to play the guitar? 他过去弹吉他吗？

【拓展】几个易混结构的比较： 

use ... to do sth. 用……做……

E.g. They use the knife to cut meat.  他们用刀切肉。

be used to do sth. 被用来做某事

E.g. This kind of wood is used to make paper.   这种木头是被用来做纸的。

be / get used to sth. / doing sth. 习惯于某事 / 做某事

E.g. Lucy has been used to (eating) Chinese food. Lucy已经习惯(吃)中餐了。

I think you’ll get used to the climate soon.

我想不久你就会习惯这种气候的。

2．She still plays the piano from time to time.

from time to time是一个固定短语，意为“间或；有时”，常在句中作状语。

E.g. Tom goes to visit his grandmother in the countryside from time to time.

汤姆时常去看望住在农村的奶奶。

3．He studied hard and got good scores on his exams.

score n.  得分；进球

E.g. He got high scores in the examination.  考试中他得了高分。

4．This party is such a great idea!

He used to be so shy and quiet.

such与so 辨析

such为形容词，意为“这（那）样的”；主要修饰名词；

so是副词，意为“这（那）么；如此地”，主要修饰形容词、副词和分词。

当名词前有many，much，few或little等词修饰时，要用so而不用such。

E.g. There are so many / few people in the hall. 大厅有这么多/这么少的人。

You have so much / little homework today. 你今天有这么多/这么少的作业。

“such + a / an +形容词+可数名词单数 形式”相当于“so +形容词+a / an +可数名词单数形式”，表示“如此……的一个……”。

E.g. She is such a lovely girl. = She is so lovely a girl.  她是个如此可爱的女孩。

选用such或so填空。

（1）The man told us ____ funny a story.

（2）She has _____ a beautiful dress.

（3）How can you get ____ much money to buy the car?

（4）Don’t go out in ______ cold weather.

（5）Don’t eat _____ quickly.

Keys: so   such   so   such   so

Step 9: Exercise

1．根据汉语提示填空，完成句子。

（1）He has plenty of _________ (幽默的) stories to tell us.

（2）You’d better keep _______ (沉默) about what happened.

（3）The lazy cat isn’t very ________ (有用的) in catching mice.

（4）Tom got the highest ______ (得分) in the exam.

2．用used to将下列汉语句子翻译成英语。

（1）他过去常常在卧室抽烟。

（2）汤姆过去常常去那儿看电影，但现在他不去了。

Step 10: Summary

【作业布置】

熟记本节课所学单词,词组。

Recite 2d．

Unit 7 I used to be afraid of the dark.   Period 2