英语人教版八年级下册Unit 7 Section B 1a---1d.doc

Teaching contents:Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Section B 1a-1dTeaching 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 adverbs2. Ability Aims(1)Enable students to learn about something about pandas and other endangered animals, hope students to protect them.(2)Teach student s how to compare two kinds of animals. 3. Moral Aims To know the importance of protecting animals and environment.Teaching important points:Students can grasp comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbsTeaching difficult points:Comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs.Teaching method:The cooperative learning method, and the situational teaching method.Teaching Aids: The pictures about endangered animals; PP T.Teaching ProcedureStep 1 Warming-up Look at the pictures in 1a and the numbers under the pictures, describe elephants and pandas using some simple sentences .eg: This elephant is 350cm tall. 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 2 Checking the wordsAsk the Ss to read and say the words and phrases by showing pictures.Step 3 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.a baby pandaan adult panda weigh0.1 to 0.2 kilos100 kilossize15cm long150 cm longStep 4 Role play(1d) 1. Make conversations according to the above chart in groups. 2. Show time: Act out their own conversations.3. Writing: a short co conversation about a baby panda and an adult panda.Homework To be a good learner, please search more information about other endangered animals.Bb design:Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Section B1a-1da baby pandaan adult panda weigh0.1 to 0.2 kilos100 kilossize15cm