英语人教版八年级下册Unit 7 Section a (2a-3c).doc

Topic: Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Period: 1(Section A 1a-1c)Provider: Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: The earth, in Asia, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Nile, in Africa, the Caspian Sea, Qomolangma, desert, the Sahara, square kilometers2.The students will be able to use the expressions:Whats the highest mountain/the longest river/ the deepest salt lake/ the biggest desert in the world?to express the big numbers using: thousand, million,billion, kilometer long/deep/highAbility aims:1. The students can use the questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities. 2. To train the students cooperation with their partners.Emotional aims:To train the students to care about the worlds environment through talking about the worlds tops.Teaching important points:The comparative and superlative of adj.Note its grammar meaning and use “what” questions to ask about the worlds topsTeaching difficult points:The students can ask questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities.Teaching aids:CAI , a recorder,Teaching procedures:Teachers activitiesStudents activitiesPurposesStep 1 Grammar previewThe superlative of adj.Students say the superlative of the adj.1. Get Ss to review some Grammar meaning of this unit.Step 2 Presentation & talkShow on the screen some pictures and learn the new words.1. Practice the conversations like this:A: What is the longest river in China?B: The Yangtze River.2. go on talking.The Nile is the longest river in the world. It is 6.671 kilometers longIt is in Africa.Get the students to use the structure in a proper way. Pay attention to the names of the places in the sentence.Step3 Activity 1a1. Get the students to read through the pictures in Activity 1a and match.2. Get them to make the information into a sentence.1. Read and match the statements with the right picture.2. talking:3. the Yangtae River is about 6.300 kilometers long.To train Ss listening skills by catching the key words(verb/place).Pay attention to the big numbers.Step 4 Listening1. Get the students to listen and complete the sentences.2. Listen again and listen and repeat after the tape.1. Listen and complete the sentences.2. Listen again and try to understand key sentences in the listening material. To train Ss listening skills by catching the key words(adj.).Step 5 Pair work1. Get the students to have a pairwork, talking about the places in the picture.2. Show on the Screen some other pictures and go on the above talk.1. Read through the dialogue in Activity 1c and talk about what the worlds tops are,2. Practice the conversations with the partners.A: Whats the longest river in the world?B: The Nile.To learn the worlds tops and the big numbers.Step 6 Group work Ask the Ss to introduce the words tops including what, where and how long/deepStudents introduce the worlds tops like this: The Nile is the longest river in the world.It is 6.671 kilometers long.It is in Africa.Help the students to use theLanguage points fluently. Step 8 HomeworkAssign todays homework1. Oral workRecite the 5 sentences in 1b.2. Written workDictation.Homework boook (1) P34 II(必) III(选)Preview P50 2dBb design Unit 7Whats the highest mountain in the world? Period 1 (Section A 1a -1c)A: Whats the highest mountain in the world?B: Qomolangma.Kilomerters long/deep/bigOne of the oldest countuies in the worldThe second longest river in the world教学反思：Topic: Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Period: 2(Section A 2a-2d)Provider: Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: Ocean. The Pacific Ocean, feel free to do sth., as.as., a lot/much/even+ adj. 比较级As you can see, as far as I know, protect, tourist, tour, object2.The students will be able to use the expressions:Feel free to ask me anything on todays Great Wall tour.The main reason was to protect their part of the country. As you can seeAs far as I knowAbility aims:The students can use the “superlative of the adj.”to indtroduce the tops in the world or in China.Emotional aims:To train the students to care about others and the worlds tops.Love the world, love China.Teaching important points:The Yangtze River is about 6.300 kilometers long and the Yellow River is 5.464 kilometers long.It has a much longer history than the US.China is almost as big as the US, and it is the biggest country in Asia.Teaching difficult points:The comparative and superlative of the adj.Teaching aids:CAI , a recorder, Teaching procedures:Teachers activitiesStudents activitiesPurposesStep 1 Review show some big numbers and the Chinese translations.Revise the tops of the world.Students say the numbers and translate the sentences.Train their good listening habits.Step 2PresentionShow the other tops of the world.Ss use the stuructures: is thesmallest/biggest ocean in the world.Make the Ss know more the worlds tops.Step 3group workShow the pictures of the tops of the world and ChinaRetell the tops of the world and China.Consolate the ways of how to express the big numbers and the tops of the world.Step 4ListeningFinish off the listening tasks in Activity 2a/2b.1. Listen and number the facts in the order you hear them. 2a2. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the right numbers.3. Turn to the tapescript and get the students to listen and repeat. Underline some useful expressions. With the help of pictures, try to train Ss listening skills by catching the key words.Pay attention to the “as as ”Step 5Activity 2cGet the students to have a dialogue like the one in 2c. Read through the information in 2a/2b. retell the information in 2a and 2b.How to say the big numbers and the comparative and superlative degree of the adj.Step6 readingShow the questions of 2d:Whats the conversation abut?Read for the second time and answer:How long is the Ming Great Wall?what does the guide say about the wall?Ss read the conversation and answer the questions.Help the students to learn how to answer the questions quickly and correctly.Step 7Activity Show some information about the Ming Great Wall.Retell the information about the Ming Great Wall.Help the students to consolidate the information about the Ming Great Wall.Step 8 Homework 1.熟读P50 2d 并背诵所划线的句子。2.背诵2a中的第二至四句（共三句）。3. 校对昨天作业本的错误处。（用红笔） 4. 预习3aP515. dictationBb design Unit 7Whats the highest mountain in the world? Period 2 (Section A 2a -2d)feel free to do sth.,as.as. a lot/much/even+ adj. 比较级as you can seeas far as I know,The Yangtze River is about 6.300 kilometers long and the Yellow River is 5.464 kilometers long.It has a much longer history than the US.China is almost as big as the US, and it is the biggest country in Asia.教学反思：Topic: Unit 7Whats the highest mountain in the world?Period: 3(Section A 3a-4c)Provider: Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: Mountain climbing, the Himalayas, challenge themselves, freezing weather conditions, heavy storms, very hard ot take in air as you get near the top,stronger than theforces of nature,more serious difficulties2.The students will be able to use the sentence structure:Its hard to . Ability aims:1. The students can use the “comparative and superlative of the adj. to retell the 3a,2. Try to find necessary information through fast reading.Emotional aims:People want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.Teaching important points:People want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.The comparative and superlative of the adj.Teaching difficult points:People want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.Teaching aids:CAI , a recorder,Teaching procedures:Teachers activitiesStudents activitiesPurposesStep 1 Revision1. Revise the story in Activity 2a. Teacher asks some questions about the story.2. Revise the dialogue in Activity 2d and ask some comprehension questions about the dialogue.Students try to answer the teachers questions. Help to revise comparative and superlative of the adj.Step 2 Watch a videoPlay a short video about the Himalayas.Students watch and think.T: Was it serious?Why do people risk their lives to climb the highest mountain?Help the students to get a very vivid image of story.Step 3 PresentationGet the students to read and match the meaning idea of each paragraph.Ss do 3a, meawhile underline the topic sentences of each paragraph.Ss finish 3b.Help the students to learn the useful expressionsPeople want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.Step 4 Fast readingTeacher shows on the screen four questions and get the students to read the passage fast to find out the answers.Read the passage fast and answer the questions.1. Where are the Himalayas?2. How high is Qomolangma?3. Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous?Help the students to foster the ability of scanning the reading material.Step 5 Activity 3aGet the students to have a careful reading. Make some notes.1. 1. Listen and repeat after the tape. Underline some useful expression in the page. Explain the sentence Help the students to understand the passage in details and get ready for the task below.Step 6 Activity 3cFinish off the sentences in Activity 3ab using the information from the passage.Read through the passage and fill in the blanks with the right information from the passage.Help to foster the ability of reading for certain details.Step 7Grammar focusGet the students to read through the sentences in this units Grammar focus.Students read and rewrite the comparative and superlative of the adj.The big numbers.Help the students to understand the new language points in this unit better.Step 8Activity 4a/4b1. Get the students to fill in the blandks with the correct forms of the words in the box.2. Get the students to write two comparisons about two topics.1. Students read and fill in the blanks.2. Students read and write their sentences.Help the students to identify the use of the comparative and superlative of the adj.Step 9Activity 4cGet the students to write five questions using comparisons.Then ask his/her partner your questions.Students work in groups and ask and answer your groupmates about their questions.Help the students to practice talking in the new language points.Step 10 homeworkFinish off the exercise for this period.Preview SectionB1aHomework bookdictationBb design Unit 7What the highest mountain in the world? Period 3 (Section A 3a -4c) Mountain climbing, the Himalayas, challenge themselves, freezing weather conditions, heavy storms, very hard ot take in air as you get near the top,stronger than theforces of nature,more serious difficultiesPeople want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.教学反思：Topic: Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?Period: 4(Section B 1a-2e)Provider: Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: Weigh, at birth, up to, in the remaining foressts, research centers, deeper, feed, endangered, illness,bamboo, government,Prepare for, because of, for a short time, cut down, the importance of saving the pandas,Ability aims:1. Listen and retell something about the pandas.2. The students can tell their partners about the information about the pandas.3. students can scan the article to find out what the numbers mean in the passage. Students can get the information through scanning the passage.Emotional aims:Encourage the students to care for animals and foster the consciousness of protecting animals.Teaching important points:How to find out the key words according the context.Teaching difficult points:Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.Teaching aids:CAI , a recorder.Teaching procedures:Teachers activitiesStudents activitiesPurposesStep 1 Revision1. Revise the animals names.Students try to answer the teachers questions. Help to revise how to say the animals in English.Step 2 PresentationTeacher presents some pictures and some information about the animals.Students use the comparative degree to compare the animals.Help the students to foster necessary skills for the listening.Step 3 Listening1. Get the students to listen to Listening Cassette 1b and finish off the answers.2. Get the students to listen to the conversation again and complete the sentences.1. Listen and check the numbers.2. Listen and complete the sentences. To train Ss listening skills by listening for numbers.To train Ss listening skills by listening for the key words.Step 4 retellGet the students to retell the information about the baby pandas.Student retell the information about the baby pandas according the 1c.Help to deepen the information about the pandas.Step 4 Fast readingTeacher shows on the screen some nmbers and ask Ss to scan the article to find out what these numbers mean.Get Ss to scan the passage and finish 2c.Read the passage fast and find out what these numbers mean. 10.12.200.2000Ss scan the article again and write short answers to the questions:What is ;in Weis job?What so the baby pandas eat for breakfast?What do adult pandas eat?Why are pandas endanered?What is one way of saving pandas?Help the students to foster the ability of scanning the reading material.Step 5 Intensive reading Get the Ss to read the passae after the tape and pay attention to some difficult points.Ss read after the tape and make some notes about the difficult points.To help the Ss understand the whole passage better.Step 6 post readingGet the students to read the passage fast to find out the answers and finish 2d.Read the passage fast finish 2d.Help the students to understand the passage by using their own language.Step 7 homework1. 复述2d2. 作业本（2）P27 I II3. 预习P52 4a 并完成4. dictationConsolidate what learnt today.Bb design Unit 5 Whats the highest mountain in the world? Period 4 (Section B 1a -2e) Weigh, at birth, prepare for, up to, for a short time,in the remaining foressts, because of,research centers, feed, cut down,endangered, the importance of saving the pandas, illness ,bamboo, government, 教学反思：Topic: Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Period: 5 (Section B 3a-3b) Provider: Teaching aims: Knowledge aims:1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: Huge, whale, jump high out of the water,stop putting rubbish into the seaAbility aims:1. write a passage about the whales.2. know more about