八年级下unit2 Section A(1a-2d)

The Lesson Plan for Grade 8By WangJing from No.4 Middle School in JinzhouTitleUnit 2 Section A(1a-2d) Teaching Objectives1. Knowledge Objectives: New words and phrases:clean up, cheer up, give out, volunteer,come up with, put off, sign, hand out, call up, used to, lonely, care for Useful sentence structures: You could help to clean up the city parks.2. Ability Objectives: To introduce Ss to the unit goal: offer helpTo increase Ssvocabulary and introduce the target language.3. Emotional Objective: Volunteering and charity. Enable the Ss to form a positive attitude to help others4. Culture Objective:Volunteering in the US and the UK. 5. Strategy Objective: To understand the target language by reading the pictures.Key PointsEnable the Ss to talk about offering help.Difficult PointGo on writing the story “Volunteering in an old peoples home” Teaching Aids and MaterialsCAI, Pictures, Worksheets, Mind mapTeaching ProceduresStepsTs activitiesSs activitiesPurposesStep 1 Warming-upShow a picture about logo of volunteering.Guess what it means.Help Ss lead in language topic.Step 2 Lead-inStep 3 Task 1 Pair WorkShow Ss a picture about volunteering.Ask Ss to answer the questions.T: What does it look like?T: If someone is in trouble, what should we do?T: we should give them a hand and their heart will be warm.T: Do you want to join them?T: Today well learn a new Unit, Unit 2 Ill help to clean up the city parks.Do you want to be a volunteer?How could we help people?Look at this picture, what do they do?Picture 1: give outPicture 2: clean upPicture 3: cheer sb up Picture 4: volunteerUse the picture to teach the new words and phrases.Lets talk about ,what other ways we could help people.Show a MindMap to the Ss.Ask Ss questions about “other ways we could help people”.Example: A: I hope to work outside.B: You could help to clean up the city parks.Guess something about the picture.Answer Ts questionsS: It looks like a heart.S: Yes.Read and learn the news and phrases.Practice in pairs, do the dialogueLook at the MindMap.Work in pairs to talk about the other ways we could help people. Lead in the topic.Lead Ss to understand the new phrase “give out, clean up, cheer sb up, volunteer” by showing pictures .Step 4 listening. 1bStep 5 Oral Practice City Park Clean-Up DayStep 6 listening 2a. Listening2bStep 7. Task 2 Group Work Step 8. 2d. ReadingConversationStep 9. Task 3.Go on writing the story Listen and number the ways the boy and girl could help othersWhat can we do on City Park Clean-Up Day?Picture C: call sb upPicture E: give out the noticesPicture B: put up signs.A group of students are planning a City Park Clean-Up Day. Listen and check() the things they are going to tell people about it.Listen again. Fill in the blanksCheck the answers, and learn the new words in the e up withput off Group work. Make a conversation using the information in 2a and 2b.We need 4 Ss in 1group. Make a conversation using the information in listening 2a and 2b.Example:A: We need to come up with a plan for the City Park Clean-Up Day.B: Ok , I could put up signs.C: I will make more notices and hand them out after school.D: I will write down all our ideasRead it by yourself and then underline the new words.Ask Ss some questions.1. Who worked at the old peoples home last summer?2. Who is going to help the old people there this summer?3. What can we help them out with?4. What can we ask them to tell us?5. Why do old people need help?6. Do you think we have to care for the old?New words and phrases: used to lonely care forVolunteering in an old peoples home Last summer, Helen and Tom volunteered to work in an old peoples home. Tom read the newspaper to the old people and talked to them. They told Tom and Helen stories about the past and how things used to be. Helen helped the old people. Look at the picture and understand the new phrasescall sb upgive out the noticesput up signs.Listen to the tape and check() the answers.Listen again. Fill in the blanksRead and understand the new phrases. Read and understand the MindMap and make a conversation.Read the conversation and underline the new words.Answer the questions. Read loudly and quicklyRead the new words and understand the meanings.Go on writing the storyLead Ss to understand the new word and phrases by looking at the pictures.Train Ss abilities of independent learning.Try to understand the meaning of new words.Lead Ss to guess the meaning of the new phrase from the con