英语人教版八年级下册Unit 6 Grammar Focus (4a-4c).doc

Unit 6 Section A 3 (Grammar focus 4a-4c)成都市大弯中学 张志伟一、教学目标： 1. 语言知识目标：1) 对询问故事的开始、发展、及故事人物、情节等语句进行归纳总结。2) 训练学生在讲故事的过程中合理运用unless, as soon as, sothat等连接句子，使句子连贯、句意通顺、情节紧凑。让学生明确连接词的语用意义，并尝试在新的语境中运用。3) 要求学生明确叙述故事或描写人物的时态。4) 让学生掌握讲故事几个要素，尝试用自己的语言讲述故事。2. 情感态度价值观目标：阅读中国民间神话传说和西方童话故事。鼓励学生相互倾听，培养共同参与的意识。二、教学重难点1. 教学难点：1) 动词的正确形式填空。2) 掌握unless, as soon as, sothat的用法。三、教学过程Step 1 Lead-in Do you enjoy stories?Do you know how to tell stories in English?Please read and find out how to tell a story in English, Ok?Step 2 阅读下列几个故事的开头，思考红色词组表达的含义，如何写故事的开头。How does the story begin? It usually begins with “when where who”.At the beginning of the story, we read information about time, place and main character.Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. And he lived at the foot of two mountains near his house.Long long ago, there lived monkeys and crocodiles(鳄鱼) along a river. Long time ago, in a land far away, there lived a beautiful young girl named Cinderella.Step 3回顾愚公移山的故事，理清叙述故事的几个要素。What happened next? & Why?The underlined sentence is about the questions: “What happened next? Why did Yu Gong try to move the mountains?The read parts answer the question: “How did Yu Gong move the mountains?”.The last paragraph is about “What lesson can we learn from the story?”As you see a good story must have five elements: when, where, who, what, how , whyOnce upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. And he lived at the foot of two mountains near his house.Yu Gong wanted to move the mountains because they were so big that it took a long time to walk to the other side. The old man told his family that they should all help him to move the mountains. One day, a man saw Yu Gong and his children when they were working on moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could never do it because he was old and weak. As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died. And his family would live and grow, but the mountains could not get bigger. So Yu Gong and his family kept on digging day after day and year after year. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that he sent two gods to take the mountains away.The story reminds us that you can never know whats possible unless you try to make it happen.Step 4圈出文章中的动词，思考叙述故事所用的什么时态。为什么要用该时态。Whats the tense(时态) in a story ?Ask ss to circle the verbs in the story and find out the tense. The simple past tenseWhy?Because the story is an event(事件) that happened in the past.Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. And he lived at the foot of two mountains near his house.Yu Gong wanted to move the mountains because they were so big that it took a long time to walk to the other side. The old man told his family that they should all help him to move the mountains. One day, a man saw Yu Gong and his children when they were working on moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could never do it because he was old and weak. As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died. And his family would live and grow, but the mountains could not get bigger. So Yu Gong and his family kept on digging day after day and year after year. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that he sent two gods to take the mountains away.The story reminds us that you can never know whats possible unless you try to make it happen.Step 5观察短文中黑体的连词，探究其意义。What are they? Conjunction words(连接词)Can we delete (删除)them? Why?Clearly（清晰地）Logically（有逻辑地）Attractively（有趣地）Vividly(生动地)Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. And he lived at the foot of two mountains near his house.Yu Gong wanted to move the mountains because they were so big that it took a long time to walk to the other side. The old man told his family that they should all help him to move the mountains. One day, a man saw Yu Gong and his children when they were working on moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could never do it because he was old and weak. As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died. And his family would live and grow, but the mountains could not get bigger. So Yu Gong and his family kept on digging day after day and year after year. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that he sent two gods to take the mountains away.The story reminds us that you can never know whats possible unless you try to make it happen.Step 6归纳总结Elements (要素) in a story(How to tell a story in English? ) 1.How does the story begin? when where who 2.What happened next?3. How did it happen?4.Why did it happen? Tense (simple past tense )Conjunction. (as soon as, unless, so.that) Step 7 Practice Work on 4a. 1. Tell Ss to read the sentences in 4a and try to fill in the blanks with unless, as soon as, sothat. 2. 方法指导：首先，先阅读所给的词组，明确每个词组的意思。 其次，通读全句，理解大意；然后，根据句意及句子中上下文意的提示来确定空格处的意思。3.学生们，按老师指导的方法进行阅读，并逐句推敲每空应填什么词组，在实际的运用中提高自己的阅读能力、分析能力及综合运用能力。 4. 最后，教师与同学们一起校对答案，并对学生们有疑问的地方进行解释，或做出合理的分析点拨。示例： 1) _ her father died, the stepsisters made her do all the chores.2) She was _ busy _ she had no time to make a dress for the party. 3) The mice knew that _ they helped her make a dress, she would not be able to go to the party. 4)_ the prince saw her, he fell in love with her.5) The prince knew _ the girls foot could fit the shoe, it was not the right girl. 6) The new couple were _ happy _ they couldnt stop smiling when they got married. Step 8 结合本课学习的叙述故事五要素，分析4a 是一个什么样的故事，该故事是否完整。Is it a complete story of Cinderella?Main plot (主要情节) How did the story begin? Do you know the time and place. Why did Cinderella live a poor life before?We need to add a beginning to make the story complete.How does the story begin? when where who Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She had a happy family in a land far away. Unluckily, his mother died. So his father married another woman. And the woman became her stepmother.What happened next?How did it happen ? Main plot(主要情节)Why did it happen? 1. As soon as her father died, the stepsisters made her do all the chores.2. She was so busy that she had no time to make a dress for the party.3. The mice knew that unless they helped her make a dress, she would not be able to go to the party.4. As soon as the prince saw her, he fell in love with her.5. The prince knew that unless the girls foot could fit the shoe, it was not the right girl.6. The new couple were so happy that they couldnt stop smiling when they got married.Step 9 Work on 4b. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Check the answers with the Ss. Answers: helps, has, uses, make, sees, turn, loveWhat tense do we need to introduce a character? Why?The simple present tense Because an introduction of a main character is a fact. What are these words in red? They are conjunction words.Can we delete (删除) them? Why? Of course not. it makes our story clear, logical, and attractive.The Monkey King is the main character from the famous Chinese story Journey to the West. He is wonderful because he _ (help) weak people. The Monkey King _ (have) a magic stick. He _ (use) it to fight bad people. He can _(make) the stick big or small. He can sometimes make the stick so small that he can put it in his ear. As soon as he _ (see) bad people, he thinks of ways to fight them. He can _ (turn) himself into different animals or objects. But unless he can hide his tail, he cannot make himself a human. Children all