英语人教版八年级下册the stom brought people closer.doc

Unit5 what were you doing when the rainstorm came?Analysis of the teaching material:In this unit, students mainly learn to talk about things that happened in the past. It plays a very important part in Book Eight, while the second period is essential in this unit. Because the teacher can train the students ability of skimming and scanning, students learn new words or phrases: feel like, fall asleep rise, wood. Students will become cooperative and self-confident after taking part in different kinds of activities.Teaching Aims1. knowledge aims(1)To help students learn more new words and phraseseel like, fall asleep rise, wood(2)Grasp the past continuous tense and use it correctly to describe what was happening2.Ability Aims(1)To develop the students ability of skimming and scanning.(2)To develop the students ability of speaking.3.Emotion and Attitude(1)to stimulate students motivation(2)to help students cultivate their cooperative spirit and self-confident by different kinds of activities(3)to dig students potations to recall the past related stories by describing what happened, and arouse the students interest. Teaching Key Points1. How to make students understand the new language items naturally.2. How to make students use the new words and sentences patterns freely and correctly.Teaching Difficult PointsBe able to use the past continuous tense to describe what was happening. Teaching Methods1.Task-based Teaching Method2.Situation Approach3.Communicative ApproachTeaching AidsMultimedia, blackboard, pictures, forms.StepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep1Warming UpThe teacher greets all the students.The teacher ask students to give a report in groups about last rainstorm.Invite some Students to give the report.The students great the teacher.The students will work in groups to give a report about t what they were doing .Some students are invited to give the report.To revise past continuous tense.StepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep2Discussion The teacher have students discuss the following question:When we know the rainstorm is coming, what should we prepare?The teacher help them to get the right answer.The students can discuss with their partnersAll the students take part in the game for their own.The students try to get answers as much as possible.To arouse students interest.StepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep3Pre-readingThe teacher lets students predict according the title The students look at the title and try to predict the content of the passage.To develop students speaking skills and.StepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep4Skim-mingThe teacher has the students read quickly to find two questions.The students read quickly to get the answers.Check the answer with the teacher.To cultivate the students skimming skillStepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep5Careful reading The teacher gets Ss to read para.1 to scan for the answer. Check the answer.Ask the students to read para.2 and think about dads and mothers activatesInvite Ss to scan the Para.3 to find the questions. Let students read last paragraph to finish some questions.Try to get the right answers by read each paragraph carefully and pay attention to the new words and phrases.Try to get the detailed information about the rainstorm by reading carefully.To cultivate the scanning skills; To develop students cooperative spiritStepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep6Post-readingTask1:Retellinghelp students retell the each paragraph by giving some information Task2 ExercisesAsk Students complete the sentences using information from the passage.Task3:DiscussionDiscuss the question Learn to master key words and phrases by retelling the passage.Finish the exercises in 3bLearn to help each other in times of difficultiesTo cultivate the speaking and writing skills; To enhance the relationship between students.StepsTeachers ActivitiesStudents ActivitiesDesign IntentStep7Home-workFinish more exercises.Let students preview Section B.Finish more exercises.Preview Section BTo stimulate students motivation To consolidate new knowledge.Teaching ReflectionIn New English Curriculum for Chinese Primary Schools and Junior/Senior Middle Schools, we can see it emphasizes the importance of Stimulating students interest in studying English. Therefore, in the beginning of the class, the teacher lets Ss do a free talk to help students have interest in learning this lesson in a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere. According to New English Curriculum, students are put at the centre of the curriculum and individual differences are respected. Whats more, the curriculum promotes task-based learning. So in the following steps