英语人教版八年级下册book2 Unit2 Section B 2b.doc

Book 2 Unit 2 Ill help to clean up the city parks. Reading.Teaching aims:1).Knowledge key vocabulary:set up, make a difference, thanks for, make it adj.for sb. to do sth, help out, because of, a friend of mine and the words in vocabulary. 2).Ability: Train students reading comprehension ability. Train students how to use the strategies of reading And understanding Parts of Speech.3).Sensibility and Value: Our world needs love. Everyone needs love. We should learn from Miss Li. Try our best to help others if possible.Main and difficult points:Train students reading comprehension ability.Train students how to use the strategies of reading and understanding Parts of Speech.Teaching method: Pre-reading method.Reading method.Discussing method.Teaching aid: Recorder and Simple drawing.Step 1 Greetings1. Small talk.Hello, everyone! How are you today? 2. Play a game. Now lets play a game, a guessing game. Guess: Whats this? (教师在黑板上一边画，学生们一边猜) Yes, its an elephant. Do you like animals? Everyone should like and protect animals because they are our friends. I like elephants very much because they are very strong and they can work for people. They can carry heavy things for people. But my daughter likes dogs . She thinks dogs are very clever .They can understand our orders. They can help the blind and deaf people in the daily life. So she is a volunteer, she often goes to the “Animal Helpers” to take care of the dogs.Are you a volunteer? Do you often help others?Are you happy after you help others?And the person you help is also happy.Try to be a volunteer, my dear children! Because its important for us to learn to contribute to others. On the other hand, if you are a volunteer, youll gain different kinds of skills and youll gain confidence and feel good about yourself.If someone helps you, what will you do?Say thank you to himher.We should help others just like himher to pass this kind of love to others. Write a thank-you messageletter to himher.OK, today we are going to learn a letter that is full of thankfulness. Ill send you a photo of Lucky. Step2. Listening Listen to the tape and answer the question:Who is lucky? (a dog)Try to describe Lucky.Call some students to answer the questions.Step3. Reading 1. Read the article for the first time. Finish 2d and answer the questions of 2b. Then find out what kind of letter it is and the main idea. (a thankful letter and the writer expresses his thanks to Miss Li -a kind-hearted person.)Reading strategy: Let your eyes “scan” the text quickly to find details that you are looking for. You can find information quickly without reading the whole text. If you have any difficult words, please dont worry. You can guess its meaning according to the sentences and the passages. After that you can look them up in your dictionary and vocabulary. If you keep doing so, you can improve your ability of guessing new words. Its important for you.2. Then check the answers of 2d.3. Lets describe the relationships between them.Ben Smith thanks Miss Li. Miss Li gave money to Animal Helpers. Animal Helpers trains animals like Lucky. Lucky helps Ben Smith. It shows us the love in the world. 2. Read the article for the second time. This time try to understand the whole article. Underline the difficult words and sentences. Reading strategy: Using parts of speech(在书上) 3. Discuss the difficult sentences and words in groups. 4. Discuss with the whole class. Explaining:1. thank sb. for sth.doing sth. = be thankful to sb. for sth.2. make it possible for sb. to do sth. “使某人有可能去做某事”之意。it 为形式宾语，possible作宾语补足语，for sb to do sth为真宾语。3. help sb out 帮某人解决难题 （动副短语） eg: I can work out this math problem. Please help me out.类似的短语pick up; dress up; look up; cut down; find out; take off; put away; cheer up等。Step5. New words and expressions: Step6. Exercises:1. Finish 2c 2e 3a 3b2. Check the answers with the whole class.3. Discuss the questions in groups.4. Think about what weve learned from this letter?Step7. Homework:1. Write a letter or e-mail to the place you want to volunteer at. .2. Do some research about the world of training animals.3. Next class, well have a class discussion about the different types of animals that are useful in society.Step8. Summary:Today we have learned a thank-you letter. From it we can feel Ben Smith is very lucky. Yes, our world needs lo