英语人教版八年级下册unit 7 1a-2d.doc

Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world? 教学设计 交大附中 张琼Grade年级Grade 8Designer设计者Zhang QiongModule/Topic模块及话题1a-2dUnit单元Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?Cooperated style合作模式Group workType of lesson课型Listening and speakingPeriod Time课时40minTeaching method教学方法task-based and communicative teaching method.Learning strategy学法指导The ability to predict before listening and learn to speak from listening.Objectives：教学目标1. Knowledge goal语言知识：Students will be able to use sentence patterns about numbers, comparatives and superlatives.2. Language skill语言技能：Students will be able to talk about geographical facts and introduce a historical site with the sentence patterns required. 3. Learning Strategies学习策略：Students will learn to predict the content before listening and learn speaking from listening.4. Feelings and attitude情感态度： Students will learn to cherish and spread historical sites in Xian.5. Culture 文化Students will know better about the famous historical sites in Xian and love the city.Language focused教学重点：Talk about geographical facts of four famous places in the world with the help of sentence patterns about numbers, comparatives and superlatives.Make an oral report about introduction to China from the aspects learned in listening.Make a dialogue as guide and tourists about the Great Wall( or another historical site in Xian) .Language difficult point教学难点：The pronunciation of the places and numbers.Sentence patterns about measurements.Use of the learned information in the book to talk about China and the Great Wall( or one historical site in Xian).TeachingAids/MediaandResource教学媒体PowerPoint Multimedia TeachingProcedures教学过程Teaching activities & Steps教学活动及具体的操作步骤Learning Activities学生学习活动Strategies and purpose策略与设计意图Step I. Warming up and Lead in 1. Greetings.Greet the students with a happy smile.Greet the teacher.This activity is designed to get the attention from students and get them ready for class.2. Warming-up questions.Ask questions about the number of students in the class, the age and the time span of the class. Write the numbers on the blackboard.T: How many students do we have in our class? How old are you? How long is one class in our school?Answer the questions with numbers.This activity is designed to get close to the students and help them feel the function of the numbers:describe and remember the facts3. Lead-inInvite students to the topic of today. T: As we can see, numbers can help us describe and remember the facts in our life. Lets look at some big numbers. Read them in English and think about the facts they are describing (1,025; 6671; 8,844.43; 9,600,000).Students try to read the numbers in English and think about the related facts they know about the numbers.This activity is designed to practice the pronunciation of the big numbers about geographical facts and lead in to the four natural places in the book. Step II. 1a&1bFour important geographical facts in the world.1. A video of four natural placesPlay a video about the four natural places and ask students to find out the English names of the places and think about the relations between the places and the numbers. (Qomolangma; the Sahara; the Nile; the Caspian Sea)Students try to know what the four places are in English and activate their learned information about the places and numbers with the help of vivid video. This activity aims to bridge the gap between English and Chinese names of the four places and pool the learned, numbers-related or other more information out of students.2. Brainstorming about the four places.Ask students to describe the facts of the four natural places with the help of numbers above and the adjectives.T: What can you see in the video?Qomolangma the Sahara the Nilethe Caspian SeaWhich number can be used to describe Qomolangma/the Sahara /the Nile/the Caspian Sea? Can you say more about them?e.g. Qomolangma is 8,844,43 meters high. It is the highest mountain in the world. Students try to describe the four places with the help of numbers, adjectives and other more information they learned before. Familiarize students with the sentence patterns about measurements, comparatives and superlatives on talking about geographical facts. Step III 2aGeographical facts about China.1. Before listening.Lead in from the geographical facts in the world to the predications about geographical and historical facts in China. T: Its international for us to know some important geographical facts in the world. However, its proud to know and introduce our dear motherland to people all over the world. Turn to page 50. What are the key words in each fact about China? What numbers and adjectives might be used to describe them? history long 5000 China population large/big 1.38 billion area big 9.6 million river long 6300/5464Students predicate the geographical and historical facts from the implied aspects in the given sentences (river, population, history, size) and the numbers in the box.This activity aims to help students better understand the use of numbers, comparatives and superlatives to describe the geographical facts and historical facts.2. While-listeningListen and number the facts in order.Listen and fill in the blanks.Students listen for the order of the information and fill in the blanks in 2a.This activity aims to help students have a direct understanding of the relations between the numbers and adjectives.3. Post-listeningCheck the answers in 2a.Students perform an oral report about China with the help of the framework and the mind-map in the listening. history long 5000 China population large/big 1.38 billion area big 9.6 million river long 6300/5464 (Yangtze River/ Yellow River)China is one of the oldest countries in the world.(history). This ancient country is a home to(population). All the people in China lives in an area of(area). Every Chinese knows the two famous rivers in this country. One isItsThe other is Its Every year, millions of people travel to China to enjoy its beautiful natural sties and amazing historical sites. Do you want to know more about China? Come and see by yourself!Students describe China with the mind-map and checked information in 2a.This activity is designed to help students listen for information about important geographical and historical facts of China and know how to introduce China to others with the learned information.Step IV 2dThe Great Wall1. Lead in to the great wall. T: Speak of China, we have a must-go place. What is it? Listen to one famous saying in China. “The Great Wall is a must.” “He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man.”Students understand the meaning of the saying and the importance of the Great Wall in China.This activity is designed to lead in to the listening in 2d.2. Listen and fill in the table about the Great wall.The Great Wall (_dynasty)Length (How long?)Reason (Why?)BadalingStudents listen and fill in the table about the information on Ming Great Wall.This activity aims to help students analyse in what ways can we introduce a historical site.3. Discuss the ways to introduce the histori