英语人教版八年级下册Unit3 SectionA.doc

Step I Lead-inT: Good morning, boys and girls! I am always very busy on weekends. So my daughter often helps me with the housework. Do you often help your mother do the chores at home? (Write “chores” on blackboard and explain it.) Here “chore” means housework. Could you please tell me what chores you do at home? S1: I often clean my room.S2: I wash my clothes and fold my clothes.S3: I clean the window.S4: I make my bed and sweep the floor.S5: I clean the living room. T: Well, you are good boys and girls! We should try to be helpful and do some chores at home.Step II Presentation of new words (Section A: 1a)Call attention to the picture on page 65.T: Look at the picture on page 65. What can you see?S: It is house. (living room)S: Many dishes.S: The dustbin is full. S: The floor is dirty.S: .T: So there are a lot of chores to do, right?Help students to learn the following phrases about chores: clean the living room; do the dishes; sweep the floor; make the bed; do the laundry; take out the trash; fold the clothesThen find out the best helper at home.T: Do you often help your parents do the chores? Now lets choose the best helper at home. First please write down all the chores from your memory on a piece of paper. Then check each chore you do at home. The one who check the most chores will be the best helper at home.Step III Presentation of new functionT: If you want to ask somebody to do chores, how can you ask in English?S1: Can you do the chores?S2: Could you please do the chores? T: Which one do you think is better?Ss: The second one.T: Yes. We should say “Could you please do the chores?” instead of other ways because it sounds very polite.Write “Could you please .?” on the Bb.Step IV Pairwork (Section A: 1c)T: In the picture, the mom askes the son to do some chores. What does she say?S: Peter, could you please take out the trash?T: Good! Today, well learn how to make polite requests with could. It is very important to be polite in our life. Now work in pairs. Imagine you are the mom and the son in the picture. Ask your partner to do the chores that you see. First ask two students to read the sample conversation in activity 1c.Then students make their own conversations. Call several pairs to demonstrate their conversations to the class. Step V Listening (Section A: 1b)This step gives some listening practice with the target language (the verb phrase and the structure “Could you please .?”).T: You will here a conversation between Peter and his mother. What kind of chores do Mom and Peter do? Check Mom or Peter.Play the recording twice. For the first time students focus on the chores Mom does; the second time, focus on the chores Peter does. Then check the answers.Step VI GroupworkT: Imagine we are going to clean our classroom this afternoon. You need someone to help you do some things. Think of the things you need to do and make polite requests to your partners. You may find these phrases useful.Show the following phrases on the screen.carry some water, clean the desks, clean the chairs, clean the windows, clean the blackboard, turn off the lights, take down the old pictures, put up the new pictures, sweep the floorA few minutes l