英语人教版八年级下册Unit5 .docx

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?Section B 2a2e一 Teaching Aims:1. Knowledge ObjectsLearn and master the key words and phrases: passage, pupil, completely, shocked, silence, in silence, take down, terrorist, date, tower, at first, truth.2. Master the target language1）Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. 2）We were eating dinner in the kitchen when we heard the news on the radio. 3) We finished the rest of our dinner in silence. 4) Most Americans remember what they were doing when World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorist.二 Ability Objects: After reading, students learn to use the past progressive tense, and talk about past events.三 Emotional EducationFrom reading, develop students awareness of freedom, democracy and peace loving consciousness.四 Teaching Key and Difficulty PointsLearn to how to use the past progressive tense correctly and talk about the past events.五 Teaching Methods1. Communicative teaching method2. Situational teaching method3. “Task-based”teaching method六Teaching Procedures Step 1 Warming upShow the video “I have a dream”.Free talk about the speech.Step 2 Revision (Play a guessing game) Lead students to describe the pictures using the past progressive tense by giving the past time.Summarize the structure of past continuous tense and let students make sentences. Step 3 Presentation 1. Give pictures and guide to say the new words and phrases.Watch a video of “911” and introduce the topic: Do You Remember What You Were Doing?Look at three pictures and ask students to answer the questions using past progressive tense.2. Show the reading strategy.3. Fast readingLook through the whole passage and answer two questions.4. Careful readingRead the passage again and circle the sentence “T” or “F”, correct the false sentences.Step 4 ListeningListen to the whole passage and fill in the blanks.Step5. PracticeUnderline sentences from the passage with similar meanings to the ones below.Invite several students to check the answers.Step6. Report Divide Students into groups and choose a reporter for each group.The reporter interviews the group members with “An important event they remembered” and make a report.Step7. Summary and exercises1. Get students to tell us what they have got in the class. Invite one student to write down the important phrases on the blackboard. 2. Do some exercises to consolidate what they have learned today.Step8. Homework1. Remember the words and phrases in this lesson.2. Write a passage about an event that you remember well. Give dates and say why you remember it, and what you wer