英语人教版八年级下册unit 6 3a-3c.docx

Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.Section A 3a- 3cTeaching aims Knowledge aims:1. To learn the new words and phrases: Words: object, hide, tail, magic, stick, excite, Western, weak, the main character, the traditional Chinese book, a magic stick, the weak.Phrases: at other times, turninto, more than, as soon as, give up, become interested in, keep doing.2. To understand the passage.3. To grasp the usage of Adverbial Clauses.Ability aims:1. To improve the students reading skills.2. To train the students to retell the story.Emotion aims:Educate the students to love reading.Key points and difficulties:1. To make the students understand the passage.2. To teach the students to retell a story.3. To grasp the usage of Adverbial Clauses.Teaching procedures:Step 1 GreetingGreet the students as usual.Step 2 Lead in (group work)1. Show some pictures of Sun Wukong and lead the students to talk about the facts in groups of 4.(1) Do you know him? (2) What does he look like?(3) What do you think of him? (4) What do you know about the book Journey to the West?2. Introduce some background knowledge.Journey to the Westis a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during theMing dynasty. It is written by Wu Chengen. It is one of theFour Great Classical NovelsofChina. Step 3 Pre- readingTeach the new words.Students read the words and say their Chinese meanings.Step 4 While-reading1. Fast reading(1) Read the passage quickly and answer the questions:a. Which book is talked about?b. Who is the main character?c. What is he like?(2) Read again and match the main idea of each paragraph.Paragraph1 What can the Monkey King do and cant do.Paragraph2 Children of China and western countries lovereading the story.Paragraph3 In 1979, the story of the Monkey King becamefamous in England.2. Detailed reading(1) Read paragraph 1 and answer the question: What happened in November 1979?(2) Read paragraph 2 and complete activity 3b.(3) Read paragraph 3 and answer the question:Why are children interested in reading about the Monkey King?Step 5 After reading 3c1. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box:become interested in, make changes, can/be able to, traditional, come out, turn himself into2. Play the recording and students read after it, practice the intonation and pronunciation.3. Ask students to underline the phrases then explain some difficulties.4. Translate the passage in groups.5. Help students to deal with difficult sentences.Step 6 Retell Try to retell the story with the help of the mind map.Journey to the west(Wu Chengen)Who is the main character?what can he do? the Monkey King what cant he do? He can He cannotmake the magic stick small and keep it in his ear, or make it big and long. turn himself into a personmake 72 changes to his shape and unless he can hide his tail.size, turning himself into differentanimals and objects.Why are children interested in reading about the Monkey King?It is because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.Step 7 SummarySum up by doing some exercises.Step 8 HomeworkWrite a short passage about your favorite story. The following expressions may help you:My favorite story is XXX wrote the story in The main character of this story is XXXI am interested in reading this story becauseBlackboard designUnit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.Section A 3 -3cWords: object, hide, tail, magic, stick, excite, Western,