初中英语人教版八年级下册Why don’t you talk to your par.doc

Unit 4 Why dont you talk to your parents?Section A 西安市第三十九中学 李妍Teaching focus 1. Develop students listening abilities and help them master different listening skills. 2. Develop students speaking abilities and help them communicate with each other. 3. Develop students writing abilities and help them express themselves properly.Teaching difficulties 1. Get students to listen and catch the key information in the listening materials. 2. Learn to talk about others problems. 3. Give others some useful advice in different ways.Teaching aims Knowledge objective1. Get students to learn some useful new words and expressions in the listening materials. 2. Let students learn how to talk about others problems.3. Enable students to give some useful advice in different ways. Ability objective1. Develop students listening ability by getting special information and taking notes while listening.2. Train students speaking ability by using the information they learnt to show their knowledge. 3. Train students writing ability by writing a letter. Moral objective1. Enable students to know more about talking about problems and giving advice.2. Develop students sense of group cooperation and pair work. Teaching processStep 1 Leading-inShow the students two pieces of video and ask them some questions: 1. Whats wrong with the students?/Whats the matter with the students? 2. What should he/she do ? The answers to these questions will show if the students understand how to talk about problems or not. The videos will lead the students to the topic of this lesson- talk about problems and give advice.Step 2 Pre-Listening Show students some new words in the listening materials to sweep up the hinders in listening and help students understand the listening text more easily. 1.Whats wrong? = Whats the matter? 2. allow allow sb. to do sth. 3. enough sleep 4.free time 5. hang out 6. after-school class 7.fight with sb. 8. call sb. up Step 3 Listening Task ( passage A )Task 1 Listen to the text and try to fill in the blanks. Ask students to listen to the text and try to fill in the blanks according to listening text. After listening, they can show their answers to the class. Boy :You look really tired. Whats _ _? Girl : I studied until midnight last night so I didnt get enough_ Boy : Why _ _ go to sleep earlier tonight? You can start studying earlier. Girl : But I have two _classes today. So I can only start studying after dinner. Boy : Maybe you _ tell your parents that you cant do so many things. Girl : I did,but they think its _ that I take more after-school classes. Boy :Well, they probably want you to get into a _ senior high school. Girl :Yes,I guess thats the reason. Boy : You _ talk to them again. Explain to them that you need to get enough sleep to stay healthy. Girl : Thats a_ _.OK, Ill try to talk to them again. Task 2. Summary 1 Help students to summary the key points about talking about problems and giving advice in the listening passage. A: Whats wrong?/ Whats the matter? B: I. What should I do? A: Why dont you .?/ You should . Step 4 Discussion Task 1 Show students some more pictures of others problems. Let them try to talk about these problems and give their advice in different personal pronoun. Task 2 PairworkAsk students to discuss with their partners and try to make their own conversations by using the following information. Problems Advice be too fat.do more exercises be thirsty.drink more water lost ones way. ask the policeman for help had a fight with the best friend. write a letter and say sorry cant hang out with my friends.talk to the parents always be late for school. get up early next time have a fever.see a doctor the homework is too difficult ask teacher for help Then let some pairs of students show their conversations to the whole class. Step 5 Listening ( passage B)Task 1. Listen to the following passage and fill in the blanks.Ask students to listen to the text and try to fill in the blanks according to listening text. After listening, they can show their answers to the class. Girl : Hey, Peter, whats_? Boy : I had a fight with my best friend. What _ _ do? Girl : Well, you _ write him a letter. Boy : I dont think so, although its a good idea. Im not very _ _ writing letters. Girl : _ _call him up? Boy: No, I dont want to _ _ it on the phone. Girl : But you really _talk to him so that you can say you are sorry. Boy : Yes, I know I should, but its not easy. Girl :_ _ going to his house? Boy : Maybe I could, but I dont want to surprise him. Girl : Hey, I know. _ _ _ take him to the ball game? Boy : But the ball game is next week. I dont want to wait until then to talk to him.Task 2. Summary 2 Help students to summary more useful expressions about talking about problems and giving advice in different personal pronoun in the listening passage. A: Whats wrong( with you/ her/ him/ the boy)?/ Whats the matter( with you/ her/ him/ the boy)?B: I/ He /She / The boy . What should I/ he /she/ the boy do?A: Why dont you/ doesnt he/ doesnt she/ doesnt the boy do.? Why not .? You/ He/ She/ The boy should /could do. How/What about doing?Task 3 Groupwork Ask students to work in groups and interview the members in their groups. They should try to talk about their problems and give some useful advice one by one by using the expressions they learnt today. Step 6 Writing Task 1 Discussion Ask students two questions and let them discuss with their partners.1. Do you feel stressed out sometimes? 2. How do you lower your stress ? Then show students some pictures about how to lower the stress. Task 2 Writing Show students a topic: Tom is a student in Grade 8. He always feels stressed out in his study. Can you write him a letter to help him lower the stress? Then show students the key structure of the letter to help them finish the task. Lets help Tom ! Dear Tom, I am also a Grade 8 student. I want to help yo