初中英语人教版八年级下册Unit8 reading.doc

Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet?Section B (2b-2e)Teaching Aims:1 Learn and know about Country Music.2 Understand the present perfect tense in the article.3 A new reading skill: summarize a passage. Teaching key points: Master the ways to summarize the passage. (1) Titles.(2) The main idea of the each paragraph (3) Take notes to make a fact sheet (事实一览表).(4 ) Draw a mind map (思维图)Teaching difficult points:Understand the two usages of the present perfect tense in the article.Teaching procedures:Step one: the teacher checks how well students preview.Step two: present the learning aimsStep three: Fast reading to get the main idea of each paragraph.The first paragraph is about the short introduction of Sarah.The second paragraph is about the country music.The third paragraph is about Sarahs dream.Step four: read the first paragraph carefully and fill in the blanks.Through the task,students can learn more information about Sarah and how the music changed her life.Step five: read the second paragraph and judge whether the sentences are right or not. If they are false, please correct them.Through the task , students can learn more about country music and help them get the main points better and carefully.Step six: read the third paragraph,and ask some questions. Through this task , students can learn more about how country music affected Sarah greatly.Step seven: Lets try to summarize the article. Before summarizing, teachers and students discuss the ways of summarizing the article. We can guess the main idea from the titles. We should master main idea of each paragraph. We had better take notes to make a fact sheet. And we can try to draw a mindmap.Step eight: Use the no