英语人教版八年级下册Unit 6 Section A (3a-3c).doc

Teaching plan for Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains Section A(3a-3c), Book 8B in Go for itBy Feng Shili from Xianshi Middle SchoolPart 1 Teaching objectivesFirst, the knowledge objective :1. Able to understand the new words and new phrases and use them well: object, magic, stick, hide, tail, turninto,excite;2. Able to understand the main idea of the article;3. Able to know these phrases（ as soon as, unless,and so that.）correctlySecond, the ability objective: 1. Able to skim for the main idea of the article ;2. Able to scan for the specific information;3. Able to understand the whole article, and retell the story. Third, the emotional objective:1. Able to develop the spirit of cooperation through teamwork and pair-discussion; 2. Able to arouse Ss interest in English learning and develop the quality of helping others. Forth, the Cultural awareness:Monkey King to the Chinese is like Zoro to the Spanish, different countries will have different special but meaningful characters in some famous movies or books. And it has meanings for students to learn something from them.Part 2 Teaching key and difficult pointsFirst, Important points: 1. Able to get an overall understanding of the whole text,2. Able to develop their reading skills such as skimming, scanning, summarizing language points3. Able to master the usage of the phrases: turninto, make 72 changesSecond, Difficult points:Are to enable the Ss to use the new words and phrases to express their ideas about some characters from stories or legends, and develop the ability of skimming and scanning.Part 3 Teaching and learning methods1.Teaching methods : audio-visual teaching method, communicative teaching method, and task-based teaching methods.2.learning methods : group work,guessing,skiming,scanning reading skills as well as discussion.3.Teaching aids: a computer, blackboard, whiteboard, a tape recorder, a projector .Part 4 Teaching proceduresStep 1 Prevision check(4 mins) The prevision of the key words on Page 43: object, magic, stick, hide, tail, turninto,excite, these words are divided into 4 groups, and the teacher will give a lollipop as a surprising prize.Step 2 Leading in (3mins)Play a song about Journey to the west and then guide students to talk about the main character Monkey King with these three questions:Q1: Who does the song mainly talk about?Q2: Which TV program is the song for?Q3:When did you first watch the TV program ?Step 3 Fast reading (3 mins)Guide Ss to read the whole passage in 3a while listening in order to find the answers to these three questions:1. Which book is talked about?2. Who is the main character?3. What is he like? ( a little difficult for Ss)Step 4 Careful reading (13mins)There are two parts for the Ss.First read Paragraph 2 carefully to complete the chart:l What can he do ? l He can _ to his _, turning himself into_. l He can make _ so small that he can_, or make his magic stick_. l What cant he do ? l He cant _himself _(unless he can_ ) Second read Paragraph 3 carefully in order to make sure whether these statements are true or false:1. Sun Wukong has excited the children of China for many years. (T)2. The TV programMonkey came out over 30 years ago. (T)3. Western children like to read this story because the clever Monkey King can make 72 changes. (F)4. The Monkey King never gives up fighting to help the weak. (T)Step 5 Post-reading (17mins) 1）Guide Ss to give the best title of the passage in order to train Ss ability to get the main idea.2）Group discussion: share the problems about the key language points:As soon as, unless, sothat,traditional, come out, become interested in, is able to, and then check like this:But unless he can hide his tail, he cannot turn himself into a man. unless conj. _。引导条件状语从句, 相当于_。Have a try：translate the Chinese sentence into Englishe.g. 如果我不努力学习, 我父母会很难过的。 _ And as soon as the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, Western children became interested in reading this story The similarity phrase of as soon as : Whats the meaning of as soon as: Whats the meaning of come out : Try to translate the sentence into Chinese. Sometimes he can make the stick so small that he can keep it in his ear.Whats the meaning of so that?Make a sentence.( so +adj./adv. + that 从句 ) 1. My sister is so young that_2.I got up so late that _ Fill in the blanks1. Journey to the West is a _ Chinese book. It tells one of the most popular stories in China.2. When the English TV program Monkey _ in 1979, Western children _ this wonderful story. 3. The Monkey King _ make his magic stick small or large.3）Retell the passage: And then fill in the blanks in a short passage present on the PPT. The short passage is made up from the article, and the answers are the language points in this lesson.The Monkey King is the main character from the famous Chinese story Journey to the West. He is wonderful because he _ (help) weak people. The Monkey King _ (have) a magic stick. He _ (use) it to fight bad people. He can _ (make) the stick big or small. He can sometimes make the stick so small that he can put it in his ear. As soon as he _ (see) bad people, he thinks of ways to fight them. He can _ (turn) himself into different animals or objects. But unless he can _ (hide) his tail, he cannot make himself a human. Children all over the world _ (love) the Monkey King! 4) Moral education:T: What can we learn from the Monkey King?Ss:(help the weak and never give up)T: Neverdothingsbyhalves.做事不要半途而废 Step 6 Homework (2mins)T:You must finish 4a and 4b on P44. If you can, write a passage about the Monkey King with what we le