英语人教版八年级下册Unit 2 Section A 1.docx

Section A 1 (1a-2d)Step 1 Warming up1. 播放学生志愿者进行义务帮助别人的活动视频，通过询问他们以下问题来引导学生们了解社会上一些的志愿们进行的活动。T: Who are they?S：Theyre volunteers. They usually volunteer to help others. T: How could we help people?S1: We could clean up the parksS2: We could help sick people in the hospital.S3: We could help plant trees. Step 2 New words1. city n. 城市 e.g. The library is in the north of the city. 图书馆在城市的北部。2. notice n. 公告牌；通告；布告e.g. Please read the list on the notice board. 请读公告板上的名单。 3. sign n. 标志；信号e.g. Look around, we could see no sign of life. 环顾四围，我们看不出一点生命的迹象。4. volunteer v. 义务劳动，自愿做 volunteer to do sth. 义务自愿做某事e.g. Many people volunteer to work on the farm. 很多人志愿到农场去工作。5. clean up 打扫；清除e.g. The students take turns to clean up their classroom. 学生们轮流打扫教室。6. give out 分发；散发e.g. Please help me give out these test papers. 请帮我将这些试卷发下去。7. cheer v. 欢呼; 喝彩 e.g. Cheer up. The news isnt too bad. 振作起来，消息还不算太坏。8. lonely adj. 孤独的；寂寞的e.g. I dont feel lonely because I made new friends here. 我不觉得孤独因为我交了新朋友。9. used to 曾经， 过去 e.g. Jack used to be short, but now hes tall. 杰克过去很矮，但现在高了。Step 3 Discussion1. 1a. Look at the ways you could help others. Then list other ways.2. Ss discuss with their partners and write the ways one could help others: Help plant trees by the river. Help clean up the city park. Visit the old people in the old peoples home. Help young kids to learn English. Step 4 Listening 1. T: Tell Ss to read the sentences in the chart. Make sure they know the meaning of the sentences. 2. 1b. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and number the ways the boy and girl could help others. _ The girl could visit the sick kids in the hospital to cheer them up. _ The boy could give out food at the food bank. _ The girl could volunteer in an after-school study program to teach kids._ The boy could help to clean up the city parks. (Key: 3, 2, 4, 1)Step 5 Pair work 1. Let Ss read the conversation in the picture. 2. 1c. Use the information in the chart of 1b to make other conversations. A: I hope to work outside. B: You could help to clean up the city parks. 3. Let some pairs act out their conversations. Step 6 Listening 1. 2a: T: A group of students are planning a City Park Clean-up Day. Listen and check () the things they are going to do to tell people about it. 1. Look at the pictures in 2a. Discuss the things they are going to do. 2. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and check the pictures. 3. Play the recording again to check the answers.Answers: b, c, e2. 2b: 1. Let Ss read the sentences below. Explain some main sentences for the Ss. Make sure they know what to do. 2. Play the recording for the Ss to write the correct words in the blanks. 1. We need to _ _ _ a plan to tell people about the city park clean- up. 2. Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now. We cant _ _ making a plan. 3. We could _ _ signs. 4. Lets make some notices, too. Then Ill _ them _ after school. 5. We could each _ _ 10 students and ask them to come. 3. Play the recording again to check the answers. Answers: 1. come up with 2. put off 3. put up 4. hand, out 5. call up Step 7 Pair work 1. 2c. Tell Ss to make a conversation using the information in 2a and 2b. 2. Let one pair to read out their conversation first. e.g. A: We need to come up with a plan for the City Park Clean-Up Day. B: Lets have lunch first. A: No, we need to start now. Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now. B: Youre right. We cant put off making a plan. As we talk, Ill write down all our ideas. Then we can decide which ideas are best. A: Lets make some notices, too. Then Ill hand them out after school. B: And we could each call up ten students and ask them to come. 3. Ss act the conversation in pairs. Ask some pairs to act out their conversations. Step 8 Reading and Role-play 1. Read the conversations and answer the two questions: Wheres Helen going to work this summer? _ What did Tom do to help the old people? _ Answers: Shes going to work in an old peoples home. Reading the newspaper or just talking to the old people.2. Read the conversation after the teacher. 3. Practice the conversation with their partner. Then let some pairs to act out the conversation. Step 9 Language points1. They told me stories about the past and how things used to be.used to do sth. 过去常常做某事； 表示过去习惯性、经常性的动作或状态，暗指现在已经不存在。used无人称和时态的变化。 e.g. I used to go to the Youth Center. But I have no time now. 我过去经常去青少年中心，但现在我没有时间了。 Grandparents used to tell us stories when we were very young. 在我们小时候祖父母常给我们讲故事 听。2. Yeah, a lot of old people are lonely.lonely adj. 孤独的；寂寞的指精神上感觉孤独、寂寞。e.g. The old man feels lonely, so he raises a dog.那名老人觉得很孤独，因此他养了一只狗。 3. We need to come up with a plan for the City Park Clean-up Day. need 用作实义动词，有“必要”、“必需”之意，有人称、数和时态的变化，可以接名词、代词、动名词或带 to 的动词不定式作宾语。 e.g. The man needs an English dictionary when he works. 这个人在工作时需要一本英语词典。 Do you need to see him yourself? 你必需亲自见他吗？4. clean up 意为“打扫；清理”。但如果在clean 和up间加个连字符号, 它就是名词了, 意为“扫除”。e.g. You must give your classroom a good clean-up.你必须对教室进行彻底地打扫。come up with 提出（观点，看法）。e.g. Hescome up witha great idea. 他想出了一个绝好的办法。 I came up with a better plan than that. 我提供了一个比那还好的计划。Step 10 Exercises. Fill in the blanks.1. He helps _ the classroom. A. cleans up B. cleaning up C. clean up2. I took her to the concert to _. A. cheer up her B. cheer her up C. cheer she up 3. Lets help _ food at the food bank. A. to give out B. give up C. giving out . Complete the sentences.1. Youd better _ _ _ (想出) a better plan. 2. Who will _ _ _ (自愿回答) this question?3. You could put up a _ (布告) here. 4. With no one to talk to. He _ very _ ( 感觉很孤独).5. The life _