Unit 4 - Section A ( Focus) 教学设计人教版（2024）英语七年级上册

Unit4MyFavouriteSubject

SectionA(GrammarFocus)

Studentswillbeabletomasterandcorrectlyusethekeysentencepatternsrelatedtoexpressingpreferencesforschoolsubjects,suchas“What'syourfavouritesubject?Myfavouritesubjectis...”.

Theycanusetheinterrogativeadverb“why”toaskaboutthereasonsforpreferencesandrespondwith“because”clauses,forexample,“Whydoyoulike...?Becauseit's...”.

Beproficientinusingthethird-personsingularforminsentenceswhentalkingaboutothers'preferences,like“What'shis/herfavouritesubject?He/Shelikes...because...”.

2.1TeachingKeyPoints

Thesentencepatternsforexpressingpreferencesforschoolsubjects:“What'syourfavouritesubject?Myfavouritesubjectis...”.

Theusageof“why”and“because”foraskingaboutandstatingreasonsforpreferences.

Thecorrectuseofthethird-personsingularforminrelevantsentences.

2.2TeachingDifficultPoints

Helpingstudentscorrectlyusethethird-personsingularform,especiallyinthepresentsimpletense,withoutmakingmistakesinverbforms.

Trainingstudentstousethegrammarknowledgeflexiblyandappropriatelyinreal-lifecommunicationscenarios.

1Warming-up

Greetthestudentsasusual.

Showsomepicturesofdifferentschoolsubjectsonthemultimedia,suchasapictureofascienceexperimentfor“science”,apictureofaliteraturebookfor“Chinese”.AskstudentstoquicklycalloutthenamesofthesubjectsinEnglish.Thisactivitycanreviewthevocabularyofschoolsubjectsandarousestudents'interestintoday'sgrammar-relatedtopic.

2Presentation

IntroductiontotheSentencePatternofExpressingPreferences

Writethesentence“What'syourfavouritesubject?”ontheblackboard.Readitaloudseveraltimes,emphasizingtheintonationandstress.Then,askastudent:“What'syourfavouritesubject?”Encouragethestudenttoanswer,forexample,“MyfavouritesubjectisEnglish.”Writetheanswerontheblackboardaswell.Explaintostudentsthatthisisacommonsentencepatternusedtoaskaboutandexpresspreferencesforschoolsubjects.Letseveralotherstudentspracticethisquestion-answerpair,andcorrecttheirpronunciationandgrammarifnecessary.

Usageof“Why”and“Because”forAskingaboutandStatingReasons

Afterthestudentsarefamiliarwiththebasicsentencepatternofexpressingpreferences,continuetoaskthestudentwhoanswered“MyfavouritesubjectisEnglish”:“WhydoyoulikeEnglish?”Helpthestudentanswerwith“Becauseit'sinteresting.”Writethesetwosentencesontheblackboard:“WhydoyoulikeEnglish?Becauseit'sinteresting.”Explainthat“why”isusedtoaskforthereason,and“because”isusedtogivethereason.Givesomemoreexamples,suchas“WhydoyoulikePE?BecauseIcanplaygames.”Letstudentsimitateandpracticeaskingandansweringaboutthereasonsfortheirfavouritesubjectsinpairs.

IntroductiontotheThird-PersonSingularFormintheContextofExpressingPreferences

Showapictureofafamouspersononthemultimedia,forexample,apictureofascientist.Say:“Lookatthisfamousscientist.What'shisfavouritesubject?Maybehelikessciencebecausehecandiscovernewthings.”Writethesentences“What'shisfavouritesubject?Helikessciencebecausehecandiscovernewthings.”ontheblackboard.Explaintostudentsthatwhentalkingaboutothers(he,she,itorasingularnoun),weneedtousethethird-personsingularformoftheverb.Inthepresentsimpletense,mostverbsadd“s”or“es”inthethird-personsingularform.Forexample,“like”becomes“likes”.Givemoreexamples,suchas“What'sherfavouritesubject?Shelikesmusicbecauseshecansingalong.Heplaysfootballafterschool.”Letstudentspayattentiontothechangeofverbforms.

3Practice

OralPracticeinPairs

Dividetheclassintopairs.Provideeachpairwithasetofcards.Oneachcard,thereisaschoolsubjectwrittenononesideandareasonforlikingthesubjectwrittenontheotherside,suchas“maths”ononesideand“Becauseit'schallenging.”ontheotherside.Thepairstaketurnstopickupacard.Onestudentasks“What'syourfavouritesubject?”accordingtothesubjectonthecard,andtheotherstudentanswers“Myfavouritesubjectis...”.Then,thefirststudentasks“Whydoyoulikeit?”andthesecondstudentanswerswiththereasononthebackofthecard.Walkaroundtheclassroomtomonitorandprovideguidance.

GroupActivity:InterviewandReport

Dividetheclassintogroupsof4-5students.Eachgroupmemberisassignedtointerviewtwootherstudentsintheclass.Theinterviewquestionsare“What'syourfavouritesubject?Whydoyoulikeit?”Theinterviewerneedstowritedowntheanswers.Aftertheinterviews,groupmemberscomebacktotheirgroupsandreporttheresults.Forexample,“Tom'sfavouritesubjectisartbecausehelikesdrawing.Lucylikeshistorybecauseshecanlearnaboutthepast.”Eachgroupselectsarepresentativetoreportthegroupresultstothewholeclass.

Grammar-basedGame:SentenceCompletion

Usethemultimediatopresentsomeincompletesentencesonthescreen,suchas“What's______(he)favouritesubject?He______(like)Chinesebecauseit's______(interest).”Askstudentstocompletethesesentenceswiththecorrectformsofwords.Thefirststudenttoraisetheirhandandgivethecorrectanswergetsonepoint.Thisactivitycanhelpstudentspracticeusingthethird-personsingularformandothergrammarpoints.

4Consolidation

WrittenPractice

Distributeaworksheettoeachstudent.Theworksheetcontainssomeexercises,suchasfillingintheblankswiththecorrectformsofverbs,makingsentencesaccordingtothegivenpicturesorprompts,andtransformingsentences.Forexample:

Fillintheblanks:What's______(she)favouritesubject?She______(think)PEisexciting.

Makeasentence:Use“maths,difficult,but,useful”tomakeasentenceaboutyouropiniononmaths.

Transformthesentence:“IlikeEnglishbecauseit'sfun.”(Changeittothethird-personsingularform,referringto“he”).

Letstudentscompletetheexercisesindependentlyfirst,andthenchecktheanswerstogetherinclass.Explainthereasonsforeachanswertohelpstudentsunderstandthegrammarrulesbetter.

Role-playActivity

Createasituation:Supposethereisanewstudentintheclass.Theclassmatesaregettingtoknoweachother.Eachstudentneedstointroducetheirfavouritesubjectandthereason,andalsoaskothersabouttheirpreferences.Dividethestudentsintosmallgroupstoperformthisrole-play.Encouragestudentstousethegrammarknowledgetheyhavelearned,includingsentencepatterns,theusageof“why”and“because”,andthethird-personsingularformwhentalkingaboutothers.Aftertherole-play,selectseveralgroupstoperforminfrontoftheclass,andtherestoftheclasscanevaluatetheirperformancefromtheaspectsofgrammaraccuracyandcommunicationfluency.

5Summary

Summarizethekeygrammarpointsoftoday'sclasswithstudents.Reviewthesentencepatternsforexpressingpreferencesforschoolsubjects,theusageof“why”and“because”foraskingaboutandstatingreasons,andthecorrectuseofthethird-personsingularform.Emphasizetheimportanceofgrammarinaccuratecommunication.

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