英语人教版八年级下册u7section A

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Section A 1 (1a – 2d)
Teaching aims：
New words：square ，meter ，deep ，desert ，population ，population ，Asia ，tour，tourist，wall，amazing，ancient，wide
Ability goals: Improve students’ listening skills and speaking skills.
Moral goals: China is a country with a long history.We should learn to appreciate the culture and the beautiful scenery.
Teaching important points
Students can master the new words and finish the tasks.
Teaching difficult points
Students can know and master the usage of the comparative degree.
Teaching method
Communicative approaches.
Teaching aids
CIA
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Presentation
Present some new words.
Step 2 Warming-up
Watch the photos and talk about them “How big/high/long/big is…?’ and help the students to answer: It’s …meters/kilometers/cm big/high/long/big.
Step 3 Matching
1a Match the facts you know.
Practice in pairs using the information in 1a.
Step 4 Listening
1. 1b Listen and complete the sentences.
1) Qomolangma is ______ than any other mountain in the world.
2) The Sahara is ____________ desert in the world.
3) The Caspian Sea is ____________ of all the salt lakes.
4) The Nile is _________ river in the world.
2. 2a Listen and number the facts(1- 4) in the order you hear them.
2b Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box.
6,300 5,000 5,464 300
___ The Yangtze River is about ____ kilometers long and the Yellow River is ___ kilometers long.
___ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US.
___ China is over ___ years old. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even ___ years old.
___ China is almost as big as the US, but it is the biggest country in Asia.
Step5 Practice
1c Make conversations in pairs.
Examples
A: Did you know that China if one of the oldest countries in the world?
B: Yes, I did. I t’s much older than my country.
Step6 Role play
2d Read the conversation and answer the questions:
1) Which is the biggest man-made objects in the world？
2) Which is the most famous part of the Ming Great Wall?
Step7Homework
A: To memorize the important phrases and sentences.
B: To make some dialogues about asking the size of objects.。