英语人教版七年级下册Unit11 第一课时

Unit 11 How was your school trip?
Section A (1a—2c)
1. Analysis of Teaching Material
Topic : A School trip to the farm
Function : Talk about past events
Grammar : Simple past tense
2. Teaching Aims
Language Learning Aims:
①Students are encouraged to understand the words
and phrases like “milk a cow, ride a horse, feed chickens, farmer…”
②Students are expected to use the target words .
Ability aims
①Students are expected to improve their listening and speaking skills.
②Students are able to talk about what people did in the past.
Culture Awareness
Students are able to know about the farm activities in different countries.
Affection aims
①Carry out extracurricular recreational activities that are good for both the mind and the body.
②No pains, no gains.
3.Teaching Key Points and Difficulties
Key Points
①The verb phrases relating to farm activities;
②The simple past tense.
Difficulties
①How to talk about past events by using the simple past tense;
②Simple past of regular and irregular verbs, like: talked/milked/took/rode/went/fed/had/did/saw
4.Teaching Methods and Learning Strategies
①“communicative” teaching method.
②“Audio-visual”teaching method .
①Use the new language in a cooperative way to foster a sense of cooperation.
②Learn vocabulary by memorizing lexical chunks.
5.Teaching Process
Step1 : Warming up and lead-in
Listen to the song and learn some new words.
Step2 : Presentation
The teacher talks about the experience on the farm and shows the verb phrases relating to farm activities and the simple past tense :
talked with a farmer ; milked a cow ; fed chickens ; rode a horse ; went for a walk ; took some
photos
Step 3 : Chant
Chant to help remember these simple past of the regular and irregular verbs.
Step 4 : Practice
Ask and answer in pairs to practice : What did you do ? I …
Step 5: Guessing Game
Use the Did questions to practice using the verb phrases relating to farm activities . Step 6 : 1b
Listen to the tape and finish the task 1b. Then students work in pairs to check the answers using the Did questions.
Step 7 : Practice
Choose the best words to finish the conversation.
Step 8 : 2a ＆2c
Listen to the tape and finish the tasks.
Step 9 : Practice
Write down the right words to finish the passage about Carol’s happy school trip.
Step 10: Survey
Imagine you also went to a farm last weekend with your group mates. What did you and your friends do on the farm? make a survey and finish a passage.。