七年级英语下册Unit7Abilities全单元教案(新版)牛津版

Unit7
Teaching Designs
The First Period
Content:Comic strip and Welcome to this unit
Teaching aims:
1.To learn the comic strip about the two dogs to present the use of “can” and “can’t”.
2.To revise vocabulary about helping people in community.
3.To generate ideas about ways to care for and help others.
4.To educate the students to be polite and helpful to others.
Language focus: helping Hands Club/give seats to someone on the bus
plant trees/clean up/a home for the elderly
collect things for Project Hope/give awards to people
recommend sb for an award/ write a recommendation letter
Vocabulary:ability /Superdog /fly /careful/ collect /elderly.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
Play a game called: I can …
Step 2 Presentation
Watch a video about “Superman”.
Talk about the things what Superman can do in groups and report .
Talk about dogs can do and can’t do.
Step 3 Comic strip
First get some information from the pictures and then ask questions:
1.What does Eddie want to do?
2.Can dogs fly?
3.What happened to Eddie?
4.What do you think of Eddie?
Listen to the tape and guess the meaning of “Superdog, hurt, be careful
Ask students to think about the consequences of their daily actions Guide students to understand what they can do and can’t do.
Read and act.
S tep 4 Learning “Helping Hands Club”.
Free talk: How to be a helpful person?
Present pictures about Daniel and his friends.
Ask questions about the pictures:
1.What is Daniel doing ?Do you often help the old or the blind cross the road?
2.What is Sandy doing? Why should we plant more trees?
3.Where are Daniel and the woman with a baby? What is happening? Have you ever given seats to others?
4.Which place is it? What are the children doing now? Have you ever done something good like this?
5.What are the students doing from the pictures? How much did you donate to the
Project Hope this term? Is it better to give than to receive? Why?
6.Where are Daniel and his friends? What are they doing? Do you often leave rubbish everywhere? Is it our duty to protect our environment?
Read and understand the sentences.
Step 5 Make a survey
Fill in the table about what you have done in your daily life at school to see if you are a polite and helpful boy/girl? If not ,What should you do next?
1.Can you Say hello to teachers when you meet them?
2.Can you clean the classroom carefully when you are on duty?
3.Can you pick up the rubbish in the classroom or around the campus?
4.Can you help your classmate with their homework?
5.Can you help stand in line at dinner time?
6.Can you give the thing back to the person who lost it?
7.Can you do something good to your teachers?
8.Can you look after the things in our classroom?
9. Can you take care of your classmate who is ill?
10.Can you keep our classroom clean and tidy?
To see how many are good enough and how many should improve their behavior. Group work: What can /can’ you do in public? then ask the group leader to have a report.
Step6 Assignment:
1.Recite the dialogue and remember the sentences on Page 73.
2.Writing: “How to be a helpful person ?”
The Second Period
Content: Reading-- A brave girl
Teaching aims:
1.To introduce and expand vocabulary to describe dangerous situations.
2.To guess context from the text type, the title and the picture.
3.To infer general meaning from picture and actions.
4.To identify the name of specific places and actions.
5.To skim the text for overall meaning and scan for detail.
Language points and focus:
Award for Bravery/help sb out of a fire/be alone/hear sb shouting/a 79-year-old man pour water over/put out the fire/be in hospital/help each other/be careful with Fire can be dangerous.
It is important to be careful with fire.
Teaching procedures
Step 1.Revision
Revise what the children learned in the last period.
1..be careful
2.Helping Hands Club
3.give seat to someone on the bus
4. collect things for Project Hope
5.Clean up the park/playground
6.visit a home for the elderly。