初中英语人教版八年级下册Unit1-What's-the-matter

Unit1 What’s the matter?
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge Aims:
1.Students learn the following new words:
Stomach, neck, foot(feet), matter, have a cold, have a fever, stomachache, sore throat, headache, toothache
2. Students learn the following target language:
What’s the matter?
I have a stomachache./toothache./backache/headache.
I have a sore back./I have a sore throat./I have a sore leg.
He/She has a sore throat.
What should I/she/he do?
You/He/She should...
Ability Aims:
Enable the students to talk about health problems and give advice using the target language.
Improve the students listening and speaking skills.
Emotional Aims:
Let students know the importance of keeping healthy.
Make students learn to care about others.
Teaching Key Points:
Learn the body parts;
Learn how to talk about health: use three ways to describe health problems.
Learn how to give advice to different health problems.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Learn the body parts and talk about various health problems.
Teaching Methods:
1.Listening and speaking practice.
2.Autonomous and cooperative approach
Teaching Aids:
PPT, Blackboard, a toy
Teaching Procedure:
Step1 Warming-up and lead-in
Greeting:
T: Well, nice to see you again! Here comes a question: Do you like watching TV? What’s your favorite TV show?<Invite some students to give their answers.>
T: I like the news the best because from the news we can know what’s happening in the world. So, now lets watch the news.
<Play the radio about Liu Xiang’s retirement on April7th, 2015.
The teacher asks: Who is the guy? What happened to Liu Xiang? Why did he retire?>
T: Liu Xiang retired because of his leg. So health is really important to Liu Xiang as
well as to us. In this class we are going to talk about health problems and give advice. Step2 While-task
Task 1 Can you name the body parts?
the body parts.
(1)T: We have learned the word before class. Now I want to have a check. There is
a Mickey Mouse. Can you name her body parts?
<Invite two students to name Mickey’s body parts.>
(2)Show a cartoon picture and ask the students to tell his body parts one by one.
Give the students 30seconds to read these words and keep in mind.
Read all the words after the teacher and touch their body parts as they read.
2.Game Time: Touch your …
(1)Two students as a group, one say and one touch.
(2)Five students as a group, one say and four touch.
3.Practice
Work on Section A 1a students say one by one.
Check the answers(Students in group1 tell the answers one by one and the rest of the students read the words together)
Task 2 What’s the matter? Say different illnesses
1.T: Well, different parts of the body may have different illnesses, for example ... (1) Show some pictures with different illnesses and ask the students to tell what these illnesses are : have a cold; have a fever; have a headache; have a sore back; have a sore throat; have a stomachache; have a toothache.
(2) Read these words after the teacher and then read by themselves to keep in mind.
2.T: These are all about illnesses, but how to ask about the illness, we can say:What's the matter?/ What's the matter with you?/What's wrong?/What's wrong with you?/What's your trouble?/What's up?(Invite the Ss to read these sentences) (1)Teach the three ways of having a problem by making dialogues with the students. And at the same time, show some pictures about these illnesses.
Eg: A: What’s the matter? B: I have a...(have a+疾病；have a+部位+ache; have+sore+身体部位）
(2)Pair work
T: Good, just now we have learned how to ask about your illness and how to
answer it. Now let’s make conversation with “What’s the matter?” and “I have
a...” OK?
<Invites some pairs to make their conversations in front of the class.>
T: This time let’s do it one by one in your group. The first one asks the second one until to the last one. Let’s see which group is the first one to finish.
<Invite the winner to show their result.>
3.Listening practice
Listen to the sound and check the answers:31254
4.Practice what’s the matter with he/she?
(1)Ask three students: What’s the matter with you? Then ask the rest of the students: What’s the matter with he/she?
(2)Look at some pictures to make conversations
The boys ask “What’s the matter with he/she?” and the girls answer “He/She has
a...”
(3) Game time
One student mimes (模拟)an illness. One student guesses and the rest of the students ask: What's the matter with he/she?
Task3 Give some advice
(1)T: If someone has an illness we ask: What’s the matter?” And sometimes we also
give some advice. How to five advice? We need one word: should.
Show the PPT and explain it.
(2)Teach some advice to five different illnesses by making dialogues.
(3)Pair work: Invite some students to make conversations.
(4)Game time: Who is the best patient(病人) and who is the best doctor?
Make conversations between a doctor and some patient to see who is the best. Step3 Practice
Do some exercise for consolidation.
Step4 Summary
T: During this class, we learned how to ask about illness and how to give advice.
Let’s have a look. (Show the PPT to see what have learned.)
T: Finally there are two sentences for you, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
He who has good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing.” I wish all of you happy and healthy everyday and keep away from illness. Thank you!。