八年级英语上册 Unit1 Welcome教案

Unit1 Welcome
Teaching Goals
Teaching Procedu res
STEP 1 Brainstorming and free discussion
Are you hungry now?
If you are very hungry, what can you do? What are you going to do?
Do you want to have anything to drink, too? What would you like to drink?
If you are still hu ngry, what can you do? (Have some more food.)
If there’s nothing else in the fridge, what can you do?
STEP 2 A listening task
Listen to the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. Can you find out the answers to these questions?
1.______ is / are hungry.
A. Eddie
B. Hobo
C. Eddie and Hobo
2. Hobo wants to share the ______ with Eddie.
A. cake
B. milk
C. pizza
STEP 3 Reading
1) Read the conversation after the tape.
2) Explain the language points briefly.
---Do you want some?
Do you want some cake? I have a cake.
---Can I have something to drink?
Is there anything in the fridge?
--- What about …?
Have some more food. Have too much food. Have enough food
---Maybe we can share it.
3) Have the students read the conversation aloud.
4) Have the students act the conversation in pairs.
STEP 4 Discussions
a. If you were Eddie, you are hungry, too. Do you want to share your pizza with Hobo? Why or wh y not?
b. Do you think Eddie is a good friend?
c. What do you think should do?
STEP 5 Talking about your best friend
My best friend in my class is ______.
He / She is ______.
(Ask questions according to the sentences given on Page 3.)
Honest: Do you believe what he / she says?
Keep secrets: Can you talk to him / her about anything?
Share my joy: Do you talk to him / her when you are happy?
Make me happy: Do you talk to him / her when you are sad?
Helpful: Do you talk to him/her when you have problems.
STEP 6 Qualities of a good friend
a. Have the students finish Part A (Page 3).
b. Check the answers in class.
c. Get the students to make a summary as the following:
A good friend shares your joy. He/she shares your sadness, too.
d. (For strong er classes, get the students to make up more sentences like this,
showing the qualities of a good friend.)
STEP 6 What’s important?
a. A good friend may have lots of qualities. It is also very important for us to figure out what the most important qualities are, because the students may need these to tell about good friends. These will definitely help the students a lot in making friends with each other.
b. Have the students finish the table in groups of four. I think it is important to get t he students to discuss it before we come to any conclus ion. Or s imply, we don’t need any conclusions here. The thing that matters is that they start to think about this on their own.
I think it very helpful to give the students the sentence patterns before they start to talk about this topic. The sentence patterns are listed as follows.
It is very important for my good f riend to be polite.
(There are not definitely right or wr ong answers here. What’s important is that the students have their own ideas. However, I would like to try to make the students to care more about personality or characteristics of a person, not the appearance. In this part, for stronger classes, I think it necessary to get the students to speak out their reasons for making the choices.)
STEP 7 Homework
a. Read the comic stripes and try to remember it. Try your best to act it out.
b. Try to read your notes about the qualities of good friends. If possible, think of other qualities a good friend should have.
c. Finish off the exercises in the Evaluation Handbook and Learning English.。