人教新目标英语八下Unit2 What should I do示范教案-the 1st period

Unit 2 What should I do?
Ⅰ.Analysis of the Teaching Material
1.Status and Function
The topic of this unit is about advice.In this unit,students will learn to talk about problems and give advice.The teaching in this unit is divided into two parts,Section A and Section B.The former part intends to make students involved in the learning activities while the later focuses on deepening the learning result.
(1)The first period serves as an introduction and lead-in part.Activity 1a introduces some key vocabulary.Activity 1b gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.Activity 1c gives students an opportunity to practice their speaking skill using the target language.In this period students can learn to express their problems in their daily life.
(2)In the second period all activities provide listening and speaking practice.Students can improve their listening and speaking skills by doing these activities.In this period students learn to give somebody advice for his/her problems.So students can help people who are in trouble.This will make students feel happy.It can raise students’ interest in learning English.Grammar focus can make students understand that they can use could,should or shouldn’t when they give advice.
(3)In the third period all activities provide reading,writing and speaking practice using the target language.Pairwork provides an opportunity for students to use the language of this unit to give advice.All these activities can help students train their integrating skills.The exercises of the workbook can strengthen the knowledge of students.This can make students realize they are able to solve problems in their daily life.
(4)Section B introduces more new vocabulary.Activities in section B also help students integrate the new target language with the language studied in earlier periods.Activity 2c is designed so that students can work in pairs.Help students form mixed-level pairs.The more advanced learners help the less advanced students while at the same time getting a valuable review of their own.
(5)In the fifth period students will learn to ask for advice when they have problems.Activity 3a provides reading practice.Activity 3b and 3c provide writing practice.Groupwork gives an opportunity for students to use the language of this unit to ask and offer advice.Students can
improve their reading and writing skills in this period.
(6)Self check section helps students review all key vocabularies as well as new grammar items.This page ends with a cartoon with the target language.A penguin wants to be original.But the other penguins have the same clothes as he does.
(7)In the last period of this unit I’ll deal with the reading page.Maybe you should learn to relax!
All activities encourage students to use the reading strategy for compre-hension and in context.To train students’ reading skill and ability of comprehension is the difficulty in this period.
2.Teaching Aims and Demands
(1)Knowledge Object
In this unit students learn to talk about problems and give advice.
(2)Ability Objects
To improve students’ ability of listening,speaking,reading and writing.
To improve students’ ability of communication.
To improve students’ ability of integrating skills
(3)Sensibility and Value
To be able to realize the other people’s feeling in communication.
To enable to cooperate with other students,help each other and complete the tasks together.
3.Teaching Key Point
To master the key vocabulary and the target language in this unit.
4.Teaching Difficulty
To have students know how to use the target language in daily life.
5.Studying Ways
To teach students how to listen for specific information.
To teach students how to cooperate with others in pairs or groups.
Ⅱ.Language Functions
Talk about problems.
Give advice.
Ⅲ.Target Language
My brother plays his stereo too loud.
What should I do?
Why don’t you talk to him about it?
Ⅳ.Structures
Modals could,should
Why don’t you...?(formulaic)
Ⅴ.V ocabulary
stereo,loud,argue,original
out of style,say you’re sorry,talk on the phone
Ⅵ.Recycling
problem,sorry,part-time,important,friend,money,home,new,easy,letter,ticket,ball
game,surprise,comfortable,colorful,inexpensive,borrow,write,call someone up,go to someone’s house,every night
Ⅶ.Learning Strategies
Listening for specific information.
Cooperating.
Ⅷ.Teaching Time
Seven periods.
The First Period
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Knowledge Objects
(1)Key vocabulary
keep out;serious;stereo;loud;argue;out of style
(2)Key structures
What’s wrong?
My clothes are out of style.
Maybe you should buy some new clothes.
(3)Listening practice
Pairwork
2.Ability Objects
To train listening skill.
To train students’ ability of communication.
3.Sensibility and Value
To be interested in taking part in all kinds of activities in an English class.
Ⅱ.Teaching Key Point
V ocabulary and structures.
Ⅲ.Teaching Difficulties
Listening practice.
Pairwork.
Ⅳ.Teaching Methods
Listening and speaking methods.
Communicative approach.
Ⅴ.Teaching Aids
A tape recorder.
A projector.
Ⅵ.Teaching Procedures
Step Ⅰ
Greet the class as usual and check the homework.
Step ⅡSection A
Show a chart on the screen.
And tell students what my problem is.Ask students to give advice.
Then write the words could,should and shouldn’t on the board.Read the problem to the class again and help the class give advice using the words could,should and shouldn’t.Repeat each piece of advice to help students understand it.
Tell students in this unit we’re going to talk about problems people have and learn how to give these people advice—to tell people what we think they should do.
Step Ⅲ
Show the new words on the screen.Read the new words and ask students to repeat.Make sure that students understand the meanings of the new words.
Step Ⅳ1a
Now please open your books at Page 10.Look at activity 1a please.
Point to the problems and ask five students to read the problems to the class.
S a:My parents want me to stay at home every night.
S b:My brother plays his stereo too loud.
S c:I don’t have enough money.
S d:I argued with my best friend.
S e:My clothes are out of style.
Read each sentence again and ask students to repeat it.Ask students to explain in their own words what each sentence means.They can point to parts of the picture,use actions,simple drawings on the board and simple sentences.
Then point out the headings in the box to the class.Tell students serious problem is a very bad problem,a very big problem.
Ask students to write the problems in the Serious or Not serious columns.
Now talk about the answers with the class.
(This activity introduces some key vocabulary.)
Step Ⅴ1b
In this activity first ask different students to say what they see in each picture.
Then ask students to listen to the conversation.In the chart circle the problems that they hear the girls talking about.
Play the recording for the first time.Students only listen.And then play it a second time.This time students circle the problems they hear.
Correct the answers.
Answers
The following problems should be circled:
My parents want me to stay at home every night.
My brother plays his stereo too loud.
I don’t have enough money.
My clothes are out of style.
Tapescript
Girl 1:You look unhappy.What’s wrong?
Girl 2:Oh...my clothes are out of style.I don’t look cool.
Girl 1:Well,maybe you should buy some new clothes.
Girl 2:Yes,but I don’t have enough money.
Girl 1: Huh.Maybe you could get a part-time job in the evenings.
Girl 2:I can’t,because my parents want me to stay at home every night.I argued with them about it.
Girl 1:Well,you shouldn’t argue with your parents.You should talk about your problems.
Girl 2:And guess what else is wrong?
Girl 1:What?
Girl 2:My brother plays his stereo too loud!I can’t go to sleep.
(This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.)
Step Ⅵ1c Pairwork
First ask two students to read the sample dialogue.
S a:What’s wrong?
S b:My clothes are out of style.
S a:Maybe you should buy some new clothes.
Then say,Make conversations like this about the problems in activity 1a.
As students talk,move around the classroom checking their work.Offer language support as needed.
In the end ask several pairs of students to say their conversations to the class.
Give them little presents if they do their work well.
(This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.)
Step ⅦSummary
This class we’ve learned some key vocabulary.And we’ve learnt how to give somebody advice if he or she has some problems.If you are interested in joining all kinds of activities in class,you’ll make great progress.
Step ⅧHomework
Please ask your parents or friends what problems they have in order to see if you can give them some good advice.
Step ⅨBlackboard Design。