广东省韶关市仁化县第一中学八年级英语下册 Module 8 Public holidays Unit

Book 4 Module 8 Public holidays
教学内容：Unit 1 It’s the last day before the new school year begins.
课型：Listening and speaking
教学目标：
1.掌握词汇：celebrate, labour, season, vacation, while, Labour Day(May Day).
2.能通过简单记录方式抓住听力材料的细节信息。

3. 能正确用英语说出日期，能够谈论中国节假日。

四、教学重难点：
听懂谈论节假日简短对语，谈论有关节假日和过节方式，
五、教学准备：PPT
五、教
学
过
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教师活动
Step 1 Lead-in(3‘)
Task 1 Ask the students to think
of the following quest ions:
Do you like holiday?
Can you say some holidays as you
know?
Step 2 Pre-task (15‘)
Task 1. Present the picture for
the student. Then introduce some
new words.
eg. celebrate, picnic,
vacation, Independence Day,
flag.
Task 2. Let the students match
the words in box A with box B.
Task 3. have the students show
their answers.
Step 3 Wh ile –task(17‘)
Task 1 Activity 2
Play the tape for students. and
let the students say T/F to the
following sentences.
1.Independence Day is on 14th.
July. ( )
2. On a public holiday, people
can bu y things everywhere. ( )
3. On Dependence Day, Americans
put out their flags. ( )
4. They usually listen to bands,
have a picnic in the countryside
学生活动
1. Answer the teacher’s
question
2. Say out the holiday as
their know.
Free talk: to guess and say
something about the picture
as their can.
Learning the new words.
Match the words in box A
with box B.
show their answers.
Students listen to the tape
and say T/F to the following
sentences.
设计意图
用holiday话题引起学生
的学习兴趣，使课堂充满
轻松、愉快的气氛。

让学
生谈论他们知道的节假
日，能调动学生的学习情
绪，而且能够自然引入话
题。

出示挂图，引起学生的注
意力，观察并说出图中的
节日，让学生发挥想象，
让学生在语景中学习词
汇。

本活动起到引入话题
和准备词汇的作用，为下
面的听力训练扫清障碍。

学生听录音，钩出对应的
时间，训练学生辩认日期
的能力。

学生听录音并根
据录音内容回答两个相
关问题，训练学生从听力
材料中获取主要信息的
技能。

并通过有目的的听
读训练，在学生理解、熟
悉对话的基础上，即在听
on the holiday. ( )
Ask the Ss to show their answers. Task 2 Activity 3
▲Play the tape for the students. Let the students listen and choose the best answers.
( )1. What is Betty going to do during May Day Holiday?
A. She's going to stay at home with her parents.
B. She' s going to Shandong to see fr iends.
C.She's going to go camping with her classmates.
( )2. What will they do as soon as the May day holiday is over?
A. They will have a rest.
B. They will stay with their family.
C. They will go back to school. ▲ Call the answers from class. Task 3 Activity 4
▲Organize the Ss to read the conversation in Activity 3 and finish the table in Activity4. Then call back the answers.
▲Organize the Ss to read the conversation and solve the difficulty.
Step 4 Post-task(8’)
Task 1 Organize the students to retell the conversation in Activity 3 as a short passage. Each student has a form.
Task 2 Organization Check the answers with
their partners.
Listen and choose the best
answers.
Show the answers.
R ead the conversation in
Activity 3 and finish the
table in Activity4. Then
check the answers.
Ss practise reading the
dialogue. Ss act out the
dialogue in pairs. The
others listen and find out
the points that they don’t
understand. And then
discuss any difficulty that
the Ss have.
Students try to retell the
conversation in Activity 3
as a short passage with the
informat i on in the form in
Activity4.
Students work in groups,
discussing about Spring
Festival and fill in the
读“输入”的基础上，激
发学生的“说”。

通过这
些活动，培养学生的合
作、探究精神，让学生加
深对中西方节假日历史
和庆祝方式的了解。

本活动通过让学生口头
复述三个国家假日的信
息，锻炼学生的口头表达
能力和语言的综合运用
能力。

用本课所学的知识，在同
学之间讨论、交流中国传
统节日—春节，这样既巩
固了本课的重点知识，培
养了综合运用英语的能
力、自主探究能力以及合
作精神，把学到的语言知
识及形成的能力运用到
语言实践中，又加深他们
对中国传统文化的了解，
增强他们对祖国的热爱。

Task 3 Organization
Step 5 Summary (1’)
Get the Ss to sum up the language points in this unit.
Step 6 Homework (1’)
Write a passage called “My favourite festival”. form.
When Spring
Festival is
What y ou and your
family do during
the festival
Whether you eat
special food
Whether you wear
special clothes
Make a report about Spring Festival with the information in the above form.
Ss to sum up the language points that they’ve learnt in this unit
一、选择填空
（）1、I was doing my homework _____ my mother was cooking a meal for us.
A when
B while
C after
D before
（）2、We want to travel in ____ during the winter holiday.
A somewhere is warm
B warm somewhere
C somewhere warm
D somewhere well （）3、My uncle was busy, he only ____two days ____ last month.
A time/on
B had / off
C has /from
D take /rest
（）4、I was watching TV ___ my father came home.
A when
B while
C after
D before
（）5、There was a concert ___ the evening of May 8th
A in
B to
C on
D at
（）6、They ___ their office __ they finished their work
A left/ until
B didn’t leave / until
C not leave / until
D / until
（）7、Do you do ____
A something special
B anything special
C specially things
D special something （）8、I don’t know if we can have a picnic tomorrow. It _____ the weather
A depends on
B according to
C live on
D as a result
（）9、____ September comes , it starts to get cooler
A When
B While
C Before
D After
（）10、The holiday is not always ___ May 1st.
A in
B on
C of
D at。