八年级英语第一单元导学案

**学校导学案
学习过程：
一、Warming-up
1、Where is the Terracotta Warriors?
A. Guangzhou
B. Nanjing
C. Beijing
D. Xi’an
2、Which mountain is the highest in the world now？
A. The Himalayas
B. Mount Fuji
C. Huang Shan
D. The Alps
3、Which are the largest animals in the world now？
A. whales
B. dinosaurs
C. elephants
D. crocodiles
二、Learning by oneselves:
Look at the pictures and the title of the first article on page 3. Then answer the questions below.
•What is the painting in the picture ?
•Who painted it?
•What are the animals in the picture?
•What do you know about them?
三、Group-work
You are invited to write a kind of animal or a famous person for an encyclopaedia. Please work in groups and write 3 or 4 sentences .Then let other groups guess!
For example:
1. It is usually brown in colour. It has big eyes and long arms. It usually lives in the forest and loves eating bananas. What is it ?
2. He was born in 1980s in Shanghai. He is tall. He was one of the best basketball players in NBA. Who is he?
四、展示交流:
把学生写的 a kind of animal or a famous person for an encyclopaedia.展示出来互相交流。

五、达标检测：
When did dinosaurs live?Over _____________ years before human beings.
Where did dinosaurs live? ___________ on Earth.
How big were they?Some were _____________ chickens. Others were ___________ ten elephants.
What did they eat? Many of them ate _______. Some ate ______ .
How did they die out?They all _________ died out. Why did they die out?_____________ why.
How can people learn
about dinosaurs?
From their _________.
六、课后反思：。