英语人教版八年级下册形容词和副词

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?

Period 3 Section A Grammar Focus Knowledge aims:

1. Words and phrases: ocean, the Pacific Ocean

2. Summarize the grammar and practice them.

Ability aims:

1. Grasp the use of the comparative and superlative.

2. Enable the students to do things using the target language and the grammar.

Emotional aims: Practice makes perfect.

Teaching important points:

1. The comparative and superlative of the adj.

2. Master the grammar focus.

Teaching difficult points: Learn to describe the tops using the comparative and superlative of the adj.

Teaching aids: PPT, a recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Ask Ss to retell the story in 3a.

Step 2 Grammar focus

1. Get the students to read through the sentences in Grammar focus.

2. Students read and rewrite the comparative and superlative of the adj.

Step 3 Work on 4a

1. Get Ss to fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.

2. Check the answers.

Step 4 Work on 4b

1. Get the students to write two comparisons about two topics.

e.g. Two rivers: the Yangtze River and the Amazon River

The Yangtze River is almost as long as the Amazon River.

The Amazon is longer than the Yangtze, but the Yangtze River is the longest river in China.

2. Students write and read their sentences.

Step 5 Activity 4c

1. Get the students to write five questions using comparisons.

2. Students ask and answer their questions in groups.

Step 6 Homework

1. Finish off the exercise for this period.

2. Write more sentences using comparisons

The blackboard design:

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?

Period 3 Section A Grammar Focus

ocean the Pacific Ocean

The Yangtze River is almost as long as the Amazon River.

The Amazon is longer than the Yangtze, but the Yangtze River is the longest river in China.