人教版英语八年级下册unit1教案

Unit1 What’s the matter?

1. Knowledge

Words: have, cold, back, arm, ear, eye, foot, hand, head, leg, mouth, neck, nose, tooth, fever, rest, should, headache, ago, so, illness, thirsty, early, problem, way, traditional, believe, weak, angry, medicine, western, everybody, get, few, stay, important, moment, late, until, yesterday, hear

Phrases: have a cold, be stressed out, a few, at the moment

Structures: Have for talking about health problems.

Modal: should / shouldn’t

2. Skills

Talk about your health.

Give advice.

3. Learning Strategies

Using what you know.

Inferring content.

II. Background

III. Teaching Time: Six Periods

Period One

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: matter, have, cold, have a cold, stomachache, sore, back, arm, ear, foot, hand, head, leg, mouth, neck, nose, stomach, tooth, throat

2. Develop the students’ listening ability.

3. Be able to talk about health.

4. Sentence Patterns

What’s the matter? I have a sore throat.

Teaching Difficult Point

The sentence patterns.

Teaching Methods

Listening practice to train the students’ listening ability.

Pairwrok

Teaching Aids

Some pictures.

A tape recorder.

Teaching Procedures

Step I Greetings.

Step II. 1a

Teach the students to study the new words by showing some pictures.

eye, nose, mouth, ear, tooth, face, head, neck, back, stomach, arm, hand, leg, foot

Ask a student to read the list of thirteen names of body parts.

Then let the students look at the picture and write the correct letter for each part of the body.

Check the answers.

Answers:

k arm c back g ear i eye m foot a hand l head b leg f mouth e tooth d neck j nose h stomach Step III 1b

Show some illnesses.

e.g. I have a cold. I have a stomachache. Let several students say some illnesses.

Ask a student to read the names. Nancy, Sarah, David, Ben, Judy

Then play the recording the first time. Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. Students number the names. Cheek the answers

Answers:

Nancy = 3 Sarah = 1 David = 2 Ben = 5 Judy = 4

Step IV 1c

Ask two students to read the conversation.

A: What’s the matter?

B: I have a sore throat.

Then let the students make conversations in pairs.

After some minutes, ask several pairs to say their conversations.

Explain the language points.

1. What’s the matter? 你怎么啦？

这句话在口语中很常见，当别人遇到什么麻烦，或身体不舒服，你就可以问What’s the matter?意思是你怎么啦？/ 你遇到什么麻烦啦？/ 你哪儿不舒服？还可以在句末用介词with表示对象。

e.g. —What the matter with you? 你怎么啦？

—I can’t find my ticket. 我打不到我的票。

—What’s the matter with your car? 你的车怎么啦？

—I can’t start it. 它发动不了了。

2. “have + a +疾病名”表示“患……（病）。”

have a cold (患)感冒have a stomachache 胃痛have a sore back 背痛have a toothache (患) 牙痛have a sore throat (患)咽喉痛have a fever 发烧，发热have a headache (患)头痛have a backache 背痛

Step V Summary and Homework

Summarize what the students have learnt and give them some homework.

To make conversations in 1c in pairs.

To do some exercises.

Period Two

Teaching Aims

1. Learn and master the following words: toothache, fever, rest, honey, dentist, should, headache, shouldn’t= should

not

2. Develop the students’ listening ability.

3. Be able to give advice.

4. Sentence Patterns

What’s the matter? I have a toothache.

Maybe you should see a dentist. That’s a good idea.

He has a stomachache. He shouldn’t eat anything.

She has a toothache. She should see a dentist.

Teaching Difficult Point

The sentence patterns.

Teaching methods

Listening practice to train the students’ listening ability.

Pairwork

Teaching Aids

A tape recorder.

A projector.

Teaching Procedures.

Step I. Greetings.

Step II. Revision

Ask several pairs of students to say their conversations.