英语人教版八年级上册Grammar Focus 教学设计

Unit 3 I’m more outgoing than my sister.

Section A（2d-3c)

I. 教学目标

1. 知识目标:

能够掌握描述他人特征的形容词，能够掌握形容词、副词的比较级，以及能够掌握比较他人异同的句型。

2. 能力目标:

能够谈论两个人物之间的异同点。

3. 情感目标:

能够通过对身边人和物的比较，学会欣赏他人以及自我

II. 教学重难点

1. 教学重点

①能够掌握形容词或副词比较级形式的构成

②能够用比较的句式结构对两人人物进行异同比较

2. 教学难点

能够运用形容词或者副词的比较级就人物特点进行比较

III. 教学策略

语法教学：总结规律、专注特征、模仿操练

IV. 教学策略

Step 1. Warming-up

1. Music Time

Enjoy an English song called Longer to bring students’attention to the comparative adjectives such as longer, higher, stronger, truer and so on

2. Tongue Twister Game:

Good, better, best,

never let it rest,

till good is better and

better is best.

Practice the tongue twister to not only warm up the learning environment but to make students experience the use of comparative adjective.

Step 2. Work on 2d

1.Read 2d and fill in the blanks

Julie ’s opinions

Anna ’s opinions

Lisa sang _______than Nelly. Lisa sang ______________than Nelly.

Nelly sang so well.

Nelly danced ________than Lisa.

2. Discussions:

Who is do you think is the winner? And why? Do you know how to be a winner?

What is the most important thing in a competition?

Through the exercises, students will know how to compare Julie and Anna in their performance and state their preference.

Step 3. Presentation: compare people from differences and similarities 1. Stress differences (1) Compare appearances: Tom __________Jack.

Tom___________Jack. Tom __________Jack. (2) Compare personality Judy _________Flash. Flash _________Judy. Flash _________Judy. Judy __________Flash. (3) Compare abilities

Yao Ming ___________Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang ___________Yao Ming. Lang Lang ___________Wu Yifan.

Wu Yifan_____________Lang lang. 2. Conclude the adjectives or adverbs used to describe people from appearance, personality and ability.

3. Write down the comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs

4. Stress similarities (1) Stress appearances Sam ___________Jack. Sam ___________Jack. (2) Stress personality

Sam ___________Jack. Sam ___________Jack.

tall

long hair thin

smart funny lazy

hard-working

play basketball well run fast

play the piano well

sing well

short thin

funny outgoing

(3) Stress ability Amy ________Jane. Step 4. Categorize the sentences of Grammar Focus

Step 5. Make a conclusion of the structures used to stress difference and stress similarities.

Differences

Similarities

1. A +be+ 1. A+be+

2. A+动词+

2. A+动词+

Step 6. Pair Work

Make a conversation based on the information of the form to compare cat Tom and mouse Jerry, for example:

A: Is Tom smarter than Jerry?/Is Tom as smart as Jerry? B: No, he isn ’t. Jerry is smarter than Tom. Step 7. Practice: work on 3a.

Step 8. Consolidation: compare your parents. A: Who is smarter, you mother or your father? B: I think my father is smarter than my father. Step 9. Writing Task

Time flies! How much have you changed in the past two years? Do yo like the changes? Please write a short essay to describe the differences and similarities between you at present and you 2 years ago? So you can be a better self in the future. Step 10. Summary

In this lesson, we have learned how to compare people from differences and similarities.

Structures used to stress differences: A + be + 形容词比较级 + than + B A + 动词 + 副词比较级 + than + B Structures used to stress similarities: A + be + as 形容词原形 + as + B A + 动词 + as 副词原形 + as + B

Differences

Similarities

run fast