新世纪英语八年级上册教案 Unit 1 Culture and Customs

新世纪英语八年级上册教案 Unit 1 Culture and Customs Unit One Culture and Customs Teaching Material : Introducing different culture and customs between China and Western countries ( New Century Book IV Unit One ) Grade: Grade Eight Teaching Aims: 认知目标：Learn more about Chinese and Western cultures and customs 能力目标：Develop the students’ individual & teamwork capabilities in English learning Develop the students’ abilitiy of communication 情感目标：To bring up students’ interest to learn English Teaching Aids:

Multi-media , a tape recorder , recording tapes , some pieces of worksheets Teaching Focus and Difficulties : 1 . 重点：复习第一单元的三篇课文中涉及的文化和风俗习惯。通过听力材料和阅读材料的学习了解更多的中西文化和生活习惯的差异。 2 . 难点：Task 3 的完成是个难点，学生可能会花较多时间也很难做得较完整。

3 . 解决方法: 教师引领，自主探究，小组合作，共享成功。Teaching Process: Review Listen Read Survey Debate Conclude Write Teaching design: I . Warming-up : Review “ To say something about the importance of English ” II . Listen to two short passages and finish the exercises . III . A survey : Different opinions about tipping SURVEY : TIPPING FOR AGAINST encourage the service people to work better make the service people greedy IV . Read some materials to know more about Chinese and Western cultures and customs . V . A

debate :arguments for or against eating out DEBATE : IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO EAT OUT FOR AGAINST save time very expensive VI . Homework : A conclusion Chinese Western Traditional festivals Spring festival Christmas Decorate the house with pictures and couplets Decorate the house with a Christmas tree

Greeting each other with Have you eaten your breakfast / lunch / supper yet ? Responses to praise Receiving a gift from a visitor Staple food and drinks Ways of cooking vegetables

Eating with Traffic rulers Tips to VII . Homework II : Finish the composition orally . “ The advanta ges and disadvantages of tipping and eating out ” I . Warming-up : Review “ To say something about the importance of English ” Teacher’s activity : Teacher gives out some questions just like : Why do you learn English ? How do you learn English ? How can you learn English well ? What can you do to improve your English ? Would you like to be volunteers when the 2010 Expo is held in Shanghai ? If you want to communicate with the foreigners well ,you should know more about their culture and customs .

Learners’activities :The students can answer the questions according to Unit 4 and what they have learned before . They can also ask and answer more questions each other ? Aim of design : 要学好英语，将来更好地为社会服务，了解更多的外国文

化和风俗习惯是很必要的。设计本活动的目的就是要通过问答引出下面的各个活动。 Listening : Different eating customs The customers in different countries are rather different. If I have dinner with a Chinese host, he always put more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it. That often discomforts me greatly. I have to eat the food even if I do not want to. Because it is considered bad manners in the West to leave one’s food on the plate. I have one’s food on the plate. I have also noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he often refuses the offer of food or drink thoug h he’s in fact still hungry or thirsty. This might be good manners in China but is not in the west at all. In the United States, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “No, thanks.” When an American is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, “No, thanks I’ll take some orange juice.” That is what an American will do. So when