Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Period 1(1a-2b) Teaching Design
By 。。。。。。 教 Grade Eight, Book B, Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? (“Go For It” new 材 edition) 1. Type of lesson Listening and Speaking: 1.What’s the highest mountain in the world? It’s… 2.How high is it?. It’s about…. 2. Educational approach Based on some teaching theory, this lesson will stimulate students’ interest and desire to learn new structures to express their feelings and emotions about nature. 3. Analysis of teaching material a. Ss have learned the usage of the comparative and superlative degrees of adjective before. b. The main target in this lesson is to help students use the patterns: What’s the highest mountain in the world? to describe things in the nature by using Adjective(superlative). Students are very curious about the topic. So I search some information about Jing Gang Mountain on the internet to lead in my class by comparing it with the highest mountain in the world. 4. Analysis of students Junior two students bear curiosity to explore the unknown knowledge and take interest in expressing their ideas in English. They have certain abilities to think about questions and solve problems in English. They are willing to work with others. After this class, (1)most students can learn the key words and phrases by heart: e.g. square, meter, deep, desert Qomolangma, the Sahara, the Caspian sea, the Nile. (2) after some practice, 60% of the students can make a dialogue by asking “What’s the highest mountain in the world? or “How high is it? And answering “It’s….” 30% of the students can write some sentences by using Adjective superlative. Eg: Qomolangma is the highest mountain in the world and it’s 8,844.43 meters high. Through some listening practice, 10% of the students can grasp some important words in the listening test. (3) students can know some geographical features after practicing conversations using the adjectives(superlative), meanwhile, it is hoped that learning this lesson can arouse the students’ enthusiasm to study hard , widen their horizon and enrich their knowledge. Sentence pattern: 1. What’s the highest/….mountain in the world? It’s… How high/…is it? It’s… 2. Qomolangma/…is the highest/…mountain/…in the world. 设计思路 教学目标 教学重点 教学难点 How to guide students to use the sentence pattern to talk about the geographical features 教学方法Pair work and Group work; 教学准备教学步骤 Some fruits: three apples, three bananas A computer, a projector and a tape recorder Teaching steps Warming-up & leading-in (2 mins) Teacher’s activities 1. Show some fruits Show fruits and ask students which one they like and why. 2. Write down students’ answer on the blackboard. “big bigger biggest” long longer longest delicious more delicious the most delicious 3. Show some pictures about Jing Gang Mountain to introduce the highest mountain—Qomolangma Students’ activities 1. Choose which one they like between the two apples and why. Choose which one they like among the three apples and why 2. Review the comparative and superlative degrees of adjective 3. Talk about the highest mountain in the world by using Adjective(superlative) 1. Answer the teacher’s question: why are they special?( Maybe some of them don’t know the reason. It doesn’t matter. That’s just what I want) 2. Ss are asked to do listening practice to find out the specialties of each thing. Meanwhile, complete the sentences in 1b. 用水果展示给学生，通过大小，长短，味道的比较，从而回顾形容词的比较级和最高级，为本堂课的主题“用形容词最高级谈论自然”做铺垫。 展示井冈山的图片从而导入世界最高的山是珠穆朗玛峰，进而谈论沙漠，湖，河流，进入本堂课谈论的话题，为学生的口头表达提供素材。 认识了沙漠，湖，河流和山峰后，老师说他们在世界上很特别，请问：他们为什么特别吗？（这一问题的提出是为下一步听力练习做准备）下面让我们在听力内容中寻找答案。学生带着这一问题，完成1b,做完之后就很自然地了解了他们的特别之处：他们是世界上最高峰，最咸的湖，最长的河，及最大的沙漠。在进行听力练习的同时也知道了他们是世界之最，为之后的口头表达做准备 Aims Pointing at the mountain, river, lake, and desert, the teacher raises a question: All of them are Task One very special, who can Listening tell me why they are special? And then ask Ss to listen to a dialogue about the four things 1. Introduce the sentence pattern: ------What’s the highest mountain in the world? ------It’s Qomolangma 2.Pair work between the 1. Make a dialogue teacher and students with the teacher 3. Introduce another T: ------What’s the sentence pattern: highest mountain in the Task Two -----How high is it? world? Speaking -----It’s…. S:------It’s Qomolangma Then guide Ss to Match the facts in the match the facts in the chart to know how chart. indicating how high/long/deep/big. high/long/deep/big 听力完成之后就了解了几项世界之最，此时，老师自然地依据表格提出世界最高的山，最长的河，最大的沙漠，最深的咸湖是什么，进而导出句型一：What’s the highest mountain in the world? It’s…. 进行操练之后，提出问题，既然他们是最高.的，那么究竟有多高呢….? 导入句型二: How high is it? 通过完成匹配，了解了具体的数据。（此环节对教材进行了整合，改变了教材中1a和1b 的 顺序。） 整体感知两个句型后，进行pairwork 进一步熟悉和熟练运用句型，为后面的小组活动准备语言功能句型。 Task three Practice Ask Ss to practice the dialogue with partners 1. Pair work Ss will be asked to practice the dialogue with partners ------What’s the highest mountain in the world? ------It’s Qomolangma -----How high is it? ------It’s…. 1. Ss will do an 以记者采访的形式来interview about the 练习口头表达能力达geography in group 到学以致用，把采访Task four An interview 2.Write a report 的结果写成报告并朗Speaking Ask Ss to write a report 3. Read the result 读出来，对学生的书and about the interview then 面表达进行了训练，Writing report it orally. 从而学生的听、说、读、写方面都进行了练习。 Sum up what we learn in this lesson: ① words : deep, desert, high, Qomolangma, Sahara, Caspian Sea, Nile Summary ② Sentence patterns: ------What’s the highest mountain in the world? ------It’s Qomolangma -----How high is it? ------It’s…. 1. Read the new 让学生对所学的新词words and 和表达方式再次加深sentences 印象 patterns A test Do some exercise about A test includes choosing 课后检测，看学生对what we learned today the right answer, filling 本堂课掌握的程度如the blanks and listening. 何，其中听力测试题是对教材2ｂ部分的改写，编成了中考题型。 Find out the following information in the Guinness book of world records. 1. Who is the tallest person in the world? 2. Who is the fattest person in the world? 3. What is the most dangerous sport in the world? 家庭作业：在世界吉尼斯纪录大全中找出三个问题的答案，其中第三个问题是为下节课内容做准备，从而起到了让学生提前预习的作用 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 板书设计Qomolangma ---What’s the highest mountain in the world? the Sahara ---It’s Qomolangma the Caspian Sea ---How high is it? the Nile ---It’s 8,844.43 meters high. deep/high/meter/desert Assignment New words Sentence patterns