外研版八年级下册英语 Module 2 Unit 2 They have seen the Pyramids 教案

Module 2 Experiences
Unit 2 They have seen the Pyramids.
【教学目标】
Knowledge objective:
Key vocabulary—move, send, Germany, France, tower, ancient, king, queen,
Arabic, way, mix, miss, count
Key structures—count down, so far, in many ways,
have been to, find it hard to do sth.
Ability objective:
To get information about the Pyramids.
To master the present perfect tense.
Moral objective:
To know more about other person’s experiences and understand each other better.
【教学重点】
1. To learn some expressions in the passage.
2. To learn the present perfect tense.
【教学难点】
1. To get information from the article.
2. To write a composition by using the present perfect tense.
【教学方法】
PWP method, task-based method
【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
说出下列动词的过去式和过去分词。
1. visit -- _______ ________ 2. brush -- ______ _______
3. travel -- _______ _________4. enter -- _______ ________
5. ride -- _______ ________ 6. have -- _______ _______
7. stop -- _______ _______ 8.read -- ______ ________
Then revise have/ has+p.p. The teacher shows the pictures of new words and let Ss know about experiences.
Step 2 Practice
Look and say. Ask Ss to ask and answer about yourself.
— Have you ever visited …
— Yes, I have. /No, I haven’t. I’ve …
Step 3 Pre-reading
1. Ss ask and answer the questions in pairs.
1).Which interesting places in China have you visited
2).Have you ever seen the Great Wall
3).Have you ever visited another country
2. Look and say what you can see in the picture.
Present :Egypt Cairo the Nile River the Pyramids Arabic
Step4 While-reading
I. Fast reading
Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the main ideas
Para.1 A. What languages have they learned
Para.2 B.The Robinsons are moving again.
Para.3 C.Why are Mike’s family are in Egypt
Para.4 D.Where have they been and what have they done
Para.5 E.The Robinsons are in Cairo, Egypt.
II. Careful reading
Read paragraph 1 and check T or F.
1. Mike Robinson is a fifteen -years –old American boy.( )
2. Cairo is one of the smallest and busiest cities in Egypt.( )
Keys: FF
Read paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks.
They _______ here with their parents two years ago. Their father, Peter, works for a big company that has many offices in many countries. The company__________ Peter ________ in Germany, France and China before . Peter usually stays in a country ___________ . Then the company______ him again.
Read para.3 and answer questions.
1.Have they been to many interesting places
2. What have they done in Egypt
In Egypt, they have ____the ________, ______ on a boat on the______ River, and ______ the palaces and ______ of _____ ______ and _____.
Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks.
Mike and Clare __________ a little Arabic. This language is __________ from English in many ways. They still enjoy learning it, though they _________
__________ spell and pronounce the words. They have learnt _________, ________, ________ and ________. They often ________ the languages.
Read paragraph 5 and answer the following questions.
1. Who do they miss in the US
2. Are they looking forward to going home
Step 5 After-reading
Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box
Mike and Clare live in Cairo in Egypt because their father works there. They have visited many places in Egypt. For (1) ________, they have seen the Pyramids, and they have visited the (2) _______ palaces of the (3) ______ and (4) _______ of Egypt. Mike and Clare have learnt a little Arabic, and when they speak it, they often (5) ______ it with German, French and Chinese. Recently, their father’s company has asked him to go back to the US. Mike and Clare are (6) _________ down the days.
Step 6 Learning to learn
Let Ss master the methods of learning English.
When you read a passage about travel, use a map to find out where the places are, and the names of the other countries, regions and cities nearby.
Step 7Language points
1. …, and it has sent Peter to work in Germany, France and China before.
send sb. to do sth. 表示“派遣某人去做某事”。
e.g. China send many people to work in Africa every year.
send sb. sth. 或send sth. to sb.，意思是“送给某人某物”。
e.g. Jim sent me a book on my twelfth birthday.
send后接“信件、电报”等时，意为“寄/发送”。
e.g. Mary usually sends letters in the morning.
before，表示“以前”。是现在完成时的标志。
2. They have been to many interesting places.
have been to +地点，表示“已经去过某地” 现在已经回来 。常与twice, several times, ever和never等词语搭配。当主语是第三人称单数形式时，要用has been to。
e.g. I have been to the zoo three times. 我去过动物园三回了。
Laura has never been to China before. 劳拉从没来过中国。
have gone to +地点，表示“已经去了某地”现在还没有回来，此时可能在途中或
已经到了目的地。当主语是第三人称单数形式时，要用has gone to。
e.g. —Hello. Can I speak to John, please
—Sorry, he’s not in. He has gone to the park.
根据汉语意思完成英语句子。
1) 我爸爸去过大连三次。
My dad ____________ Dalian three times.
2) 怀特一家人不在家。他们去公园了。
The Whites aren’t at home. They _____________ the park.
3) 我已经去过北京动物园好多次了。
I ____________ Beijing Zoo several times.
3. This language is different from English in many ways.
这种语言在很多方面都和英语不同。
be different from, 表示“与…不同”。
in many ways, 表示“在许多方面”。
e.g. We can consider the problem in many ways.
我们可以从多方面来考虑这些问题。
Life in future will be different from life today.
未来的生活将会和今天生活的不同。
4. They find it hard to spell and pronounce the words.
find it hard to do sth. “发现做某事是难的”
e.g. I find it hard to go up that high mountain.
5. So far they have learnt to speak German, French, Chinese and Arabic.
so far “到目前为止”，是现在完成时的标志，既可放在句首、句中，也可放在句尾。
e.g. Mike has read five famous books so far. 到目前为止迈克已经读了五本名著了。
So far he has done very well at school. 到目前为止，他在学校表现很好。
6. They have friends all over the world, but they also miss their friends in the US. 他们在世界各地都有朋友，但是他们也想念他们在美国的朋友。
miss v. “思念”。
e.g. David misses his grandparents very much.
大卫非常想念他的爷爷奶奶。
miss v. “错过；没做到”，其后接动词时，应用动词-ing形式。
e.g. Mona was sad because she missed her train.
7. They are counting down the days.
count down, 表示“倒数，倒计时”。
e.g. They are counting down, “ten, nine, eight, seven…”.
count表示“计数，计算”。
e.g. Can you count from one to ten in French
He put all the money in his bag without counting it.
Step 9 Writing
1. Work in pairs. Think of a special trip. Write notes and explain.
Where you went
When you went there
Why it was special
2. Write sentences to describe what you have seen or done. Use the passage in Activity 2 to help you.
Step 10 Grammar
现在完成时: 肯定句，否定句，疑问句形式
Step 11 Summary
Let Ss talk about what they have learnt in class.
Step 12 Homework
Write a passage about your special trip, using the information of writing part.
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