Teaching Plan
8A Unit4 Grammar
Teaching aims
By the end of the class, the students are expected to master the usage of some comparative and superlative forms of irregular adjectives and the usage of as…as.
Language and skill focus
Develop the students’ ability to sum up some language rules.
Learn some some comparative and superlative forms of irregular adjectives like , far , bad, good and the usage of as…as.
Emotion focus
Raise the students spirits by learning from the Olympic athletes: faster, higher, stronger, together.
Teaching difficult points
To encourage students to brainstorm some expressions to describe the Olympic spirit from athletes.
To make students fully understand the usage of some comparative and superlative forms of irregular adjectives and the usage of as…as.
Teaching aids
Courseware
Worksheet
Teaching procedures
Stage Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purposes
Pre-task preparation Lead the students to the purpose of the lesson. Review the usage of adjectives. Raise the interest of problem-solving.
While-task procedure Learn to use as …as to show something is equal in some way with the pictures showing Olympic athletes. Sum up the rules of the usage of as…as. Help the athlete to finish their tasks. To help the students develop reading skills of comparing, summarizing etc.To let students take part in the class actively and know the different usage.
Show the motto of Olympics, let the students review the comparative and superlative forms of regular adjectives. Review the comparative and superlative forms of regular adjectives.Learn the Olympic spirits.
With some interesting tasks, raise the students’ ability to understand some comparative and superlative forms of irregular adjectives.Help the students to finish the practice in the books. Tell the comparison and use the correct comparative forms of the adjectives, and finish the practice.Practice the dialogue with partners.
Further skill learning. Help the students finish a sentence writing task. Write sentences by using the comparative and superlative forms of irregular adjectives according to the pictures.
Post-task activity Show a story. Let the students do a mixed work to master the grammatical skill. Correct the mistakes in the story and write the ending of the story. To help the students consolidate what they’ve learnt.
Consolidation Write a short piece based on the pictures of Su Bingtian. Remember the Olympic spirits.