人教版八年级下册 Unit 7 What's the highest mountain in the world？ Section A 3a-3c 教案

Unit7 What is the highest mountain in the world
Section A 3a-3c
1. Teaching Objectives
1) Language ability
Ss can grasp the useful expressions and learn to express themselves.
2) Thinking ability and quality
At the beginning of the class, Ss can predict the content of the passage based on the title.
Ss can get some reading skills such as skimming and scanning the passage and find out the information.
Ss can summarize the passage with the help of the clues of the passage.
3) Moral learning: People want to challenge themselves in the face of difficulties, we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.
4) Language focuses
This is a reading period so the focus is to cultivate the students’ reading skills.
5) Anticipated difficulties
Improve students’ thinking quality
Help students have correct cultural character.
2. Teaching methods
Task-based approach communicative approaches.
3. Teaching aids
Multimedia devices and PPT documents.
4. Teaching procedures
Warming-up
Enjoy a song“Qomolangma”.
Step 1 Pre-reading
Activity 1 Talk about the differences.
Show some pictures about differences of sports culture between China and western countries.
Activity 2 Predicting
Talk about the picture from the textbook.
Get students to answer two questions and then predict: What is the passage about
1、What mountain is it
2、What sport are the two people doing
设计意图:通过图片和回答问题让学生对本节课的内容有大概的了解,预热课堂。
Step 2 While-reading
Task1 match the main ideas
设计意图:通过略读迅速完成Task 1了解skimming reading.
Task2 Facts about Qomolangma
Show students a map and get them to know the facts of Qomolangma.
Task3 List the dangers
Show some pictures of the dead climbers to get the students know the
dangers about Qomolangma.
Read paragraph 1 and finish the task of this part.
Show a video from a movie called Mt. Everest
设计意图:让学生们通过地图了解珠峰的相关情况，通过视频和死去的登山者的图片了解珠峰的危险。
Task4 Achievements of the climbers
Read paragraph 2 and fill in the chart.
设计意图:通过这个环节的设置，不仅让学生们了解到人类在登珠峰中所取得的成就而且明白有时人类比自然的力量更强。
Task5 Spirit
Read paragraph 3 and answer the two questions.
Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous
What does the spirit of climbers tell us
设计意图:通过这个环节的设置，让学生们初步理解登山者们这种坚持梦想,挑战自我的不服输精神。
Task6 Fill in the blanks (Silent reading)
Read the passage and fill in the blanks.
设计意图:通过这个环节的设置,让学生们能够整体把握文章结构并对文章细节有更深的理解。
Step 3 Post-reading
Activity 3 Achieving
1）Show students the most famous answer to the question ----Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous
Because it is there.
Then get students to talk about what is it here
Discussion 1: What is it in these situations
Discussion 2 : What is it in your life
设计意图:通过这个环节的设置,让学生们能够发散思维，更加深入地思考生活实际，有助于提高学生的思维品质。
2）Talk about three movies from different countries. In the movies,
people have different views about Qomolangma (nature).
Discussion 3 : What makes the people have different views about
Qomolangma (nature) And choose the best answer.
设计意图:。1、四人小组活动设计解决学生实际生活问题,培养学生坚持梦想,挑战自我的不服输精神。2、让学生了解不同体育文化背景造成东西方人对珠峰态度的不同。
Sum－up
Guide students to sum up what they can get from the article.
设计意图:德育渗透,深化文本内涵。
Blackboard design
Unit7 What’s the highest mountain in the world Section A 3a-3c
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1. sports culture differences
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