八年级下册 Unit 4 Why don't you talk to your parents Section A 1a-2d 教案（表格式）

Go For It 8A Unit 4 Section A 1a-2d
Analysis of teaching material What: The text of this lesson consists of three short dialogues commonly used in daily conversations among junior high school students, so they can talk with their partners or group members very easily. The content is about how to use superlative degree to compare different movie theaters. In each conversation, one person invites the other to watch a movie together and then they discuss which theater is the best. Finally, they choose the best movie theater to go to watch the movie. Why: The author uses three conversations to talk about good movie theaters, use superlative degree, and let students know how to compare people or things in their daily lives. This guides students to establish a sense of rational planning and choose the best option through a process of selecting the optimal solution. Through the practice of dialogue between students, it can also enhance their relationships with each other. How: This text is a typical conversation in daily life, involving some vocabulary related to watching movies and choosing movie theaters, such as “seat”, “screen”, “ticket”, “popular”, “see a movie”, “It sounds good”, etc. During the conversation, the main topic shifts through questions like “What's the best movie theater to go to ” and “Do you know a good movie theater ” The other person compares options and provides their own favorite movie theater, explaining why it is the best and what its unique features are. In previous lessons, students have learned comparative degree, and this dialogue introduces the superlative degree to compare things among three or more items. The plot of the conversation is simple and easy to understand, with practical and educational significance.
Teaching objectives By the end of the session, most students will be able to understand the conversation and use the superlative degree of adjectives or adverbs to describe the people and things in real life. This will be achieved by: 1. teaching students vocabulary such as comfortable, cheaply, close, screen, seat and some other words. 2. teaching students sentence structures: Question: What’s the best… Answer: XX is the…/ XX has the…
Teaching focus Listening: understand the main idea of the conversations. Vocabulary: the superlative degree of adjective and adverb and other special form.
Anticipated difficulties Students may feel it difficult to compare movie theaters and other things properly using the superlative degree of adjective and adverb.
Teaching procedure Step 1 Lead-in Show a movie poster, and create a situation of inviting students to watch a movie after school. And then ask them to choose a movie theater to go with some pictures of different movie theaters in our city. And lead in the notion of a good movie theater. Give the example first, and then Let them talk freely about their ideas. The Example is as the follows: “A good movie theater has Comfortable seats (with the picture attached).” (Learning and Understanding) Step 2 Predict Let students hear “some kids” talking with others excitedly, and guess the talking content based on the given picture, like “What are they mainly talking about ” (Learning and Understanding) Step 3 Listen for gist. Listen to the material for the first time, check their prediction, and get the main idea of the listening material and choose the type of the text. (Learning and Understanding) Step 4 Listen and match the right order. Listen for the three pairs of the speakers’ names and put them in right order according to the conversations. (Learning and Understanding) Step 5 Listen and fill in the blanks. Listen again, understand the detailed information in conversations and do the fill-in task, match the qualities with the theaters accordingly. “What is the best movie theater to go to ” “It’s the …” And lead in some new forms: the biggest, the most popular, the closest, the shortest, the best, the most comfortable. (Learning and Understanding) Step 6 List some sentences which contains the comparative and superlative degree of adjective and adverb, and discover the rules and of the superlative degree, and teacher are supposed to add to some special form, like “good-better-best”. Also, know the function of this form: to make comparisons among things. (Learning and Understanding) Step 7 Complete the “Find the best one” task with the teacher’s guidance, such as “The cinema has _____ (pictures provided) screens.” Students will choose an adjective of correct form to describe it with the help of pictures. “big-bigger-the biggest”. (Applying and Practicing) Step 8 Make a role play in pairs. Based on the given conversation, students role play the conversation and practice the newly learned structure, expressions. (Applying and Practicing) Step 9 Group work. Work in group of four and make a whole conversation together. Providing a situation, and let students make their own conversation using the newly learned structure and expressions to describe or compare things. (Transferring and Creating) Introductions Let students be aware of the today’s topic and get more interested in the activity. Predict the listening material based on the picture. Listen for gist and details, improve students’ listening skills and give them proper help according to their completion of tasks. Observe the students whether can finish the tasks by scaffolding. The teacher prompts and helps them when necessary. Know the topic better and can intake the knowledge and make a dialog for output, teacher will invite some of groups to perform in the class, and give comments according to the language and structure.
Homework Required: Write down your group work results and talk about your favorite movie theater in your town and tell the reasons. Optional: Search online and find more information about the best movie theater in our country.
Blackboard design Go For It 8A Unit 4 Section A 1a-2d - What is the best movie theater to go to short - shorter - the shortest Town Cinema. It’s the closest to home. big - bigger - the biggest close - closer - the closest popular – more popular – the most popular Do you know a good movie theater Yes, it’s called Movie World. It has the biggest screens.
Reflection The lesson spent a longer time teaching the superlative degree, which resulted in a rushed final group activity. There is a lot of explanation on the superlative forms of words, but there are relatively few exercises involving the superlative forms of sentences.