外研版八年级上册Module 2 My home town and my country Unit 1 It’s taller than many other buildings教案

Module 2 My home town and my country
Unit 1 It’s taller than many other buildings.
【教材分析】
本课为Module 2的第一单元，主要内容为比较我国两个城市在方位、特点和特色上的不同，掌握形容词比较级的运用。从全书来看，本单元承接上一模块形容词的学习和运用，延伸到比较级形式，学生容易接受。通过对本国城市的比较，为下一单元的异国城市学习奠定了语言基础。
【教学目标】
1. To understand the conversation about the comparison of two cities
2. To talk about and compare two different cities or places
3. To learn some key words and useful expressions
【教学重点】
1. To learn and review some words and expressions：
hill, population, wide, million, pretty, pretty good, than, get
2. To learn some expressions about positions.
【教学难点】
1. 比较级的变化规则。
2. 比较级的结构。
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
1.Show the students pictures about Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
2.Free talk
Where is your home town
Did you go to other cities What are they
Which city do you like best
Step 2 Listening and vocabulary
1. Work on Activity 1.
1) Look at the pictures and practice using the words from the box..
2) Listen and fill in the blanks.
Place: (1) _____________
Population: (2) _______ million
Jin Mao Tower: (3) _____ metres high
Place: (4) ___________
Population: (5) ________ million
Victoria Peak: (6) ______ metres high
Can you read
3) Listen again and complete the passage using adjectives.
Welcome to Shanghai. This _____ city in East China has a population of 23.5 million. It’s on a _____ river called the Huangpu river. The _____ building you can see is the Jin Man Tower. It’s 420.5 metres _____.
This is Hong Kong. It’s a ______ city on the South China coast. Severn million people live here. The hill is Victoria Peak. It’s 552 metres _____.
2. Read the passage and pay attention to the new words and expressions.
Step 3 Reading
1. Show the pictures, learn some new words.
2. Listen and mark true or false.
1) Shenzhen is a newer city than Hong Kong.
2) Shenzhen became important in the 1970s.
3) Shenzhen’s population is over twenty million.
4) Diwang tower is taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
3. Tony and Daming are talking about Shenzhen. Read the dialogue and finish the following tasks. Read and answer the questions.
1) Where did Daming go during the weekend
2) Is Hong Kong older than Shenzhen
3) What happened to Shenzhen since 1980
4) How’s Shenzhen’s population
Observe carefully to see how to form comparative adjectives.
在对两者进行比较时，形容词要用比较级的形式，形容词比较级之后要用than引出比较的对象。
A + be + 形容词比较级 + than + B.
“A比B……”
4. Read and complete the passage about Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is on the coast near Hong Kong. It became important in the (1) _______. Before that it was a (2) _______. Today the population of Shenzhen is more than (3) _______ million. There are many tall buildings in Shenzhen. A famous one is the (4) ______________. It is (5) _______ than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
5. Watch the video and role play the conversation.
6. Find the adjectives and their comparatives in the sentences.
1) So it’s a newer city than Hong Kong
2) It’s getting bigger and busier.
3) That’s larger than the population of many other cities in China.
4) Its streets are much wider and cleaner too.
5) It’s taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
7. Read the sentences one by one.
8. Role play the conversation in groups.
Step 4 Language points
1. —How was your weekend
—Pretty good!
—周末过得怎么样？
—挺不错。
pretty good 相当好
用于对How’s … / What do you think of … 作答。
e.g. — How was your traveling
— Pretty good.
—你的旅行怎么样？
— 非常棒。
2. So it’s a newer city than Hong Kong
这么说深圳是一个比香港还新的城市？
这是一个陈述疑问句。在结构上与陈述句一样，语序不用倒装，不同之处只是它的句末用问号，并用升调朗读。陈述疑问句主要用于以下几种场合：
(1)对前面的话进行推断，并预期得到肯定的回答；(2)表示感彩，如怀疑、惊异、讥讽、愤怒等。(3)确认前面所说的内容，希望得到对方的证实；(4)表示诚挚的询问。
e.g. So you are from Tianjin 如此说来你来自天津？
than prep. 比
than之前要用形容词或副词的比较级。
e.g. This tree is taller than that one. 这棵树比那棵树高。
Sally is quieter than before. 萨莉比以前更文静了。
than conj. 引导比较关系的从句
e.g. John is taller than I am. 约翰比我高。
【语境应用】根据汉语提示，完成英语句子。
1) 我比她年龄大。
_______________________________.
2) 这比我预料的要大。
_______________________________ I’d expected.
3) 那里有不到二十个人。
________________________________ there.
Keys: 1) I'm older than her 2) It was bigger than 3) There were fewer than twenty people
3. In fact, it only became important in the 1980s.
实际上，深圳到了20世纪80年代才成为一个重要的城市。
in fact 事实上；实际上 通常位于句首，可用于强调，尤其是与刚提到的情况相反时。
e.g. I thought the work would be difficult. In fact, it’s very easy.
我原以为这项工作很难，事实上却很容易。
in the 1980s 在20世纪80年代
表示“在……世纪……年代”用介词in, 在表示整十的年份后加“s”或“’s”,并在前面加定冠词the。
e.g. He graduated from Harvard in the 1990s/ 1990’s.
他在20世纪90年代毕业于哈佛大学。
4. It’s getting bigger and busier. 现在深圳越来越大，也越来越繁华了。
get linking verb. 变得；变成；成为，后接形容词作表语。与其有类似用法的词还有become, turn等。
e.g. It’s getting late. Let’s go home.
天色晚了，咱们回家吧。
get v. 得到；收到；获得 get to 到达
e.g. What presents did you get for your birthday
你收到了什么生日礼物？
【语境应用】用get翻译句子。
1) 你昨天收到我的信息了吗？
2) 我希望你很快恢复健康。
3) 你能给我买一些水果吗？
4) 你昨天几点到图书馆的？
keys: 1) Did you get my message yesterday
2) I hope you will get well soon.
3) Can you get some fruit for me
4) What time/When did you get to the library yesterday
5. Some day it will become as busy as Hong Kong, I’m sure.
我相信，将来它会和香港一样繁华。
as + 形容词/副词 + as 和……一 样 (是同级比较结构)
e.g. He is as tall as his brother.
他和他的哥哥一样高。
not as + 形容词/副词 + as ……不如……(前者不如后者)
e.g. Tom doesn’t sing as well as Lucy.
Tom不如Lucy唱得好。
—Lucy, I'm poor in English. Could you give me some advice
—You can speak it as ______as possible.
A. much B. more C. most
(2022海南中考)
Key : A
6. What’s the population of Shenzhen
深圳的人口是多少
population n. (某一地区的)人口；全体居民 (集合名词)
作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。
The population of +某地+is+数词
某地+ has a population of +数词 某地有多少人口
表示人口“多”时用large或great，不用many或much；
表示人口“少”时要用small，不能用little或few。
询问人口数量：What’s the population of +某地
population与分数或百分数连用表示部分人口，作主语时，谓语动词用单、复数均可。
e.g. More than 60 percent of the population of that city is/ are workers.
那个城市百分之六十以上的人口是工人。
【语境应用】根据汉语意思完成下列英语句子，每空一词(含缩略形式)。
1) 这个村有多少人口？
________ the population of the village
2) 中国人口很多。
China has ________ ________ population.
3) 美国的人口比印度少。
The population of America ________ ________ than that of India.
Keys : 1) What’s 2) a large 3) is smaller
Ⅲ. My home town has a population of five million / The population of my home town is five million.
7. It’s over ten million, I think.
我想，它的人口超过一千万了吧。
million num. 百万
前面有具体数字修饰时用单数形式。
millions of 数百万的；数以百万计的 (表示笼统的数目)
【链接】
与million有类似用法的数词还有hundred, thousand等。
【语境应用】单句语法填空。
1) The Great Wall is famous, so every year ____________ (million) people come to visit it.
2) Sam enjoys collecting. He has collected over three __________ (hundred) stamps.
根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
3) 那座城市有七百万人。
There are _______ _______ people in that city.
4) 他有数百万歌迷。
He has got ________ _______ fans.
Keys: 1) millions of 2) hundred 3) seven million 4) millions of
8. Its streets are much wider and cleaner too.
它的街道也更宽敞、更干净。
much后面加比较级，用来修饰比较级，表示“更……”。
e.g. Tom runs much faster than Mike.
汤姆比迈克跑得更快。
wide adj. 宽的；宽阔的
表示“某物有多宽”时，常用“基数词+表示计量单位的名词+wide”结构。
对宽度进行提问时，常用句型“How wide ... ”
【链接】
与wide有类似用法的词还有long, high, deep等。
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 这条街道有多宽？
_______ _______ is the street
2) 我家旁边的河大约8米宽。
The river next to my house is about _______ _______ _______.
3) 这棵苹果树大约15米高。
This apple tree is about _______ _______ _______.
keys: 1) How wide 2) eight metres wide 3) fifteen metres high / tall
9. I’d like to go there one day.
有朝一日我也想去那里看看。
would like 想，想要 ，在语气上比want更加委婉。would没有人称和数的变化。主语为人称代词，可缩写为 ’d。
用法：would like sth. / to do sth. 想要(干)……
would like sb. to do sth. 想要某人做某事
e.g. Jack would like some oranges and bananas.
Mary would like some tea and I also would like it.
He’d like to go to the movies with us tonight.
My father would like me to do my homework first.
【注意】
(1) “Would you like sth. ”
肯定答语通常用: Yes, please.
否定答语通常用: No, thanks.
(2) “Would you like to do sth. ”
肯定答语通常用: Yes, I’d love like to.
否定答语通常用: I’d love/ like to, but …, but后接句子，解释不能去做某事的原因。
辨析one day与 some day
e.g. I’ll go to New York some day/ one day.
有一天我将去纽约。
One day he went to visit his grandparents.
有一天，他去看望了他的祖父母。
10. Remember to visit the Diwang Tower.
那你可要记得去看看地王大厦。
辨析remember to do sth. 与remember doing sth.
e.g. I remember to meet him at the airport.
我记得要去机场接他。
I remembered meeting him at the airport.
我记得去机场接的他。
【语境应用】根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空词数不限。
1) 记着明天去车站接你的朋友。
_____________________ to the station to meet your friend tomorrow.
2) 我记得看过这部电影。
I _____________________ the film.
Keys: 1) Remember to go 2) remember watching
Step 5 Practice
Work on Activity 3.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box. You need to use some of the words more than once.
1) About thirty years ago, Shenzhen was a ______ village, but today it is a very _______ city.
2) Shenzhen is a _______ city than Hong Kong.
3) Shenzhen is getting _______ and _______. The streets are ________ and ________.
4) Shenzhen will become as ______ as Hong Kong.
5) The population of Shenzhen is ______ than that of many other cities in China.
Keys: small big newer bigger busier wider cleaner busy larger
Step 6 Pronunciation
1. Work on Activity 4. Listen and notice how the speaker stresses the underlined words.
1) — Shenzhen is larger in population than Beijing.
— No, it isn’t. It’s smaller.
2) — Hong Kong is newer than Shenzhen.
— No, it isn’t. It’s older.
3) — Shenzhen is as old as Hong Kong.
— No, it isn’t. It’s newer.
4) — Hong Kong is as busy as Shenzhen.
— No, it isn’t. It’s busier.
2. Work in pairs. Listen again and repeat.
我们在朗读英语或用英语交谈时，并不是将句子中的每个词都读得一样响亮、一样清楚，而是有些词要读得又轻又快，而且较为含糊，有些词则读得又重又慢，而且较为清晰。那些读得响亮而清晰的词就是句子重音所在。
句子重音的功能有两个：
1) 体现句子的节奏感和韵律感。
2) 突出重点，使听者更容易理解。
Step 7 Speaking
1. Compare Shenzhen with your home town. Make notes in the table.
Shenzhen Your home town
a big city
Talk about the differences between Shenzhen and your home town. Use big, small, hot, cold, tall or new.
— Is your home town bigger than Shenzhen
No, it isn’t. It’s smaller than Shenzhen.
Tips:
Is … hotter than Shenzhen
Is … colder than Shenzhen
Are the buildings in … taller than those in Shenzhen
Are the buildings in … newer than those in Shenzhen
Step 8 Summary
1. 相当好；很好
2. 在海岸上
3. 三十年前
4. 在20世纪80年代
5. 有一天
6. 与……一样繁华
7. 确信
8. 事实上
9. ……的人口
10. 比……多
11. 想要做某事
12. 记得去做某事
Keys:
pretty good
on the coast
thirty years ago
in the 1980s
some/ one day
as busy as ...
be sure
in fact
the population of ...
more than ...
would like to do sth.
remember to do sth.
1. How was your weekend
2. So it's a newer city than Hong Kong
3. It's getting bigger and busier.
4. Some day it will become as busy as Hong Kong, I'm sure.
5. What's the population of Shenzhen
6. It has a population of about seven and a half million, so ...
Step 9 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给首字母提示补全所缺单词。
1. Forrest Gump is a p_______ good movie.
2. It’s g_______ warmer. Let’s go for a picnic this weekend.
3. The village has a small p_______ of about 200.
4. Lugou Bridge is 7.5 metres w_______ and 266.5 metres long.
5. About five m_______ people visit the country every year.
Ⅱ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺内容，每空一词。
1. Jenny wants to become a teacher _______ _______(总有一天).
2. _______ _______(事实上), she stayed in Hong Kong for two weeks.
3. Leo was born in New York _______ _______ _______(在20世纪80年代).
4. Mr Smith started learning French _______ _______ _______(三十年前).
Ⅲ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
1. 布里奇街不像上周那样繁忙。
Bridge Street is not _______ _______ _______ it was last week.
2. Black一家住在海岸边上的一个小村庄里。
The Blacks live in a small village _______ _______ _______.
3. 睡前请记得把你的学习用品收好。
Please _______ _______ _______ your school things away before sleep.
4. Jack在动物园里看到了猴子、熊猫、大象和许多其他动物。
Jack saw monkeys, pandas, elephants and _______ _______ animals in the zoo.
Step 10 Homework
Which city do you like best Compare it with your home town. Write a short paragraph. Use adjectives we learned.
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