外研版八年级上册Module 3 Sports Unit 1 Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis. 教案

Module 3 Sports
Unit 1 Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis.
一、学习目标:
A. 单词和短语：
baseball, volleyball, boring, exciting, relaxing, already, matter, What’s the matter hurt, Olympics, stadium, miss, mind, beat, careless, cheer…on, coach, fan club, against, train, practice, warm, warm up, usual, pleased, pass, chance, loudly, confident
B. 交际用语：
1. That’s too bad!
2. I’m not sure about that.
3. Bad luck!
4. Never mind.
5. — Which sport do you like better, swimming or running
— I like swimming better. It’s more relaxing than running.
6. It’s more difficult to practise in winter.
7. This year we’re passing more carefully.
8. — What’s your favorite sport
— My favorite sports is swimming. It is exciting.
9. This week’s match already more exciting.
10. It’s more difficult to practise in winter.
11. Watching is not dangerous, and it’s more relaxing, too.
二、教学目标
1. Function: Describing and comparing sports.
2. Structure: Comparative adjectives (more); adverbs and comparative adverbs (-er, more); irregular comparatives.
3. Skills: 1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (sports).
2) Comparing sports, linking words correctly.
3) Reading and understanding behaviors of characters; guessing the meaning of new words from the context.
4) Writing about your school basketball team.
4. Around the world: The marathon race
5. Task: Making a sports poster.
三、重点及难点:
Comparative adjectives (more); adverbs and comparative adverbs (-er, more); irregular comparatives.
四、教学设计:
Teaching Steps
Step 1 New words
Using pictures or sentences to learn the new words.
Step 2 Lead-in
1. Show some pictures of sports. Ask students:
What sports do you know What’s your favourite sport Why
2. Talk about sports.
Step 3 Listening and vocabulary
1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.
baseball basketball football table tennis tennis volleyball
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen to the recording carefully.
3. Listen and number the sports as you hear them.
4. Now match the words with the pictures.
5. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
6. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
7. Listen again and complete the passage.
Daming’s favorite sport is ___________. It is an American sport. Americans like baseball, too. Football is more ___________ than baseball in most countries. Betty likes __________ and ___________. Daming likes ___________ too. Both Daming and Betty like _____________.
8. Free talk
What does Betty think of football
Football is more ________ than baseball in most countries.
Key: Football
What does Daming think of these sports
Football is more _______ than baseball.
Baseball is _______.
Keys: exciting boring
What does Betty think of tennis
Tennis is _____.
Key: fun
What does Betty think of swimming
Swimming is _______.
Key: relaxing
9. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 2.
boring dangerous difficult easy exciting expensive popular relaxing safe
e.g. — What’s table tennis like
— It’s safe and relaxing.
Step 4 Listen and read.
1. Listen and choose.
1. Which team scored a minute ago
A. Spain B. England C. Germany
2. What was last week’s match like
A. exciting B. relaxing C. boring
3. Tony hurt his _____ last night in the tennis match.
A. arm B. knee C. eye
Keys: ACB
2. Ask the students to listen to the dialogue and look for the answers.
1. What are Tony, Daming and Betty doing together
2. Are they enjoying it
3. What’s wrong with Tony
Keys: 1. They are watching a football match on TV.
2. Yes, they are.
3. He is tired. And he hurt his knee.
3. Read and answer the questions.
1. Who is playing in the match
2. Why is this week’s match more exciting than last week’s
3. What does Betty think about watching matches on TV
4. Why does Tony enjoy watching the Olympics on TV
5. Does Daming like watching the Olympics on TV Why
6. Has the match finished yet
Keys: 1. Spain.
2. Because no one scored in last week’s match and Spain scored very fast in this week’s match.
3. She thinks watching is not dangerous and it’s more relaxing too.
4. Because he thinks it is cheaper than buying tickets for all the games.
5. Yes, he does. Because he thinks staying at home is easier than going to the stadium.
6. No, it hasn’t.
4. Ask the students to read the conversation and check ( √ ) the true sentences.
1) This week’s match is more exciting than last week’s.
2) Tony played table tennis yesterday.
3) For Tony playing tennis is more exciting than watching matches on TV.
4) Watching the Olympics on TV was more expensive than buying tickets for the games.
5) Going to the stadium was more difficult than staying at home.
Keys: 1. √ 3. √ 5. √
5. Ask the students to check with a partner.
6. Check the answers.
7. Watch the video and read along with it.
What are Daming’s opinions
1. This week’s match is more exciting than last week’s.
2. It is safer than playing tennis.(It: Watching the match on TV)
3. Staying at home was easier than going to the stadium.
What is Betty’s opinion
Watching the match on TV is not dangerous and it is more relaxing too!
What are Tony’s opinions
1. Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis.
2. It was cheaper than buying tickets for all the games. (It: Watching the Olympics on TV)
Step 5 Language points
1. — What’s the score 比分是多少？
— Spain scored a minute ago. 西班牙（队）一分钟前得分了。
score n.比赛中的得分、比分，学生考试中的分数、成绩；科学测验或实验的得分
v. (体育比赛中)得（分）, 进球
score a goal 进球得分
e.g. After two hours and twenty minutes of play, the final score was 3:2.
Arsenal scored in the final minute of the game.
【语境应用】写出划线单词的词性及词义。
1) Tom scored a goal in the football game yesterday.
______________________________________
2) What’s the score of the basketball game now
______________________________________
3) Lily got a good score in the English test this time.
______________________________________
Keys: 1) 动词，（在比赛中）得分、进球 2) 名词，（比赛中的）得分、比分
3) 名词，分数
2. Last week the match on TV was so boring because no one scored at all.
上周电视上的比赛很枯燥，因为根本没人进球。
at all （用于否定句和疑问句，表示强调）根本，无论如何，丝毫，一点儿
Not at all! 别客气！(常用来回答别人的感谢)
e.g. I didn’t enjoy it at all.
Are you at all interested No, not at all.
—Thank you so much.
—Not at all!
【语境应用】翻译句子。
1) Are you at all interested No, not at all.
__________________________________
2) 他一点儿东西都没吃。
__________________________________
3) 你一点儿钱也没有吗？
__________________________________
Keys: 1) 你有兴趣吗？不，一点也没有。 2) He's had no food at all.
3) You don’t have any money at all
3. So this week’s match is already more exciting.
因此，这周的比赛早已更令人激动。
1) 部分双音节形容词及多音节形容词的比较级是在其前加more。
2) 构成：主语+ be+ more+双音节形容词/多音节形容词+than+比较的对象。
e.g. Linda is more careful than her brother.
The new film is more exciting than the old film.
The silk scarf is more expensive than the T-shirt.
Table tennis is more popular than football in China.
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) This picture is ______________ than that one.
这张照片比那张照片漂亮。
2) He is _____________ than the others.
他比其他人更仔细。
3) The football match is _______________.
足球赛更激动人心。
4) Your shirt is _________________ than mine.
你的衬衫比我的贵。
Keys: 1) more beautiful 2) more careful 3) more exciting 4) more expensive
中考链接
—Who is your best friend, Linda
—Mary. She always helps me ________ the best in me. The longer I stay with her, ________ I will be.
A. look out, the more confident
B. bring out, the more confident
C. bring out, the less confident (2023四川达州中考)
Key: B
exciting adj. 令人激动的；使人兴奋的，常修饰物。
excited adj. 激动的；兴奋的，常修饰人。
【拓展】
常见的这类单词还有：
relaxing 使人放松的— relaxed 放松的
interesting 有趣的 — interested 感兴趣的
boring 烦人的；无聊的 — bored 感觉厌烦的；厌倦的
以-ing结尾的形容词多修饰或说明事物，说明事物本身的特性；以-ed结尾的形容词多用来说明人的感受。
e.g. We come here once a year expecting a quiet, relaxing holiday.
I am bored with the boring film.
I am excited about the exciting football match.
【语境应用】根据句意用excited或exciting完成下面的句子。
My father told me an ____________ story.
All of us were ____________ about the news.
The ____________ child opened his present quickly.
The movie is very ____________.
5) When you see an ____________TV play, you may get ____________.
Keys: 1) exciting 2) excited 3) excited 4) exciting 5) exciting 6) excited
4. What’s the matter with you, Tony 你怎么了，托尼？
What’s the matter
“怎么了？”，用来询问某人或某物出了什么状况或问题，后面跟宾语时要加介词with。
【拓展】询问“（某人/某物）怎么了”的句型还有：
What’s up (with…)
What’s wrong (with…)
What’s the trouble (with…)
What happens (to…)
e.g. What’s the matter with your sister
= What’s wrong with your sister
如果被问的人身体某部位不舒服，常用I have ...来回答。
e.g. —What’s the matter
—I have a headache.
【语境应用】汉译英。
1) —Bill怎么了？
—他发烧了。
2) 你的眼睛怎么了？
Keys: 1) —What’s the matter / wrong with Bill
—He has a fever.
2) What’s the matter / wrong with your eye(s)
5. Oh, he missed! 噢，他没踢进！
miss v. 未击中, 未达到; 未出席; 思念, 想念；错过，+ doing sth.
Miss n.女士; 小姐(首字母必须大写，常用于姓名或姓之前, 尤指未婚女子。)
e.g. Tony missed the basketball. What a pity!
I can’t miss two weeks of school.
Will you miss me
David and his friend missed seeing the film.
Miss Brown is a popular teacher.
【语境应用】将下列汉语句子翻译成英语。
1) 昨晚我误了火车。
2) 我们都非常想念她。
3) 你认识李小姐吗？
4) 足球未击中我的头。
Keys: 1) I missed the train yesterday evening.
2) We all miss her very much.
3) Do you know Miss Li
4) The football missed my head.
6. Never mind.
没关系。用于安慰、鼓励对方。
mind v. 当心；介意 (用作及物动词时，后面通常接名词、代词、动词的-ing形式、复合结构、从句等。)
n. 思想；想法
change one’s mind 改变主意
make up one’s mind 下定决心
e.g. What made him change his mind
He hasn’t made up his mind where to go.
Just do your work, and don’t mind him.
【语境应用】汉译英。
1) 没有什么可以改变她的主意。
Nothing can __________________.
2) 你介意告诉我你的计划吗？
___________ you ____________ me your plan
3) 我把这本书带出图书馆你介意吗？
___________ you _________________ this book out of the library
Keys: 1) change her mind 2) Do / Would…mind telling
3) Do / Would …mind my taking
7. There’s still plenty of time for them to score. 他们还有很多时间去得分。
plenty pron. 大量；众多
plenty of 大量；众多
后可跟可数名词复数或不可数名词。相当于a lot of 和lots of“plenty of +名词” 作主语时，谓语动词的单复数形式要与名词的数保持一致。
e.g. Make sure she gets plenty of fresh air.
There’s plenty to do and see in New York.
【语境应用】根据句意，用括号内所给动词的正确形式填空。
Plenty of people ________ (be) lying on the beach.
Plenty of rice ________ (be) needed.
Keys: 1) are 2) is
Step 6 Complete the sentences.
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
already hurt matter mind miss Olympics stadium
2. Read through the sentences.
1) Why didn’t Tony score What’s the ___________ with him
2) You lost the matter Never __________. Maybe you’ll win next time.
3) I’m not good at tennis. I always ___________ the ball.
4) The match began ten minutes ago and Spain is ____________ winning.
5) The 2008 __________ were in Beijing.
6) Watching football at home is easier than going to the __________.
7) Tennis is a little dangerous because you may _________ you knee.
Keys: 1. matter 2. mind 3. miss 4. already
5. Olympics 6. stadium 7. hurt
3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.
baseball basketball football table tennis tennis volleyball
My favourite sports is (1)___________. And I enjoy watching (2)___________. I am quite good at (3)___________. I do not like playing (4)___________. And I am not very good at (5)___________.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers.
Keys: (1) football (2) table tennis (3) basketball
(4) baseball (5) volleyball
Step 7 Pronunciation and speaking
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.
1) Spain scored a minute ago.
2) Last week the match on TV was so boring because no one scored at all.
3) Oh, look at that.
3. Ask the students to listen and mark the intonation.
4. Now listen again and repeat.
5. 连读
连读的条件
相邻的两词在意义上必须密切相关，同属一个意群。连读所构成的音节一般都不重读，只需顺其自然地一带而过。
‘‘辅音+元音”型连读
在同一个意群里，如果相邻两词中的前一个词是以辅音结尾，后一个词是以元音开头，这就要将辅音与元音拼起来连读。
Let me have~a look~at~it.
have的尾辅音/v/与an的开头元音v连读为/v /
look的尾辅音/k/与at的开头元音a连读为/k /
at的尾辅音/t/与it的开头元音i连读为/ti/
使用连读规则，朗读以下句子。
I’m~an~English boy.
It~is~an~old book.
Ms Black worked in~an~office last~yesterday.
I called~you half~an~hour~ago.
Put~it~on, please.
Not~at~all.
Please pick~it~up.
Step 8 Work in pairs.
Talk about the sports you like.
— Hey, Bruce. Which sport do you like better, swimming or running
— I like swimming better. It’s more relaxing than running.
A: Which sport do you like better, running or playing tennis
B: I like running better. It’s cheaper than playing tennis. What about you
A: I like …
B: …
Summary
plenty of 大量；众多
football / tennis match 足球 / 网球赛
watch the match 观看比赛
enjoy doing sth. 喜欢或享受做某事
stay at home 待在家里
bad luck 倒霉
never mind 没关系
Step 9 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境，从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，注意形式变化。
hurt, already, enjoy, volleyball, miss
1. This will be a(n) _______ e and join us!
2. —Did you have a good time at the sports centre
—Yes, I played _______ with my friends.
3. Jimmy tried to catch the ball, but unluckily, he _______ it.
4. —How about getting Mary a Harry Potter book for her birthday
—I don’t think so. She _______ has all seven of them.
5. Jeremy _______ his legs on his way to school and now he’s in hospital.
Ⅱ. 根据语境及所给首字母提示补全所缺单词。
1. —You looked worried. What’s the m_______
—I can’t find my bag anywhere. It has all my books in it!
2. Bob will go to the s_______ to watch a football match.
3. —How was the basketball game last night
—It was fantastic, especially when Kevin s_______ in the last minute.
4. Yesterday’s tennis match was e_______. I was very excited when I watched it.
5. The movie was b_______ and I almost fell asleep when I watched it.
Ⅲ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺内容，每空一词。
1. _______ _______(真倒霉)! I lost my new pen yesterday.
2. —Sorry, Mrs Parker. I didn’t do well in the game.
—_______ _______(没关系).
3. There is still _______ _______(大量) time before the train starts.
4. Oliver came into the room and _______ _______(坐下) next to me.
5. I _______ _______ _______(待在家里) yesterday because it rained heavily.
6. Now Mr Murphy _______ _______ _______(喜欢拍照) in his free time.
Step 10 Homework
1. Complete the passage about yourself in activity 5.
2. Write down the sports you like and list the reasons.