外研版八年级上册Module 3 Sports Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully.教案

Module 3 Sports
Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully.
Teaching aims
To skim the text on sports and understand its main idea
To be able to describe sports and games, using the comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs
To make comparisons with given information
To write about your school basketball team
1. Key vocabulary: beat, careless, cheer…on, coach, fan club, against, train, practice, warm, warm up, usual , pleased, pass, chance, loudly, confident
2. Keys structure:
We all arrive as early as we can so that we have time to warm up.
It is more difficult to practise in winter.
It gets dark earlier.
This year we are training more carefully.
That means we have a better chance of winning.
Teaching Steps:
Step 1 Revision
根据句意用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. This book is ________________ (interesting) than that one.
2. I think basketball is ___________ (boring) than football.
3. Swimming is ________________ (dangerous) than running.
4. Do you think maths is ____________ (difficult) than English
Keys: 1. more interesting 2) more boring 3) more dangerous 4) more difficult
Step 2 New words
Step 3 Lead- in
Look at the pictures. What do they show
They are playing a match and the blue team won.
They are training.
Step 4 Reading and vocabulary
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 1.
2. Talk about the pictures.
3. Work in pairs. Talk about the pictures. Use the words and expressions in the box to
help you.
beat careless cheer… on coach fan club play against train
4. Predict what the passage is about. Then watch the flash.
Example
The blue team beat the red team./ The blue team played against the red team. / A coach is a sports teacher who helps a team to play better.
Step 5 Reading.
1. Predict what the passage is about. Then watch the flash.
The passage is about the football team of Li Daming’s school and their hard training.
2. Read the passage and complete the table.
What Why
1. We arrive ______________________.
2. We’re training _________ than ______
3. It’s _________ to practice in winter.
4. Our coach is _______________.
Keys : 1. as early as we can Why : So we have time to warm up.
2. harder usual
Why: The other team beat us last year. This year we want to do better.
3. more difficult Why: The days are short and the weather is cold.
4. pleased Why: We are playing better as a team now.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
5. Read the passage again and complete the blanks.
Keys: Saturday as early as harder after-school more better
chance more fans more confident
6. Read the passage again and answer the questions.
1. Why is Daming going to school on Saturday
2. How does the team practice this year
3. What does Daming think of having fans around
Keys : 1. He is going to school for football training.
2. This year they are training more carefully.
3. It’s good to have fans around and he feels more confident to win the game.
7. Try to find the comparative adjectives/adverbs in the passage.
Step 5 Language points
1. I am in our school team and we’re playing against another school next week.
我是校队成员，我们（队）下周将要和另一学校比赛。
against prep. 反对，与……对抗, 常用于play, fight等动词后。
e.g. We will play against Class Two this Friday.
【拓展】
against prep. 1) 反对，与介词for互为反义词。
e.g. They are all against my decision.
2) 对……不利
e.g. The situation is against you.
3) 违反
e.g. It’s against the rules of our club.
4) 靠着
e.g. Bob sat down against a tree.
【语境应用】将划线部分翻译成汉语。
1) The old man sat down against a tall tree.
_______________________
2) Are you for or against the plan
_______________________
3) You mustn't take the mobile phone to school. That's against the school rules.
_______________________
4) He became upset when he knew the evidence (证据) was against him. _______________________
5) I think everyone should fight against the pollution of the environment. _______________________
Keys: 1) 倚着一棵大树 2) 反对这个计划 3) 违反校规
4) 对他不利 5) 为反对环境污染而战斗
2. We all arrive as early as we can so that we have time to warm up.
我们都尽可能早到校，以便我们有时间热身。
【辨析】arrive, reach, get
arrive 不及物动词 接at用于较小的地点名词前，如村庄、家、学校车场； 接in用于较大的地点名词前，如国家、城市等。
reach 及物动词 后接地点名词，正式用语
get 不及物动词 接to后再接地点名词，非正式用语。
当get, arrive后面接here, there, home等表示地点的副词时，不加介词。
【语境应用】根据句意选用reach, get或 arrive填空，每空一词，有的需要变换形式。
1) They will ________ Tianjin in an hour.
2) Mike ________ at the office on time every day.
3) My father ________ in Nanjing last Sunday.
4) The students ________ to that airport half an hour ago.
Keys: 1) reach 2) arrives 3) arrived 4) got
so that
1)“以便，为了”，引导目的状语从句，常和in order that引导的从句或in order to do sth.进行同意转换。
e.g. He worked hard so that he could get good grades.
= He worked hard in order that he could get good grades.
He worked hard in order to get good grades.
2) “因此；结果”，引导结果状语从句，从句前可用逗号于主句分开。
e.g. It rained heavily, so that we had to stay at home.
中考链接
1. The city Zibo is ________ popular ________ many people want to go there for a trip this year.
A. so; that B. such; that C. too; to D. very; that
(2023四川遂宁中考)
2. —What do you think of the new movie Wandering Earth II
—It's______ wonderful______ I really like it.
A too; to B. so; that C. such; that
(2023黑龙江龙东)
Keys: 1. A 2. B
3. We are training harder than usually because the other team beat us last year.
因为去年败给了对手，因此我们现在比平常训练的更为刻苦了。
beat v. 打败；战胜，用作及物动词，宾语常常是比赛或竞争的对手，即人或参赛队
e.g. They beat Xinhua Team in the baseball match.
Peter played the violin very well and he beat Tony.
拓展：win意为“赢；获胜”时，既可用作不及物动词，也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时，宾语常常是比赛、比赛的名次或奖品等。
【语境应用】选词填空(beat, win)。
1) Which class will _______, Class 5 or Class 7
2) Mary is good at playing tennis and she often _______ other players.
3) I'm sure our team will _______ the next week's match.
4) Mark's team _______ Carl's in last Friday's football match.
Keys: 1) win 2) beats 3) win 4) beat
4. Last year we were sometimes careless when we passed the ball and we lost to the other team in the final match.
去年，我们有时会传球失误，在最后的比赛中输给了对手。
careless adj. 粗心的；疏忽的
【拓展】
-less否定后缀，表示“不具有”或“没有……特征的”跟在某些名词后面构成形容词。
help — helpless 无助的
use — useless 无用的
home — homeless 无家可归的
【链接】
careful adj. 仔细的；认真的；小心的
【语境应用】根据句意选用careful, careless完成句子。
1) Don't be ________ with your things.
2) You should be ________ to look both ways when you cross the street.
3) Mary is a ________ girl and she always makes mistakes in her homework.
Keys: 1) careless 2) careful 3) careless
5. What a pity!
真遗憾！常用于交际用语中，对未做成某事表示惋惜。
同义句：What a shame!
e.g. What a pity that you didn't meet him. Sue can't come to our party.
【语境应用】单项选择。
—I’m afraid I can’t come to your party, Julia.
—________! But why
A. How happy B. How lucky C. What a pity D. What nice news
Key: C
pity n. 可惜；遗憾
It’s a pity+that从句 ……真是可惜/ 遗憾
e.g. It’s a pity that you could not come.
It’s a pity to do sth. 做某事真是可惜/ 遗憾
e.g. It’s a pity to waste the food.
【语境应用】翻译句子。
1) 真遗憾昨天你没有参观大本钟！
2) 可惜的是你不能在这儿多待会儿。
Keys: 1) What a pity that you didn't visit Big Ben yesterday!
2) It's a pity that you can't stay here a little bit longer.
6. That means we have a better chance of winning.
这意味着我们获胜的机会更大。
chance n. 可能性；机会
have a chance to do / of doing sth.
有机会做某事/有做某事的可能性
give sb. a chance to do sth. 给某人一个机会做某事
e.g. You will have a better chance of passing the exams if you work harder.
Please give me a chance to work with you.
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 你将有可能在北京见到他。
You will ____________________________ him in Beijing.
2) 感谢你给我们一个出国学习英语的机会。
Thank you for ____________________________ English abroad.
Keys: 1) have a chance to see / of seeing 2) giving us a chance to study / learn
Step 6 Complete the passage.
1. Complete the passage with the words in the box.
against chance coach practice short usual
We all know (1) __________ makes perfect. But it is more difficult to practice in winter because the days are (2) __________ and it’s cold. The team is training harder than (3) ___________, so their (4) ___________ is pleased with them. They are going to play (5) ___________ a team from another school next week, and they have a good (6) ___________ of winning.
Keys: (1) practice (2) short (3) usual (4) coach (5) against (6) chance
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 7 Opposite meanings
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
badly carefully carelessly difficult early easy late quickly slowly well
e.g. badly — well
Keys: carefully — carelessly difficult — easy early — late quickly — slowly
2. Put the words from the box into pairs with opposite meanings.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 8 Writing
1. Complete the sentences so they’re true for your school basketball team.
1) It is … and the basketball team …
2) The practice starts at … but they …
3) Last year …
4) This year …
5) The coach is pleased / isn’t pleased with them because …
6) So they now have a better / poor chance of…
2. Learning to learn
You can use at that time / yesterday/ last week / last month/ last year … to talk what people did in the past; and use now / today / this week / this month / this year … to talk about what they do now when you make a comparison.
3. Possible answers:
1) It is Saturday and the school basketball team arrives to practise / train with the coach.
2) The practice starts at 9 o’clock but they arrived early to warm up.
3) Last year they were careless / lost all the matches.
4) This year they are playing well.
5) The coach is pleased because they are training hard.
The coach is not pleased because they are not playing well.
6) So they now have a better/worse chance of winning.
Step 9 Writing task
Add some more details about your school basketball team. Write a passage.
写作指导
体裁：记叙文
时态：叙述过去的事情用一般过去时；
介绍现在的情况用一般现在时
人称：以第一人称为主
今昔对比时，可用last year和this year自然地承接上下文。
Useful expressions
It is Saturday morning and …
we arrive as early as we can…
We want to have more time to warm up…
We train harder and more carefully…
So we now have a better chance of winning / to win…
…
Sample
It is Saturday morning and the school basketball team is training hard. The practice starts at 9 o’clock but they arrived early to warm up. It’s quite cold but they don’t care. Last year the team lost all their matches because they didn’t train hard and they were sometimes careless when they passed the ball. This year they are playing well and practising carefully. The coach is pleased with them because they are training hard and that means they now have a better chance of winning.
Step 10 Summary
刻苦训练
与……比赛
我们尽可能早
目的是；以便
迟到
放学后的训练
传球
输给……
有……可能，有……希望
希望做某事
有信心做某事
Keys: train hard
play against ...
as early as we can
so that
be late for ...
after-school practice
pass the ball
lose to ...
have a chance of ...
hope to do sth.
feel confident to do sth.
Step 11 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺单词。
1. Sam _______(传递) a ball to me just now.
2. Don’t make such a(n) _______(粗心的) mistake again.
3. Tracy is one of the three basketball _______(教练) in our school.
4. The students are _______(训练) hard for next week’s football match.
5. —I’m sorry I can’t go to the party.
—What a(n) _______(遗憾)! The party will be fun.
Ⅱ. 根据语境，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. It’s rude to talk _______(loud) in the library.
2. Nina plays the piano _______(well) than Alice.
3. In yesterday’s game, Class One _______(beat) Class Two two to one.
4. They all arrived early for the after-school _______(practise).
5. It took me more time to come here than _______(usually) because of the heavy
traffic.
Ⅲ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺内容，每空一词。
1. The two teams are _______ _______(热身) in the playground.
2. Beth joined a(n) _______ _______(影迷俱乐部) of that actor last week.
3. Jackson studies hard _______ _______(以便) he can have a great future.
4. Gary’s team hopes to _______ _______(与……比赛) our team this time.
5. Our team _______ _______(输给) the other team in the final match last year.
Ⅳ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
1. 老师们都对我的建议感到满意。
The teachers are all _______ _______ my suggestion.
2. 人们站着为他们最喜欢的球员加油。
The people stood to _______ _______ their favourite players.
3. Tammy开始有信心拉小提琴了。
Tammy started to _______ _______ _______ _______ the violin.
4. 今天早上这个年轻人上班又迟到了。
The young man _______ _______ _______ work again this morning.
5. 他们今年将没有机会参观长城了。
They won’t _______ _______ _______ _______ visit the Great Wall this year.
6. 我们将尽可能早地到超市因为明天是星期天。
We’ll get to the supermarket _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ because it’s Sunday tomorrow.
Step 12 Homework
健康离不开体育运动。你喜欢体育运动吗？请你对比过去和现在对体育运动的看法，写一篇80词左右的英语短文。
要点提示：
1) 文中主要时态用一般过去时和一般现在时。
2) 可能用到的形容词有：boring, interesting, healthier, better等。注意体现比较级的用法。
3) 参考句型
I find it is interesting to play sports ...
Sports keep me ... I get better scores ...
So it’s important for us to play sports.
Sample
I like sports better than before
I didn’t like sports before. I thought it was boring. But after a long time staying in the hospital, I saw I needed to do some sports. So I began to play basketball with my classmates after school. I find it is interesting to play sports with friends now. Sports keep me healthier and much stronger than before. And I also get better scores now. So it’s important for us to play sports in our free time.