Unit 2 Plant a Plant Lesson12教案冀教版八年级下册

Unit 2 Plant a Plant!
Lesson 12 Danny's Plant
LESSON PREPARATION
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
掌握词汇：yard
接触词汇：agriculture, seed, pot, sprout, stem, bud, carefully
短语和句型：at the top of..,a flower bud, look after
RESOURCES
audiotape. seed-sprouting pictures. diagrams. construction paper.seeds
green straws. paper baking cups LESSON STRUCTURE
CLASS OPENING
Greeting
Greet the class.
Say: Good morning/afternoon, class. Did anyone stop and smell the roses today
That's an English saying. Stopping to smell the roses means you take the time to enjoy the small, wonderful things in life. Do you know a saying like this in Chinese
Ask several students to respond.
Teaching Point
A fun and interesting greeting is a great way to get your students excited and engaged at the start of a lesson. Your greetings should be fun and light and should in some way be relevant to the topic of that day's lesson. Consider greeting your class with English jokes, tongue twisters, riddles, sayings and more. Setting a fun and positive tone right from the start can make all the difference.
Review
1)Homework check.
2)Choose some students to present their "Another Amazing Plant"pamphlet.
3)Review some of the words and phrases from the last lesson. Ask students to stand up and act out or demonstrate shy, close up, open up, play with, in the middle.
Teacher: Who can come to the board and write a sentence using the word "eastern"/the phrase"along with"
Ask several students to come to the board and write one sentence using the mastery words and phrases from the last lesson. Every student should use a different word or phrase. Discuss the students sentences: correct any poorly constructed sentences.
KEY CONCEPTS
FOCUS STRUCTURES:
Agriculture is all about growing plants and raising animals for food.
Now, something new is growing at the top of the stem.
It's a flower bud.
STEP 1: Present
CLASS WORK: Think About It
Divide the class into groups to discuss the Think About It questions. Have the students look up the definition for the word "agriculture". Discuss the students' answers as a class.
Teacher: What is agriculture
Ask several students to respond.
Students: Agriculture is the science or practice of farming, including the growing of crops and raising animals for food and other products.
Teacher: That's right. What does it mean to "raise animals"
Ask several students to respond. Write the phrase raise animals on the board. Students should master this phrase. Point out that children are"raised"as well, but not in the same way of course.
Teacher: When one raises an animal, they feed and take care of the animal to help it grow. Why do people raise animals
Students: People raise animals for food and other products.
Teacher: Yes. What do we use animals for other than food
Students: Clothing, accessories, makeup, etc. Teacher: That's right. What are crops
Students: Crops are plants that are grown as food (i.e. planted fruits and vegetables are crops).
Teacher: Very good. If you were a farmer, what kind of plants would you want to grow and why
Students: I would want to grow an apple tree because I love apples./I would want to grow a tomato plant because I love tomatoes./I would want to grow a rose bush because roses are beautiful and they smell good./etc.
Teacher: Those are all excellent ideas. In this lesson Danny writes about a plant he is growing. Let's read and discover what plant he is growing.
STEP 2: Read
PAIR WORK: Let's Do It! No. 1
1) Instruct the students to read Lesson 12 and answer the questions with a partner.
2) Discuss the answers as a class. You may want to show the class some pictures that depict seed- sprouting process to ensure their comprehension. (See example below).
STEP 3: Read and Do
PAIR WORK: Reading and comprehension
1) Instruct the students to read Lesson 12 again and draw a diagram of the seed-sprouting process Danny describes. Students need to make sure the diagram follows the correct order.
2)Have the students present their diagrams in front of the class.
STEP 4: Practice
INDEPENDENT WORK: Let's Do It! No. 2 1)Have students complete Let's Do It! No. 2 independently.
2)Students should check their answers in groups and then as a class.
STEP 5: Task
INDEPENDENT WORK: 3D Flower Diagram 1) Students will work independently to complete their own 3D Flower Diagram. For this activity you will need: seeds, construction paper, green straws and small paper baking cups (see the sample 3D Flower Diagram below).
2)This activity is meant to help students understand how plants grow and the role each part of the plant plays in helping grow it. Discuss how the roots, stems and leaves of the plant work to make it grow. You may choose to write the process on the board and have the students copy it down or you may want to say the process and have the students listen and write it down.
CLASS CLOSING
1)Complete Let's Do It! No. 3.
Students do the exercise independently, then check the answers in groups, and finally as a class.
2)Assign homework:
Write down all of the sentences in this lesson that are in the past perfect tense.
EXTENSION
GROUP/PAIR WORK: Spelling Bee
Play Spelling Bee to review vocabulary from this lesson and other lessons in this unit.
1)Divide the class into two teams and appoint a scorekeeper.
2)Start with a player from either team. Call out a word. The player must then spell the word out loud. If the player misspells the word, a player from the other team gets a turn to try. The turn keeps passing from team to team until someone spells the word correctly. This team then wins a point. When a player spells a word correctly and wins a point, a player on the other team takes a turn trying to spell a
new word you call out.
3)To make the game more challenging the speller must also use the word correctly in a sentence to win the point.
For Example: Teacher: Yard.
Team A-Player 1: Y-e-r-d. Teacher: No.
Team B-Player 1: Y-a-r-t. Teacher: No.
Team A-Player 2: Y-a-r-d.
Teacher: Yes! Now use the word in a sentence please.
Team A-Player 2: She enjoys gardening in the yard. Teacher: Very good. Now spell "raise".
Team B-Player 2: R-a-i-s-e.
Teacher: Yes! Now please use this word in a sentence.
Team B-Player 2: My parents raised me. Teacher: Well done.
* For other variations and further instructions on how to play, see the "Games"section at the back of this guide.
LANGUAGE NOTES
1. I have a lot to write about this week!本周我有许 多东西要写！
to write about 作后置定语，修饰 a lot。例如： I have nothing to say. 我没有什么可说的。
They found a room to live in.他们找到了一个房间 住。
She has no pen to write with.她没有钢笔用来写字。 2. Agriculture is all about growing plants and raising animals for food.农业就是通过种植植物 和饲养动物来获得食物。
raise在句中意为“饲养，养育”，此外，还有“升起举起；提出；引起；筹集，募集”的意思。例如：The farmer raised ten sheep on his farm.这个农民 在他的农场里养了十只羊。
The children raised some money for their basketball game.孩子们为他们的篮球赛筹集了一些钱。
We raise our national flag in our school every Monday.在我们学校每周一升国旗。
3. Now, something new is growing at the top of the
stem.现在在茎的顶部长出了新东西。
something 是不定代词，相当于第三人称单数。形容词作定语时需要后置。例如：
Something is wrong with his computer.他的计算机 出毛病了。
There is something important in today's newspaper 今天的报纸上有重要新闻。
4. Later, the flower will become a head. and the head will turn into seeds.后来，花会变成头部，头部会 变成种子。
turn into 意思是“变成”。例如： Water can turn into ice.水可以变成冰。
turn.into.意思是“把·.·.·变成·.·”。例如：Heat turns water into vapor. 热把水变成蒸汽。 相关词组还有：change into; change. into..