Unit 1 Spring Is ComingLesson 4 The Spring City教案

Unit 1 Spring is coming
Lesson 4 The Spring City
No.49 Middle School, Kaiping,
Tangshan, Hebei
Wenli Zheng
Unit 1 The spring is coming
Lesson 4 The Spring City
No. 49 Middle School，Tangshan Wenli Zheng
Instructional Analysis
1. Analysis of Teaching Content
This unit focus on weather and activities related to the spring season. Students will learn to report on the weather, and discuss different topics and activities that relate to spring. Lesson 4 teaches students how to describe the spring in their hometown.
2. Analysis of the Students
The students of Grade Eight have mastered certain vocabularies. Through the last three lessons, they can talk about spring weather, activities, temperature, etc. But they don’t know how to describe their hometown in a proper way. They are interested in different kinds of activities in class like interviews and competitions.
Teaching Aims
1. Knowledge Objects
1). To learn how to describe the spring in their hometown in a proper way.
2)．To master new vocabularies: nearly, plenty
3). To master new phrases: long for/feel like / all year round/plenty of /because of
2. Ability Objects
1). To develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
2). To improve the Individual learning ability
3. Moral Objects
1)．To cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.
2)．To arouse students to love spring and their hometown
4. Learning Strategy
Individual learning、group-work and task-based learning
三、 Teaching Important and Difficult Points
1. Teaching Important Point:
To learn how to describe the spring in their hometown in a proper way.
2. Teaching Difficult Point:
To ask students to describe the spring in their hometown using what they’ve learned in this lesson.
四、Teaching Aids：Multi-media, tape recorder；
五、Teaching Procedures
教学过程
Teaching Procedures
Step I:
Pre-reading
Warming-up (5’)
教师活动
Teacher’s Activities
1. At the beginning of the class, say “hello” to students.
2. Play a “guessing game” .Let the students watch the pictures and the poems in English about spring on the screen carefully, then say out the Chinese poems.
学生活动
. Students’ Activities
Say “hello” to the teacher.
Guess the poem in Chinese according to the pictures and the key points on the screen.
设计意图
Purpose
1. Students have guessed a poem in Lesson 3.Let them guess more Chinese poems about spring to attract students’ attention.
2. Get ready for the next step.
Step II:
Lead-in (8’)
Let the students talk about the two questions in “Think about it”
Use brainstorming to help students focus on the topic “spring”.
Instruct students to master the new words.
Express their own ideas about spring like weather, temperature, colours, activities, etc.
Learn the new words and some phrases.
Help students remember what they’ve known about sping actively by using brainstorm.
Lead into the new lesson and get the class to know about the new words in a natural way.
Step Ⅲ:
While reading
Task Reading(5’)
1.Ask students to read the e-mail from my friend LiHong, and put the three paragraphs into the right order.
2. Check the answers.
3.Ask the students to read the passage again and finish the chart.
Listen carefully and finish the task.
Train the ability of reading.
Let the students learn about the spring city by themselves.
Step IV:
Read for knowledge (6’)
1.Ask students to read the text aloud in groups.
2. Ask students to work out their own problems about the text with the help of other group members and the teacher.
3. Ask the students to learn the important phrases by heart.
4.Explain the problems they can’t understand.
5. Let the students finish the exercises.
1. Read the text aloud in groups.
2. Discuss and work out their own problems.
3. Help each other in groups.
4. Master the important phrases.
5.Finish the exercises.
Train students’ ability of Individual and cooperative learning.
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Step V :
Post reading Extension
Let students finish “Let’s do it”No.2.
Listen to the tape carefully and match the names with the sentences
Play the tape again and check the answers
Listen carefully and finish the task
Let the students learn more about the spring in other cities.
Train students’ listening ability.
Step VI: (4’)
The spring in my hometown
Let students write a short passage about the spring in Tangshan.
Ask several students to share their articles with the class.
Let students think about how to show their love to their hometown
Write the article about the spring in Tangshan..
Share their articles in class.
Talk about What they can do to make their hometown a beautiful place
1.Train students the ability of speaking and writing.
2.Arouse students’ love to their hometown.
Step Ⅶ: Summary(2’)
Ask students to summary what they’ve learned in class.
Make a short speech about the meaning of spring.
Summarize what they have learned in this lesson by themselves.
Cultivate students’ good habits of summarizing after learning something.
Make students work hard for their own future.
StepⅧ:
Homework (1’)
Let students make a poster about how to make our hometown a better place and prepare to show it to class in the next lesson.
Make a poster after class.
Let students have more chance to show their ideas.
六、Blackboard Design
Unit 1 The spring is coming！ Lesson 4 The Spring City
Groups Score
A
B spring
C
D



Let’s work together to make Tangshan a better place.
七、Teaching reflection