广东省佛山市顺德区江义初级中学外研版八年级下学期英语教案：Module 5 Cartoon stories Unit 1 It ’s time to watch a cartoon

Module 5 Cartoons
Unit 1 It’s time to watch a cartoon.
Teaching style:
Listening and speaking
Teaching objectives:
1. To understand conversations about cartoon stories
2. To talk about the characters of the cartoon stories such as Superman, Batman, etc.
3. To grasp the key words and the key structures.
Teaching points:
1. Main points
1) Key vocabulary:
Cartoon handsome smart sky fight hero humorous laugh can’t help doing sth.
2) Key structures:
I can’t help laughing when I watch them.
2. Difficult points:
The present perfect
Teaching method:
Interactive approach
Teaching aids:
Tape recorder, video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
Check the homework revise module 4.
Step 2. Presentation
1. Show the students some photos of cartoon characters:
Superman, Batman, Nemo and Shriek
2. Ask them to talk about the cartoon characters.
Step 3. Listening and reading
1. Listen to the tape.
Ask the students to listen carefully and check the words they hear.
2. Play the tape once more and let the students to answer the questions in activity
then check their answers.
3. Play the tape again. Make students read and follow.
4. Read the summary of the conversation and underline the wrong information.
Listen again and correct the summary.
Step 4. Answer the questions
Ask the students to complete the answers individually, and then check with a partner.
Call back the answers from the whole class, having one student ask and another answer it.
Step 5. Read through the words with the whole class. Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. They can check in groups. At last, teacher has a check.
Step 6. Pronunciation and speaking
1. Listen and repeat. Play the tape and have the students read the sentences.
2. Make sure the students understand the meaning of the expressions
Step 7. Learn the grammar points
Have a revision of the grammar points about objective clauses.
Explain the attributive clauses used in this unit.
Step 8. Work in pairs
Talk about the cartoon characters such as Superman or Batman and cartoon stories.
Step 9. Practice
一、Answer the questions.
1. What does Tony think about Spiderman?
2. Why does Daming think Superman is better?
3. Why do they both like Tom and Jerry?
4. What lesson can Tony learn from Tom and Jerry?
Keys: (省略)
二、Complete the passage.
Children and adults all over the world love ______. Some, like Tom and Jerry, are ______, and people enjoy _______ at the funny stories in them. Others, like Superman and Spiderman, are about _______. They ______ bad people to protect the world. These cartoons are not just stories --- they also teach _______ about good and bad.
Keys: (省略)
三、Complete the sentences with words.
1. A is a person who plays a part in a story, and the is the person who plays the main part.
2. A cartoon is one which doesn’t make you , such as a
of a news story.
3. A cartoon in which the hero saves someone is a story with a happy .
4. A is a story you tell to make people laugh.
Keys:
1. character, hero 2. serious, laugh, cartoon 3.ending 4. joke
四、根据句意写出句中画线单词的反义词
1. A good beginning is a half .
2. My Chinese teacher is a serious man while my English teacher is a f one.
3. The two brother aren’t the similar to each other.
The elder is stupid and the young is .
4. It’s no laughing matter. It is .
5. The man upstairs is not pleased with the man .
Keys: 1. ending 2. funny 3. smart 4. serious 5. downstairs
五、单项填空
1. He is a man of humor sense who often makes people .
A. laugh B. laughs C. laughing D. to laugh
2. This isn’t one of those cartoons which often us happiness.
A. brings B. bring C. to bring D. brought
3. We need someone Lucy.
A. who like B. like C. is like D. likes
4. Let’s to speak to the man over there.
A. come B. go over C. come over D. to go
5. I like cartoon stories which have .
A. a happy ending B. happy endings C. no ending D. any ending
Keys:
ABBBD
Unit 2 Tintin has been popular for over eighty years.
Teaching style:
Reading and writing
Teaching objectives:
To get the general idea of the reading passage;
To use the key words of this unit to answer the questions;
To write about cartoon heroes: Nemo, Monkey King and Tintin.
Teaching points:
1. Main points
1) Key vocabulary:
Orange-and –white ugly school bag lead as mess heaven expect artist invent copy blank-and white own private create satisfy win the heart of sb.
2) Key structures:
…both of them have won the hearts of young people all over the world.
2. Difficult points:
To get information from the reading material about cartoon heroes. (难点)
To train reading strategies including skimming, inferring, and reformulating.
Teaching method:
Top-down approach
Teaching aids:
Video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
Revise the words and the structures in unit 1.
Make students do some exercises to revise the grammar.
Step 2. Presentation
Show flashcards to learn the words. Make the students read the words .have them repeat them chorally and individually. Ask the students to do the matching individually. Then have a check.
Step 3. Reading
1. Ask the students to read the passage and answer the questions individually.
First the teacher checks with a partner. Then teacher has a check.
Then make students ask and answer in pairs.
2. Read it again, ask the students to read the passage and answer the questions individually, and then check with a partner. Call back the answers from the whole class, having one student read a question and another answer it.
3. Explain the text. Make students pay attention to the important sentences and key words. If necessary, make students recite some part of the text.
Step 4. Writing
Write about the students’ favorite cartoon heroes who belong to what kind of cartoon.
Teaching students how to increase their vocabulary by adding new words to their vocabulary book every day.
Step 5. Practice
一、Choose the sentence which best summarizes the passage.
A. Not all popular cartoons are recent; some have been popular for many years.
B. The most popular cartoons are published as books and not as films.
C. Many people who read cartoons today are adults.
D. Many cartoons which were created in the west have become very popular in China.
Keys: A
二、根据句意和词首字母写单词
1. It is said that there was a terrible m that lives in the lake.
2. The 75% of the earth’s s is covered with sea water.
3. The cartoon film is my f .
4. The b often makes his workers work over eight hours every day.
5. Everyone has his own p dream which was expected to come true.
Keys: monster surface favorite boss private
三、单项填空
1. The golden fish looks than the orange-and-white one.
A. cute B. smart C. clever D. cute
2. He is a teacher with .
A. much experience B. much experiences
C. many experience D. many experiences
3. The TV cost my grandparents only 200yuan.
A. old black and white B. old black-and –white
C. black, white and old D. black-and-white and old
4. In December 1984, the whole series of Tintin in China.
A. began publishing B. began to publish
C. was began to publish D. began to be published
5. We moved here 20 years ago and have lived here .
A. ever since B. since that C. from then on D. by then
6. There are several in China which support the organization.
A. fan clubs B. fan club C. fans clubs D. clubs of fan
7. To many people, heaven to be a pleasant place.
A. is like B. likes C. is likely D. like
Unit 3 Language in use
Teaching style:
Revision and application
Teaching objectives:
1. To practice using the present perfect and distinguish the difference of the simple present tense, the simple past tense and the present perfect.
2. To use the key words and expressions in new situations.
3. To finish the module task: Discussing how to write a competition.
Teaching method:
Formal and interactive practice
Teaching aids:
Tape recorder, video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
1. Revise the vocabulary in Unit1 and 2.
2. Revise the structures.
Step 2. Presentation
Ask the students to read the six example sentences.
Ask them to explain what they illustrate.
Step 3. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words.
Read the example with the whole class so they understand what to do.
Ask them to complete the activity individually, then check with a partner.
Call back the answers from the whole class as complete sentences.
Step 4. Work in pairs
Read the example with the whole class so they understand what to do.
Ask them to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions.
Circulate and monitor their production.
Call back some examples from the pairs.
Step 5. Complete the passage
Read through the words in the box with the class, having them repeat chorally and individually.
Ask them to complete the activity individually, then check with a partner
Call back the answers from the whole class as complete sentences.
Step 6. Listening
Work in pairs, listen and say where the speaker is.
Listen again and answer the questions.
Step 7. Module task
Work in groups. Choose an invention to discuss how to write a competition according to order.
Discuss in groups and make notes about the discussions
Present findings to the class.
Step 8. Practice
一、Join the sentences with that, which or who, if necessary.
1. Tintin is a boy reporter.
He has lots of adventures all around the world.
2. The writer is George.
He has written many unforgettable characters.
3. The cartoon is called Havoc in Heaven.
It tells the story of a monkey.
4. Mr Black did a lot of study.
The study can be found in his drawings.
Keys:
1. Tintin is a boy reporter who/that has lots of adventures all around the world.
2. The writer is George who/that has written many unforgettable characters.
3. The cartoon that/which ells the story of a monkey is called Havoc in Heaven.
4. The study that/which Mr Black did can be found in his drawings.
二、Choose the correct answer.
1. The Monkey King is a cartoon character which .
a) causes problems in heaven
b) has traveled to the moon
2. Shrek is a monster who .
a) falls in love with a princess
b) was born from stone
3. Nemo is the name of a .
a) fish which is caught by a diver
b) big, fat cat which is very lazy
4. Snoopy is a lovable dog which was created by .
a) Tintin
b) Charles Schultz
Keys: a) a) a) b)
三、Complete the passage with the correct words.
The , Mao Xiaole, is very in China. He gets the ideas for his stories or characters by looking at websites for daily news and events in China which will make people . Sometimes he draws as many as five in a single morning. He has a camera with him all the time which he uses to photograph things he finds interesting. Then, when he starts a of something, he can make sure the details are exactly right.
Keys:
Cartoonist, popular, cartoon, laugh, pictures, creation.
四、Complete the passage with the correct phrases in the box.
ever since 从……开始 have a word with 和……说句话 over there 在那边
Mike: Excuse me, can I (1) you? I’ve been a fan of your work (2) I was a child. I’d like to show you some of my cartoons. They’re (3) on the wall. Would you like to come and see them?
Jill: Thank you. I’d like to see them. If you want to be a cartoonist, it’s very important to be able to draw, and your drawings are very good.
Keys:
(1) have a word with (2) ever since (3) over there