八下英语下 Unit 1 What's the Matter A Grammar focus - 4c教案

Unit 1 What's the Matter A Grammar focus - 4c教案
1. Teaching Aims
1.1 Language Knowledge
Students will be able to master the key vocabulary related to body parts and symptoms, such as “headache”, “stomachache”, “toothache”, “sore throat” etc.
Students can correctly use the sentence patterns “What’s the matter / What’s wrong / What’s the trouble ” to ask about others' health problems and “I have a...” to describe their own or others' symptoms.
1.2 Language Skills
Students can listen for specific information about health problems in conversations and passages.
Students are able to express health problems and give corresponding advice in oral and written communication.
1.3 Cultural Awareness
Students will be aware of different ways of expressing health problems in English - speaking countries and understand the importance of showing concern for others' health in daily communication.
1.4 Learning Strategies
Students learn to summarize and categorize grammar knowledge by themselves.
Develop students' ability to cooperate with their partners in pair - work and group - work, and learn from each other.
2. Teaching important and difficult points
2.1 Key Points
The correct usage of vocabulary about body parts and symptoms.
The sentence patterns for asking about and stating health problems.
2.2 Difficult Points
How to use the learned grammar and vocabulary flexibly in real - life situations.
Distinguish between similar expressions of health problems, such as “have a headache” and “have a pain in the head”.
3. Teaching Methods
Communicative Teaching Method: Create real - life situations to let students communicate with each other using the target language.
Task - based Language Teaching Method: Arrange various tasks for students to complete, like role - play, group discussion, etc., to improve their language application ability.
Audio - visual Teaching Method: Use pictures, videos and recordings to stimulate students' interest and help them understand the knowledge better.
4. Teaching Procedures
Teaching Stages Time Teaching Activities Purpose
Lead - in 5 mins - Show some pictures of people with different facial expressions (happy, sad, painful, etc.). Ask students: “How do you think they are feeling ” and guide them to answer. - Then show pictures of people having health problems (a person holding his head, a person touching his stomach, etc.). Ask students: “What's the matter with them ” Activate students' prior knowledge and lead in the topic of the class.
Grammar Presentation 10 mins - Present the key vocabulary about body parts and symptoms on the PPT, teach students how to pronounce and spell them. - Write the sentence patterns “What’s the matter / What’s wrong / What’s the trouble ” and “I have a...” on the blackboard. Explain their usage and give some examples. - Let students read the sentences after the teacher and imitate the intonation. Teach students the key grammar knowledge directly and clearly.
Practice 15 mins - Pair - work: Students work in pairs. One student acts out a health problem, and the other asks “What's the matter ” and the first one answers with “I have a...”. Then they change roles. - Listen and answer: Play a short dialogue recording about two people talking about health problems. Students listen carefully and answer some questions on the PPT, such as “What's wrong with the man / woman ”, “What advice does the other person give ”. Strengthen students' understanding and application of the learned grammar through oral and listening practice.
Group Activity 10 mins - Group - work: Divide students into groups of four. Each group gets a set of cards with different health problems and advice written on them. Students need to match the health problems with the proper advice and then make up a short conversation using the sentences. - Each group chooses one member to come to the front and act out their conversation for the whole class. Cultivate students' cooperative learning ability and improve their language output ability in group communication.
Summary 3 mins - Invite some students to summarize what they have learned in this class, including vocabulary, sentence patterns, etc. - The teacher makes a supplementary summary, emphasizing the key and difficult points. Help students review and consolidate the knowledge they have learned in this class.
Homework 2 mins - Ask students to write a short passage about their own or their family members' health problems and how they dealt with them. - Encourage students to pay attention to health problems and try to give advice in English when they see someone having a health problem in their daily life. Strengthen students' writing ability and let them apply the learned knowledge to real - life situations.
5. Teaching Reflection
In this class, I used a variety of teaching methods to make the grammar class more interesting and engaging. The use of pictures and real - life situations in the lead - in part successfully aroused students' interest. However, during the pair - work and group - work, some students were a little shy to speak English, especially those with lower English levels. Next time, I should provide more encouragement and guidance for these students. Also, when explaining the difficult points, although I gave some examples, some students still seemed confused. I might need to use more vivid and easy - to - understand ways to clarify the differences. For example, using more body language or real - life stories to illustrate the usage of similar expressions. In general, students showed a certain degree of enthusiasm in class, but there is still room for improvement in my teaching methods to better meet the needs of all students.