《英语》（七年级下册）
Unit 7 Abilities
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
learn the use of “can” and “can’t”;
talk about ways to help others;
learn to be polite and helpful to others.
II. Teaching contents
New words and phrase: ability, believe, raise, plant trees, help an old man, clean up the park,
give a seat to someone, on the bus, collect things for Project Hope, visit
an old people’s home, need … most, send sth to sb, collect some books for the children, raise sth for sb, look out
New sentences: How cool!
Believe it or not!
Some families are not even able to pay for pens and notebooks.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Talk about how to help others.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Comic strip
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Free talk (open questions)
T: Today we’ll learn Unit 7—Abilities. Are you a helpful person? OK, I will ask you some questions:
(1) Can you help your classmates with their homework?
(2) Can you look after the things in our classroom?
(3) Can you keep our classroom clean and tidy?
【设计意图：对学生日常学习生活中力所能及的事情进行询问，迅速进入本节课的话题。】
2. What can he do?
T: Different people have different abilities. Look at the pictures on the screen, and tell me what each person can do.
T: Look at the first picture. What can the boy do?
S: He can sweep the floor.
T: What about the second picture?
S: He can play football.
T: What can this boy do?
S: He can play tennis.
T: What can the man do?
S: He can play basketball very well.
T: What ability /??b?l?ti/ does he have?
S: He has the ability to play basketball very well.
T: Let’s move on. What ability does the monkey have?
S: It has the ability to ride a bike.
T: What ability do birds have?
S: They have the ability to fly
【设计意图：通过图片教学，引出单词ability，鼓励学生反复操练have the ability to do sth，也为引出Comic strip的内容做好了铺垫。】
Step 2 Presentation
1. Free talk
T: Do you believe /b??li?v/dogs have the ability to fly? What about Eddie? Do you believe he can fly like Superman? OK, let’s learn comic strip.
2. Listen and answer
T: Listen to the tape and answer the following three questions. Read the questions together first.
(1) What does Eddie want to be?
(2) What does Eddie want to do?
(3) What happened to Eddie?
T: Please take out a piece of paper, and write down the answers on it while listening. Don’t forget to close your English books.
(after listening) T: Please answer my questions.
S1: He wants to be Super dog.
S2: He wants to fly.
S3: He fell down
Role-play
T: Read the dialogue in pairs and try to recite each sentence.
T: Work in pairs. One will play the role of Eddie, the other Hobo. Act the dialogue out.
【设计意图：利用图片导入对话，让学生准备一张纸，边听边写下答案，这样做可以确保学生集中注意力，而不是盲目地听信息。让学生参与角色扮演，帮助他们体会卡通人物的个性。】
B Welcome to the unit
Step 1 Part A
1. lead-in
T: Have you ever watched the film Spider-man? Do you still remember the line “With great power comes great responsibility.”? Are you always ready to help others? What can you do for others? Look at the pictures and tell me what we can do for the old.
S1: We can visit an old people’s home.
S2: We can help the old woman cross the road.
S3: We can give a seat to someone on the bus.
T: What can we do on Tree-planting Day?
S4: We can plants trees.
T: What can we do if we see some rubbish in the park?
S5: We can clean up the park.
T: What can we do for Project Hope?
S6: We can collect things for Project Hope.
S7: We can raise some money for Project Hope.
【设计意图：让学生根据所给图片谈谈自己能为他人做什么，引导学生养成助人为乐的好习惯，也可以引出本节课的重点词组，让学生反复朗读。】
2. Helping Hands Club
T: Daniel and his classmates are members of the Helping Hands Club. Match the pictures below with the descriptions. Write the correct letters in the boxes.
T: Please check the answers with your partners.
3. Exercises
T: Read Part A carefully, and then complete the sentences.
【设计意图：让学生独立完成图片匹配，然后让他们熟读重要词组，并进行当堂反馈。】
Step 2 Part B
1. Listen and answer
T: Daniel and his classmates are talking about what they can do to help others. Listen to the tape, and then answer the following questions.
(1) Who will they help?
(2) What are some families not able to do?
2. Listen and read
T: Read after the tape and then I’ll ask five of you to read in roles.
【设计意图：在练习听力的基础上培养学生正确朗读英语的良好习惯，教师应尽量利用课堂45分钟来为学生创造大声朗读英语的机会。】
3. Make a survey
T: Now we’ll do a survey to see if you are a polite and helpful person.
T: Think about what you should do next to be a polite and helpful person.
T: Always get ready to give a hand to others because it’s better to give than to take and God help those who help others.
【设计意图：为学生创设日常生活中经常发生的情境，让他们对照自身的言行举止并考虑如何改正不足，鼓励学生成为乐于助人的中学生。】
V. Homework
1. Remember new words and useful expressions.
2. Recite Comic strip and Part B.
3. Preview Reading.
