《英语》（七年级下册）
Unit 7 Abilities
Grammar
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
learn how to use “can”, “could” and “may”;
use “what” and “how” to express strong feelings.
II. Teaching contents
New words and phrases: smoke, camera, X-ray, by the way, no problem
New sentences: How dangerous!
What a brave man!
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Learn how to use “can”, “could” and “may”.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Using can, could and may
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Boys and girls, today we are going to learn Grammar of Unit 7. Do you know these sports? Can you tell me their names?
S: Swimming, playing badminton, cycling, horse riding and flying kites.
【设计意图：从学生喜欢的体育运动导入本节语法课，为下面的新授课作铺垫。】
Step 2 Presentation
1. Use can or could to talk about ability
(1) Describe what you see in the picture.
She could not ride a bike at ten, but now she can ride a bike.
The girl is skating. She could not skate last year, but now she can skate.
We can also say: She wasn’t able to skate last year, but now she is able to skate.
(2) Look at more pictures and use can/could/be able to to describe them.
(3) Work in pairs and make up a dialogue according to the table.
【设计意图：由学生的个人操练过渡到两人对话，设计不同的任务让学生反复操练can、could、be able to。】
(4) What do we use can/could to talk about?
T: Jacky Chen can act well.
Lu Xun could write wonderful articles.
Michael Jackson could sing and dance well.
Read the sentences above and think about what we use can/could to talk about.
S: We use can/could to talk about ability.
T: Yes. We use can to talk about present ability and use could to talk about the ability in the past.
2. Use can, could or may to ask for permission
T: Read the dialogues below carefully and tell me what we use can/could to talk about.
When talking with classmates or friends
A: Can we do after-school activities together?
B: Yes, of course.
When talking with teachers or parents
A: Could I hand in my homework later, Mr Lin?
B: Yes, you can./No, you can’t.
S: We use can/could to talk about permission.
T: Which one sounds more polite, can or could?
S: Could sounds more polite than can.
T: You are right. In some formal occasions, we use may to ask for permission. For example:
A: May I have a talk with you, Mr Wu?
B: Yes, you may.
No, you may not./No, you can’t./ you mustn’t.
May is more polite than can/could.
【设计意图：让学生反复操练，然后自己得出结论。】
Complete the conversation
T: Amy is talking with Mr Wu about her trip. Complete their conversation with can, could or may.
B Using what and how to express strong feelings
Step 1 Presentation
The trip to South Hill
T: The students’ trip to South Hill is wonderful. We can say “How wonderful the trip is!” to express our strong feelings. The sentence is called Exclamatory Sentence.
2. Have a try
T: Describe the pictures with what we’ve learnt today.
Picture 1: The girl is pretty.
How pretty the girl is!
Picture 2: The boy is playing basketball happily.
How happily the boy is playing basketball!
T: The music sounds nice, isn’t it? Can you say it in another way?
S: How nice the music sounds!
T: Read the following sentences again.
How nice the music sounds!
How happily (the boy is playing basketball)!
How wonderful (the trip) is!
How pretty (the girl is)!
T: Nice, wonderful and pretty are adjectives, and happily is an adverb. So we can work out the structure of the exclamatory sentence: How + adj./adv. + (主语 + 谓语)！
【设计意图：给出足够多的例句，让学生自己得出感叹句的句式结构。】
3. Jurassic World
T: I watched a film called Jurassic World yesterday. It is very exciting. How exciting the film is!
What an exciting film (it is)!
4. Have a try
Picture 1: How pretty the girl is!
What a pretty girl she is!
Picture 2: How fine the weather is!
What fine weather it is!
Picture 3: How beautiful the flowers are!
What beautiful flowers they are!
T: Read the following sentences again.
What a pretty girl (she is)!
What an exciting film (it is)!
What fine weather (it is)!
What beautiful flowers (they are)!
T: A pretty girl, an exciting film, fine weather and beautiful flowers are noun Phrases. Can you work out the sentence structure?
S: What + a/an + adj. + 可数名词单数+（主语 + 谓语)！
What + adj. + 不可数名词 +（主语 + 谓语)！
What + adj. + 可数名词复数 +（主语 + 谓语)！
Step 2 Practice
1. Complete the conversation on page 86
2. Complete the sentences with “What/What a/What an/How”
heavy snow!
great abilities Superman has!
tall the trees are!
beautiful flowers they are!
amazing animal the ant is!
【设计意图：在设计练习时，通过图片增加趣味性和生动性，采用完成句子的形式降低题目的难度。】
Step 3 Summary
T: Let’s see what we have learnt today?
S: Use “can/could/may” to talk about ability
Use “can/could/may” to talk about permission.
Use “what/how” to express strong feelings.
V. Homework
1. Write sentences with What ...!/How ...!;
2. Write sentences with can/could/may.
