8A Unit 2 Shool life单元教材分析及教案
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牛津英语8A Unit 2 Shool life
教材分析:
本单元的主要话题是谈论学生的学校生活，这个话题非常贴近学生的生活，因而学生将对此话题非常感兴趣。开篇部分以卡通漫画将师生引入了学校生活的主题，以有趣逗乐的方式引出学校为什么要办学这个重要的话题。导入部分向学生介绍了英国英语和美国英语的不同用法，让学生了解到英语的不同语体。帮助学生解决了平时学习过程中遇到的同一中文意思或同一英文单词在英式英语和美式英语不同的表达方式。阅读部分为学生提供了有关英国和美国学校的文章，介绍了英国和美国中等学校教育的体系，让学生了解到两国的教育体制。同时学生会把它们和中国中等学校教育的体系和教育体制相比较，了解英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。词汇部分让学生学习了学校科目的英文名称以及用学生已学过的相关的形容词和它们相应的反义词来表达对各个科目的看法。语法部分以比较事物为主，用一个连续的语境，通过故事的发展让学生更多地了解英国、美国和中国的学校、兴趣小组和课余生活。综合技能部分通过比较中英美三国学校的学生和老师的情况复习学生已学的语法内容，同时训练学生的听力能力，让学生讨论他们的小学学校和学校生活情况，训练他们的口语水平。语音部分旨在培养学生的语音语调的意识，让他们知道不同的语调模式可以表达不同的意思，让他们在今后的说英语的过程中正确运用语音语调。中心部分先通过调查问卷了解学生个人关于学校的喜好，为后面的写作做好准备。用前面具体细节方面的问题来写自己的理想学校，培养他们的英语思维能力和写作水平。检测部分复习了语法知识和相关的单词。学生学完本单元后，将了解不同国家的中学生的学校生活情况，激发他们学习英语的兴趣，提高他们的英语水平。
总体目标：
让学生了解英国和美国学校生活，并和中国的学校生活相比较，让学生了解不同国家中等学校不同的教育的体系和教育体制。同时通过对英美国家中学生的学校生活的了解，激发他们学习英语的兴趣，并通过本单元的学习，掌握了一些有关学科的名称和对其描述的形容词，复习和巩固了形容词原级、比较级和最高级的用法。通过本单元的整体学习，使学生在听说读写各个方面的能力得以提高。
教学的重难点：
重点：1. 学习有关学校科目的名称和有关学校学习生活的词组。
2. 了解英国和美国中学生的学校生活。
3. 识别并运用适当的语调模式。
4. 了解一些英式英语和美式英语的单词及其读音。
难点：
1 运用more/fewer/less….than 比较数量。
2 运用the most/fewest/least比较事物。
3 运用tha same as和 be different from做比较。
4 have a great time doing sth.
教学分析和教学建议：
对于中学的学校生活，学生是熟悉并感兴趣的，尤其是了解国外中学生的学校生活并和他们自己的学校生活相比较，更是他们津津乐道的事。在中国，八年级的学生所学的学科基本全了，因此在此基础上学用英语表达，学生比较容易接受。同时学习形容词原级、比较级和最高级的用法，对与他们来说也能理解和接受。因而本单元的学习并不困难。教师在教学过程中可采用Role playing, Practicing, Cooperating, Scanning和Listening for specific information的学习策略，利用教学挂图，制作多媒体课件来开展个人表演、两人一组表演或更多的学生一起分角色表演。在教词汇时，教师可以在找一些学生学过的单词来比较英式英语和美式英语在单词拼写或读音上的区别。通过分角色扮演模仿对话或用关键词来复述课文可以培养学生的听力和口语水平，让学生在听录音或同学叙述时，学会获取主要的信息来帮助自己理解和记忆。在阅读过程中，让学生学会写关键词语，复述短文，模仿编写对话等，以提高学生的阅读水平。在语法教学过程中，让学生自己通过学习总结规律，模仿操练，让学生真正掌握语法知识并能灵活运用。
课时安排：
开篇部分 1课时
导入部分 1课时
阅读部分 2课时
词汇部分 1课时
语法部分 2课时
综合技能部分1课时
中心部分 1课时
检测部分 1课时
Comics stripes & welcome to the unit
教学目标
1. 了解一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。
2. 确保学生能区别英式英语和美式英语。
3．激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
教学内容
学习一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学过程：
Step 1 Showing a world map
Get the students to know the English-speaking countries around the world, by showing a world map to them. Meanwhile write the name of different English-speaking countries in the world. Let the students know the differences between British and American English.
Step 2 Matching the two words that refer to the same things
Tell the students that people use different words to talk about the same things. Ask the students to open their books and match the two words that refer to the same things.
Get the students to read these words syllable by syllable to help them remember it.
Step3 Doing Part B on page 19
Get the students to finish doing Part B on page 19. Show the pictures and ask the students to speak out both the British and American words out loudly.
StepP 4 Guessing what they are talking about
(1) Show the first picture of Comic Stripes to the student without the words. Ask the students to guess: “what are they talking about ”Play the tape for the students to listen and find out the answer to the questions.
(2)Get the students to read and feel the humor here. (In fact, Eddie has no idea what school is like and why people need to got to school. However, he still thinks dogs are clever. ) If the students have no problem in understanding the dialogue, get them to practice the dialogue in pairs and act out the dialogue in front of the class. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier and more interesting.
STEP 5 Talking about the sentences
Talking about the following sentences:
(1) We are smarter than people.
(2) There are fewer advertisements.
(3)What is school like It’s like watching TV.
Step 6 Giving some reasons for your ideas
Eddie thinks school life is like watching TV. What do you think of our school life Encourage the students to give some reasons for their ideas
It is very necessary for our teacher to lead the students to talk about the brighter side for the kid to develop an active attitude towards school life as well as to study.
STEP 7 Homework
Try to find more information about the differences between British and American English.
vocabulary
教学目标
1.能够正确表达学科的名称。
2.掌握一向形容词的反义词并用形容词表达自己对学科的观点。
3.教师引导学生正确对待每一门学科，认真学好每一门学科。
教学内容
学习有关的学科的名称和一些形容词及其反义词的用法。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step 1 Giving a very general revision
Just give a very general revision and get the students to talk about the special subjects in British and American schools. Encourage the students to talk about these questions:
(1)What subjects do you learn
(2)Which is your favourite subject
(3)What can we learn in the subject
(4)How do you like the subject Why
Step 2 Learning the subjects
Get the students to name the subjects that they have at school and write the names on the blackboard. Help students expand their active vocabulary about school subjects.
Languages: Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Japanese
Geography, Science, art Home Economics , Computer studies
PE---( PE is the short form for Physical Education)
Art and Design, Biology, Chemistry, Music Physics
Get the students to read the words on the blackboard loudly.
Step 3 Finishing Part A on Page 27
Get the students to finish Part A on Page 23. Match pictures with correct subjects.Talk about each sbuject:
Art --- You can draw or paint pictures.
Languages---We can learn to speak different languages.
History--- We learn about the past.
Computer studies---We can learn to use the computer.
PE--- We do a lot of physical exercise.
Home economics---We can learn to cook and sew.
Science---We can learn about the natural world through experiments.
STEP 4 Which subjects do you like best
Ask the students which subjects are their favorites. And encourage them to speak out their reasons.
(1) Do you like all of the subjects
(2) What is your favorite subject Why
STEP 5 Finding the opposites of the adjectives
Pointing at the adjectives written on the blackboard. Encourage the students to find the opposites of the adjectives. Write them in pairs. Get the students to read the adjectives on the blackboard and then encourage them to use these words to talk about the subjects.
Step6 Homework
Write about your favorite subject and speak out your reasons.
Reading 1
教学目标
1. 学会运用各种阅读方式，读懂文章，了解英美国家中学生的学校生活。
2. 了解作者的个人感受和观点。
3. 让学生用所学的知识讨论学校生活，并了解英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
教学内容
学习一些与学校生活相关的词汇，了解英美国家中学生的学习生活情况。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step1 Lead in
Ask some questions about their school life.
（1）How many lessons do you have every day
（2）What subjects do you learn
（3）How often do you have a class meeting
（4）What clubs do you have
（5）What after-activities do you have
（6）Do you have a Reading Week
（7）Where can you read books
（8）Do you have a hero Who is he/she
When the teacher and the students talk about these questions, the teacher use the picture to teach some new words:
Mixed together magazine senior hero Home Ecnomics and so on.
Step 2 life in a British school:
Teacher says: Now I know something about your schol life. Do you want to know something about the life in a British school
1. Let’s listen to the tape: “life in a British school” Then answer the questions:
(1). Who wrote the passage
(2). What activity does the school have every day
2.Ask the students to read the passage, then tell the sentences true (T) or false(F):
(1). John is in Year 9 at Woodland School, It’s a mixed school.
(2). John likes Home Economics best of all.
(3). He knows how to cook healthy and tasty meals before coming to this school.
(4). There is Reading Week in this school every year.
(5). The students can read any books from the school but they can’t bring in books from their home.
(6). They think Reading Week is too short because they want to read more books.
Step3 Life in an American school:
1. Now we know the life in a British school, let’s learn something about Life in an American school, Please read the passage, then answer the questions:
(1) Who wrote the second passage
(2) What did her brother do last year
(3) How does Nancy go to school now What does she think of it
(4) What do the students do in the Buddy Club
(5) Why does Nancy say Julie is her hero
(6) What do the students do durinng lunchtime
Step 4 Ask the students to read the whole passage ,then do Exercise C1, C2. Then check the answers.
Step 5 Listen to the tape and repeat after the tape.
(1) Do Exercise B1 ,then check the answers.
(2) Ask the students to complete their conversation firet,then ask two students to read the dialogue to check the answers. Prctise in pairs.
Step 6 Discussion:
Ask the students to talk about their school life, then write it down.
Reading 2
教学目标
1. 掌握重要语言点，词组，句型。用学到的语言点，词组，句型来谈论英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异。
2. 理解作者的个人感受和观点。
教学内容
掌握课文中的重要语言点，词组，句型。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision:
1.Ask some questions about the two passages to revise the text.
2. Listen to the tape, then complete th form below.
Who John Nancy
Where Woodland School, London Rocky Mountain High School, Denver
What activity/club Home Economics; Reading week Softball The Buddy Club
How often Every year Twice a week Every Monday
Why Because he likes learning to cook and sew; Because he can read anything he likes Because she loves the gameBecause she enjoys it a lot.
Step 2 Teach some new words and phrases:
1. health healthy healthily unhealthy
healthy—healthier—healthiest
2. taste—tasty
3. as well/too also
4. hero (n) heroes
5. spends + 时间/金钱 + on sth/(in) doing sth
It takes + sb + 时间 + to do
Sth costs sb + 金钱/精力
pay for; pay off
6. practice=practise: v. practice/practise doing
7. tell sb to do sth
ask sb to do sth
tell / ask sb not to do sth
8. 特殊疑问词+ to do
I want to know what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
I don’t know which one to buy.
9. It’s great because it’s faster than taking the bus.
a. than 是介词，后加名词、代词、动名词
b. than是连词， taking the bus 后省略了is。
Playing football is more interesting than having lessons (is).
10. She helps me learn all about my new school.
learn all about 意为“对……有全面的了解”
all是不定代词，还可以替换成nothing, little,
a little, something, much, everything, less,
more, most 等。
11. have a good/ great/ wonderful/ nice time doing something
have fun doing something
enjoy oneself
Step 3 Do exercise
Ask the students to read the text together, then finish of the exercises. Eight minutes later ,check the answers.
Step4 Discussion:
What do you think of the life in a Chinese school/British school/an American school Which school life do you think is better Why
Grammar 1
教学目标
1. 运用more …than, fewer …than,和 less…than比较数量。
教学内容
学习用more …than, fewer …than,和 less…than来进行数量的比较，让学生注意可数名词和不可数名词。
教学准备
1. 图片。
2. 多媒体。
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision
1.Get the students to talk about the school lives in American and British schools. (It is a very important job for us to help the students feel familiar with the topic of the unit.)
2. I will help the students focus on the subjects and the after-school activities by asking some questions:
(1) What subjects does John/Nancy have at his school
(2) What did they do during their free time
Step 2 Looking ahead
Inform the students with what they are going to learn in this period. In Unit One (8A), we have learned how to compare two things or more. Most adjectives then are used after a linking verb. In Unit Two, we will learn to talk about the amount of two things or more. It is the comparative and superlative use of adjectives that are used before nouns.
Show the pictures in Part A (P28) one by one. Ask the students to talk about the pictures.
Step 3 Comparing in pairs
Get the students to compare John’s school, Nancy’s school and Daniel’s school in pairs.
Step4 Talking about the school life
Get the students to talk about their school life by asking questions about subjects and the activities they do at school. Encourage the students to put down the information in the last column of the table. (Part A2) How many subjects do we have What are they
What do you do at school, when you are free How much free time do you enjoy
How long do you spend doing your homework
Get the students to compare their own information with Nancy’s school, John’s school and Daniels school. We have too much homework to do. So we have less free time than John and Nancy. We have more subjects than Nancy.
Step5 Finishing Part A3
Get the students to finish Part A3. Then get the students to talk about their lives at school. They may get the following sentences. Judy enjoys reading books. She reads more books than we do. She spends more money on books than we do.
Tommy doesn’t like ball games . He spends less time playing football than we do.
Step 6 Homework
Go over what we learned today and finish off the exercises in the books.
Grammar 2
教学目标
1运用the most 比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最多，运用the fewest和the least比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最少。
2运用the same as 和 be different from 做比较
教学内容
学会运用the same as 和different from 做比较
教学准备
1. 图片
2. 多媒体
教学步骤
Step 1 Starting by checking learning
we learned how to compare two things. Now let me check if you have grasped it very well. Ask the students to open their books and turn to Page 28. Encourage the students to talk about the different schools. This time the students are hoped to compare not only two schools, but also all the schools.
Teachers can use the following questions to guide the students.
(1)Which school has the most subjects Which school has the fewest
(2)Who joins the most clubs Who joins the fewest
(3)Who enjoys the most free time Who enjoys the least
(4)Which school has the most subjects Which school has the fewest
(5)Who joins the most clubs Who joins the fewest
(6)Who enjoys the most free time Who enjoys the least
Get the students to finish Part B1, Page 29. Check the answers.
Step 2 Showing the pictures
Show the pictures on Page 29 one by one. Get the students to talk about them.
Step3 Finishing the exercises
(1)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B2, Page 29.
Encourage the students to make more sentences by comparing the three pictures.
(2)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B3. (While doing the exercises the students must pay special attention to nouns. They are hoped to tell uncountable nouns from countable one, and then use ‘the most’ ‘the fewest’ with countable nouns and ‘the most’ ‘the least’ with uncountable nouns. ) Invite the students to check the answers each other.
(3)Invite the students to finish the exercises in Part B4, Page 30.
Check the answers.
Step 4 Informing the students
Inform the students that we can make another kind of comparison using ‘the same as’ and ‘different from’. The teacher can help the students to understand this by showing real objects. Keep doing this so as to make most of the students speak and understand the structures very well. Invite the students to talk about their school uniform. Show the pictures in Part C. Talking about Simon’s uniform, Daniel’s uniform and John’s uniform. It is easy for the students to come to the following sentences.
Step5 Do part C1
Do part of C1. First get the students to look at the pictures. Put it clear that Millie and Simon are from Beijing Sunshine School. And Tina and John are form woodland school. Get the students to complete Part C1 and then check the answers. Do Part C2 and check the answers.
Integreted skills
教学目标：
1． 听取细节，提炼信息。
2． 了解更多中外学校生活的异同点。
3． 进一步复习巩固本单元的语法项目。
教学肉容：掌握一些重要的词组和句子。
词组：number of students length of summer holiday
have weeks off in the summertime
spend… doing/on something have Computer Studies lessons
句型：I spend less time doing homework than John does.
How many Grade 8 classes are there at your school
教学准备：
1． 人物图片。
2． 多媒体、录音机。
教学步骤
Step1 Revision
1. Help Ss make sentences with “more … than, less … than, fewer … than, the most, the least, the fewest, the sane as, different from, the same … as” using the objects in the classroom.
2. In order to know school life in the countries where English is spoken, ask the questions about reading to know important information.
Step2 Presentation
1. Introduce background: Daniel is writing an article about the different schools for the school newletter. Sandy is helping him collect information on the Internet. Then go through the table in PartA1 on p. 32. Pay attention to the information on the title line. Explain some of the words. Ask Ss to indentify the missing facts. Learn the new word lengh, e.g. length of the holiday, length of my desk, etc..
2. Ask Ss to listen to the recording twice and finish the table in PartA and check the answers. Pause the recording for the second time after each answer to give Ss more time to write down the answers if necessary.
Step3 Reading
1. Let Ss go through Daniel’s article before they do the exercise in PartA2 on p.32 and check if they understand it. Ask Ss to do the exercise alone with the information in PartA1, then check the answers with their parters. Check the answers with the whole class and read the passage aloud.
2. Check if Ss remember something about Daniel, John and Nancy.
Let Ss finish the exercises in PartA3 on p. 33 according to the information inParts A1 and A2.
Step4 Practice
1. Know the situation with Ss and ask Ss to read PartB on p.33, then ask and answer about the conversation.
2. Read the conversation after the recording, then role-play to read it.
3. Practise the conversation in groups of four and then ask two to three groups to act it out in front of the class.
Homework
1. Make up their own conversation by imitaing the contents they’ve learned..
2. Finish the exercise in this lesson.
Pronounciation
教学目标：
1．识别并运用适当的语调模式。
2．在陈述句句末使用降调。
3．使用升调来表示惊讶。
教学内容：
1．陈述句以降调结尾。
2．使用升调来表示惊讶。
教学准备：录音机。
教学步骤：
Step1 Presentation
1. Say to Ss: We’ve learned a lot about students in diffreent countries. Now you are going to listen to a conversation about another student, Laura. Please close your books and listen to the recording. Pay more attention to the intonation.. Introduce the task of this lesson.
2. Play the recording of PartA on p.34, then guide Ss to say out thr intonation patterns. Ask Ss some questions. Did the voice rise or fall at the end of the sentence Help Ss sum up the same point of some affirmative sentences: make the voice fall at the end of the sentence. Let Ss guess some sentences using rising voice what they express.
3. Ask Ss to open their books and play the recording again stopping after each sentence. Ask Ss to repeat imitating the voice patterns.
4. Ask Ss to read the conversation in pairs and make sure Ss can use use correct intonation while reading.
5. Do an activity in pairs. Read the conversation in pairs , correct each other and improve together.
Step2 Practice
1. Play the recoding of PartB on p. 34, ask Ss to imitate carefully and pay particular attention to the sentences using rising voice to show surprise.
2. Ask Ss to listen to the sentences again, put a rising arrow at the end of the sentence if you think the speaker is surprised. Put a falling arrow if you think the he/she isn’t..
3. Divide the class in pairs and read these sentences to their partners, correct each other and improve each other. While practising, the teacher walks around the class and correct Ss’wrong intination.
4. Ask Ss to think of something untrue or strange and make sentences. Make sure Ss pronounce the sentences with a falling voice. Ask the other Ss to react to each sentence with a rising voice to express surprise. Encourage Ss to make some amusing or unusual statements to create a fun atmosphere in the classroom.
5. Ask some pairs of Ss to come to the front of the class and present their exchabges. Give the other Ss criteria for awarding points.
Homework：
1. Choose a text Ss have learned to read and pay attention to the use of the rising voice and the falling voice.
2. Finish the exercises in this lesson.
Main Task
教学目标
1、 了解问卷调查的有关知识，根据个人信息完成一份调查问卷。
2、 根据学校及个人情况选择具体信息，包括选择自己最喜欢的活动；完成构思一篇文章，描述自己理想中的学校。
教学内容
让学生谈自己的理想学校的生活情况。
教学准备
1、 录音机
2、 投影仪
教学步骤
Step 1. Questionnaire
Invite the students to fill in the questionnaire in Part A, on Page 35. Then go through the quesitons one by one and focus on what they like or dislike about their school. Organize a discussion and encourage the students to speak as many proper reasons as possible.
When the students are talking about what they like and dislike about their school. Ask them about their ideal school. Encourage the students to write down their answers on Page 35.
Step2 Designing a timetable
Invite the students to design a timetalbe for their favourite subjects, sports and after-school activities. They may need this to write about their ideal school.
Step3 Reading for structures
1. Ask the students: Are you satisfied with your current school life What is your ideal school life
Encourage the students to speak out their opinions.
2. Students listen to the tape and answer:
(1) When does Daniel’s school start
(2) How much homework does he have
3. Get the students to read the sample article by Daniel and figure out the ways or the structure that they can follow to write about their own ideal school. Use the following questions to help the students.
(1) When does it finish
(2) Why does he think it is his ideal school
(3) How long do they have lunch
(4) What can they do in the big dining hall
(5) What do they eat every day
(6) What subjects does Daniel like to have Why
(7) How many students are there in each class
(8) What’s in his ideal school There is a park, a shopping mall, a big library , a tennis court and a swimming pool.
(9) Do they have homework at weekends
(10) How often do they go on a trip to a museum or a theatre
Step 4 Writing
Tell the students that they can write their own article following the structure. Get the students to read the passage and pick up some useful sentence patterns. Show some writings of theirs
Step 5 Homework
Go on finishing writing
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教学目标
1、 复习本单元的语法项目
1、 通过识别单词间的联系来理解单词分类的意义
教学内容
复习本单元的重要的词汇，语法和句型。
教学准备
1、 教学图片
1、 多媒体或投影仪
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision
Revise the use of ‘more/fewer/less…than’ and ‘the most/fewest/least’.
Students use the real objects (school things or the objects in the classroom) to make as many sentences as they can by using these phrases.
Step 2 Practice
(1). Use the real object “paper clip ” and present it to the students and then teach this word. Students read this word after the teacher.
(2). Look at the pictures on Page 37. Talk about the pictures with the students. Ask students some questions about these pictures
1) How many pencilboxes can you see
1) Whose pencilboxes are these Do you know
1) What colour is Millie’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Amy’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Kitty’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Simon’s pencilbox
1) What’s in Millie’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Amy’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Kitty’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Simon’s pencilbox And how many
(3)Use the phrases “be the same as” and “be different from”. Students make some comparisons.
eg. Millie’s pencil box is the same size as Amy’s pencil box.
Amy’s pencil box is the same colour as Kitty’s pencil box
Amy has fewer pencils than Simon.
Simon has more paper clips than Kitty.
Kitty’s rubber is different from Simon’s rubber.
(4) Ask students in groups to make as many sentences as they can
Point out: “the same size as ” “the same colour as ”
Step 3 Part B on Page 37
(1)Read the words and phrases in the form
(2)Play a word game with students. Students put the words into the correct word groups
Sports: swimming softball basketball table tennis
Stationery: ruler pencil paper rubber
School subjects: Geography Maths History Science
Schools and students: mixed school high school secondary school
Step 4 Homework
Write an article about your ideal school/school life.
教材分析:
本单元的主要话题是谈论学生的学校生活，这个话题非常贴近学生的生活，因而学生将对此话题非常感兴趣。开篇部分以卡通漫画将师生引入了学校生活的主题，以有趣逗乐的方式引出学校为什么要办学这个重要的话题。导入部分向学生介绍了英国英语和美国英语的不同用法，让学生了解到英语的不同语体。帮助学生解决了平时学习过程中遇到的同一中文意思或同一英文单词在英式英语和美式英语不同的表达方式。阅读部分为学生提供了有关英国和美国学校的文章，介绍了英国和美国中等学校教育的体系，让学生了解到两国的教育体制。同时学生会把它们和中国中等学校教育的体系和教育体制相比较，了解英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。词汇部分让学生学习了学校科目的英文名称以及用学生已学过的相关的形容词和它们相应的反义词来表达对各个科目的看法。语法部分以比较事物为主，用一个连续的语境，通过故事的发展让学生更多地了解英国、美国和中国的学校、兴趣小组和课余生活。综合技能部分通过比较中英美三国学校的学生和老师的情况复习学生已学的语法内容，同时训练学生的听力能力，让学生讨论他们的小学学校和学校生活情况，训练他们的口语水平。语音部分旨在培养学生的语音语调的意识，让他们知道不同的语调模式可以表达不同的意思，让他们在今后的说英语的过程中正确运用语音语调。中心部分先通过调查问卷了解学生个人关于学校的喜好，为后面的写作做好准备。用前面具体细节方面的问题来写自己的理想学校，培养他们的英语思维能力和写作水平。检测部分复习了语法知识和相关的单词。学生学完本单元后，将了解不同国家的中学生的学校生活情况，激发他们学习英语的兴趣，提高他们的英语水平。
总体目标：
让学生了解英国和美国学校生活，并和中国的学校生活相比较，让学生了解不同国家中等学校不同的教育的体系和教育体制。同时通过对英美国家中学生的学校生活的了解，激发他们学习英语的兴趣，并通过本单元的学习，掌握了一些有关学科的名称和对其描述的形容词，复习和巩固了形容词原级、比较级和最高级的用法。通过本单元的整体学习，使学生在听说读写各个方面的能力得以提高。
教学的重难点：
重点：1. 学习有关学校科目的名称和有关学校学习生活的词组。
2. 了解英国和美国中学生的学校生活。
3. 识别并运用适当的语调模式。
4. 了解一些英式英语和美式英语的单词及其读音。
难点：
1 运用more/fewer/less….than 比较数量。
2 运用the most/fewest/least比较事物。
3 运用tha same as和 be different from做比较。
4 have a great time doing sth.
教学分析和教学建议：
对于中学的学校生活，学生是熟悉并感兴趣的，尤其是了解国外中学生的学校生活并和他们自己的学校生活相比较，更是他们津津乐道的事。在中国，八年级的学生所学的学科基本全了，因此在此基础上学用英语表达，学生比较容易接受。同时学习形容词原级、比较级和最高级的用法，对与他们来说也能理解和接受。因而本单元的学习并不困难。教师在教学过程中可采用Role playing, Practicing, Cooperating, Scanning和Listening for specific information的学习策略，利用教学挂图，制作多媒体课件来开展个人表演、两人一组表演或更多的学生一起分角色表演。在教词汇时，教师可以在找一些学生学过的单词来比较英式英语和美式英语在单词拼写或读音上的区别。通过分角色扮演模仿对话或用关键词来复述课文可以培养学生的听力和口语水平，让学生在听录音或同学叙述时，学会获取主要的信息来帮助自己理解和记忆。在阅读过程中，让学生学会写关键词语，复述短文，模仿编写对话等，以提高学生的阅读水平。在语法教学过程中，让学生自己通过学习总结规律，模仿操练，让学生真正掌握语法知识并能灵活运用。
课时安排：
开篇部分 1课时
导入部分 1课时
阅读部分 2课时
词汇部分 1课时
语法部分 2课时
综合技能部分1课时
中心部分 1课时
检测部分 1课时
Comics stripes & welcome to the unit
教学目标
1. 了解一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。
2. 确保学生能区别英式英语和美式英语。
3．激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
教学内容
学习一些英式英语和美式英语的单词。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学过程：
Step 1 Showing a world map
Get the students to know the English-speaking countries around the world, by showing a world map to them. Meanwhile write the name of different English-speaking countries in the world. Let the students know the differences between British and American English.
Step 2 Matching the two words that refer to the same things
Tell the students that people use different words to talk about the same things. Ask the students to open their books and match the two words that refer to the same things.
Get the students to read these words syllable by syllable to help them remember it.
Step3 Doing Part B on page 19
Get the students to finish doing Part B on page 19. Show the pictures and ask the students to speak out both the British and American words out loudly.
StepP 4 Guessing what they are talking about
(1) Show the first picture of Comic Stripes to the student without the words. Ask the students to guess: “what are they talking about ”Play the tape for the students to listen and find out the answer to the questions.
(2)Get the students to read and feel the humor here. (In fact, Eddie has no idea what school is like and why people need to got to school. However, he still thinks dogs are clever. ) If the students have no problem in understanding the dialogue, get them to practice the dialogue in pairs and act out the dialogue in front of the class. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier and more interesting.
STEP 5 Talking about the sentences
Talking about the following sentences:
(1) We are smarter than people.
(2) There are fewer advertisements.
(3)What is school like It’s like watching TV.
Step 6 Giving some reasons for your ideas
Eddie thinks school life is like watching TV. What do you think of our school life Encourage the students to give some reasons for their ideas
It is very necessary for our teacher to lead the students to talk about the brighter side for the kid to develop an active attitude towards school life as well as to study.
STEP 7 Homework
Try to find more information about the differences between British and American English.
vocabulary
教学目标
1.能够正确表达学科的名称。
2.掌握一向形容词的反义词并用形容词表达自己对学科的观点。
3.教师引导学生正确对待每一门学科，认真学好每一门学科。
教学内容
学习有关的学科的名称和一些形容词及其反义词的用法。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step 1 Giving a very general revision
Just give a very general revision and get the students to talk about the special subjects in British and American schools. Encourage the students to talk about these questions:
(1)What subjects do you learn
(2)Which is your favourite subject
(3)What can we learn in the subject
(4)How do you like the subject Why
Step 2 Learning the subjects
Get the students to name the subjects that they have at school and write the names on the blackboard. Help students expand their active vocabulary about school subjects.
Languages: Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Japanese
Geography, Science, art Home Economics , Computer studies
PE---( PE is the short form for Physical Education)
Art and Design, Biology, Chemistry, Music Physics
Get the students to read the words on the blackboard loudly.
Step 3 Finishing Part A on Page 27
Get the students to finish Part A on Page 23. Match pictures with correct subjects.Talk about each sbuject:
Art --- You can draw or paint pictures.
Languages---We can learn to speak different languages.
History--- We learn about the past.
Computer studies---We can learn to use the computer.
PE--- We do a lot of physical exercise.
Home economics---We can learn to cook and sew.
Science---We can learn about the natural world through experiments.
STEP 4 Which subjects do you like best
Ask the students which subjects are their favorites. And encourage them to speak out their reasons.
(1) Do you like all of the subjects
(2) What is your favorite subject Why
STEP 5 Finding the opposites of the adjectives
Pointing at the adjectives written on the blackboard. Encourage the students to find the opposites of the adjectives. Write them in pairs. Get the students to read the adjectives on the blackboard and then encourage them to use these words to talk about the subjects.
Step6 Homework
Write about your favorite subject and speak out your reasons.
Reading 1
教学目标
1. 学会运用各种阅读方式，读懂文章，了解英美国家中学生的学校生活。
2. 了解作者的个人感受和观点。
3. 让学生用所学的知识讨论学校生活，并了解英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。
教学内容
学习一些与学校生活相关的词汇，了解英美国家中学生的学习生活情况。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step1 Lead in
Ask some questions about their school life.
（1）How many lessons do you have every day
（2）What subjects do you learn
（3）How often do you have a class meeting
（4）What clubs do you have
（5）What after-activities do you have
（6）Do you have a Reading Week
（7）Where can you read books
（8）Do you have a hero Who is he/she
When the teacher and the students talk about these questions, the teacher use the picture to teach some new words:
Mixed together magazine senior hero Home Ecnomics and so on.
Step 2 life in a British school:
Teacher says: Now I know something about your schol life. Do you want to know something about the life in a British school
1. Let’s listen to the tape: “life in a British school” Then answer the questions:
(1). Who wrote the passage
(2). What activity does the school have every day
2.Ask the students to read the passage, then tell the sentences true (T) or false(F):
(1). John is in Year 9 at Woodland School, It’s a mixed school.
(2). John likes Home Economics best of all.
(3). He knows how to cook healthy and tasty meals before coming to this school.
(4). There is Reading Week in this school every year.
(5). The students can read any books from the school but they can’t bring in books from their home.
(6). They think Reading Week is too short because they want to read more books.
Step3 Life in an American school:
1. Now we know the life in a British school, let’s learn something about Life in an American school, Please read the passage, then answer the questions:
(1) Who wrote the second passage
(2) What did her brother do last year
(3) How does Nancy go to school now What does she think of it
(4) What do the students do in the Buddy Club
(5) Why does Nancy say Julie is her hero
(6) What do the students do durinng lunchtime
Step 4 Ask the students to read the whole passage ,then do Exercise C1, C2. Then check the answers.
Step 5 Listen to the tape and repeat after the tape.
(1) Do Exercise B1 ,then check the answers.
(2) Ask the students to complete their conversation firet,then ask two students to read the dialogue to check the answers. Prctise in pairs.
Step 6 Discussion:
Ask the students to talk about their school life, then write it down.
Reading 2
教学目标
1. 掌握重要语言点，词组，句型。用学到的语言点，词组，句型来谈论英美国家中学生和中国中学生的学校生活的差异。
2. 理解作者的个人感受和观点。
教学内容
掌握课文中的重要语言点，词组，句型。
教学准备
1. 教学挂图
2. 录音机
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision:
1.Ask some questions about the two passages to revise the text.
2. Listen to the tape, then complete th form below.
Who John Nancy
Where Woodland School, London Rocky Mountain High School, Denver
What activity/club Home Economics; Reading week Softball The Buddy Club
How often Every year Twice a week Every Monday
Why Because he likes learning to cook and sew; Because he can read anything he likes Because she loves the gameBecause she enjoys it a lot.
Step 2 Teach some new words and phrases:
1. health healthy healthily unhealthy
healthy—healthier—healthiest
2. taste—tasty
3. as well/too also
4. hero (n) heroes
5. spends + 时间/金钱 + on sth/(in) doing sth
It takes + sb + 时间 + to do
Sth costs sb + 金钱/精力
pay for; pay off
6. practice=practise: v. practice/practise doing
7. tell sb to do sth
ask sb to do sth
tell / ask sb not to do sth
8. 特殊疑问词+ to do
I want to know what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
I don’t know which one to buy.
9. It’s great because it’s faster than taking the bus.
a. than 是介词，后加名词、代词、动名词
b. than是连词， taking the bus 后省略了is。
Playing football is more interesting than having lessons (is).
10. She helps me learn all about my new school.
learn all about 意为“对……有全面的了解”
all是不定代词，还可以替换成nothing, little,
a little, something, much, everything, less,
more, most 等。
11. have a good/ great/ wonderful/ nice time doing something
have fun doing something
enjoy oneself
Step 3 Do exercise
Ask the students to read the text together, then finish of the exercises. Eight minutes later ,check the answers.
Step4 Discussion:
What do you think of the life in a Chinese school/British school/an American school Which school life do you think is better Why
Grammar 1
教学目标
1. 运用more …than, fewer …than,和 less…than比较数量。
教学内容
学习用more …than, fewer …than,和 less…than来进行数量的比较，让学生注意可数名词和不可数名词。
教学准备
1. 图片。
2. 多媒体。
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision
1.Get the students to talk about the school lives in American and British schools. (It is a very important job for us to help the students feel familiar with the topic of the unit.)
2. I will help the students focus on the subjects and the after-school activities by asking some questions:
(1) What subjects does John/Nancy have at his school
(2) What did they do during their free time
Step 2 Looking ahead
Inform the students with what they are going to learn in this period. In Unit One (8A), we have learned how to compare two things or more. Most adjectives then are used after a linking verb. In Unit Two, we will learn to talk about the amount of two things or more. It is the comparative and superlative use of adjectives that are used before nouns.
Show the pictures in Part A (P28) one by one. Ask the students to talk about the pictures.
Step 3 Comparing in pairs
Get the students to compare John’s school, Nancy’s school and Daniel’s school in pairs.
Step4 Talking about the school life
Get the students to talk about their school life by asking questions about subjects and the activities they do at school. Encourage the students to put down the information in the last column of the table. (Part A2) How many subjects do we have What are they
What do you do at school, when you are free How much free time do you enjoy
How long do you spend doing your homework
Get the students to compare their own information with Nancy’s school, John’s school and Daniels school. We have too much homework to do. So we have less free time than John and Nancy. We have more subjects than Nancy.
Step5 Finishing Part A3
Get the students to finish Part A3. Then get the students to talk about their lives at school. They may get the following sentences. Judy enjoys reading books. She reads more books than we do. She spends more money on books than we do.
Tommy doesn’t like ball games . He spends less time playing football than we do.
Step 6 Homework
Go over what we learned today and finish off the exercises in the books.
Grammar 2
教学目标
1运用the most 比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最多，运用the fewest和the least比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最少。
2运用the same as 和 be different from 做比较
教学内容
学会运用the same as 和different from 做比较
教学准备
1. 图片
2. 多媒体
教学步骤
Step 1 Starting by checking learning
we learned how to compare two things. Now let me check if you have grasped it very well. Ask the students to open their books and turn to Page 28. Encourage the students to talk about the different schools. This time the students are hoped to compare not only two schools, but also all the schools.
Teachers can use the following questions to guide the students.
(1)Which school has the most subjects Which school has the fewest
(2)Who joins the most clubs Who joins the fewest
(3)Who enjoys the most free time Who enjoys the least
(4)Which school has the most subjects Which school has the fewest
(5)Who joins the most clubs Who joins the fewest
(6)Who enjoys the most free time Who enjoys the least
Get the students to finish Part B1, Page 29. Check the answers.
Step 2 Showing the pictures
Show the pictures on Page 29 one by one. Get the students to talk about them.
Step3 Finishing the exercises
(1)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B2, Page 29.
Encourage the students to make more sentences by comparing the three pictures.
(2)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B3. (While doing the exercises the students must pay special attention to nouns. They are hoped to tell uncountable nouns from countable one, and then use ‘the most’ ‘the fewest’ with countable nouns and ‘the most’ ‘the least’ with uncountable nouns. ) Invite the students to check the answers each other.
(3)Invite the students to finish the exercises in Part B4, Page 30.
Check the answers.
Step 4 Informing the students
Inform the students that we can make another kind of comparison using ‘the same as’ and ‘different from’. The teacher can help the students to understand this by showing real objects. Keep doing this so as to make most of the students speak and understand the structures very well. Invite the students to talk about their school uniform. Show the pictures in Part C. Talking about Simon’s uniform, Daniel’s uniform and John’s uniform. It is easy for the students to come to the following sentences.
Step5 Do part C1
Do part of C1. First get the students to look at the pictures. Put it clear that Millie and Simon are from Beijing Sunshine School. And Tina and John are form woodland school. Get the students to complete Part C1 and then check the answers. Do Part C2 and check the answers.
Integreted skills
教学目标：
1． 听取细节，提炼信息。
2． 了解更多中外学校生活的异同点。
3． 进一步复习巩固本单元的语法项目。
教学肉容：掌握一些重要的词组和句子。
词组：number of students length of summer holiday
have weeks off in the summertime
spend… doing/on something have Computer Studies lessons
句型：I spend less time doing homework than John does.
How many Grade 8 classes are there at your school
教学准备：
1． 人物图片。
2． 多媒体、录音机。
教学步骤
Step1 Revision
1. Help Ss make sentences with “more … than, less … than, fewer … than, the most, the least, the fewest, the sane as, different from, the same … as” using the objects in the classroom.
2. In order to know school life in the countries where English is spoken, ask the questions about reading to know important information.
Step2 Presentation
1. Introduce background: Daniel is writing an article about the different schools for the school newletter. Sandy is helping him collect information on the Internet. Then go through the table in PartA1 on p. 32. Pay attention to the information on the title line. Explain some of the words. Ask Ss to indentify the missing facts. Learn the new word lengh, e.g. length of the holiday, length of my desk, etc..
2. Ask Ss to listen to the recording twice and finish the table in PartA and check the answers. Pause the recording for the second time after each answer to give Ss more time to write down the answers if necessary.
Step3 Reading
1. Let Ss go through Daniel’s article before they do the exercise in PartA2 on p.32 and check if they understand it. Ask Ss to do the exercise alone with the information in PartA1, then check the answers with their parters. Check the answers with the whole class and read the passage aloud.
2. Check if Ss remember something about Daniel, John and Nancy.
Let Ss finish the exercises in PartA3 on p. 33 according to the information inParts A1 and A2.
Step4 Practice
1. Know the situation with Ss and ask Ss to read PartB on p.33, then ask and answer about the conversation.
2. Read the conversation after the recording, then role-play to read it.
3. Practise the conversation in groups of four and then ask two to three groups to act it out in front of the class.
Homework
1. Make up their own conversation by imitaing the contents they’ve learned..
2. Finish the exercise in this lesson.
Pronounciation
教学目标：
1．识别并运用适当的语调模式。
2．在陈述句句末使用降调。
3．使用升调来表示惊讶。
教学内容：
1．陈述句以降调结尾。
2．使用升调来表示惊讶。
教学准备：录音机。
教学步骤：
Step1 Presentation
1. Say to Ss: We’ve learned a lot about students in diffreent countries. Now you are going to listen to a conversation about another student, Laura. Please close your books and listen to the recording. Pay more attention to the intonation.. Introduce the task of this lesson.
2. Play the recording of PartA on p.34, then guide Ss to say out thr intonation patterns. Ask Ss some questions. Did the voice rise or fall at the end of the sentence Help Ss sum up the same point of some affirmative sentences: make the voice fall at the end of the sentence. Let Ss guess some sentences using rising voice what they express.
3. Ask Ss to open their books and play the recording again stopping after each sentence. Ask Ss to repeat imitating the voice patterns.
4. Ask Ss to read the conversation in pairs and make sure Ss can use use correct intonation while reading.
5. Do an activity in pairs. Read the conversation in pairs , correct each other and improve together.
Step2 Practice
1. Play the recoding of PartB on p. 34, ask Ss to imitate carefully and pay particular attention to the sentences using rising voice to show surprise.
2. Ask Ss to listen to the sentences again, put a rising arrow at the end of the sentence if you think the speaker is surprised. Put a falling arrow if you think the he/she isn’t..
3. Divide the class in pairs and read these sentences to their partners, correct each other and improve each other. While practising, the teacher walks around the class and correct Ss’wrong intination.
4. Ask Ss to think of something untrue or strange and make sentences. Make sure Ss pronounce the sentences with a falling voice. Ask the other Ss to react to each sentence with a rising voice to express surprise. Encourage Ss to make some amusing or unusual statements to create a fun atmosphere in the classroom.
5. Ask some pairs of Ss to come to the front of the class and present their exchabges. Give the other Ss criteria for awarding points.
Homework：
1. Choose a text Ss have learned to read and pay attention to the use of the rising voice and the falling voice.
2. Finish the exercises in this lesson.
Main Task
教学目标
1、 了解问卷调查的有关知识，根据个人信息完成一份调查问卷。
2、 根据学校及个人情况选择具体信息，包括选择自己最喜欢的活动；完成构思一篇文章，描述自己理想中的学校。
教学内容
让学生谈自己的理想学校的生活情况。
教学准备
1、 录音机
2、 投影仪
教学步骤
Step 1. Questionnaire
Invite the students to fill in the questionnaire in Part A, on Page 35. Then go through the quesitons one by one and focus on what they like or dislike about their school. Organize a discussion and encourage the students to speak as many proper reasons as possible.
When the students are talking about what they like and dislike about their school. Ask them about their ideal school. Encourage the students to write down their answers on Page 35.
Step2 Designing a timetable
Invite the students to design a timetalbe for their favourite subjects, sports and after-school activities. They may need this to write about their ideal school.
Step3 Reading for structures
1. Ask the students: Are you satisfied with your current school life What is your ideal school life
Encourage the students to speak out their opinions.
2. Students listen to the tape and answer:
(1) When does Daniel’s school start
(2) How much homework does he have
3. Get the students to read the sample article by Daniel and figure out the ways or the structure that they can follow to write about their own ideal school. Use the following questions to help the students.
(1) When does it finish
(2) Why does he think it is his ideal school
(3) How long do they have lunch
(4) What can they do in the big dining hall
(5) What do they eat every day
(6) What subjects does Daniel like to have Why
(7) How many students are there in each class
(8) What’s in his ideal school There is a park, a shopping mall, a big library , a tennis court and a swimming pool.
(9) Do they have homework at weekends
(10) How often do they go on a trip to a museum or a theatre
Step 4 Writing
Tell the students that they can write their own article following the structure. Get the students to read the passage and pick up some useful sentence patterns. Show some writings of theirs
Step 5 Homework
Go on finishing writing
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教学目标
1、 复习本单元的语法项目
1、 通过识别单词间的联系来理解单词分类的意义
教学内容
复习本单元的重要的词汇，语法和句型。
教学准备
1、 教学图片
1、 多媒体或投影仪
教学步骤
Step 1 Revision
Revise the use of ‘more/fewer/less…than’ and ‘the most/fewest/least’.
Students use the real objects (school things or the objects in the classroom) to make as many sentences as they can by using these phrases.
Step 2 Practice
(1). Use the real object “paper clip ” and present it to the students and then teach this word. Students read this word after the teacher.
(2). Look at the pictures on Page 37. Talk about the pictures with the students. Ask students some questions about these pictures
1) How many pencilboxes can you see
1) Whose pencilboxes are these Do you know
1) What colour is Millie’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Amy’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Kitty’s pencilbox
1) What colour is Simon’s pencilbox
1) What’s in Millie’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Amy’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Kitty’s pencilbox And how many
1) What’s in Simon’s pencilbox And how many
(3)Use the phrases “be the same as” and “be different from”. Students make some comparisons.
eg. Millie’s pencil box is the same size as Amy’s pencil box.
Amy’s pencil box is the same colour as Kitty’s pencil box
Amy has fewer pencils than Simon.
Simon has more paper clips than Kitty.
Kitty’s rubber is different from Simon’s rubber.
(4) Ask students in groups to make as many sentences as they can
Point out: “the same size as ” “the same colour as ”
Step 3 Part B on Page 37
(1)Read the words and phrases in the form
(2)Play a word game with students. Students put the words into the correct word groups
Sports: swimming softball basketball table tennis
Stationery: ruler pencil paper rubber
School subjects: Geography Maths History Science
Schools and students: mixed school high school secondary school
Step 4 Homework
Write an article about your ideal school/school life.