Vocabulary: Homes and houses
教案：
Learning objectives:
language goal:
1). learn related words about housing together with their descriptions（apartment basement cottage driver way fence first floor second floor garage gate penthouse ranch house row house yard ）
2). learn the sentence pattern: I would like to live in .., because …
I wouldn’t like to live in …, because …
Ability goal:
How to get information from the dictionary
Tell differences between different kinds of houses and their living houses.
To talk about their dream house
Affection goal：
To understand the difference between home and house, and know happiness is more important than living in a luxury house. (East, west, home is best)
Teaching steps:
Warming up by playing an English song named Take me home, country road
(通过一首有关于家的英文歌曲，让学生自然的进入到今天的主题 home中去）
Self introduction: Name/School/Hobby/Where to live
（通过自我介绍拉近与学生的距离，并通过我的爱好和我的家为下面单词引入做好铺垫。）
3. Presentation
1) show the students around my apartment, and teach the following word: apartment, seventh floor, penthouse,
(通过让学生参观我的家来引出新单词。)
2) problems with my apartment:
no garage—hard to park my car, have to park it on the driveway
no yard---like growing flowers and trees
no basement—can’t store some of my old things
too high---want to live on the first or second floor
（通过对我现有房子问题的陈述为下面的单词呈现做好铺垫，同时引入上述新词汇。）
My dream house:
I really want to find a better house, so I hunt many houses. And luckily I found the three houses. I think they are my dream houses. The students get to understand the words: Cottage, ranch house, row house
cottage: a small house, especially in the country or in a village.
ranch house: ranch--a farm, especially one for rearing cattle or horses
row house: a house that is one of a row, side by side and sharing common walls（通过以上几个步骤自然的引出今天的目标词汇，并让学生对以上单词的读音，意思，拼写等有一个较好的理解）
Practice:
Practice 1: Tell the differences about an apartment, a cottage, a ranch house, and a row house.(advantages and disadvantages)
eg: apartment:
advantages: more neighbors, in the downtown…
disadvantages: noisy, no basement, not yard…（通过比较四种不同房型加深学生对这四个单词的理解，并通过优缺点的阐述，为下面活动做好准备。）
Practice 2: Pair work
A: Which house would you like to live in, why?
B: I would like to live in …
A: Which house would you not like to live in, why not?
B: I wouldn’t like to live in …, because …
（通过句型练习让学生会用would like 句型，并让学生自然的去使用上述目标词汇和上面总结的优缺点。）
Practice 3: Match the words with the numbers in the pictures.
(再次了解学生是否对今天的词汇有所了解和掌握)
Practice 4: Look up the word in the dictionary
Do you know the word “fence”? What do you usually do when you see a new word? Why not look up the dictionary
Look at the information from the dictionary and answer:
fence
fences fenced fencing
Noun
1. a barrier that is used to enclose an area
2. a dealer in stolen property
Verb
1. enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"
2. receive stolen goods
3. fight with fencing swords
4. surround with a wall in order to fortify
5. have an argument about something
A. Is fence an adjective, adverb, noun, preposition or verb?
B .How is it pronounced
C. How many different meanings are given when it’s a verb.
D. Which is the meaning of the word “fence” in the picture.
（通过该活动让学生了解如何从字典中得到各种信息，并鼓励学生遇到新单词时多查字典）
Practice 5: Group competition: Who can be the best sellers? Tell me the reasons why your house is the best for me. Group A: row house, Group B: ranch house, Group C: cottage. One reason, one card, the group who can get the most cards are the best sellers. And I will buy their house.
（通过竞赛形式鼓励学生发言，并了解学生是否能较好的应用今天所学内容。）
Practice 6: Your dream house
You have successfully made me find my dream house, what about your dream house, draw your dream house and then show us around your house.
Eg: I’d like to live in a ranch house, it has a big yard, a basement and a garage, I really like it, because I can keep many animals. …
（通过绘画和描述，用多种手段检测学生对新内容的掌握情况，能清楚的表达他们理想的房子，并通过自己的努力去实现的梦想。）
5. Ending
1) Everybody has your own dream house, but do you think a beautiful house means a nice home or a happy life? Home is not only a house to live in, but also we can enjoy our happy life in it. Enjoy a poem about home.
Home, Home, Sweet home
Earth where we live , there is no place like home.
A voice from the sky makes us feel home
Sailing across the sea, there is no place like my home
Though I have something warm in my soul.
Walking through the world, there is no place like home.
East harbour city is my lovely home.
Sailing across the sea, there is no place like my home.
Till I could find somewhere warm in the world.
Happiness in Caihe Middle School is kind of warm
Over the last two days, I fell in love with you all.
Making many friends here makes me feel home.
Ending up with my best wishes to you all..
Bye-bye, my friends! Thank you my friends!
Everything you have done for me is kind of warm.
So hard to say good bye,
To the friends in Hangzhou!
Home, home, Sweet home in Ningbo,
Home, home, Sweet home in Hangzhou
There is no place like this home,
There is no place like this warm family!
2) can you find an old saying in the poem? (East or west, home is best.)（通过欣赏一首关于家的小诗，对学生进行情感上的教育，让学生了解house 与home的区别，同时让学生从诗中找到这节课的情感主题.使整节课的情感得到升华。）
6. Assignment
A: look up the following words in the dictionary, try to get more information about the words.( yard, villar)
B: try to design a dream house for your parents.
C: if you want to buy the house for your parents, what should you do now.
(通过作业让学生课后复习学习技巧：查字典， 同时能为自己的父母设计一个适合他们的房子以及如何为实现这个梦想努力。)
教学反思：
这节课的教学对象是采荷中学八年级14班的全体学生。教材文本是来自牛津的《English Explorer》。通过这节课的教学，我觉得有成功之处，也有很多值得在课后深思的地方。
成功之处：
1. 这节课的主要内容是对词汇进行导入，能让学生较好的去掌握和应用这些词汇。通过引入和各种活动的处理，学生对于这些单词的掌握还算可以。能较好的完成各类任务，并把目标词汇用进去。能较好的掌握apartment, ranch house , row house, cottage之间的区别。并在dream house 活动中有较好的输出。对于best seller 这个环节中学生不仅能表达，并能积极的参与讨论和讲述自己的理由。最后这首与他们有关的小诗，学生们也表现较高的热情。
2. 在教查字典环节中我发现学生对于表述词性的词如adverb，noun等词不是非常了解，同时对于英英字典也感觉比较陌生，通过这节课让学生对于查字典这个方法有了一个初步的了解。整节课感觉还算比较流畅。
不足之处：
1. 在教新词汇中没有很好的用到词汇教学的方法，显得方法比较单一，学生从词汇学习的技能上没能得到很好的提高。
2. 新单词的读音和拼写教授笔墨还是偏少，更多的强调了单词的意思。
3. 在活动设计中，讲解四种不同房型的区别时，自己讲的过多，没有让学生去很好的思考他们之间的区别，如果能通过学生的讨论思考找到他们之间的区别就更好了。但是我更多的让学生根据我的预设来得到我所要的东西。在这个环节中我应该给出其中一个房型的优缺点，让学生根据这个例子自己去得出其他房型的优缺点，这样出来的信息才真是属于学生的。并且有利于学生在下面活动中更好的应用这些信息。
4. 在词汇搭配中，可能是由于图片不够清晰，也可能是我对单词的导入不够充分，学生花了较长时间才完成这个原本应该是很简单环节。原本我可以采用图片分步出来的形式让学生更容易完成这个步骤。甚至我可以用其他较明显清晰的图片，让学生根据这些图片来讲出单词，同时检测学生是否能很好的对这些单词进行准确发音。
5. 对于课的时间把握不够，本来后面想呈现的有关home的谚语没有时间进行呈现。这些谚语是写在seller 环节中所发的卡片的背面。
6. 整节课我的讲还是过多，剥夺了学生自主思考的权利。
一节课老师自己的预想与最后的实际总会有所差别，因此我们以后上课应更多的从学生角度出发，而不是一厢情愿的把我们自己的设想强加给学生。
课件12张PPT。Lou Xiaoyan
Ningbo No. 7 Middle SchoolHomes and housesWould you like to know more about me?Name:School: Ningbo No. 7 Middle SchoolLou XiaoyanLike to do: grow flowers/ go for a drive/ go shopping…
Where to live: East Lake Park DistrictWelcome to my home!an apartment(a flat)seventh floorstairswith a penthouseno yardno garageproblems with my apartmentdrivewayno gardenthe lowest floor of a building, usually below the first floor.no basementgatewayMy dream housesrow houseranch housecottagea small house, especially in the country or in a village. a house on a farm, especially one in North America for keeping cattle or horses a house that is one of a row of houses, side by side and sharing common wallsA: Which house would you like to live in and why?
B: I’d like to live in a …, because it’s …
A: Which house would you not like to live in, why not?
B: I wouldn’t like to live in a …, because …row houseranch housecottageMy dream housesPair work:apartment
basement
cottage
driveway
yard
first floor
garage
gate
second floor
penthouse
ranch house
row house
fence1148513231491121067Can you match the words with the numbers in the pictures?Why not look up the word in a dictionary?fenceA. Is fence an adjective, adverb, noun, preposition or verb?
________________________
B. How is it pronounced?
_________________________
C. How many different meanings
are given when it’s a verb?
___________________________
D. Can you find the meaning of fence in the picture?
__________________________It’s a noun and also a verb.Five.A barrier that is used to enclose an areaMy dream housesrow houseranch housecottageDiscuss:
If you are the house seller of the three houses, how can you make me buy your house? Work in groups and write down some advantages of your house.Your dream house What is your dream house? Draw a picture of your dream house, and describe your dream house to us.eg: I’d like to live in a ranch house, it has a big yard, a basement and a garage, I really like it, because I can keep many animals. Home, Home, Sweet Home
Earth where we live , there is no place like home.
A voice from the sky makes us feel home
Sailing across the sea, there is no place like my home
Though I have something warm in my soul.
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Walking through the world, there is no place like home.
East harbour city is my lovely home.
Sailing across the sea, there is no place like my home.
Till I could find somewhere warm in the world.
?
Happiness in Caihe Middle School is kind of warm
Over the last two days, I fell in love with you all.
Making many friends here makes me feel home.
Ending up with my best wishes to you all..
?
Bye-bye, my friends! Thank you my friends!
Everything you have done for me is kind of warm.
So hard to say good bye,
To the friends in Hangzhou!
?
Home, home, Sweet home in Ningbo,
Home, home, Sweet home in Hangzhou
There is no place like this home,
There is no place like this warm family!Enjoy your homeworkA: Look up the following words in the dictionary, try to get more information about them.(yard, villa)
B: Try to design a dream house for your parents.
C: What should you do now if you want to buy the dream house for your parents in the futurer?
More stars, more difficulties.课件15张PPT。Homes and housesBetter house, better life apartmentpenthousethe top floor of a building ['penthaus] [?'pɑ:tm?nt] second floorranch housedriveway[r?nt?haus] ['draivwei] basement['beism?nt] a room underground(地下)It’s in the beautiful countryside with five rooms and a garage. There are lots of trees and flowers in the big yard. A nice white fence, a lovely gate! I’m sure you’ll like it! ['k?tid?] It’s in the beautiful countryside with five rooms and a garage. There are lots of trees and flowers in the big yard. A nice white fence, a lovely gate! I’m sure you’ll like it! a. Is yard an adjective, adverb, noun, preposition or verb?
b. How is it pronounced?
c. How many different meanings are given?
d. What does yard mean here?
It’s a noun.[jɑ:d] It means the land around a houseTwoTips: adjective(形容词） adverb(副词) noun（名词）
preposition（介词） verb（动词） 1. defined as 91.44 centimeters (厘米)
2. the land around a house a.Is garage an adjective, adverb, noun, preposition or a verb?
b. How is it pronounced?
c. How many different meanings are given? What are they?
d. What does garage mean here?It is a noun.[g?‘rɑ:?]/ [g? ‘rɑ:?]Two.a part of a building for parking cars
2. a repair shopIt means a part of the building for parking cars. It’s in the beautiful countryside with five rooms and a garage. There are lots of trees and flowers in the big yard. A nice white fence, a lovely gate! I’m sure you’ll like it! A. a repair(修理) shop B. a part of a building for parking carsHenry parks his car in his garage every day
after work. But today, he has to send his car to
a garage because there is something wrong
with it. B ALet’s find the right meaning for garage Row houses for SaleOur row houses lie near the beach. There are two floors with a _________underground(地下) in each row house. On the first floor, there is a big ________, you can plant flowers there. In front of the row house, there is a long _________ and you can park your car in the ___________. Our _______ is nice and our _______ is always open for you.
Contact: Rose
Tel: 0571-8899888
Email: bookings@walkerfarmcottage.com yard, driveway, fence,
gate, basement basement yarddriveway garagefencegate penthousesecond floor
first floor
apartmentyardranch housegarage cottage fence gate row house basementapartmenttop floor penthouse the land around a house yard Eye challenge:Can you say it quickly?['beism?nt] basementa part of the building for parking cars.garagerow housecottage[r?nt?haus] fenceranch houseA: Which would you like to live in ?
B: I would like to live in a/an…
A: Which wouldn’t you like to live in?
B: I wouldn’t like to live in a/an…apartmentrow housecottageranch housepenthousePairwork Let's go to buy the house.One of you will be a house seller, your partner will be a customer. Make a conversation (对话)like the following. House seller: Hello. Can I help you?
Customer: Yes, please. I’d like to buy a house. What kind of house do you have?
House seller: We have some ________ _______. Would you like to have a look?
Customer: Sure.
House seller: Here we are.
Customer: En, great!
House seller: And there is a ________ downstairs(楼下).
Customer: OK, I’ll think about it.Discussion (讨论)
Supppose (假如)four of you are a family.
Please work in groups of four and tell us your family’s dreaming house,
one of you can report like the following. (四人小组讨论，一人汇报)
Try to use some of the following words:
basement cottage driveway fence garage
gate penthouse ranch house row house yard
Example:
Hello, everyone. My family would like to live in a …, because…
In front of it, there is/are…
Around my house, there is/are…
I hope I can live in it one day. Then I can have a better life.
HomeworkSearch the internet and find what
kind of your favourite star’s house is.
Introduce it to your partner.Homes and houses
一．教材内容分析
文本以家与房子为话题，介绍了农场庄园，排屋，顶楼，小农舍等各种类型房子的特点。通过谈论各自喜爱的房子，并让学生设置自己的理想房子等一系列的个人与小组活动，让学生放飞理想，敢于表达自己的喜好。教育学生一切的成功都必须通过个人的努力，同时告知学生无论自己喜爱的哪种房子都不能代表是自己想要的一个温馨甜美的家园。
二．教学目标
1．语言知识目标
词汇
apartment, penthouse ,ranch house ,row house, garage, fence, basement,yard, driveway
句型
I would like to live in a/an.., because…
语法功能
学习would like 句型的用法。
话题
以房子为话题，让学生介绍自己喜爱的房子以及原因
2．语言技能目标
听
能听懂有关介绍各种不同类型房子的词汇以及相关句型
说
能够表达自己喜爱的房子以及原因。
读
能朗读各种房子的词汇
写
能写出自己理想的房子，周边的环境，内部设备等。
3．学习策略目标
通过小组活动，引导学生注重合作学习，学会与人合作，培养学生相互沟通和交往的能力。利用学会的语言知识去挖掘自己内在的潜能。
4．文化意识目标：
了解国内外各种不同类型的房子，开拓学生的视野，增强国际意识。
5．情感态度目标
通过学习让学生知道各种结构类型的房子，让学生知道要追求理想的房子，必须要通过自己的努力，同时教育学生home并不是house, home不一定就是大房子，但一定是温馨的舒适的。
三．教学重点难点
1. 教学重点
掌握各种不同特点结构房子的词汇，并能表达自己的喜好
2. 教学难点
能用所学的词汇谈论自己的理想房子
四、教具准备：Multi-Media and Tape recorder
五、教学过程：
Step 1 Warming up
1、Listen to a song called “Country road take me home”.
设计说明：通过听Country road take me home这首歌，引出本课的主题，homes and houses.
Step 2 Presentation of new words
1.Show a picture of a tall building and ask where my home is. Then say: I live in this building. Then present new words of penthouse and apartment., then present another picture of a ranch house, ask: Is it an apartment? Then teach ranch house, driveway and basement.
设计说明：通过呈现自己住的building,引出顶楼和公寓两个生词。通过呈现农场庄园，呈现车道与地下室两词。在引这些词汇前，都先给学生看音标，让学生先拼读。
Step 3 Look up new words in a dictionary.
Teacher say: I would like to live in such a ranch house, I want to have a better life. I searched the Internet and found lots of advertisements on different kinds of houses. Then present an advertisment about the cottage. Present four new words( fence, gate, yard, garage) in the advertisement.
设计说明：在学习了几个关于房子的词汇后，教师谈到自己想住房子，而不是公寓，通过查找网络卖房子广告引出一则广告。通过图片学习新词: fence, gate. 然后让学生查找词典，查出另外两个单词的意思，词性，以及用法。 通过此环节，教会学生如何使用字典查找单词的技能，并能判断一词在不同语境下的不同意思。
Step 4 Consolidation of new words
1. Present another advertisement of row houses, and get the Ss fill in the blanks with the words learnt. (basement, yard, driveway, garage, fence…)
设计说明：词汇的学习是个感知，理解与运用的过程，通过另一则排屋的广告，让学生用生词填写，使学生在理解的基础上学会运用，达到学以致用的目的。
2 Get the Ss match the words with the pictures.
设计说明： 通过一系列的单词呈现活动，回归文本，让学生口头匹配图片与生词。进一步加强学生口头输出的能力。
3 Eye challenge
设计说明：在看谁的眼力最好这一游戏中，教师以多种形式呈现生词，如图片，音标，英文释义等，让学生迅速说出单词又一次让学生在玩中学，巩固了生词。
Step5 Pariwork
Get the Ss practise the following conversation.
A: Which would you like to live in ?
B: I would like to live in a/an…
A: Which wouldn’t you like to live in?
B: I wouldn’t like to live in a/an…
设计说明：在单词掌握的基础上，进一步让学生将单词运用到句子中，操练以上对话，并让学生说出喜欢与不喜欢居住的原因，达到交际的功能。
Step 6 Conversation
Let's go to buy the house.One of you will be a house seller, your partner will be a customer. Make a conversation (对话)like the following.
House seller: Hello. Can I help you?
Customer: Yes, please. I’d like to buy a house. What kind of house do you have?
House seller: We have some ________ _______. Would you like to have a look?
Customer: Sure.
House seller: Here we are.
Customer: En, great!
House seller: And there is a ________ downstairs(楼下).
Customer: OK, I’ll think about it.
设计说明：告诉学生自己想住农场庄园，想要买房子，让学生帮住选择，去房开公司与销售员对话。对话模式已给出，学生可以用已给的对话模式，也可以自由发挥。通过本次活动旨在再一次让学生用所学的词汇在相关的语境中使用，达到词不离句，句不离文的原则。
Step 7 Discussion
Supppose (假如)four of you are a family.
Please work in groups of four and tell us your family’s dream house,
one of you can report like the following. (四人小组讨论，一人汇报)
Example:
Hello, everyone. My family would like to live in a …, because…
In front of it, there is/are…
Around my house, there is/are…
I hope I can live in it one day. Then I can have a better life.
Try to use some of the following words:
basement cottage driveway fence garage
gate penthouse ranch house row house yard
设计说明：让学生可以放飞梦想，设置自己理想中的房子，然后进行个人汇报，如果时间允许，可以让学生先画出，再汇报。这是个词汇拓展活动，学生通过小组合作，最后用所学习的词汇形成文章，达到了学以致用的交际功能。
Step 8 Homework
Search the internet and find what kind of your favourite star’s house is.
Introduce it to your partner.
设计说明：这是个口头作业，旨在引导学生利用网络资源获取有关学生感兴趣的明星房子的信息，并能够相互介绍。
七、板书设计
Better house, better life
I would like to live in a/an
教后反思：
本单元以词汇学习为主，所有的内容以及练习都是围绕homes and houses这一话题展开的。在备课过程中，我将学生能够掌握各种房子的词汇以及表达自己的喜好作为教学重点。把学生能够运用所学习的词汇汇报自己理想的房子作为教学难点。在整个教学过程中，任务型教学贯穿于始终。任务的设置由浅入深，由易到难，分层次进行，从而激发各个层次的学生积极参与课堂，充分调动学生学习英语的主动性与积极性，培养学生进行交际的能力。
通过教学本课，本人对各个设计环节作出了以下的反思：
通过一首歌曲引出home这个话题，马上切入主题，引出了关于house的相关词汇（apartment, penthouse, ranch house, basement, driveway）在这个环节学生比较专注，导生词时，我用了先出示音标的方法，慢慢引导学生先会读，然后再出示单词的拼法，学生反应积极，达到了预期的效果。
在学习了几个关于房子的词汇后，我又谈到自己想买房子，通过查找网络卖房子广告引出一则广告。通过图片学习新词: fence, gate. 然后让学生查找词典，查出另外两个单词的意思，词性，以及用法。 通过此环节，教会学生如何使用字典查找单词的技能，并能判断一词在不同语境下的不同意思。在具体的操作过程中，发现学生对如何使用字典、查找生词并不陌生，这个环节的处理比预计的要快。在处理生词的一词多义，在不同的语境中选择相应的意思这一环节时，学生在教师的步步引导下，表现得比较感兴趣，效果明显。、
在词汇巩固过程中，我采用了多种方法，看图匹配，单词竞赛等，在这一词汇输出的过程中，我还采用了男女生爬山竞赛活动，在这一环节学生很快地进入了角色，大部分同学已经可以准确地读生词，并且在理解的基础上也学会了使用，达到了学以致用的目的。
在单词掌握的基础上，进一步让学生将单词运用到句子中，操练对话。操练过程中，学生很乐于表达，见学生能力已超出了我的预计，我又让学生说出了喜欢与不喜欢居住的原因。在这一过程中，学生各抒己见，热情高涨，课堂气氛很活跃，充分体现了人人参与课堂的原则。
在学生汇报各自理想的房子这一环节，学生已经完全投入了课堂，大胆积极地上讲台前汇报，其他同学也积极地位汇报者鼓掌，学生的参与和投入程度已经超出了老师的预设。学生通过小组合作，最后用所学习的词汇形成文章，真正达到了学以致用的交际功能。
五、本课我没有布置学生写的作业，而是让学生查找资料然后谈论自己喜爱的明星的房子。将课堂中的任务延伸于课堂之外，布置学生查找自己感兴趣的明星的房子，让学生在乐学愿学的气氛中完成任务。
本节课各个任务环节设置地层层递进，逐步深入。每个活动的设置都围绕着本课的词汇展开。通过一个个任务的顺利完成，在语言交际，学习兴趣，参与意识，团队意识等方面学生都有不同程度地提高。整节课在老师的引导下，学生慢慢投入课堂，从刚开始的有点胆怯到最后的大胆语言输出，学生真正成了课堂的主人，他们理所当然有了不同寻常的收获。
当然本节课还有一些方面有待提高，1. 在引出home 后，板书可以是以home作为中心词的词汇开花形式，更能突出本课中心 2. 最后在学生汇报结束自己理想的房子后，教师可以将房子上升到家这个情感教育概念层次上，教育学生East, west ,home is the best. 无论自己喜爱的哪种房子都不能代表是自己想要的一个温馨甜美的家园。要有更好的生活，就应该先有个更甜美的家。这些细节之处，是我以后教学中应该改进之处。
