Module 3 Sports
Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully.
教材分析
本课为Module 3的第二单元，课文以大明参加校足球队训练为主题，着重介绍了大明所在的小队积极备战今年的校际联赛的情况，主要呈现了形容词和副词的比较级的表达方式。
教学目标
1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (sports).
2. Comparing sports, linking words correctly.
3. Reading and understanding behaviours of characters; guessing the meaning of new words from the context.
4. Writing about your school basketball team.
教学重难点
1. Key vocabulary: beat, careless, cheer…on, coach, fan club, against, train, practice, warm, warm up, usual, pleased, pass, chance, loudly, confident
2. Keys structure: Comparative adjectives (more); adverbs and comparative adverbs (-er, more); irregular comparatives.
课前准备
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
教学过程
Step 1 Revision
1. Guessing game.
1) Show some pictures.
2) According to the information given and ask the students to guess:
What are they doing?
3) Show the pictures to check the answers.
2. Review the text of Unit 1.
【设计意图】
本活动的目的是复习第一单元所学内容，为第二单元的学习做好准备。
Step 2 Work in pairs. Talk about the pictures.
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 1.
2. Talk about the pictures.
3. Use the words and expressions in the box to help you.
beat careless cheer… on coach fan club play against train
【设计意图】
本活动的目的在于通过直观的图片激活话题及词汇，便于学生在阅读前明确文章的主旨。
Step3 Reading.
1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Read the passage by themselves.
4. Read the text together.
【设计意图】
本活动旨在让学生初步感知课文，为接下来的活动作准备。
Step4 Complete the table.
1. Read the passage again.
2. Complete the sentences in the What column of the table.
What
Why
1. We arrive ______________________.
2. We’re training _________ than ______
3. It’s _________ to practice in winter.
4. Our coach is _______________.
3. Now complete the Why column.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动旨在让学生阅读课文，理清文章结构，获取表格内需要的信息。
Step 5 Complete the passage.
1. Complete the passage with the words in the box.
against chance coach practice short usual
We all know (1) __________ makes perfect. But it is more difficult to practice in winter because the days are (2) __________ and it’s cold. The team is training harder than (3) ___________, so their (4) ___________ is pleased with them. They are going to play (5) ___________ a team from another school next week, and they have a good (6) ___________ of winning.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动的目的是检测学生对词汇的应用能力和对原文的理解程度。
Step 6 Put the words from the box into pairs with opposite meanings.
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
badly carefully carelessly difficult early easy late quickly slowly well
2. Put the words from the box into pairs with opposite meanings.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
5. Now decide which word has two opposites.
【设计意图】
本活动可以帮助学生建立反义词语义场，有助于其拓展词汇。
Step 7 Writing task
1. Complete the sentences so they’re true for your school basketball team.
1) It is … and the basketball team …
2) The practice starts at … but they …
3) Last year …
4) This year …
5) The coach is pleased / isn’t pleased with them because …
6) So they now have a better / poor chance of…
2. Learning to learn
You can use at that time / yesterday/ last week / last month/ last year … to talk what people did in the past; and use now / today / this week / this month / this year … to talk about what they do now when you make a comparison.
3. Add some more details about your school basketball team. Write a passage.
It’s Saturday morning and the school basketball team is training hard.
【设计意图】
本活动要求学生就学校篮球队的训练情况进行写作。
Step8. Homework
Try to use comparative adjectives and adverbs form to describe the difference between two kinds of ball sports.
教学反思
本单元的教学中，教师要提示学生在英语学习中多采用与实践相结合的学习策略，提高对文章的理解力。教师也可以利用这个机会，鼓励有运动天赋的学生发挥自己的特长，为班级、为学校争光，进一步提高班级凝聚力。
课件23张PPT。Do you like watching the Olympics?
How many Olympics champions(奥运冠军) do you know?Do you know who they are?1 Work in pairs. Talk about the pictures. Use the words and expressions in the box to help you.beat careless cheer…on coach
fan club play against train2 Read the passage and complete the table.
as early as we canWe have time to
warm up harder than usual The other team
beat us last year. more difficultThe days are short and the weather is cold too. pleasedwe are playing better as a team now3 Complete the passage with the words in the box.against chance coach
practice short usualWe all know (1)___________makes perfect. But it is more difficult to practise in winter because the days are (2) ________and it is cold. The team is training harder than (3)________.practiceshortusual Their (4)________ is pleased with them. They
are going to play (5) ________a team from
another next week, and they have a good
(6)________ of winning.coachagainstchancebadly carefully carelessly difficult
early easy late quickly
slowly well4 Put the words in the box into pairs with opposite meanings.Sample: badly－wellcarefully carelesslyearly latequickly slowlyeasy difficult Writing 5 Complete the sentences so they are true for
your school basketball team.1 It is … and the basketball team…
2 The practice starts at …but they …
3 Late year…
4 This year…
5 The coach is pleased / is not pleased with
them because…
6 So they now have a better / poor chance of …You can use at that time/ yesterday/ last week/last month/ last year… to talk about what people did in the past; and use now/ today/ this week/ this month/ this year… to talk about what they do now.Learning to learn6 Add some more details about your school
basketball team. Write a passage. Your
content can refer to the information in
exercise 5.
It is Saturday morning and the school
basketball team is training hard.Work in Paris…so that…
It is difficult/ important to …
What a pity!
We have a chance of …
We hope to …本课时主要句型Quiz一、根据句意及首字母提示补全下列单词。 I’ll meet you at the u______ time.
Are you p______ with your new car?
David never misses the c______ of a free meal.
It takes hours of p______ to learn to play the guitar.
Tom wants to be c______ when he grows up.sualleasedhanceracticeoach二、选择正确的词填空fan club enjoy bad luck against so thatWhich team will you play _______ next?
People wear spectacles (眼镜) ________ they can see better.againstso that3. Are you a member of his __________?
4. What _________! I missed the school bus.
5. Do you _______ travelling round the world?fan clubbad luckenjoy 三 适当形式填空
1.This car is____________(beautiful)than that one.
2.Paul is__________________ (hard-working)than
his sister.
3.He is one of______________ (famous) singers
in China.
4.I think that Titanic is _________(good) of the
films.
5.It`s much ________(hard) to learn to drive than
to learn to ride.more beatifulmore hardworkingthe most famousthe bestharder6. Where is ____________(near) bus stop?
7. He can draw as________ (good) as his father.
8. Mary isn't as___________ (care) as Kate.
9.The weather today is even_________ (cold).
10. Our city is becoming ______ and
_______________(beautiful).
11. Who runs___________ (fast) in your class?
.the nearestwellcarefulcoldermoremore beautifulfastest I?think?maths?is?_____?of?all?the?subjects.?????
??A.?the?most?interesting????????B.?more?interesting?
C.?so?interesting?????????????D.?the?best?interesting
2.?The?girl?doesn’t?run?_____?the?boy.????
??A.?much?faster?as????????????B.?as?fastest?as?????
??C.?more?careful?than??????????D.?so?fast?as?
3. The?young?man?drives?_____?than?he?did?
three?months?ago.????
???A.?much?carefully??????????B.?much?more?careful
?C.?much?careful??????????????D.?much?more?carefully四、选择题ADD4.?Don’t?worry?too?much. I?am?sure?everything?
is?going?on?_____?with?you．????
? ?A.?good???? B.?fine??? ?C.?well???? D.?nice?????
5. ---Do?they?like?him??
???---Yes．He?is?____?a?kind?man．??????
? A.?very???? B.?so???? C.?much??? D.?such?????
6．---Mary?won’t?go?shopping?this?afternoon.
?????---I?won’t?go?_____?．?
??????A. either????B. yet????C. also????D. too???????
7.?---What?should?I?do?if?I?don’t?understand?the
?word??????---Look?it?____?in?a?dictionary．?????
??A．at????B．on????C．up????D．out??CDAC8. The?meeting?will?be?held?in?half?an?hour but?
they?haven’t?got?everything?ready?__．????
??? A．ever????B．already????C．yet??????D．still?
9. Now?the?air?in?our?hometown?is?___??than?
it?was?before．Something?must?be?done．??????
?? A. much?better???? B. more?worse????
C. more?better??? D. much?worse?
10. Harry?Potter?is?an?___?book?for?children,?
but?my?cousin?doesn’t?seem?at?all__?in?it．???
?????A．interesting；interesting????
B. interested；interested??????
? C. interesting；interested?????
D. interested；interesting
?CDC11. The?car?is?running?_____.?It?seems?to
be?flying．?
? A. more?and?faster? ?B. more?and?fast??
C. fast?and?fast??? D. faster?and?faster?
12?---I?have?three?English?dictionaries．?
???---I?have?nine. I?have?three?times?______?you.?
??????A. as?much?as???? B. as?many?as????
C. as?little?as??? ?D. 1ess?than DBHomeworkTry to use comparative adjectives and adverbs form to describe the difference between two kinds of ball sports.
