八上Unit 4 Topic 1 What’s the strongest animal on the farm Section A教案

Grade 8 Unit 4 Topic 1 What’s the strongest animal on the farm? Section A
1. Content: Grade 8 Unit 4 Topic 1 Section A
2. Target students: junior high school students
3. Duration: 45 minutes
4. Teaching aims:
1) Knowledge aims:
At the end of this lesson, students may correctly read and spell the following words: sky, river, clear, beauty, nature, horse, sheep.
At the end of this lesson, students may describe things with proper adjectives.
At the end of this lesson, students may use comparative and superlative forms to compare things.
Skill aims:
At the end of this lesson, students could read 1a fluently.
At the end of this lesson, students could understand simple dialogues about city and countryside.
At the end of this lesson, students could understand simple dialogues about comparison.
At the end of this lesson, students could compare things with comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
Emotional aims:
At the end of the lesson, students may understand the lesson every coin has two sides, and they should develop critical thinking skills.
5. Important points:
In this lesson, it is very important for students to acquire some adjectives to describe things properly, such as blue sky, clear river, quiet countryside.
In this lesson, it is very important for students to use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives to make a comparison of things in our lives.
6. Difficult points:
Students may have difficulties in commanding the changing rules of comparative and superlative forms.
Students may have difficulties in applying comparative and superlative forms to making comparison.
7. Teaching strategies: task-based teaching strategy and communicative teaching strategy will be applied in this lesson.
8. Teaching tools:
Blackboard, chalks, computer, projector
9. Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greeting & Introducing the procedures in this lesson
Step 2 Warming up
Ss watch a MV of animals and say out the words of animals in the MV.
Ss look at the pictures and words of animals and read the words together.
Step 3 Listening and Grammar Learning
Ss listen to 2a and fill in the blanks.
Ss read 1a in groups and find out the adjectives in this conversation.
Ss study the rules carefully and complete the table in 2b.
Ss summarize the rules of comparative and superlative forms.
单音节及部分双音节形容词比较级（- er）和最高级（- est）的规则变化
5. Ss summarize the sentence patterns of comparatives and superlatives.
Comparatives (比较级)
A + be + 比较级 (+ than + B)
Superlatives (最高级)
主语 + be + the + 最高级 (+ of all)
6. Ss make sentences in pairs according to the example, pictures, and words.
Example:
A: The geese are bigger than the mice.
B: The sheep are bigger than the geese.
A&B: The sheep are the biggest of all.
Step 4 Listening and Speaking
Pre-listening: Ss read the new words according to the pronunciations, spell them and translate them into Chinese.

While-listening Task 1: Ss watch the flash of 1a and then answer the questions.
Q1: What is Wang Wei thinking about?
A: He is thinking about life in the countryside.
Q2: Where does Wang Wei's grandma live?
A: She lives in the countryside.
While-listening Task 2: Ss listen to 1a and fill in the blanks in 1c.
Role-play: Students read 1a in groups.
Step 5 Project
Ss make a report of a comparison of different districts in groups of 4.
Example:
1. Shanghai is larger than Changle.
Fuzhou is larger than Shanghai.
Fuzhou is the largest of all.
1. PM 2.5 (air) ------- fresh
The air in Fuzhou is fresher than that in Shanghai. (fresh)
2. Population (人口)-----many; there be
There are more people in Shanghai than in Fuzhou. (many)
3. Education (教育) ------ many; there be
There are more middle schools in Shanghai than in Fuzhou. (many)
4. Wage (工资) ---- high
The wage in Shanghai is higher than that in Fuzhou. (high)
5. Health care (医疗) ----- many; there be; of all
There are more hospitals in Shanghai than in Fuzhou. (many)
The hospitals in __________ is_____ ____________ of all. (many)
6. Housing price (房价)
The houses in Changle are cheaper than those in Fuzhou . (cheap)
The houses in _______are _____ ________ of all. (cheap)
7. Shopping mall ----- many; there be; of all
There are more shopping malls in Shanghai than in Fuzhou. (many)
Step 6 Homework
1. Review Section C.
2. Finish exercises on the exercise book and the English newspaper.
3. Write a short passage about the comparison between Changle, Fuzhou and Shanghai, at least 80 words.
4. Preview Section B.
Blackboard design
Unit 4 Topic 1 Section A
1. 比较级 & 最高级 基本句型
Comparatives (比较级)
1). 比较级 + 名词
2). 主语 + be + 比较级
3). A + be + 比较级 + than + B
Superlatives (最高级)
1). the + 最高级 + 名词
2). 主语 + be + 最高级 + of all
Group PK
Teaching reflection