八年级英语上册《Module 4 Unit 2 What is the best way to travel》教学设计 （新版）外研版-（新版）外研版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

Unit 2 What is the best way to travel?课型Reading and vocabulary教学目标Knowledge: To understand the main idea of a story To understand the sequence of events in a story To continue story Key vocabulary: twice, once or twice, suddenly, pink, pocket, fiend, think about, deep, while, dry Key structures: She found that she was falling down a very, very deep hole. While she was falling, she was thinking about her cat, Dinah.教学重点 读懂包含过去进行时的童话故事，了解故事的大致情节，理解主要人物和主要事件教学难点 正确使用过去进行时，能够用过去进行时对故事进行续写教学方法PWP Communicative教学用具Multi-Media (or Tape recorder, OHP)教学过程Reading and vocabulary1. Look at the picture in Activity 2 and say what you think is strange.* Put the students in groups of 3-4 to describe what they see in the picture in Activity 2 and say what is strange.* Elicit descriptions from the whole class.* Write some ideas on the board and use them to teach the key vocabulary.2. Read the start of Alices Adventures in Wonderland and guess what happens next.* Ask the students to read the passage and find out: 1) Where was Alice? 2) Who was she with? 3) What did she see?* Ask them to answer the questions individually and then check with a partner.* Elicit answers from the whole class.* Ask them to work in pairs and guess what happens in the next part of the story. Suggest some questions to get them thinking, (e.g. Where did Alice land?/What do you think she saw?/What did she feel?/Was she afraid?/Was the rabbit in the hole with her?/Where did she go?)* Elicit some ideas around the class.3. Number the events in the order they happened.* Read the sentences with the class. Ask the students to try to order the sentences.; s y* Tell them to read the passage again and scan for the key information. Ask them to underline and number the sentences when they find them.* Ask them to check the sentence order with their partners.* Elicit answers from the whole class.* Ask the students to read out the sentences in the4. Answer the questions. Use the words and expression in the box.* Go through the words and expression in the box with the students and check if they understand them. Ask some questions or draw pictures on the board to help them understand.* Ask the students to work in pairs and ask and answer the questions.* Elicit answers to the questions around the class.Writing5. Match the answers with the questions.* Ask the students to read the questions and think about the possible answers.* Tell the students to read the answers and match them with the questions on their own. Remind them to think about the order of the events and find words in the questions and answers that are similar, so they can logically decide the right answers, even if they do not know the story.* Ask them to check answers in pairs.* Elicit answers with the students asking and answering the questions in pairs.Learning to learn* Go through the suggestions with the students.* Ask what they think about the books they know (e.g. Harry Potter) and what they can do to better understand the stories.* Tell them to go to the library or school library to get out a simplified reader if they can. Advise them to read a little regularly and at the end of the term, write a report on the book.6. Write what happened to Alice. Use the answers in Activity 5 to help you.* Tell the students they are going to join the answers in Activity 5 to make a short passage that describes what happened next to Alice.* Point out they will need to add some words to show the sequence of the events, such as after, next, then, etc. Remind them they may also need to cut some words from the answers in order to make the language sound better and neat.Now imagine what will happen next.* Put the students into groups and let them discuss some possible ideas about what they think happened next to Alice. Point out the picture next to Activity 4 and tell the students that is what Alice looked like in the book illustrations.Ask some questions to get them started. 1) Where did Alice go? 2) What did she see next? 3) Did she meet anyone?* Go around and monitor, helping with suggestions and listening for and correcting any mistakes.* Elicit some ideas from the students in open class.