八年级英语上册 Module 7 A famous story Unit 2 She was thinking about her cat教案 （新版）外研版-（新版）外研版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

Unit 2 She was thinking about her cat.
一、学习目标:
A.单词和短语：
fall ,follow, hole, rabbit, ssh, ground, tea party, twice, once or twice, suddenly, pink, pocket, field, think about, deep, while, land, dry
B.交际用语：
1. Ssh!
2. Sorry!
3. —What’s the book?
—It’s about…
4. Why was it running?
5. Alice was sitting with her sister by the river.
6. It was sitting in a tree and was smiling at everyone.
7. They were having a tea party in the garden.
8. She was playing a strange game!
9. Where was it going?
10. To see if you remember the story!
11.—The Cheshire Cat was sitting on the grass.
— No, it wasn’t. It was sitting in a tree.
12. — The white rabbit was looking at its watch.
— Yes, it was.
13— What were you doing at 5 am yesterday?
— I was getting up.
二. 教学目标
1. Function: Telling a story
2. Structure: Past continuous
3. Skills:
1) Listening and understanding the plot development of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Understanding the major characters and events..
2) Participating in a role-play with the teacher’s guidance.
3) Reading and understanding the sequence of events in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
4) Writing a short passage about what happened after Alice fell down the rabbit hole.
4. Around the world: Stories
5. Task: Writing a short story about your own experience.
三、重点及难点:
Grammar: Past continuous
四、教学设计:
Unit 2 She was thinking about her cat.
Ⅰ Teaching model
Reading and writing.
Ⅱ Teaching method
Top-down approach
Ⅲ Teaching aims
1. Listening and understanding the plot development of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Understanding the major characters and events..
2. Participating in a role-play with the teacher’s guidance.
3. Reading and understanding the sequence of events in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
4. Writing a short passage about what happened after Alice fell down the rabbit hole.
ⅣTeaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: twice, once or twice, suddenly, pink, pocket, field, think about, deep, while, land, dry
2. Keys structure: Past continuous: was / were + v-ing
ⅤTeaching aids
Recorder , OHP , video
ⅥTeaching Steps
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Enjoy a play: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
2. Review the text of Unit 1.
3. Show some pictures.
4. Look at the pictures, and talk something about the pictures.
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Ask the students to look at the picture in Activity 2 and say what you think is strange.
1. It is standing up on its back legs. Rabbits can only walk on four legs.
2. It is wearing clothes. Rabbits don't wear clothes.
3. It is looking at a pocket watch. Rabbits don't carry watches and can't tell the time.

2. Introduce the new words.
3. Learn the new words.
4. Read the new words.
Step 3 Reading.
1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.
2. Read the start of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and guess what happens next.
3. Ask the students to read through the passage.
4. Read the passage by themselves.
5. Read the text together.
Step 4 Number the events in the order.
1. Read the passage again.
2. Number the events in the order they happened in Activity 3.
a) Alice landed on some dry leaves.
b) Alice was sitting by the river with her sister.
c) Alice fell down a hole.
d) A rabbit ran by.
e) Alice ran across the field after the rabbit.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: a) 5 b) 1 c) 4 d) 2 e) 3
Step 5 Answer the questions.
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
deep dry field once or twice pink pocket
2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.
1) Was Alice interested in her sister’s book? How do you know?
2) What colour were the rabbit’s eyes?
3) Where was the rabbit’s watch before he took it out?
4) What did Alice run across after the rabbit?
5) What did she fall down?
6) Where did she land?
3. Answer the questions. Use the words and expression in the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys:
1. Alice wasn’t interested in her sister’s book because in the story Alice thought “…what is a book for without pictures or conversations?”
2. The rabbit’s eyes were pink.
3. It was in its pocket.
4. She ran across the field after the rabbit.
5. She fell into a very, very deep hole.
6. She landed on some dry leaves.
Step 6 Learning to learn.
1. Look for was / were doing sentences:
1) Alice was sitting with her sister by the river and her sister was reading a book.
2) … she was going to get out again.
3) She found she was falling down into a very, very deep hole.
4) She was falling for a long time.
5) While she was falling, she was thinking about her cat, Dinah.
2. Learning to learn.
You may find books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Harry Potter very interesting but too difficult. Try to read simplified versions of the books you like.
Step 7 Writing.
1. Match the answers with the questions in Activity 5.
( )1. What did Alice find on a table?
( )2. What did Alice do with the key?
( )3. What did Alice find next?
( )4. What happened to Alice when she drank from the bottle?
a) She became very small.
b) Alice found a small key on a table.
c) She found a bottle with the words “DRINK ME” on it.
d) She opened a small door with the key and saw a beautiful garden.
2. Check with a partner.
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. a
4. Write what happened to Alice after she found a small key on the table. Use the answers in Activity 5 to help you.
Alice found a small key on the table, she opened a small door…
5. Now imagine what will happen next.
Step 8 Important and difficult points
1. Once or twice she looked into her sister’s book.
（她偶尔看一眼姐姐的书，但书上既没有插图也没有对话。
once or twice的意思是“偶尔，一两次”。
例如:
I read some books in library once or twice a week. 我一周去一两次图书馆看书。
2.“And what is a book for,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” “没有
插图也没有对话的书有什么用？”爱丽丝想。
What…for? 表示“有什么用，为什么？”
例如: What did Tony go with me for? 托尼为什么和我一起去？
3. Suddenly she landed on some dry leaves… 突然，她落到了一些干树叶上。
land on的意思是“落到……上”
例如:
The plane landed on the beach because of a thick fog.
由于大雾飞机降落在海滩上了。
His kite landed on the playground at last.
他的风筝最后落到了操场上。
Step 9 Do exercises:
A. 单词拼写
1. How beautiful her __________ (粉红色的) dress is!
2. In autumn , the rice____________ (田地) look beautiful .
3. _____________(突然) he stood up and ran across the road .
4. The old man was standing with his hands in his _____________ (口袋).
5. He goes to Hong Kong on business____________ (两次) a month .
6. That hole was very __________ (深).
Keys: 1. pink 2. fields 3. Suddenly 4. pockets 5. twice 6. deep
B.完成句子。
1. 我刚才看见了露西和莉莉， 她们正在阅览室看书。
I saw Lucy and Lily just now . They ___________________ in the library .
2. 他无事可做，感到很无聊。
He _____________________ and felt so board .
3. 猎人看见那只狼正在追赶一只兔子。
The hunter saw that wolf ________________ a rabbit .
4. 正当她往下掉的时候，她正在考虑她妈妈。
_______ she was falling, she ________________ her mother.
Keys: 1. were reading books 2. had nothing to do 3. running after 4. While, was thinking about
Step 10 Homework
Remember the words of Unit 2 and prepare the text of Unit 3.