八年级英语上册 Unit 7 Seasons Comic strip and Welcome to the unit教案 （新版）牛津版-（新版）牛津版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

Unit 7 Seasons
课 题
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
总第 课时
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上课时间

课 时
Period 1
教 具
A recorder and teaching pictures

Teaching aims
To revise vocabulary and expressions to describe seasons at the same time, learn more new words and phrases.
Teaching focus
1. To revise vocabulary and expressions to describe seasons
2. To guess meaning from context
3. Talk about your favourite seasons
Difficult points
To master different ways of talking about weather
Teaching method
Free talk, Presentation, Practice, Consolidation.
Teaching procedures
The second preparing lessons
Step 1 Presentation
Teach the new words such as sunny, cloudy ,windy and so on with the help of media
Ask questions:
What’s the weather like today?
It’s sunny\cloudy\windy……
Present our students a picture of the rain. Look, It’s raining . The ground is all wet. It’s rainy.
Look, It’s snowing heavily. The ground is all white. It’s snowy.
Look! There is a lot of fog. We can’t see anything clearly. It’s foggy.
Step2 Practice
Do the game one by one.
What’s the weather like?
It’s sunny.
Now let’s play a game. The first student in each group will show the second student a weather card and ask him or her the question What’s the weather like? The second student will answer the question and then ask the third one the same question. The team which finishes first and does the best will win the game.
Step3 Presentation
What’s the weather like in spring?
It’s the windy and rainy. It’s the best time for trees and flowers to grow. It’s the best time to fly kites.
What’s the weather like in summer? It’s sunny and hot. It’s the best time to go swimming.
What’s the weather like in autumn? It’s sunny and cool. It’s the best time to plan a day out.
What’s the weather like in winter? It’s cold and snowy. It’s the best time to play with snow.
Now let’s listen to a conversation and then answer some questions.
1Which season does Simon like best? Why?
2Which season does Amy like best? Why?
Step4 Practice
Now work in groups of four and make a similar conversation.
Comic strip
Step1 Presentation
Winter is coming. Eddie feels very cold. What does he want to do? Now let’s listen to the conversation between Eddie and Hobo, and then find out the answer. He wants Hobo to bring him clothes.
Does Eddie look cool with the clothes? Hobo thinks he’ll look cool and feel cool with nothing on.
Step2 Drills
Listen to the tape and repeat after it. Pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
These two teams will read Eddie’s part and these two will read Eddie’s part and these two will read Hobo’s part.
Step3 Display
Work in pairs and read the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. You can add your ideas.
Step4 Homework
Recite the comic strip and Part B

Teaching notes