安徽省长丰县下塘实验中学八年级英语上册 Module 4 Planes, Ships and trains Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school教案 （新版）外研版.doc

Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school教案
一、学习目标:
A.单词和短语：
road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, all the time, journey, book, outside, close, park, however, cost
B.交际用语：
1. What happened?
2. Don’t worry.
3. —Who lives the closest to school?
— Lingling lives closest.
4. — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?
— By taxi.
5. — What’s the most expensive way to go to school?
— Going by taxi is the most expensive.
6. How do you get there?
7. What’s the cheapest way?
8. What’s the best way to get there?
9. — What’s the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris?
— The cheapest way is by coach.
10. It’s the most comfortable way, but it’s the most expensive.
11. He lives farthest from school.
12. It is the fastest and the second cheapest.
13. The more information, the better.
二. 教学目标
1. Function: Describing and comparing modes of transportation.
2. Structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.
3. Skills: 1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)
2) Comparing modes of transportation.
3) Reading and finding specific transportation
4) Writing a short passage comparing modes of transportation.
4. Around the world: The longest railway
5. Task: Making a holiday plan for a family trip to a city in China.
三、重点及难点:
Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.
四、教学设计:
Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.
ⅠTeaching model
Listening and speaking
ⅡTeaching method
PWP approach
ⅢTeaching aims
1. Key vocabulary: road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, close, all the time
2. Key structures: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.
3. Key sentences:
1) What happened?
2) Don’t worry.
3)—Who lives the closest to school?
— Lingling lives closest.
4) — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?
— By taxi.
5) — What’s the most expensive way to go to school?
— Going by taxi is the most expensive.
ⅣTeaching aids
Tape recorder, OHP, video
ⅤTeaching Steps
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Work in pairs. Show some pictures and ask “How do you often go to school?”
2. Look at the pictures, and say something about the pictures.
3. Introduce the new words.
4. Learn the new words.
5. Read the new words.
Step 2 Look and match.

Step 3 Look, listen and match.
1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 2.
busy cheap expensive modern
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen to the recording carefully.
3. Listen and match the words in the box with the pictures in Activity 1. You need to use one word more than once.
4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
5. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Step 4 Listen and read.
1. Show some pictures, and ask the students to talk about them.
2. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.
3. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the conversation.
4. Read the conversation.
5. Act it out.
6. Learn “Everyday English”
1) What happened?
2) Don’t worry.
Step 5 Complete the table.
1. Ask the students to read the conversation again.
2. Now complete the table.

Betty
Tony
Lingling
Daming
Ways to go to school

3. Ask the students to check with a partner.
4. Check the answers:
Keys: by bus by underground walks / on foot by bus
Step 6 Complete the sentences.
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
close comfortable good far
2. Read through the sentences.
1) Lingling lives the ________ to school, so she always walks.
2) The _________ way to go to school is by taxi.
3) Tony lives the ___________ from school.
4) For Betty, going to school by bike is the _________ choice.
3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers:
Keys: 1. closest 2. most comfortable 3. farthest 4. best
Step 7 Complete the sentences.
1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 5.
crowded except modern road accident
2. Read through the sentences.
1) All the students take the bus to school ___________ Sam.
2) The ___________ train in the world is the Shanghai airport train.
3) I saw a(n) __________ on the way to school yesterday.
4) I do not take the bus to school because it is usually very ___________.
3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers:
Keys: 1. except 2. modern 3. road accident 4. crowded
Step 8 Listen and repeat.
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.
1) —Who lives the closest to school?
— Lingling lives closest.
2) — Whah is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?
— By taxi.
3. Ask the students to listen and mark the intonation.
4. Now listen again and repeat.
Step 9 Work in pairs.

Step 10 Important and difficult points
1. Maybe I should go to school by taxi. 或许我应该坐出租车去上学。
by 和表示交通工具的名词（名词前没有任何冠词）连用，意思是“乘、坐”。
例如：travel by train/car/ship/ underground/boat/bus/taxi
乘火车/汽车/轮船/地铁/小船/公交车/出租车出行
2. 形容词、副词的最高级构成及其用法:
Step 11 Do exercises:
A. 随学随练：写出下列单词的最高级形式：
1. short _________________ 2. nice _________________
3. big _________________ 4. thin _________________
5. early _________________ 6. slowly _________________
7. beautiful _________________ 8. carefully _________________
9. badly _________________ 10. much _________________
11. little _________________ 12. far __________________
Keys: 1. shortest 2. nicest 3. biggest 4. thinnest 5. earliest 6. most slowly 7. most beautiful 8. most carefully 9. worst 10. most 11. least 12. farthest / furthest
B.中考链接
( )1.—The girls are talking about the art festival_____. (2013温州)
—Yes. They have so many fun things to share.
A. easily B. angrily C. sadly D. happily
( ) 2.—Our school bus will leave at 8 o'clock tomorrow. Don't be late.
— OK. I will be there ten minutes________. (2013安徽)
A. sooner B. slower C. faster D. earlier
( ) 3. Debbie is growing fast. She is even________ than her mother. (2013北京)
A. tall B. taller C. tallest D. the tallest
( ) 4.—Dad, would you please drive ________? (2013福州)
— No hurry. We have enough time before the plane takes off.
A. faster B. more slowly C. more carefully
( ) 5.—Do you know Lin Shuhao? (2013漳州)
—Yes. He is one of _____ basketball players in the NBA.
A. popular B. more popular C. the most popular
( ) 6.—Which country is your favorite, Lin Tao？(2013牡丹江)
—France, of course. It’s the _______ place that I want to visit.
A. worst B. better C. best
( ) 7. Is Lily’s home _____ away from school than Linda’s? (2013益阳)
A. far B. farther C. farthest .
( ) 8.—Who ran ______ of all in the sports meeting? (2013襄阳)
—Hector did, I think.
A. fast B. faster C. the fastest D. most fast
( ) 9. Li Na is ________ tennis player in China now. (2011永州)
A. most famous B. the most famous C. more famous
Keys: 1. D 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. B
Step 12 Homework
Remember the words of Unit 1 and prepare the text of Unit 2.