外研社八年级英语Module 6 Unit 2.doc

MODULE 6 A famous story
Part 1: Teaching design
第一部分 教学设计
Function
Describing activities at different times
Structure
Past continuous
Listening/Speaking
Recognizing the characters of a story
Saying what you were doing at a specific time
Reading/Writing
Finding specific information in a story
Writing a biography
Around the world
Famous books in English
Task
Writing a short story about your past experience
Unit 2 The white rabbit was looking at its watch.
■ Warming up
Morning, class. Have you ever read the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? What do you know about this story?
There are twelve chapters in the book. They are:
Chapter I: Down the Rabbit Hole
Chapter II: The Pool of Tears
Chapter III: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
Chapter IV: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
Chapter V: Advice from a Caterpillar
Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper
Chapter VII: A Mad Tea-Party
Chapter VIII: The Queen's Croquet-Ground
Chapter IX: The Mock Turtle's Story
Chapter X: The Lobster Quadrille
Chapter XI: Who Stole the Tarts?
Chapter XII : Alice's Evidence
■Reading and vocabulary
1 Look at the picture and say what you think is strange.
A mouse is dressed like a man.
A girl is running after a rabbit.
A cat is standing close to to a girl.
2 Read the start of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and answer the questions.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a wonderful story for young readers.
Now listen to the start of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first, paying attention to the pronunciation, stress, and the intonation of the native speakers.
For the second listening, try to read aloud the passage to the tape while listening.
Now let’s go on to read the conversation. While reading try to cut(断句)/ the sentences into parts, blacken（涂黑） the predicates, shade（加影） the connectives and underline （划线）the expressions.
Now write all the expressions in your Expression Book.
get tired, sit with sb. by the river, once or twice, look into…,
think of, run by sb., take a sth out of…, get up, run across…, see sth / sb do, go down, think about, get out again
Now try to answer the following questions in pairs.
1 How was Alice feeling? →Alice was getting very tired.
2 Where were Alice and her sister? →She was sitting with her sister by the river.
3 What was her sister doing? →Her sister was reading a book.
4 Why didn't Alice like her sister's book? →Because it had no pictures or conversations in it.
5 What was Alice thinking of doing? →She was thinking of making a daisy chain.
6 What happened next? →Suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran by her.
7 What did the rabbit say? →The rabbit said "Oh dear! Oh dear! I’ll be late，”
8 What did the rabbit do with its watch? the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket and looked at it.
9 Why did Alice get up? →Alice got up because she never saw a rabbit with a pocket or a watch.
10 Where did the rabbit go? →It went down a large rabbit hole under the hedge.
11 What did Alice do? →Alice went down after it.
12 How was she going to get out again? →She never thought about how she was going to get out again．
■Writing
1 Match the notes about Lewis Carroll’s and Alice Liddell with the questions．
On page 45, you read twelve questions and notes. Read them and match the notes about Lewis Carroll’s and Alice Liddell with the questions．
4 Write the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell．Join some sentences with One day…Then…and Finally.
Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles Dodgson. He was teaching maths at the University of Oxford, England. One day he saw Alice in a garden playing with her sisters. They asked him to take their photos. Then Dodgson became good friends with the Liddell children. They were having a picnic by the river. He told them lots of stories. Alice asked Dodgson to write the stories in a book. Finally he wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The real Alice grew up. Alice's adventures with Lewis Carroll ended when she grew up.