八年级英语冀教版Unit1 Spring Is Coming.doc

Unit1 Spring Is Coming
Functions:
Talking about weather.
What’s the weather like today?
It’s rather cold/warm today, isn’t?
It’s sunny/rainy/snowy/windy/warm/hot/cold/cool.
It’s a nice day today!
What a cold day!
It’s getting warm.
Grammar:
Word building: sun + rise = ___
Prepositions: on in, at
Structures: fall off, How /What about…?
make a loud noise, not…until…
Shall…we…?

Lesson 1 What’s the weather like?
Learning aims:
1. The words and phrases: rather, shower, rise, set, thunder, storm, sunrise, sunset, be scared of
2. The important sentences:
① What’s the temperature? It’s ten degrees.
② It’s rather cool today, isn’t it?
③ I’m scared of thunder.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. What’s the weather like today? It’s cold, cool, warm.
2. What’s the temperature? It’s ten degrees.
3. be scared of sb./sth.
4. There will be… = There is/are going to be …
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Talking
Talk about the weather, the weather report and the temperature.
Step 2. Reading
Read the dialogue, and then answer the question.
What’s the temperature?
Step 3. Explaining
Explain 1. 一般将来时 be going to do sth. = will do sth.
2. 询问温度是多少要用: What’s the temperature?
Step 4. Practice
Practice the dialogue in three.
Step 5. Act out
Act it out in class.
Step 6. Do exercises
Step 7. Homework
Learn Lesson 2 by themselves.

Lesson 2 It’s getting warmer!
Learning aims:
1. The new words and language points: become, fact, daylight, melt, lightning, fascinating, go up, make a loud noise
2. The important sentences:
① What’s the date today? It’s March twenty-first.
② In Spring, the weather becomes warmer.
③ The temperatures goes up.
Learning important and difficult points:
Ask and describe the weather of spring.
1. What is spring weather like?
2. It becomes warmer. The temperature goes up!
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Check
Check Lesson 1: ask some students to act the dialogue out.
Step 2. Learning
Learn the new words. Read and write.
Step 3. Looking
Look at the pictures and read it.
Step 4. Learning
Learn it. Find out the useful expressions.
Step 5. Practice
Practice the dialogue.
Step 6. Exercises
Step 7. Homework: Describe spring.

Lesson 3 Postcard
Learning aims:
1. The words and phrases: road, outdoors, cycling
2. The important sentences:
① Spring has arrived in Shijiazhuang.
② I see many people in the park exercising.
③ We won’t see any flowers until May.
④ The sun will set in about fifteen minutes.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. 区分 arrive 与 reach
2. not…until… “直到……才
They didn’t leave until they finished the work.
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Revision
Revise the words of Lesson 1 and 2.
Step 2. Learning (A)
Learn the new words. Read and write.
Step 3. Learning (B)
Learn the text.
Step 4. Reading
Read the text and recite it.
Step 5. Exercise
Step 6. Homework: Recite the dialogue.

Lesson 4 Sun is rising
Learning aims:
1. The words and phrases: climb, change, hillside, gently, blossom, one by one
2. The important sentences:
① Weather is warming.
②They come in one by one.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. Sun is rising.
2. one by one/year by year/day by day
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Read the new words and write them down.
Step 2. Sing the song

Lesson 5 Fun in the sun
Learning aims:
1. The words and useful phrases: shall, outdoors, cycling, go bike riding, hit sb. on the head, How/What about…? Shall we…?
2. The important sentences:
① Let’s go cycling.
② How about baseball?
③ Shall we play soccer?
④ The ball always hits me on the head.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. Let’s go cycling.
2. How about sth./doing sth.?
3. be scared of sb./sth.
4. There will be… = There is/are going to be …
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Revision
Revise the words. Have a dictation in pairs.
Step 2. Reading and writing
Read the new words and write them down till recite them.
Step 3. Looking
Look at the pictures. Then read it and say.
Step 4. Learning
Learn the text.
1. The weather is so warm today. (划线部分提问)
2. It’s twenty-two degrees. (划线部分提问)
3. It’s rather warm, isn’t it? (改为过去式)
4. We shall play soccer. (改为一般疑问句)
Step 5. Practice
Practice the dialogue in three.
Step 6. Finding
Find out the differences between in China and in Canada.
Step 7. Do exercises
Step 8. Homework
Act out dialogue out next class.

Lesson 6 Danny the babysitter
Learning aims:
1. The words and phrases: playground, hold, hold on, come down, push, babysitter baby sit, bar, swing, turn around, full off, get off
2. The important sentences:
① Danny is babysitting his cousin Debbie at the playground.
② It’s time to stop swinging.
③ Debbie gets off the swing.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. stop doing sth./to do sth.
2. It’s time to stop doing sth.
3. get off, get on
4. come on/some down
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Revision
Check the dialogue.
Step 2. Reading and writing
Read the words and write them down.
Step 3. Looking and saying
Look at the pictures and say it in English.
Step 4. Reading the dialogue in four
Then find out the useful expressions.
Step 5. Explaining
Go over:
get on /off /to /in /from /along with
come down /on. /from /in /out
time three times, new times
Step 6. Practice
Practice the dialogue in four.
Step 7. Homework
Act the dialogue.

Lesson 7 Danny’s “Debbie” Day
Learning aims:
1. The new words: herself, party, all day
2. The important sentences:
① I thought about it all day at school.
② I thought it would be easy to baby sit there.
③ I was scared that she would hurt herself.
④ My aunt and uncle had made sandwiches for us to eat at the playground.
⑤ So was I.
⑥ I help her brush her teeth and climb into bed.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. It is easy to do sth.
2. oneself 反身代词的用法
3. So was I.
e.g. He is tall. So am I.
4. help sb. do sth. = help sb. with sth.
Learning method:
Listen, say, read and write.
Learning steps:
Step 1. Revision
1. Revise the words.
2. Check the dialogue.
Step 2. Reading and writing
Read the words and write them down.
Step 3. Reading
Read the diary by themselves and find out the useful expressions.
Step 4. Explaining
1. would do 过去将来
e.g. I was scared that she would hurt herself.
2. Had done.
e.g. They had made sandwiches for us to eat at the playground.
Step 5. Reading
Step 6. Exercises
Step 7. Homework
Write a diary.

Lesson 8 Unit Review
Summarize vocabulary and grammar:
1. rather, shower, rise, set, become, fact, road, climb, one by one, change, shall, kick, hold on, come down, push, plant
2. Talking about weather.
What’s the weather like today?
It’s rather cool/warm/windy/warm/hot/cold.
It’s a nice day today!
What a cold day!
It’s getting warmer.
3. sun + light = _______ basket + ball = _______
4. prep. in, on, at 的用法