江苏省东台市唐洋镇中学八年级英语上册《Unit 3 A day out Main task》教案 牛津版.doc

《Unit 3 A day out Main task》教案
Teaching Objectives
● To understand the structure of a letter and learn to write a letter inviting friends to go out for a trip
● To develop students’ ability to collect and organize information
● To organize one’s own invitation letter with the help of the questions and the sample letter
Teaching Procedures
STEP 1 Warming up
Bring in a map of Nanjing and say to my students, ‘My cousin from Britain will come to Nanjing. He will stay in Nanjing for only one day. So I am planning a day out with him. However I don’t have any ideas. You live in Nanjing, so you must know a lot interesting places in Nanjing. Can you help me?
First, please help me to think of some places to go. As the students are naming the places, the teacher put these names down on the board. (By the way, students may mention a lot (maybe too many) of places. Don’t worry. Encourage them to give the reasons. And this will provide able students with a lot more information.)
Invite the students to give some ideas about what we can do there.
STEP 2 Choosing places
Say that ‘We don’t have time to visit so many places. So you’d better choose some for us.’
After the students helped me decide where to go, guide students to figure out the route and how to go. (Tell them where we will set out before hand.)
STEP 3 Making a plan for a day out
Ask students to open the books. And look at Part B. Tell them, ‘These questions can help us to plan a day out. Let’s see what we have already covered.’ Give the students a little time for them to find the answers.
Where: make a list of places of interest for you to visit.
What: Write down the activities you can do at each place.
How : Find out how to get and the fare.
Get the students to focus on how to make a plan for a day out. Get the students to discuss the following questions. Invite them to help me make the plan and then get them to work out the cost of the trip per person, including the tickets, transport fare and lunch.
What time do you want to start your trip?
How long is the trip?
How much time do you want to spend at each place?
When and where will you have lunch?
What time do you want to return home?
STEP 4 Organizing the information into sentences
Say ‘Kitty and Daniel are planning a big day out for Linda. Let’s read their plan.’ Invite the students to organize the information into sentences and then speak them out one student by another.
They will meet at 7 at Sunshine Underground Station and then that the underground to the center of Beijing.
At 8, we will take a bus in the center of Biejingto the Palace Museum. They will visit the museum there.
At about 11, they are going to walk Beihai Park. They will go bating then have lunch there. At about 1:00 they will take a bus to Tian’anmen square.
They will arrive at Tian’anmen Square at about 1:30. They will see the Monument to People’s Heroes and visit the People’s Great Hall. It is great to see the biggest city square in the world. At 4:30, they will take a bus to Wangfujing street.
They will go shopping in Wangfujing Street and then take the bus to Beijing Underground Station.
At 6:30, they will take the underground and go back to Sunshine Town.
STEP 5 Writing an invitation letter
Tell the students that Daniel and Kitty also want their classmates to go on the trip, too. They wrote an invitation letter to ask their friends to come.
Get the students to complete the letter. For stronger classes, let the students do it all by themselves and then check the answer in pairs and then check the answers in class. For weaker classes, help the students to identify the missing information one by one. Then ask then to fill in the blanks in groups of 3-4.
Read the letter and find out what they write in the letter and how they persuade their friends.
Direct students’ attention to the different parts of the letter. Ask students to cover the prompts on the left. The teacher writes down the label of different part of the letter on the board and then get the students to match them with the right part of Daniel and Kitty’s letter.
STEP 6 Organizing the information into a passage
As we have talked a lot about places to visit, it comes the time for the students to organize the information into a passage.
Divide the students into groups of 4-5. Ask them to design a route for their group and then make a detailed plan and write a letter. Encourage the more able students to make their more persuasive by including opinions about what they are likely to enjoy and how much.
For less able students, it is OK for them only do some substitution work. They only need to go through Kitty and Daniel’s article and locate the information that they can replace with their own ideas.
(Before the students start to write their own article tell them about the importance of predating the information as clearly and accurately. They also need to organize their article in a very clear and logical way.)
Encourage the students to read and check each other’s article for spelling and grammatical mistakes.
STEP 7 Reading the article to the class
Get the students to read their article to the class and see how many people would like to go with them. The group that gets more supporters wins the competition. (Well, tell the students that they can support more than one group and they can put up their hand if they think the plan is attractive or fun.)
After we have worked out the plan, we still can continue the activity by writing a reply to the invitation letter they like best.
STEP 8 Homework
Finish off the exercises in the books. Write an invitation letter for your own trip.