八年级英语上册 Unit 12 Whats the best radio station全单元4课时教案 人教新目标版.doc

Unit 12 What’s the best radio station?
I． Teaching objectives 单元教学目标
Skill Focus

听
Listen to people taking about their preferences.
说
Talk about preferences and make comparisons.
读
Read a survey result about places in town.
Read an article about school talent show and the performers.
写
Write an article about a talent show.
功

能

句

式
Discuss preferences
What’s the best ...?
I think ... has the most/best ...
I think ... is the best.
... is the funniest person I know.
... is/was the best ...
The funniest performer was ...
Make comparisons
Jean’s has good quality clothes.
It’s better than Trendy Teens.
Jason’s is the best store in town.

Language
Focus

词

汇
1. 重点词汇
radio, comfortable, seat, screen, close, theater, cinema, easy, meal, loud, success, act, without, together, near, farthest, southern, still, lovely, northern, snow, enough
2．认读词汇
service, quality, clothing, jeans, trendy, teen, funky, FM, AM, jazz, worse, worst, bargain, delight, positive, negative, dull, talent, performer, musical, distance, province, 15℃, -10℃
3．短语
radio station, close to, talent show
语
法
Superlatives of the adjectives with -(i)est, the most
Irregular comparison
good, better, the best;
bad, worse, the worst
Strategy
Focus
Self-evaluating
Personalizing
II. Teaching materials analyzing and rearranging 教材分析和教材重组

1. 教材分析
本单元的话题是Your town，通过本单元学习，要求学生学会谈论喜好并能用形容词的比较级和最高级对两种或两种以上的事物进行比较，从而掌握一些单音节形容词、多音节形容词的比较级和最高级。有关城市中影院、服装店及电台的调查结果的短文则是对本单元目标语言的综合运用。要求学生在理解文章的基础上做相应的会话训练，是对学生阅读和交际能力的提升。Self check 从词汇和语言运用两方面进行自我测评，检验本单元目标语言的掌握程度。
Section A 1a谈论选择电影院的因素哪些重要，哪些不重要，为目标语言的呈现作了词汇方面的铺垫；1b以听力的方式呈现本单元的目标语言：最高级；1c以结对活动的形式口头练习目标语言:谈论喜好及进行比较；2a与2b是有关服装店与电台的调查的听力练习，通过听力进一步练习目标语言，在此基础上又进行了2c对话练习，使目标语言融入情境，学生通过听说练习自然习得目标语言。3a是关于城市中影院、服装店、电台的调查结果的阅读短文，要求学生根据文章内容找出最好的影院、服装店及电台并列举原因，这不仅是对目标语言的阅读练习，而且也培养了学生的阅读能力；3b与4都是在3a的基础上对目标语言的实践性口头练习，要求学生谈论本地的店铺及饭馆，从而练习了最高级及好恶的表达。
Section B 1a呈现一些形容词的最高级并分为褒贬两种类型；1b通过对人物简单评价使1a中的词汇有了实用的意义；2a与2b是有关评论Talent show 的听力练习，此练习也很好地巩固了目标语言；2c是在此基础上的对话练习，这三部分是一个有机整体，对目标语言进行了听说的整合训练；3a则是有关Talent show的阅读训练，要求学生用所给词汇填写短文中的空格，锻炼了学生的整体理解能力；3b要求学生根据2b的听力内容进行仿写，这是由读向写的过渡；3c则是一项开放性的写作练习，要求学生想象一个明星的才艺表演并进行写作训练，这不仅开拓了学生的思维，又与现实生活紧密相连，而且提高了学生的兴趣，一举多得；4是小组活动，要求采访同学关于不同事物的评价，这是对目标语言的有效锻炼，简单易行。
Self check 1 要求学生对所给词汇进行应用性填空练习；2要求学生阅读有关三个城市的三篇小短文，之后获取相关信息，在此基础上对信息进行分析，决定寒假的最佳度假城市，是一项对学生综合运用语言能力的检验。

2. 教材重组和课时分配
Period 1 (Section A: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, Grammar Focus)
Function and Grammar
Period 2 (Section A: 3a, 3b Section B: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c)
Reading and Listening
Period 3 (Section B: 3a, 3b, 3c, 4)
Reading and Writing
Period 4 (Section A: 4, Self check) Self check

III. Teaching plans for each period
分课时教案

Period 1 Function and Grammar

Target language 目标语言
1. Words and phrases生词和短语
radio, radio station, comfortable, seat, screen, close, close to, service, quality, theatre, cinema, clothing, jeans, trendy, teen, funky, easy, jazz, worse, worst
2. Key sentences重点句型
What’s the best cinema?
Show time Cinema. It’s the cheapest.
Jean’s has good quality clothes.
It’s better than Trendy Teens.
Jason’s is the best store in town.
Ability goals 能力目标
Get students to talk about their preferences.
Enable students to make comparisons using comparatives and superlatives.
Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help students learn how to make comparisons with comparatives and superlatives.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
The comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Teaching aids 教具准备
Pictures, tape recording.
Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in (Section A: 1a)
T: What do you usually do on weekends?
Ss: Do my homework, clean the room, play football, go to the movies ...
T: Do you often watch movies in the theater? How do you choose a movie theater? What kind of movie theater would you like to go to?
Ask several Ss to say something about the movie theaters they usually go to.
Then point to the words or phrases in the box of activity 1a. Show some pictures to explain each.

comfortable seats big screen friendly service
Note:
△“Close” is similar to “near”, means “not far”.
△“Friendly” comes from “friend”. It is an adjective. Opposite: unfriendly (Show a friendly smile to Ss.)
△“Fun part of the town” means the part in a town that you can have a lot of fun such as go shopping, have all kinds of snacks, doing activities and so on.
Read the words for the Ss to follow.
T: What do you think are important or not important in choosing a movie theater? Write the things below “Important” and “Not Important”.
Ss work alone to finish it.
Call some Ss to say their opinions by saying “I think ... are important and ... are not important”.
Sample answer:
I think “big screens” and “new movies” are important, while “in a fun part of town”, “close to home” and “friendly service” are not important.

Step II Listening (Section A: 1b)
T: You will hear three people talking about several movie theaters in their town. The movie theaters are: (Read the names for the Ss). And these are what they think of the movie theaters.
Point to the Qualities column. Go through the statements before listening.
Play the recording twice.
Check the answers by asking Ss to describe the theaters using the following sentences.
Write the two sentences on the Bb.
Town Cinema is the closest to home.
Screen City has the biggest screens.
Note:
“Qualities” is the plural form of “quality”. If the cloth has good quality, it may be expensive.

Step III Pairwork (Section A: 1c)
Get Ss to practice the target language in pairs orally.
T: Please talk about the movie theaters in our city like this.
Call a pair of Ss to read the conversation in 1c.
Ss work in pairs to make their own conversations.
Call some pairs to say their conversations.
Sample conversation:
A: What’s the best movie theater?
B: Town Cinema. It has the most comfortable seats.
A: But I think Teen’s Palace is the cheapest.

Step IV Listening (Section A: 2a 2b)
In this step, Ss will do some listening practice with the target language.
Point to the two Qs in 2a and ask Ss to read them. Read the names of the clothing stores and the radio stations for Ss to repeat.
Note:
△“Oldies” is the plural form of “oldie”. “Oldie” comes from “old”. It means someone or something that is old, especially an old film or song. This radio station probably plays old music.
△“Funky” is an informal word meaning “up to date” or “stylish”.
T: Listen to the reporter talking with a teenage boy. She is asking him some questions. Listen to the recording and circle the boy’s answers.
Play the recording.
Check the answers.
Read the names of the stores and the comments after each one in 2b. (Ask a student to do it)
T: You will hear the same recording again. This time listen to what the boy says about the stores and circle what he says about each store.
Play the recording again.
Check the answers.
Step V Role play (Section A: 2c)
This step provides guided oral practice using the target language.
T: What’s the best clothing store in town? What do you like about the other stores? What are the best radio stations? Work in pairs. One is the reporter, the other is the boy. Role play the conversation beginning with this.
Ask two students to read the sample conversation to the class.
Then they work in pairs to make their conversations.
Sample conversation:
A: Hello! I’m a reporter. Can I ask you some questions?
B: Sure.
A: What’s the best clothing store in town?
B: I think Jason’s is the best.
A: Why do you think so?
B: Jason’s has good quality clothes.
A: What do you like about the other stores?
B: Trendy Teens is in a fun part of town, but it’s expensive. Don’t go to Funky Fashions. It has the worst clothes in town.
A: What about the radio stations in town?
B: I guess Jazz 107.9 FM is the best because it has the most interesting music.
A: What do you like about the other radio stations?
B: Well, I think Oldies 102.1 FM is pretty bad. It has the worst music.

Step VI Grammar Focus
Review the grammar box. Ask a student to read the sentences to the class.
T: These sentences show two different grammar points.
Then put a chart like this on the board. Write the bold letters in colored chalk.
cheapest friendliest most comfortable
T: Here the three different words and phrases are used to make comparisons. All the three words and phrases do the same thing. They compare three or more things.
Ask Ss to use the three words to compare different stores or restaurants in their town.
T: These adjectives are called superlatives. We use them when we compare three or more things. Can you find out how they are formed?
Rule explanation:
1. Usually we add -est to the positive form. eg. cheap → cheapest
2. For the word ending with a silent “e”, we only add -st. eg. close → closest
3. For the word ending with a consonant and “y”, we change “y” into “i” then add -est. eg. friendly → friendliest
4. For the word ending with a stressed closed syllable, at the end of which there is only one consonant, we double the consonant then add -est. eg. big → biggest
5. Adjectives of three or more syllables form their superlative by putting most before the positive. eg. most comfortable
6. There are also some irregular superlatives.
positive
comparative
superlative
good
better
best
bad
worse
worst
T: We use the positive to talk about one thing, the comparative to compare two things and the superlative to compare three or more things.
Ask Ss to give some examples of sentences using these words.

Step VII Homework
Practice the language in Grammar Focus.

Period 2 Reading and Listening

Target language 目标语言
1. Words and phrases生词和短语
bargain, positive, negative, dull, loud, talent, talent show, performer
2. Key sentences重点句型
Jason’s has the best quality clothing.
Eliza was the best performer.
Ability goals 能力目标
Learn to talk about the places in town or people using superlatives.
Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help students learn how to talk about preferences with superlatives.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
Use superlatives to talk about people.
Teaching aids 教具准备
Tape recording.
Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Revision
Ask some Ss the following questions:
T: What is the best movie theater in our town?
What is the best clothing store?
What is the best radio station?
What is the best restaurant?
Why are they the best?
Get Ss to say the names of the places and give reasons using the superlatives.

Step II Reading (Section A: 3a)
T: This is an article about what young people think about places in their town. Read it and fill in the chart. You will find out the best movie theater, the best clothing store, the best radio station and the reasons why each one is the best of its kind.
Allow Ss two minutes to read it.
Check the answers.
Then get Ss to read it again and find out the language points they can’t understand.
Play the recording for the Ss to listen to.
Language points:
△“What do think about/of ...?” is a useful expression to ask for one’s opinion about something.
What do you think about our English teacher?
△do a survey of ... 做……的调查
Survey is a noun in this phrase.
do a survey of ... =make a survey of ...
We did a survey of children’s eating habit.
△This is what we learned.
这是我们所了解到的结果。
在本句中learn不是“学习”的意思，而表示“了解到，获悉”。
I learned this from someone else.
我是从别人那儿知道的。
what we learned 在此作is的表语，用来作表语的句子叫表语从句，要求用陈述句语序。
如：This is where I was born.
这是我出生的地方。
That is why he left for Japan.
那就是他去日本的原因。
△as for 就……而言
As for entertainment (娱乐), there are a lot of things you can do. For example, you can go to dancing parties or join clubs.
Step III Pairwork (Section A: 3b)
T: Now please work in pairs to talk about the stores in our town.
Which one has the best/worst service?
Which one has the best/worst quality?
Which one is the cheapest/most expensive?
Different students may have different opinions. Write down your ideas in the chart first. After that, exchange your ideas with your partner using the sentence:
I think ...
Ask two students to read the sample statement first.
Note:
“Bargain” means something you can buy at a lower price. e.g.
It’s a good/real bargain.
Get the students to work in pairs. After a while, call some pairs to say their conversations.
Sample conversation:
A: I think Clothing City has the cheapest clothes.
B: I agree. But I think it has the worst quality. Hua Yu has the best quality.
A: Yeah. And it has the friendliest service.

Step IV Words (Section B: 1a 1b)
Point to the sample answer in the chart and ask a student to read the words to the class.
Then let them tell the original forms of these superlatives
dull, loud, bad, boring, funny, creative, quiet, good
Explain the meanings of some new words:
“Dull” means not interesting or exciting.
“Loud” means making a lot of noise.
T: Some of the words have good meanings, which we call “Positive words”. For example, “most creative” is a positive word While others have bad meanings, which we call “Negative words”. The opposite of “most creative” is “dullest”. It is a negative word. Now please write the words and phrases next to their opposites in the chart.
Ask students to complete activity 1a on their own.
Check the answers.
T: We can use positive words to say good things about people. Now please use these positive words to tell your partner about people you know.
Point out the sample sentence in activity 1b. Ask a student to read it to the class.
Ss work in pairs to talk about the people they know.
Ask several Ss to say their sentences to the class.
Then write “Who is the ... in our class?” on the Bb.
T: Now think of some adjectives we use to describe a student. And use them to answer the question on the Bb.
Samples:
Diana is the quietest student in our class.
Lily is the tallest student in our class.
Jane is the prettiest girl in our class.

Step V Listening (Section B: 2a 2b)
T: Look at the pictures. What are they about?
Ss: Talent show.
T: What do people do at the talent show?
Let Ss describe the pictures one by one. Help students to understand the activity in each picture.
Picture 1: play guitar upside down
Picture 2: sing and play instrument
Picture 3: juggle with balls
Picture 4: play piano
Picture 5: circus
T: These people are performing at the show. We call them “performers”. (Write “perform” and “performer” on the Bb) Do you want to know who they are? Their names are listed in the box.
Ask a student to read the names to the class.
T: Now listen and find out who they are.
Play the tape recording twice. Ss listen and write the correct name under each picture.
Check the answers.
T: We’ll listen again. This time listen for what people say about the performers. Write down the