八年级英语上册 Chapter 2 A day in the life of…whiz-kid Wendy Period One教案 上海牛津版.doc

Chapter 2 A day in the life of…whiz-kid Wendy Period One
Teaching target
1 Talking about cartoons.
2 Talking about daily lives.
3 Skimming the passage.
4 Learning the new words.

Preparation
1 Student's Book 8A, pages 17, 18 & 19

Cartoon talk
1 Ask students the following question:
What sentence do students say most often in school?
2 Give students some time to look at the cartoon on SB 8A, page 17. Ask them to read the three sentences in this cartoon carefully.
3 Question
What can we learn from this cartoon?
4 Meaning of this cartoon:
This cartoon is shown to tell that us that something may happen by chance. The question Hi asked is an IQ one. But Lo's answer was 'I don't know.' But it is the right answer to the question that Hi asked. So we can conclude that something may happen by chance that we haven't expected.
And also, this cartoon is about school life. And the main passage in this chapter is also about the school life.

Daily life talk
1 Write 'daily life' on the board.
Write 'day ' daily' as well. Ask students to guess the meaning of 'daily'.
Then have them work out the meaning of 'daily life'.
Introduce
daily / a. that happens or comes every day or once a day每日的；每天一次的
Introduce: daily English, daily talk
2 Question
What do you usually do in your daily life?
3 Have students look at the pictures in A What do you know about…? on page 18. Ask them to talk about themselves with these activities by using the following sentence patterns.
I … every day.
I … once/twice a week.
I never …
4 Invite some more able students to talk more about their daily lives.

Skimming
1 Review the meaning of 'skim' with students. Invite one or two students to tell the meaning of 'skim'.
2 Ask students to look at the title, the subtitle and the pictures on page 19 in the passage.
subtitle / n. subheading副标题；小标题
3 Have students finish the exercise in B Look and think.
similar / a. the same in some ways but not completely the same类似的；相似的
be similar to 与…相似
be different from 与…不同
expect / v. think that somebody or something will come or that something will happen预料；预计
4 Check the answers orally.
New vocabulary items
1 life / n. [Title] the way that you live生活方式
e.gan unhappy life
2 whiz / n. [Subtitle] one who has remarkable skill专家；奇才；技术出众的人
3 kid / n. [Subtitle] a child 小孩；孩子
4 whiz-kid / n. [Subtitle] 1. a quite clever child/student神童；优等生 2. a clever person who moves ahead in life very quickly领先者；弄潮儿
5 Wendy / n. [L.1] name of a girl［女子名］温蒂
6 top / a. [L2] highest最高的
e.g.Put the book on the top shelf.
Mary is the top student in our class.
7 several / a.[L3] more than two but not many几个；少许
8 successful / a. [L4] having succeeded; having gained an aim成功的；圆满的
9 business / n. [L6] buying and selling things买卖；生意；商业
Note that if we are talking about specific companies, business is a countable noun. But if we are talking about trading and making money in general, business is an uncountable noun.
businessman - businessmen
businesswoman - businesswomen
e.g.Sony, Ford and Coca-Cola are three big businesses.
Business is very important to Hong Kong.
e.g.school uniform
10 luckily / ad. [L14] it is lucky that幸好；幸而
luck (n.)'lucky (a.)'unlucky (a.)'luckily (ad.)
11 popular / a. [L14] liked by a lot of people大众化的；流行的；受欢的
abbr. pop
e.g. popular music
pop start
12 sell / v. [L15] (sold /sEJld/, sold)give something to somebody who pays money for it卖；出售
sell buy
13 over [/ ad. [L15] more than a number or price超过
14 half / n. [L.15] one of two equal parts of something一半；1/2
e.g.Half of six is three.

I lived in Rome for two and a half years.
She gave me half of her apple.
15 million / num. [L15] 1 000 000一百万
16 manager / n. [L16] a person who controls a business, bank or hotel, etc.经理，管理人
17 company / n. [L17] a group of people who work to make or sell things公司；商行
18 responsible / a. [L18] having the duty of looking after something or someone, so that one can be blamed if things go wrong有责任的，应负责任的
e.g.You are responsible for feeding and walking the dog every day.
19 sales / n. [L18] selling things; contract or agreement exchanging something销售；出售；卖
e.g.The sales of our new car are very high.
20 accountant / n. [L19] a person whose job is to make lists of all the money that people or businesses receive and pay会计
21 discuss / v. [L20] talk about something谈论；讨论；议论
e.g.We must discuss the problem of old people.
22 own / a. [L24] belonging to oneself and to nobody else自己的
e.g.I own a flat.
I have my own flat.
23 client / n. [L27] a person who pays another person, for example a lawyer or an accountant, for help or advice客户；委托人
24 boring / a. [L32] not interesting无趣的；乏味的
e.g.That lesson was boring.
25 simple / a. [L33] easy to do or understand简单的；简明的
e.g.This dictionary is written in simple English.
26 achieve / v. [L33] do or finish something well after trying hard通过努力实现；获得；实现
e.g.I achieved my aim: to run one mile in under five minutes.
27 grade / n. [L34] how good something is; the level of quality of something等级；级别
e.g.achieve A grade
Which grade of petrol does your car use?
28 fail /feIl/ v. [L35] not pass an exam or test不及格；不合格
fail =! pass
29 exam / n. [L35] a test of what you know or can do考试
e.g.fail the exam
pass the exam
30 collect / v. [L29] go and bring somebody or something from a place领走；接走
e.g.My father collected me from school in the past.
31 attend /E5tend/ v. [L46] go to or be at a place where something is happening参加；出席
e.g.Will you attend that meeting?
32 assist /E5sIst/ v. [L50] help somebody帮助；援助
e.g.The driver assisted her with her suitcases.
33 continue /kEn5tInjU:/ v. [L60] 1. not stop happening or doing something继续做某事 2. start again after stopping（停止后）再开始
e.g.We continued working until 5 o'clock.
Let's have lunch and continue the meeting this afternoon.
34 seldom /5seldEm/ ad. [L61] not often不常
e.g. It seldom snows in Athens.

Consolidation
1 Copy and recite the new vocabulary items in this period.
2 Scan the passage after class.