八年级英语上册 Unit 2 School life Period 1 Comic strip and welcome to the Unit教案 （新版）牛津版-（新版）牛津版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

School life
Period 1 Comic strip and welcome to the unit
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Talk about the school life and review the words about school life.
2. Learn different words which mean the same thing between British English and American English.
3. Learn the differences between British English and American English.
Teaching difficulties and importance:
1. Grasp the spelling of British words and American words such as lift and elevator, post and mail, film and movie, football and soccer, and so on.
2. Know the differences between British English and American English.
3. Grasp the words: British, lift, post, eraser, fall, elevator, math, movie, soccer
4. Grasp the phrases: be smarter than, be like doing
5. Grasp the sentences: Why don’t sb do sth?=Why not do sth? What’s school like?
Teaching preparation:
pictures, recorder, computer, and the flags of Britain and England
Teaching steps:
StepⅠ Lead-in
T: Do you like our school?
What do you like?
How many subjects do you learn?
Can you tell me some names of them?
S: Chinese, Math, English, PE, Geography, etc. (Encourage the Ss to say more about it.)
T: Good. Is there another word for Math?
S: Yes. Maths.
T: Great. Maths is Math. Maths is British English. While Math is American English (write on Bb)
StepⅡ Pre-task (Welcome to the unit)
Show the flags of the UK and the USA. Tell them that people speak English in both Britain and the USA , but sometimes they use different words which mean the same thing.
T: I know many boys like playing football.
Do you know what it says in American English?
S: Soccer.(Write on Bb)
Do you know the same use of other words?
Please give me some examples.
Write other right answers of the students on the Bb.
Teach the students the new words
BE=British English AE=American English
BE
autumn
lift
football
maths
rubber
post
ground
floor
secondary
school
AE
fall
elevator
soccer
math
eraser
mail
first
floor
high school
StepⅢ While-task
Task1 Practise the new words more. Pay attention to the pronunciations and spelling.
Task2 Finish Part A on Page 23. Teacher can give more words, such as sweets and candies, holiday and vocation, biscuit and cookie and so on.
Task3 Write down both the British and American words, then finish Part B.
StepⅣ Different spellings
(1) Say: There are also some differences in spelling between British English and American English. Make a table and write down some words. E.g. favourite and favorite, centre and center.
(2) Ask Ss to find more different words means the same thing and different spellings after class.
StepⅤ Comic strips
Do you remember Hobo and Eddie? They are talking about school life.
Listen to the tape and answer : What does Eddie think of the school life?
Listen again and read after it.
Point out: Why don’t you do sth?=Why not do sth?
be smarter than, be like doing sth, there be, few/a few
Look at the picture and practise the dialogue
Act the dialogue in groups and pairs.
StepⅥ Free talk about Ss’ ideal school
What do you like more about school, the assembly, the classes, lunchtime or the after-school activities? Do you like outdoor activities? Do you like fewer lessons? Do you like the lessons on the Internet? Talk about the above questions in groups and then make a report.
StepⅦ Post-task
Fill in the blankets with American English:
It’s my first day in high school. I felt a little tired, but I had a good time. Our classroom is on the__________ (ground/first) floor. So we don’t need an_________ (lift/elevator). I like to go outside playing___________(soccer/football) after class. It’s my____________ (favourite/favorite) sport. Today we had 6 classes. I still found__________ (maths/math) was too difficult for me. But the new classmate next to me helped me work out a difficult problem.
StepⅧ. Homework
(1) Try to remember the new words and drills.
(2) Finish the exercises.
(3) Preview the next lesson.