江苏省灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语上册 Unit1 Friends教案 牛津版.doc

Unit1 Friends
Teaching Objectives:
To identify the words and phrases to describe the appearance and personality of a person
To talk about the important qualities of a good friend

Teaching contents:
Words: honest, joy, sad, believe, teenager, good-looking, musical
Phrases: have something to drink, make somebody happy/special, keep secrets, share one’s joy, believe what somebody says, talk to somebody about anything, clean and tidy
Sentences: Do you want some?
Can I have something to drink?
What about some milk?
Can I have some more food too?
There’s nothing else in the fridge.

Teaching preparations:
Tape recorder
Computer
Pictures
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Warm-up
T: Hello everyone, glad to see you again! Did you have a nice summer holiday? Are you happy to be back to school and see all your friends?
Ss talk about their summer holidays.
T: This summer holiday I went to Australia with some of your classmates and friends. We took a lot of photos. Would you like to have a look?
Show the pictures and introduce some places of interest and animals in Australia.
T: Look, we took a photo with this famous man--- Batman. He’s a hero and people’s good friend because he helps people in danger. Do you agree? What do you think of him?
Ss talk about Batman with the adjectives describing appearance and personality, such as friendly, helpful, kind, polite, clever, brave, etc.

Step 2 Presentation

T: There are some more words to describe people. For example, we can say Batman is good-looking. But we never say he’s beautiful! We don’t use beautiful to describe a boy or a man. If someone likes music or is good at music, we say he or she is musical.
Teach “good-looking” and “musical”.

Step 3 Practice

1. Play a guessing game. Ss describe their best friends in the class and guess who are talked about.
2. T explains some language points.
Step 4 Presentation
1. T: How old is your best friend? What about you?
Ss: 15/16 …
T: So you are teenagers. We call children between 13 and 19 teenagers.
Teach “teenager”.
T: We have a good friend, Eddie. Is he a teenager?
Ss: No.
2. T: Who’s Eddie’s good friend? Why?
T plays the tape of the Comic strip and Ss try to find out the answer to the question.
(Hobo is Eddie’s good friend because they always share things with each other.)
3. Ss read the Comic strip and answer the questions:
(1) What does Eddie give Hobo?
(2) What does Hobo want?
(3) Do you think Eddie is a true friend? Why?
4. Ss read the dialogue in pairs.
5. T explains some language points.

Step 5 Practice
1. Ss act out the dialogue and they are encouraged to add in something they like.
2. Discuss: Who do you like better as a friend, Eddie or Hobo? Why?
Step 6 Homework
1. Describe a good friend of yours with the words and phrases learnt in this lesson.
2. Finish the Workbook exercises.
灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语教学案
8A Unit 1 Friends Reading (Ⅰ) 教案
主备人：霍建如 审核人：八年级英语备课组
Teaching Objectives:
To guess general meanings from keywords and context
To skim text for overall meanings and scan for details
To identify specific information about different people form their friends’ descriptions
To use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and personalities

Teaching contents:
Words: slim, shoulder-length, generous, singer, almost, eyesight, smart, true
Phrases: travel around the world, have poor eyesight, have a good sense of humour, knock off, a true friend, say a bad word about anyone, vote for

Teaching preparations:
Tape recorder
Computer

Teaching procedures:
Step1 Leading-in
T: Yesterday we learnt to talk about friends. Friends are very important in our lives. Almost everyone needs a friend and almost everyone has a friend, do you think so? Let’s look at some interesting English sayings about friends. Please try to guess the meanings of them.
Ss read and discuss.

Step 2 Presentation
T: Why do you think friends are important? What can friends do for you?
Ss give different answers.
T: Is your friend’s appearance very important to you?
Ss: No.
T: Good. We should never judge a person by his appearance or clothes. But it’ll be good for you to learn some words to describe your friends’ appearance, right?
T shows the pictures and teaches “shoulder-length”, “slim” and “poor eyesight”.

Step 3 Practice
Ss do Part B2, P9 individually. After checking the answers, T asks some Ss to give some more details about the appearance of each person in the pictures.

Step 4 Presentation
1. T: As you all think that appearance is not very important, could you tell me what is important in your opinion?
Ss answer with the adjectives they learnt to describe qualities, such as clean and tidy, helpful, honest, etc.
T: Excellent. Now I have some good friends here. Can you use some proper words to describe them?
Ss fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.
T teaches “generous”, “joke”, “humorous”, “have a good sense of humour”, “a true friend” and “be ready/ willing to do sth”.
2. T: ‘Teenagers’ magazine is holding a writing competition about good friends. Some students have written some entries for it. Please read and find out whether the following statements are true or false.
T plays the tape recorder for the Ss to repeat.
Ss read and do Part C1, P10.
3. Ss read again and do Part B1 on their own. Tell them that they need to look for specific details, which fit each of the persons described in the articles.
Step 5 Summarize
T: What do we usually write about when we describe our friends?
Ss: Appearance, personalities …
T: Yes, in which paragraph do we usually write about the appearance?
Ss: Paragraph 1.
T: And in Paragraph 2?
Ss: Personalities.
T: Right. We also call it personalities. In the 3rd paragraph we can write about their behaviors or future plans.
Step 6 Practice
1. Ss do Part C2, P10 and find out who each of the personalities will vote for and fill in the blanks. Then check the answers by asking and answering in pairs ‘Who will Amy/ Simon/ Sandy vote for?’
Step 8 Homework Retell about the three best friends.
灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语教学案
8A Unit 1 Friends Reading ( II )教案
主备人：霍建如 审核人：八年级英语备课组
Teaching Objectives:
To learn some useful expressions and use them in different context
To learn how to describe friends

Teaching contents:
Words: slim, shoulder-length, generous, singer, almost, eyesight, smart, true, joke, fit,
off, advertisement
Phrases: be willing to do sth., share sth. with sb., in need, help sb. with one’s homework, walk past, knock sth. off sth., tell funny jokes, make sb. laugh, think of, worry sb.
Sentences: She is as slim as I am.
She is also helpful and is ready to help people any time.
Betty wants to be a singer and travel around the world when she grows up.
He has poor eyesight because of working on the computer too much at night.
His legs are very long and they do not fit under the school desks.
She is kind and never says a bad word about anyone.

Teaching preparations:
Computer

Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. T: For yesterday’s homework I asked you to vote for a best student in your class. Now can you tell me your choice and your reason? Please describe that person in details and let’s guess who it is. Then we can vote for him or her, OK?
2. T: Yesterday we also met three friends in ‘Teenagers’ Magazine. They’re Betty, Max and May. How much do you remember them?
Ss have a group competition by answering questions about Max.

Step 2 Language points
T: Wonderful! You have a very good memory. Now let’s move on to look at some
useful phrases and sentences in the three articles and learn to use them:
1. She is as slim as I am.她和我一样苗条。
as+形容词/副词的原级+as
他不如我高。He isn’t as tall as I .
他做作业和我一样认真。 He does homework as carefully as I do.
我昨天到家不如我姐姐早。 I didn’t get home as early as my sister yesterday.
2. be willing to do sth. 愿意做某事
我们愿意为希望工程筹集物品。We are willing to collect things for Project Hope.
3. any time随时,任何时候
如有问题，随时给我打电话。 If you have any problem, call me any time.
4. be ready to do sth./ be ready for sth. 乐于做某事；准备好做某事（状态）
雷峰总是乐于助人。 Lei Feng is always ready to help people.
我准备好考试了。 I’m ready for the exam.
get ready to do/ for sth. 为…作准备（动作）
5. someone/people in need 需要帮助的人
We are in need of water. 我们需要水。
患难朋友才是真朋友。 A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Step 3 Summarize
T: Today we went over some details about the three friends we met yesterday. We also learnt some useful phrases and sentences to describe friends. Friends are important to every one of us. Let’s cherish friendship and be nice to our friends. If we all have good friends and try to be true friends, our lives will be better and better! Now let’s enjoy an English poem together as the end of this class.
Step4 Homework
Write an article about your best friend. These should be covered in the article: name, age, appearance, personality, etc. (60 words at least)

灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语教学案
8A Unit 1 Friends Vocabulary 教案
主备人：霍建如 审核人：八年级英语备课组
Teaching Objectives:
To use adjectives to describe appearance
To use appropriate adjectives to describe the appearances of boys and girls
Teaching Contents:
Words: thin, strong, tall, short, small eyes, big eyes, round face, square face, beautiful, pretty, lovely, handsome, good-looking, smart, slim
Girls：beautiful, pretty, lovely, slim
Boys：handsome, good-looking, smart
Teaching preparations:
Computer
Pictures
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warm-up
T: Let’s play a guessing game, OK? You will see 6 sentences describing a person on the TV screen. If you can guess who she is after you read the first sentence, you will get 10 points. After the second sentence you can get 8 points. But after the last sentence you’ll get a zero. Does it make sense?
Ss find out the answer without much difficulty.
T: It’s easy, right? You have remembered the three friends’ appearances and the words to describe them. Now let’s have a look at these words again.

Step 2 Presentation
1. T: Look! Here is a table. When we describe people’s appearances, we usually talk about these different parts: build, height, leg and hair including the style and length.
Teach “build” and “height”.
T: Now please put the words into the table.
2. T: As the first guessing game is so easy, shall we play once more?
Ss: OK.
Ss fail to find out who she is.
T: Haha, it’s me! Why is it not so easy this time? Because you haven’t learnt this before and the information I gave you is not enough. We need to learn more to describe people’s appearances, right?
Ss look at the pictures and learn more words to describe appearance. They try to find out what the words are used for--- build, height, etc.

Step 3 Practice
1. Ss do Part A P11.
2. Ss find out more to describe--- eyes, face, etc.
3. Ss describe the people in the pictures with the words they have just learnt and each time there’s something new added in.

Step 4 Presentation
1. T: You’ve just described the appearances of a little girl, a pop singer, a sports star and a classmate of yours. What do you think of them?
Ss: Handsome, smart, good-looking, beautiful, pretty, lovely…
T: Well done! You’ve learnt a lot. But do you know that some words are suitable for girls only and some are for boys only? Of course there’re also some for both girls and boys. Let’s put them in the right places.
Girls：beautiful, pretty, lovely, slim
Boys：handsome, good-looking, smart
Ss do Part B, P11.
Step 5 Practice
1. T: Now let’s check how well you have learnt. Could you describe the appearance of the person you know best? It’s YOUSELF!
Get some students to come to the front of the classroom to describe their own appearances, try to use as many adjectives they’ve learnt as possible.
Step 6 Homework
Describe the appearance of someone you like very much. He or she may be your friend, your parent or your favorite star. Try to bring a photo of his or hers here tomorrow. Let’s see how well you can use the words you’ve learnt.

灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语教学案
8A Unit 1 Grammar (Ⅰ)教案
主备人：霍建如 审核人：八年级英语备课组
Teaching objectives
To use an adjective before a noun or after a linking verb to describe someone or something
To use comparatives to compare two people or things
To use superlatives to compare three or more people or things

Teaching Contents:
Words: cheerful, printer, better, worse, worst, height, competition, test, be, become, feel, get, grow, keep, look, seem, smell, sound, taste, turn
Phrases：in the drawing competition
Sentences：This is the most expensive printer in the shop.
Millie is the slowest swimmer of the six students.
Sandy’s drawing is the most beautiful in the drawing competition.

Teaching preparations:
Computer
Pictures

Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Yesterday I asked you to describe a person you like and bring his or her photo here. Now would you please show me your work?
Some Ss come to the blackboard and describe.
T shows one of the descriptions and underlines some adjectives in the description.

Step 2 Presentation
T: These underlined words are called adjectives. Please look at the pictures and the sentences. Can you tell me the use of adjectives in them?
Show a picture of a woman with short hair and a sleeping cat.
She has short hair.
Her hair is short.
This is a lazy cat.
This cat is lazy.
Ss find out that adjectives are used to describe people or things and are used before nouns or after linking verbs.
T: Can you think of any linking verbs we’ve learnt before?
Show Ss some of the linking verbs which are often used.

Step 3 Practice
Ss do Part A, P12. Rearrange the words to form complete sentences.
Millie has short hair.
Sandy wears round glasses.
Amy is funny and cheerful.
Millie does not like long hair.
Sandy is tall and has long hair.
T helps Ss find out the use of adjectives in each sentence--- before a noun or after a linking verb.

Step 5 Presentation
1. T: Look at these two girls. Can you find out the difference between the two sentences?
Emphasize that an adjective is used with a noun or a linking verb while an adverb is used with a verb.
2. Show Ss more pictures. Help them say sentences to compare the things with comparatives and superlatives.
Ss find out that comparatives are used to compare two people or things while superlatives are used to compare three or more people or things. Also find out some words and phrases which indicate the use of comparatives or superlatives.
Comparative: than, much, even, still, a little, of the two, Which/Who is …, A or B?
Superlative: the, of…, in …, Which/Who is …, A, B or C?
Step 6 Summarize
T: This class we learnt the use of adjectives, comparatives and superlatives. Now let’s read an interesting English poem as the end of this lesson.
Good, better, best,
Never let it rest, Till your good is better, And your better is best!
Step 8 Home