江苏省永丰初级中学七年级英语下册 Unit 5 Amazing things教案 （新版）牛津版.doc

Unit 5 Amazing things
Welcome to the unit
Teaching aims
Knowledge aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn something vocabulary about UFOs, elephants, fish and so on.
Ability aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn how to talk about something amazing with some new sentence patterns.
Emotion aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should be interested in something amazing around them and have an active attitude to life.
Important and difficult points
1. The usage of “with” used as adverbial.
2. The difference between “stop doing” and “stop to do”
Teaching method
Audio-visual method, interactive method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware
Teaching procedures
Step one- Lead in
1. To raise the students’ interest by six amazing pictures with several sentence patterns. Try to make the students familiar with some words and structures.
2. By watching a video, encourage them to finish several blanks after listening.
Step two- Presentation
1. Focus on some new words and emphasize on some of them.
2. Consolidate and practice some patterns and try to finish part A.
3. Give some more details on language points.
Step three- Comic strip
1. Ask students to answer two questions by listening.
2. Encourage them to complete the dialogue according to the tape.
3. To make them understand it fully by retelling the dialogue.
4. Focus on some more language points
Step four- Discussion
Use the model in the textbook and encourage students to talk with their partners about the amazing thing.
Step five- Homework
1. Make up a dialogue after class with your partners.
2. Search more information about UFOs on the Internet and prepare a report next period.
Reading
Teaching aims
Knowledge aims:   To predict meaning of specific words from context.
To practice the main language points of the context.
Ability aims: To identify specific meaning by scanning the text.
To summarize key points of a story by sequencing statements.
To identify key events and infer general meaning.
Emotion aims: To let the students know there are no ghosts in the world.
Important and difficult points
1. The simple past tense
2. Some useful phrases
Teaching method
Audio-visual method, interactive method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware
Teaching procedures
Step one- Lead in
1. To revise yesterday’s dialogue by talking about the amazing pictures with several sentence patterns. Try to make the students familiar with some words and structures.
2. Revise some words by asking the students choose the correct meanings of some words.
Step two- Presentation
Listen to the tape and ask the students to answer the following questions
1. Did Millie and Amy go to Sunshine Park one Sunday morning?
2. Did they hear a song from the bushes behind the tree?
3. Who did they meet on their way?
4. What did Andy find in the bushes?
Step three-outline
Fill in the blanks with the information learned
When

Where

Who

What

How

Step Four --details
Read the text carefully and answer some questions on details.
1. Why were Millie and Amy frightened?
They heard a whisper from the bushes behind the tree.
2. Who did they meet on their way home?
They met Andy.
3. Where did Andy find the “ghost”?
In the bushes.
How did he find it?
He searched the bushes and found it.
4. Why did the cat sound like a ghost?
Because it was very weak.
5. Where did they take the cat?
They took it to the animal centre.
6. Do you think there are ghosts in the real life?
Step Five –put them in a correct order
Millie wrote some sentences about what happened, but they were not in the correct order. Help her put the sentences into the correct order. Write the numbers 1-7 in the boxes.
Step Six—True or false
Millie is telling her friend Wendy on the phone about what happened in the park, but Wendy can’t hear her clearly. Write a T if a sentence is true or F if it is false.
Step Seven—act out
Finish the dialogue between Henry and Andy
Step Eight --explain some important language points
1） They turned around but saw nothing.
turn around意为“回头，转回身”。
e.g. We turned around and saw a big birthday cake.
我们回头看见一个大的生日蛋糕。
2）on their way home 在他们回家的路上
on one’s way to sp. 译为“在某人去……的 路上”。home是副词，前面不需要加介词，如果后面跟的是名词需要加介词to。
3）search the bushes 搜寻, 搜查
search是及物动词，后面可以直接跟宾语。
如，search the room
search my schoolbag
如果表示目的，强调为了……而搜寻，则可以在名词前加上介词 for。
如，search for more information(为了更多的信息而搜寻)，search for the lost boy(为了丢失的男孩儿搜寻)。
4）say to oneself 自言自语
think to oneself 暗自寻思, 心里想
e.g.
这个老人自言自语说:“我是多么幸运啊!”
The old man said to himself, “how lucky I am!”
Millie自言自语道: “我再也不怕狗了。”
Millie said to herself, “I’m not afraid of animals any more.”
5）sound like 听起来像
e.g. 这首歌很好听。
The song sounds good.
这个低语声听起来像鬼。
The whisper sounds like a ghost.
苏州听起来像是一个很棒的城市。
Suzhou sounds like a great place.
6）Later that day, they took the little cat to the animal centre.
take sb. / sth. to some place意为“把某人/某物带到某处”。
e.g. I will take my son to France tomorrow.
明天我将带我儿子去法国。
Would you like to help the teacher take the books to the office?
帮老师把书送到办公室, 好吗？
Step Nine -retell the story
Fill in the blanks to retell the story. Let them pay attention to the tense of the verbs and encourage the students to tell a story in their own words
Step Ten--- Exercises
Step Eleven --Homework
1. Recite the text
2. Retell the story in your own words and write it down or write about your own story
Grammar
Teaching aims

Knowledge aims: To recognize and learn the simple past tense.
Ability aims: Fill in the blanks and make sentences using the simple past tense.
Emotion aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should be interested in something amazing around them and have an active attitude to life.
Important and difficult points
1. The usages of the simple past tense.
2. Pay attention to the “regular words” & “irregular words”.
Teaching method
Audio-visual method, interactive method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware
Teaching procedures
Step one
.Lead in: the simple past tense

Step two
Use the table to explain the form and rules of the simple past tense.
Step three
1. Ask students to finish the exercises on Part A, B, C.
2. Check the answers and learn the important phrases and sentences.
3. To make them understand it fully by making the dialogue by themselves.
Step four
1. Do more exercises by filling in the blanks and making sentences to practise the simple past tense
2. Check out then make a conclusion
Homework
1. Do some exercises about the simple past tense on the exercise book.
2. Copy the words from page 106 to page 107.
3. Do some translation about the simple past tense
Integrated skills & Speak up
Teaching aims
Knowledge target：Learn about some amazing animals like giraffe, snake, camels and ants, then describe them.
Ability target：By the end of this period, students can talk about some amazing things about animals with the sentence structures they have learned.
Emotion target：To arouse students’ curiosity, to develop their ability to observe the beauty of nature, to encourage them to enjoy life and study.
Language points
The usages of the sentence structure and some phrases.
It is + adj. +that-clause.
be afraid of; learn about; know about; the other day; at the same time, etc.
Teaching methods
Audio-visual method, interactive method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware Tape-recorder
Teaching procedures
Step one- Lead in
1. To help students review the knowledge they have learned in this unit by watching some pictures.
2. Present some new words and phrases that will appear in this period through some more pictures.
Step two- Presentation
1. Listen to the tape and complete Part A1.
2. Listen to the tape and complete Part A2.
3. Fill in the blanks in Part A 3.
Step three- language points
Explanations to some phrases and sentence structure, and then some consolidation work;
Step 4 - Discussion
Ask students to talk about some amazing things they are interested in, using the peak-up as a model.
Step5 - Homework
1. Make up a conversation with your classmate about an amazing thing.
2. Search for some information about UFO to get ready for the oral report in next period.
Study skills
Teaching aims
Knowledge aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn how to read past participles correctly.
Ability aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn how to use simple past tense properly.
Emotion aims: At the end of the lesson, the students may talk about something interesting in the past.
Important and difficult points
1. The different pronunciations of “ed”.
2. How to describe things with the correct tense?
Teaching method
Audio-visual method, interactive method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware
Teaching procedures
Step one- Lead in
Try to translate some sentences with simple past tense and pay attention to the past participles.
Step two- Presentation
1. Show them some words and divided them into several groups.
2. Listen to the tape and differ the words.
3. Sum up.
Step three- Dialogue
1. Listen to the tape and try to answer some questions.
2. Encourage them to complete the dialogue according to the tape.
Step four- Homework
1. Translate some sentences.
2. Write some groups of words with different pronunciation rules.
Task
Teaching aims
Knowledge aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn some related vocabulary about sandwiches and TV, including their development.
Ability aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should learn how to arrange a passage according to some writing points.
Emotion aims: At the end of the lesson, the students should have a general idea about writing.
Important and difficult points
1. How to have an idea about English writing
2. The usage of “play” and “as …as”.
Teaching method
Inductive method, direct method and revealing method
Teaching aid
Multimedia Courseware
Teaching procedures
Step one- Lead in
1. To present the word sandwich by some pictures as well as its plural form and some other related words.
2. Present the passage by some questions.
Step two- Presentation
1. Tell them a story about the development of sandwiches in the first person.
2. Summarize the writing points about the story of sandwiches.
3. By analyzing the sample passage in the textbook, help the students to form their writing thoughts.
Step three- Imitate writing
1. Tell them a similar story about the development of TV.
2 Encourage them to summarize the writing points by themselves.
3. Ask them to write a similar story about TV according to the sample passage.
Step four- Language point
1. The usage of play
2. The usage of as …as
3. Some useful and important phrases.
Step five- Teachers’ advice
Try to give them some valuable advice to make them more active.
Step six- Homework
1. Write a passage about an amazing thing.
2. Review the whole unit and prepare for the quiz.