江苏省宿迁市宿豫区关庙初级中学八年级英语上册 Unit 2 School life（第一课时）教案 牛津版.doc

Unit 2 School life
教学
目标
● To get the students to understand the difference between British/ American English
● To learn how to use ‘more…than’, ‘fewer...than’ and ‘less … than’ to compare amounts
● To develop the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing

重点难点分析

教学流程安排
集体智慧
（以知识体系为主）
个性设计
（二次备课）
教学后记
Teaching procedures:
STEP 1 Showing a world map
Get the students to know the English-speaking countries around the world, by showing a world
map to them. Meanwhile write the name of different English-speaking countries in the world.
STEP 2 Matching the two words that refer to the same things
Tell the students that people use different words to talk about the same things. Ask the students to
open their book and match the two words that refer to the same things. P23
Get the students to read these words syllable by syllable to help them remember it.
STEP 3 Doing Part B on page 19
Get the students to finish doing Part B on page 19. Show the pictures and ask the students to speak out both the British and American words out loudly.
STEP 4 Working in groups
Divide the whole class into two groups. Tell the first group is now studying in a British school and
the second group is in American school. Show more pictures and get the students to talk about it.
1.Our school is clean and tidy. We never drop things carelessly, because it is easy to find a dustbin in our school.
2.When we make mistakes in our homework, we need a/an earserto help correct them.
3. We often/ seldom play American football after school.
4.The autumn of our school is very beautiful. Tree leaves turn yellow or red.
STEP 5 Guessing what they are talking about?
Picture talking
Play the tape for the students to listen and find out the answer to the questions
Get the students to read and feel the humor here. (In fact, Eddie has no idea what school is like
and why people need to got to school. However, he still thinks dogs are clever. )
Practice the dialogue in pairs and act out the dialogue in front of the class.
Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier and more interesting.
Teachers should give some comments and praise the groups for their acting and creativeness.
STEP 6 Talking about the sentences
Talking about the following two sentences:
We are smarter than people There are fewer advertisements.
What is school like? It’s like watching TV.
STEP 7 Giving some reasons for your ideas
Eddie thinks school life is like watching TV. What do you think of our school life? Encourage the
students to give some reasons for their ideas by offering a sentence pattern on the black board.
I think my school life is ______________, because it / we _______________.
It is very necessary for our teacher to lead the students to talk about the brighter side for the kid to
develop a active attitude towards school life as well as to study.
STEP 8 Homework
a. Try to find more information about the differences between British and American English.
b. Finish off the exercises in the Evaluation Handbook and Learning English.

本课以读和说为主

For easy sentences, Ss can use them freely.

Ss are interested in playing the games.

练习安排
1. Describe their school lives of yours with the words and phrases learnt in this lesson.
2. Finish the Workbook exercises.
板书设计
Unit2 school life Welcome to the unit
Words: Phrases

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