江苏省姜堰市大伦中学八年级英语《AU1 Reading1》教案.doc

8A Unit 1 Friends
Period 2 Reading (1)
Teaching aim:
To use different strategies to help students to understand the text;
To learn how to use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and characteristics.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 :Revision.
1.What are the most important qualities of a good friend?
2.What are the very important qualities of a good friend?
3. What’s your good friend like?
Step 2 :Presentation
1. T: I have a good friend. Do you want to know her? What do you want to know about her?
2. Show a picture. Describe my good friend. Introduce some new expressions:
as tall as; be willing to; have a good sense of humor; feel bored
Step 3 : Fast reading
T: ‘Teenagers’ magazine is holding a writing competition. Some students have written some entries for it. Please read and find out their main qualities.
1---generous, helpful
2---humorous (have a good sense of humor), funny
3---true friend, kind
Step 4 :Read for details
Complete the table after reading their entries once more.
Name
Betty
Max
May
Appearance
Slim, short hair
Tall, poor eyesight (wear glasses)
Small, have straight, shoulder-length hair, pretty.
Personality
Generous
Helpful
Have a good sense of humor
Funny
True, kind
What does he/she do?
Willing to share things with friends
Ready to help people any time e.g. …
Tell funny jokes and always make others laugh
Long legs do not fit under the school desks..
Can keep a secret
Never say a bad word about anyone
Step 5: Retell
1. T: So we have got a table about them. And you have known a lot about them. Can you say sth about them according to the information in the table.
2. Give Ss 3 minutes to prepare
3. Ask 2-3 Ss to retell the three articles.
Step 6: Brainstorming.
1.T: Well, when we describe our friends, we also need to describe what he or she is like. What kind of words can we use? ---Adjectives.
eyes, nose: big, small
face: round, square
body: thin, strong, slim, fat, tall, short
hair: short, long, straight, circled, shoulder-length
2.We can use so many useful words to describe people. Is there any difference in describing boys and girls? Can you give me any examples?(write down some words in the list on Page 7)
Step 7：Reading
Last Sunday I saw the worst storm in years. It came suddenly and went on for more than three hours. After lunch, I went into my room to have a rest. The air was hot, and all was quiet. The strong wind started blowing into my room. Pieces of paper on my desk flew high into the air and some flew out of the open window. As I ran out to catch them, big drops of rain began to fall.
When I came back into the house, it was raining harder and harder. I tried very hard to close the window. Then I heard a loud crashing（碰撞的） sound from the back of the house. I ran out of my room to find out what it was--- a big tree had fallen down and broke the top of the back room.
1. The storm happened________.
A. in the morning B. in the afternoon
C.while I ws in the back room D. while I was in the garden
2. Before the storm came, the weather was_________.
A. cold B. cool C. hot D. warm
3. The storm went on for _________.
A. over three hours B. three hours C. less than three hours D. two hours
4.The wind blew some of the paper ________.
A. all over the floor B. out of the door
C. into the back room D. out of the open window
5. The top of the back room was broken because of _______.
A. the hot air B. the crashing sound C. the rain D .the falling tree

Homework:
1.To write about one of their friends. (in the next class, teachers can read some of them and ask the whole class to guess who she/he is)
2.(for some weak students) To write a short passage, use any one on Page 4 as a model. They can replace some words in it if they can’t write a new one.

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