九年级英语上册 Unit 2 Biggest, Longest, Widest 教学设计 冀教版.doc

Unit 2 Biggest, Longest, Widest
Lesson 9 Be a Champion
Lesson preparation:
Words and phrases: ordinary break, hold a world record, take turns
Language notes:
1. take turns
We should take turns to clean the classroom.
2. kind
That’s very kind of you.
3. without
He worked for twenty hours without stopping.
Teaching aids:
1. Some photos about the Olympic champions. Such as Liu Xiang, Fu Mingxia, Li Xiaoshuang, Kong Linghui and so on.
2. Some video materials about the champions how to get the gold medal.
3. Tape recorder.
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other.
Key steps:
Step 1. Ask the students to think about the following questions and give their answer
(1) Do you know of any world records?
What are they?
(2) Do you think you could break a world record one day? Which record would it be?
Step 2. Show your materials about the Olympic champions to the class
(1) Show the photo to your class.
T: Now look at this picture. He /She is…
Ss: Liu Xiang.
T: Do you know why he is so famous?
Ss: Because he is an Olympic champion in 110—meter hurdle race.
He is a champion runner.
T: Champion means person can get the first place in a competition.
Then show the photos one by one while practising the dialogue above.
(2) Let the class watch the short TV program about the champions’ victory
moment.
Step 3. The champions are always the famous people
Now let’s talk about: How can ordinary people break a world record? Ask the volunteers to share their ideas with the class.
Step 4. What world records do Brian and Danny want to break?
If you want to know.
Let’s go on.
(1) Listen to the tape.
(2) Ask the class to read the text in roles.
(3) Answer the questions:
① How could they break the record?
② What kind of dinosaur does Brian think of Danny?
Step 5. Project: A NEW WORLD RECORD!
Use your own imagination to think about a new world record. It also can be a funny record.
Homework:
Find information about records in books.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 10 Where’s the Highest Hotel?

Lesson preparation:
Words and phrases: Grand Hyatt, locate, tower, thick, whole, length-long, astronaut,
the Three Gorges Dam, more than, cost
Language notes:
1. be located in
Xingtai is located in Hebei province.
(1) for
China has many world records for its building.
(2) hope
I hope to go home now.
We hope Li Ming can come to the party.
2. cost, spend, pay
(1) The dress cost about 200 yuan.
(2) You should spend more time in reading.
Li Ming spent 100 yuan on his new book.
(3) Before leaving the store, please pay for the bill.
Teaching aids:
1 Some pictures about famous buildings and structures that are highest, longest, biggest and so on.
2. Tape recorder
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other and do a morning report.
Statue of
Beauty”.
Step 4.
T: We have known so many buildings and structures, but do you know which one is the highest, longest, biggest, strongest…?
Lead into the new text.
(1) Listen to the tape and ask the students if they know any other structures. And then list them on the blackboard (world’s highest hotel, longest structure, biggest dam).
(2) Listen to the tape again. And let the class try to answer the following questions:
Where is Grand Hyatt located?
How long is the Great Wall?
How many years do people spend in building?
How big is the dam?
(3) Let’s do it.
Listen to the tape at last and try to write down all the numbers they heard.
Homework:
Write a short composition about a building or a structure.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 11 Don’t Fall, Danny!
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other in a different way.
You can wear a hat just like a cat and say “Hello!” to the class. “Good morning, everyone. I’m MiMi, I’m the cleverest cat in the world, because I can speak English.”
Key steps:
Step 1. Lead into the new text
“I break the world record, because I can speak English as a cat, and Danny also wants to break a world record, do you know what Danny’s record is?
Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
(1) What record will Danny break?
(2) How long has Danny been standing on one foot?
(3) Do you know if Danny can break the record?
Step 2. Activity 1
1. Show the pictures of animals to the students. At the same time you can let them review the words: tiger, lion, elephant, cat, dog, eagle and so on.

2. There are so many animals in the world, but now we’ll learn some special animals.
Step 3. Dialogue
1. Show the whale picture to the students.
T: What’s this in the picture?
Ss: Whale.
T: Spell it together.
Ss: W-h-a-l-e, whale.
T: Do you know what kind of animal it is?
Ss: Lead the students to answer it.
T: How large is it? Do you know?
OK, let’s listen to the tape and then give me your answers.
2. Show the picture of bumblebee bat to the class.
3. Explain tortoise and cheetah in the same way as explaining whale.
Step 4. Activity 2
Show the picture of animal that you imagine and let the class use their imagination to create a new animal.
(1) What does it look like?
(2) What dose it eat?
(3) Draw a picture.
Homework:
Write a description about your imaginary animal.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 12 Let’s Go to the Farthest!
Lesson preparation:
Words and phrases: far—farther—farthest, falcon
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other by singing a song—“How are you?”
Key steps:
Step1. Revision
Review all the animals, buildings and structures in lesson 10 and 11. Ask some volunteers to describe one thing like the Great Wall, Hyatt Hotel, the Three Gorges Dam, whale, bumblebee bat, tortoise and cheetah in their own words one by one.
Step 2. Activity
We’ll relax in this lesson. Sing a song.
(1) Listen to the song.
(2) Read the song one paragraph by one paragraph and get the main idea.
(3) Listen to the song again.
(4)Try to sing the song with the music.
Step 3. Let’s do it
Make some comparisons in your classroom.
The ____ is longer /shorter /thicker /thinner than the ____.
Homework:
Sing the song.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 13 Who’s the Champ?
Lesson preparation: words and phrases: list, anybody, any other, some more
Lesson structure: class opening: Greet each other.
Key steps:
Step 1. Think about the following questions:
(1) How do you feel to win something?
(2) Talk about a time when you win or achieve something important.
Step 2. You can lead the students to “champion”
Champion means you will be the first in a competition or break a world record.
Step 3. Free talk
T: Now, let’s look around our classroom. Maybe we can think of some records in class.
(Give the students a few minutes to discuss and find some records.)
T: Who can run the fastest? Ss: …
T: Who is the tallest? Ss: …
T: Who can spell the most English words? Ss: …
Step 4. Ask the students to choose and write down a list of records and make a report to the class to find out who holds the record in your class.
Step 5. Let’s go to Danny’s classroom to see who will win?
(1) Listen to the tape and write down the useful and important words they think.
(2) Answer the questions according to the text.
How many records do they mention?
What are they?
Who has the greenest skim?
What records does Danny think he can break?
Language notes:
1. a list of…
Who can list a list of famous basketball players?
2. any other
Do you have any other questions?
3. It’s hard to do sth.
It’s hard to finish the work now.
Homework:
Write down a list of records in the class.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 14 So Many Records!
Lesson preparation:
Words and phrases: kilo, lift, unusual, usual, backwards, forwards, possible, impossible
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other.
Key steps:
Step 1. Think about it
(1) Have you ever tried to ride your bike backwards? Is it possible?
(2) What’s the biggest melon you’ve ever seen?
Step 2. Revision and check their homework
Ask some students to read the world records they have found out from TV, books
and so on.
T: What is the longest river in the world?
Ss:(Give you the answer.)
T: What is the biggest mountain in the world?
Ss:(…)
T: Which country has the largest area in the world?
Which country has the largest population?
Ss:(…)
Step 3. Activity
T: There are many other records that you don’t know. But Danny and Brian have found them out from the book.
(1) Listen to the tape.
(2) Ask the students to list the records they hear from the text.
A man: backwards riding
Biggest cabbage: more than 56 kg
Language notes:
1. such /so
That’s such a thick book.
The book is so thick.
2. who
It’s a man who can ride his bicycle backwards while playing the violin.
3. try doing sth.
Li Ming tried swimming
Homework:
Write about the records of your friend.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 15 My Favourite Record.
Lesson preparation:
Words and phrases: pull, be proud of, by the way, have fun
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other.
Key steps:
Step 1. Lead-in.
Review and check their homework. Ask the volunteers to read their letters about the records to the class.
Step 2. Play a game and ask the students to do the following steps
1. Prepare a piece of paper.
2. Make a paper airplane as well as you can.
3. Divide the class into several groups. You can let one group have five or six
persons.
4. Fly their planes to see whose plane flies farthest of all.
5. You can praise or give some gifts to the winner.
Step 3. Listen to the tape and read the letters by themselves
Language notes:
1. since
I haven’t seen you since last year.
2. must have done
Li Ming must have broken the vase.
Homework:
Finish the exercises in lesson 16.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.

Lesson 16 Unit Review
Teaching Aims:
This is the last lesson of this unit, so the students should review all the lessons and
important points. They should master the following language points:
1. I don’t know if it will make you tall.
2. four times as big as…
3. such a large cabbage
big-bigger-biggest(comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs)
4. Remember the new words and phrases.
tower, thick, whole, weigh, including, human, farther, farthest, list, anybody, kilo, lift, pull
5. Know as many records as they can.
Lesson structure:
Class opening: Greet each other.
Key steps:
Step 1. Review the lessons in this unit as quickly as possible
Step 2. Explain some questions in the exercise
Step 3. Free talk
T: What do you know from the unit?
Ask the class to give their own words.
Homework:
Preview unit 3.
Class closing:
Say goodbye to the class.