Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: rainy, snowy, look cool, with nothing on
2.Structures: Which season do you like best? It’s the best time to play football outside. Which is your favourite season?
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.Lead to the topic about seasons.
2.To know some expressions about different weather.
Ⅲ Value objectives
1.Students are encouraged to act out the dialogue between Eddie and Hobo. 2.Learn to talk about students’ favourite seasons.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.To master different ways of talking about weather.
2.To make sure that students can talk about different weather and seasons.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Leading in
Teach the new words such as sunny, cloudy ,windy and so on with the help of media. Ask questions: What’s the weather like today? It’s sunny\\cloudy\\windy……
Step 2 Presentation
1.Present our students a picture of the rain. Look, It’s raining . The ground is all wet. It’s rainy. Look! It’s snowing heavily. The ground is all white. It’s snowy.
Look! There is a lot of fog. We can’t see anything clearly. It’s foggy. 2.Do the game one by one.
What’s the weather like? It’s sunny.
Now let’s play a game. The first student in each group will show the second student a weather card and ask him or her the question What’s the weather like? The second student will answer the question and then ask the third one the same question. The team which finishes first and does the best will win the game.
Step 3 Practice
1.What’s the weather like in spring?
It’s windy and rainy. It’s the best time for trees and flowers to grow. It’s the best time to fly kites. What’s the weather like in summer? It’s sunny and hot. It’s the best time to go swimming. What’s the weather like in autumn? It’s sunny and cool. It’s the best time to plan a day out. What’s the weather like in winter? It’s cold and snowy. It’s the best time to play with snow. Now let’s listen to a conversation and then answer some questions. 1)Which season does Simon like best? Why? 2)Which season does Amy like best? Why?
2.Now work in groups of four and make a similar conversation.
3.Winter is coming. Eddie feels very cold. What does he want to do? Now let’s listen to the conversation between
Eddie and Hobo, and then find out the answer. He wants Hobo to bring him clothes.
Does Eddie look cool with the clothes? Hobo thinks he’ll look cool and feel cool with nothing on. 4.Work in pairs and read the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. You can add your ideas.
Step 4 Homework
1.Remember the new words and phrases in the lesson. 2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
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8A Unit 7 Seasons
Reading 1
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: shower, upon, as, temperature, drop, rise, be full of, forget to grow, fly far away, among flowers, turn brown, fall into piles upon the ground, harvest crops
2.Structures: What a perfect time to fly a kite! Farmers work to harvest crops, as the days are shorter and the temperature drops.
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.To guess general meanings from keywords and context 2.To understand the main points of the reading passages.
Ⅲ Value objectives
Whatever you do, you should try your best, then your life will be as colourful as seasons. Enjoy your life.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.To identify specific information about different people form the poem 2.To use words to describe the change of the four seasons
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warm-up
What’s your favourite season? Why?
I like winter . It often snows in winter. It’s the best time to play with snow.
Step 2 Pre-reading
1.T: Spring is the best season of the year. It’s warm and windy. It’s the best time to fly kites. Bees and butterflies play among flowers.
2.If the rain comes, they hide from the April showers.
3.Summer is hot ,but we can enjoy a long summer holiday. What can we do in summer? We can go swimming. We can eat an ice cream. There are also quiet streams, trees and shade. I like chatting or reading in the middle of the day. The temperature rises quickly at that time.
4.What colour are the leaves? They are yellow, red, golden and brown. In autumn, the leaves turn brown. They fall into piles upon the ground. It’s the best time for farmers to harvest crops.
5.As the days are shorter and the temperature drops, winter is coming. It’s cold in winter. Sometimes it’s snowy. The ground is covered with snow. Birds fly far away.
Step 3 While-reading
1.Now please open your books and turn to page 83.Look at Part B2.We are going to listen to the poem. Write down the correct seasons in the blanks. Then match each season with the description in the poem. It’s spring. What a perfect time to fly a kite! Bees and butterflies play among flowers. It’s autumn. Brown leaves fall on the ground. Farmers harvest crops. It’s winter. Winter days are full of snow. Birds fly far away.
It’s summer. There are quiet streams, trees and shade. We can eat ice cream. 2.What can we see in winter?
Can trees and flowers grow in winter? Why do the birds fly far away? What can we do in spring?
What do bees and butterflies do in spring? What can we do in summer?
Where can we often play in summer? Where can we see piles of autumn leaves? What are the farmers busy doing in autumn?
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Read the poem again and find the rhyming words.
Read the poem again ,and then discuss and find the sentences in which the writer uses personification.
Step 4 Post-reading
1.Please repeat the poem after the tape. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation. Please read the poem together and express your feelings about each season.
I’m going to divide you into four groups. Each group will read one of the seasons. 2. Which season do you like best? Why?
Step 5 Homework
1.Read the poem correctly and fluently.
2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
8A Unit 7 Seasons
Reading 2
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: shower, upon, as, temperature, drop, rise, be full of, forget to grow, fly far away, among flowers, turn brown, fall into piles upon the ground, harvest crops
2.Structures: What a perfect time to fly a kite! Farmers work to harvest crops, as the days are shorter and the temperature drops.
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.To revise vocabulary and expressions to describe seasons 2.To guess meaning from context 3.To focus on the language points
Ⅲ Value objectives
Whatever you do, you should try your best, then your life will be as colourful as seasons. Enjoy your life.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.Words and phrases: shower, upon, as, temperature, drop, rise, be full of, forget to grow, fly far away, among flowers, turn brown, fall into piles upon the ground, harvest crops
2.Structures: What a perfect time to fly a kite! Farmers work to harvest crops, as the days are shorter and the temperature drops.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision
T: We have learnt some words to describe the seasons. Can you describe each season with the words in the poem and introduce your favourite season to us? Others please guess which season it is? Ask 3-4 Ss to read their articles.
Step 2 Practice
What can we see in winter? Can trees and flowers grow in winter? Why do the birds fly far away? What can we do in spring? What do bees and butterflies do in spring? What can we do in summer? Where can we often play in summer?
Where can we see piles of autumn leaves? What are the farmers busy doing in autumn?
Step 3 Explanation
be full of =be filled with
forget to do sth, forget doing sth What a perfect time to
What a perfect time to go on a trip!
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What a perfect time to go swimming! What a perfect time to walk by a stream!
drop: to become or make sth weaker, lower or less The price of the car has dropped a little.
Rise: to come or go upwards; to reach a higher level or position The river has risen by several meters. shower: a short period of rain or snow There will be showers this afternoon.
temperature: a measure of how hot or cold it is
Winter has come and the temperature has dropped below zero upon: on
He set the plates upon the table.
Step 4 Activities
Which season do you like best? Why?
Please make a poster about your favourite season.
Please come to the front. Show us your favourite season.
Nature is full of pleasure and beauty. We should protect nature and make our world more beautiful.
Step 5 Homework
1.Remember words, phrases and sentences. 2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
8A Unit 7 Seasons
Grammar
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: cloud, kick, fever, cough, awful, from morning till night, kick the ball, have a high fever, cough a lot, an awful day
2.Structures: The clouds become dark. Luckily, it didn’t rain.
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.To master the usage of different kinds of verbs
2.To learn to use intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, linking verbs
Ⅲ Value objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to talk about different weather and seasons.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.Words and phrases: cloud, kick, fever, cough, awful, from morning till night, kick the ball, have a high fever, cough a lot, an awful day
2.Structures: The clouds become dark. Luckily, it didn’t rain.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Presentation
T: We are going to look at three sentences. Pay attention to the verbs. 1.The snowy season will begin. 2.Children can eat ice cream. 3.The autumn leaves turn brown.
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They are three kinds of verbs. They are intransitive verbs, transitive verbs and linking verbs. An transitive verb does not take an object, but can have a prepositional phrase after it A transitive verb takes an object.
A linking verb links the subject and the adjective phrase that describes it.
Linking verbs: be, become, feel. get. look, seem, sound, stay, smell, taste, turn
An intransitive verb does not take an object, but can have a prepositional phrase after it A transitive verb takes an object.
A linking verb links the subject and the adjective phrase that describe it.
Step 2 Practice
Read these sentences. Pay attention to the underlined verbs. Which are transitive verbs? Which are intransitive verbs? And which are linking verbs? 1.My sister works.
2.Lucy is reading a book.
3.My father bought me a new bike.
4.The students keep healthy by cycling at weekends. 5.Where does the boy live? 6.The fish tastes delicious.
7.A terrible traffic accident happened on a rainy evening. 8.I am a member of the dancing club.
Step 3 Consolidation
We’ve learned about three kinds of verbs. Each word or phrase after a verb plays a different role in the sentence because of the type of the verb. 1 The boy is swimming. S+V
2Sandy watches clouds. S+V+O
3The film was interesting. S+V+P
Intransitive verb: S+V Transitive verb: S+V+O Linking verb: S+V+P
Step 4 Homework
1.Review Grammar.
2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
8A Unit 7 Seasons Integrated skills
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: wind, around, rest, degree, bit, blow, loud, ring, turn more cloudy, in the future, the rest of 2.Structures: How are you doing?
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.To listen to the tape for specific information that they need to complete a table.
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2.To help the students develop the ability to recognize the keywords and grasp the main points of a listening material.
Ⅲ Value objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will try to make a weather report in English.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.To response to information abstained from listening and reading.
2.To develop the ability to organize the information they get through listening.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Presentation
Help the students to revise the sentence structures.
China is a big country. In the south of China, it’s warm in winter. But in the north, it’s cold in winter.
Look at the pictures of Australia. The beaches there are very famous .Do you like going to the beach to lie in the sun and eat ice cream?
In Australia, you can go to the beach and enjoy the sunshine in December. When it’s winter in China, it’s summer in Australia.
Step 2 Listening
Now we’re going to listen to the weather report about four cities. Listen carefully and complete the table on page 87.
Listening A3.Annie is writing about the weather in different places in her diary entry. Listen to her conversation with Simon. Help her complete her diary entry.
Step 3 Practice
Play in groups. One is a reporter , the other is a student.
Winter in the north of China always seems to be so snowy. There’ll be a strong snowstorm in Beijing. It’s very cold. The lowest temperature will be minus twelve degrees. Winter in the south of China is warm. The temperature will stay above zero, between twenty-five degrees and eighteen degrees in Haikou, so it won’t snow there.
Provide some possible questions
1What will the weather be like in Beijing? 2What will the weather be like in Haikou? 3What will the weather be like……?
Step 4 Homework
1.Remember the words, phrases and sentences. 2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
8A Unit 7 Seasons
Study skills
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: sleep, shine, sudden, fight, make them look funny, make people sleep, the sudden heavy rain, snowball fights
2.Structures: Many people in the street have to cover their faces with scarves. The high temperature makes people sleepy in the afternoon. The sudden heavy rain causes a lot of problems.
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.To learn the prefixes -y
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2.To find the main points of a passage in order to understand and memorize it more easily.
Ⅲ Value objectives
1.To give the students a chance to practise their spoken English
2.To identify keywords in order to develop general understanding of a passage 3.To guess the meaning and generate mental pictures
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.Use the new words to make a new sentence. 2.Pay attention to the spelling of each word.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Presentation
1.Help the students to revise the sentence structures: S+V S+V+O S+V+P
S+V+IO+DO S+V+DO+OC
2.Look at the picture. It’s cloudy. Can you describe the other pictures. It’s windy\\rainy\\snowy.
cloud-cloudy wind-windy rain-rainy snow-snowy sun-sunny fog-foggy 3.Have luck means lucky. health\\sleep\\shine\\noise\\fun Have health means healthy. Have sleep means sleepy. Have shine means shiny. Have noise means noisy. Have fun means funny.
Step 2 Practice
Complete Millie’s article with the help of the pictures and the words in the box. Read the article together, please.
Step 3 Activity
Play in groups. One is a reporter, the other is a student.
Winter in the north of China always seems to be so snowy. There’ll be a strong snowstorm in Beijing. It’s very cold. The lowest temperature will be minus twelve degrees. Winter in the south of China is warm. The temperature will stay above zero, between twenty-five degrees and eighteen degrees in Haikou, so it won’t snow there.
Provide some possible questions
1What will the weather be like in Beijing? 2What will the weather be like in Haikou? 3What will the weather like……? What’s the weather like in spring?
It’s so___. Many people have to cover their faces with scarves. It makes them look___. What’s the weather like in summer?
It’s usually very hot. People feel ____in the afternoon. Sometimes it’s ____, the sudden heavy rain causes many problems.
How’s the weather in autumn?
People are_____ to enjoy many ____days. They like to travel around the city in such weather.
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Step 4 Homework
1.Remember some important words, phrases and sentences. 2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
8A Unit 7 Seasons
Task
Teaching objectives:
Ⅰ Knowledge objectives
1.Words and phrases: deep, land, exciting, throw, ice, everywhere, be covered in deep white snow, during this season, throw snowballs at each other, use carrots for their noses
2.Structures: The lakes and rivers are frozen. We throw snowballs at each other, screaming and laughing.
Ⅱ Ability objectives
1.The students should learn how to arrange a passage according to the writing topic. 2.At the end of the lesson, the students should have a general idea about writing.
Ⅲ Value objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to talk about different weather and seasons.
Teaching focuses and difficulties:
1.Words and phrases: deep, land, exciting, throw, ice, everywhere, be covered in deep white snow, during this season, throw snowballs at each other, use carrots for their noses
2.Structures: The lakes and rivers are frozen. We throw snowballs at each other, screaming and laughing.
Teaching aids: PPT Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in
In this unit, we have learnt a lot about how to describe seasons. 1Which season is it in the pictures? 2What is the weather like? It’s cold and snowy. 3What do people wear?
They wear thick warm clothes. 4What are people doing?
They are making snowmen and having big snowball fights. 5What are the rivers and lakes like?
Step 2 Reading
Harbin is a city of ice and snow. Winter in Harbin is amazing. Simon is reading an article about it on the Internet. Read the article quickly and find the answers to these questions. 1Which season does the author like best? 2Why does the author like in winter? 3What is the weather like?
4Can you see beautiful flowers and green trees during this season? 5What else does the author enjoy in winter? why?
Step 3 Writing
1What is your favourite season? 2What is the weather like then ?
3 What does your city look like then? 4Why do you like this season?
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5What activities do people enjoy doing in this season? Brainstorming:
When you want to talk about sth, what do you feel difficult to do? Proper words and phrases.
So we need to gather enough words about sth. when we want to talk about it. How many words do you know that we can use to describe our friends? Let’s do it in groups. Please show us you are the best.
Step 4 Homework
1.Choose one of the topics and write your own passage. 2.Complete the exercises.
Teaching reflections:
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