八年级英语上册Unit2SchoollifeIntegratedskills教案(新版)牛津版

Unit 2 School life

Integrated skills

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. improve their listening skills of focusing on the unknown information; 2. talk about different school lives using comparatives and superlatives.

II. Teaching contents

1.New words and phrases: spend, chess, uniform, number of students, do morning exercises,

have ... weeks off, spend time on/doing sth, another half hour,

play

chess, at most, do some reading, wear uniforms

2.New structures: Sunshine Middle School has the most teachers and students of the three.

Chinese students have fewer weeks off for the summer holiday than

British students.

British students spend less time doing homework than Chinese students.

Among the three schools, American students spend the least time on

homework.

They work the hardest.

I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty

Grasp the listening skills of focusing on the unknown information and catching numbers.

Talk about different school lives, using comparatives and superlatives and certain sentence patterns.

Integrate the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to complete the tasks about school lives.

IV.Teaching procedures A Comparing schools

Step 1 Lead-in 1. Present the poster of Harry Porter 7 and ask them if they have watched it. 2. Show the photo of Harry’s school—Hogwarts and present some numbers about Hogwarts on

the screen. Illustrate the numbers one by one.

T: This is Harry’s school—Hogwarts. How much do you know about Hogwarts? Here are some numbers about it. Let’s have a look. The first number is about the number of the teachers in Hogwarts. Can you tell me how many teachers are there in Hogwarts? (624)

T: Pay attention to the word “and” after hundred.

T: The second number is about the classrooms there. (5240) 3. Offer some tips T: The way we express numbers in English is totally different from that in Chinese. I will show you some tips.

Tip 1: Count from the right side of the number. Tip 2: Put a comma every three numbers.

Tip 3: Read the first comma as thousand and the second comma as million. 【设计意图】以学生喜爱的哈利波特电影海报导入新课，自然地过渡到哈利波特的学校霍格华茨，呈现两个关于霍格华茨校园生活的数字，引导学生说，练习英文中数字的表达方法。归纳出英语数字的读法和听写的技巧。通过听、说、写数字为接下来的听力做好准备。在知识准备与语言环境两方面都为学生做好铺垫。

Step 2 Listening 1. Prepare for listening

Tell the students that we will talk about some other schools besides Hogwarts. Ask them to read the information form in A1 and tell the class what information they can get from the form. Ask the students to tell us what they still don’t know in the form. 2. Listening

(1) Listen to the article

a. Ask the students to listen carefully to the article about different schools

by Daniel and finish the first column in the form. Replay the tape if necessary.

b. Check the answers with the students. (2) Listen to the conversation

a. Listen to the conversation and complete the rest of the form.

b. Check the answers with the students. Replay the key points to checkanswers if necessary.

【设计意图】让学生自己阅读A1部分的信息表，引导学生自己说出在这张信息表中能得到什么信息，还有什么信息是在表中无法获得的？如果想获得这些未知信息，在听时应该聚焦哪些关键词？旨在培养学生阅读信息并获取信息的能力，并训练聚焦未知信息关键词的听力技能。

Step 3 Post-listening 1. Ask the students to compare the three schools

A: How many … / How long… / How much time… B: … (more … than, fewer … than, less … than, the most, the fewest, the least) 2. Ask the student to complete the article in A3 on P17

Ask the students to read the article to check the answers.

3. Ask the students to read the form carefully and finish A4 on P18 【设计意图】让学生就已经完成的三所学校的听力表同桌之间两两进行口头比较，及回顾了语法部分的内容又为接下来的A3书面作业，A4的猜谜游戏，及speak up中的对话打下了基础。训练学生通过阅读掌握信息，并对所获取的信息进行加工处理的能力。