Unit 1 第2课时-阅读

9A Unit 1 Star Signs第二、三课时Reading鲁河中学陈寿红Objectives1. To understand what star signs are and what they represent2. To recognize and understand vocabulary about characteristics3. To use adjectives to describe someone’s characteristicsTeaching procedures:1. Brainstorm the vocabulary that is used to describe people’s characteristics. Encourage students to explain each word to their classmates.2. Read the passage aloud to students. Ask them to listen carefully to you and follow the text on page 4 and 5.3. Ask one student at a time to read a paragraph. After each paragraph, ask students to say which parts of the text they do not understand. Less able students may find some of the names of the star signs difficult. If so, do not force them to learn them by heart because they are only used here to arouse students’ interest. It is more important for them to learn the adjectives that describe people’s characteristics. This will enable them to complete the Main Task at the end of the unit.4. Ask some questions to check understanding.Part BTeaching procedures1. Before doing Part B, review adjectives used to describe characteristics. Ask students to describe their classmates.2. Ask less able students to work in pairs. Tell them to skip the ones they are not sure about and do the easier ones first. Check answers as a class.Part CTeaching procedures1. Tell students to work in pairs to complete Part C1. When students have completed all the answers, ask them to raise their hands. The first pair to complete the exercise correctly is the winner.2. After students have finished, give the correct answer to each question. Highlight where students can find the answers in the passage. This will help them when correcting their own mistakes and provide them with a better understanding of wherethey went wrong.3. For stronger classes, ask students to correct the incorrect sentences.4. Review key vocabulary learnt in the reading passage. Ask more able students to describe their partners using these adjectives.5. Ask students to do Part C2 on their own and check their answers with their partners. Ask students to refer to the reading passage on page 4 and 5. If students have different answers, ask them to discuss the answers.Part DTeaching procedures1. For weaker classes, write a list of characteristics on the board for students’reference2. Ask less able students to pick five characteristics that describe themselves and write them in the blanks in part D1. Tell more able students that they can also use characteristics that are not listed on the board. Tell less able students to refer to the reading passage on pages 4 and 5 if they need help with ideas.3. Now, ask students to read the description of their star sign on pages 4 and 5. Ask them to write whether the characteristics listed under their star sign match the characteristics they have listed.4. Ask all those who think their characteristics match their star sign to raise their hands. Then ask all those whose characteristics do not match to raise their hands.5. Do a class survey. Ask students whether they believe in star signs. Count how many say ‘yes’and how many say ‘no’. Write the numbers on the board. For more able students, ask them to say why they believe or do not believe in star signs.6. Divide the class into pairs. Ask students to write down five words that describe their partner’s characteristics in Part D2.7. Ask students to exchange books and compare what they have written.8. Homework: 《课时练》P3-6 课后笔记：。

Unit 1 Past and present第2课时Reading (1)一、根据句意和中文提示完成单词。

l. It's three ________ (街区) to the store from here.2. The old man feels ________ (孤独的) sometimes because he lost his wife last year.3. The report says that the ________ (形势) in this area is getting better and better.4. John laughed when he ________ (意识到) what happened.5. Four ________ (工厂) have been closed because of pouring waste water into the river.6. Mother thinks it is a ________ 浪费) of time to play too many computer games.二、根据句意, 用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. It is wrong ________ (throw) food to animals in the zoo.2. There was a hall in the ________ (south) part of the city ten years ago.3. I can't find my watch. Who ________ (take) it?4. Danny and Daniel are brothers, and their ________ (wife) are sisters. That's interesting.5. My mother ________ (wash) clothes when I came back last night.6. —Can you tell me something about the film Titanic? —Sorry. I ________ (know) nothing about it because I________ (not watch) it yet.三、单项选择,1. I like playing ______ chess but my brother likes playing ______ piano.A. the; theB. / ; theC. a; aD. the; /2. —Do you know Jack? —Yes. I know him very ______ .A. goodB. wellC. niceD. fine3. We haven't seen each other ______ .A. for a long timeB. two days agoC. for two days agoD. a long time ago4. —When did your father come back last night? —He didn't come back ______ he finished all the work.A. whenB. ifC. as soon asD. until5. When she heard that her mother would marry her to the young man, her face ______ red.A. changedB. wentC. turnedD. was6. I am very ______ to have such a ______ trip.A. pleased; pleasingB. pleased; pleasantC. pleased; pleasedD. pleasant; pleased7. Mr Smith ______ in Nanjing since he ______ to China years ago.A. worked; has movedB. has worked; has movedC. worked; movedD. was working; moved8. —Would you like to go to see the dolphin show with me? —I'd like to, but I ______ it.A. sawB. will seeC. seeD. have seen9. What a terrible experience! ______ , lucky us, we are safe now.A. AnywayB. OtherwiseC. For exampleD. As a result10. —I'm afraid I can't do well in the game. — ______ It's just for fun.A. Sounds great!B. What a pity!C. Thank you.D. Take it easy.四、根据短文内容和所给首字母. 在空格内填入一个适当的词, 使短文意思完整。

八年级英语下册同步课时练习题（牛津译林版）Unit 1 Past and present第2课时reading一、完成句子1．他几乎不知道你想要做些什么。

He __________ __________ knows what you want to do.2．我有很多朋友，因此我不感到孤独。

I have lots of friends, so I don’t __________.3．然而，并不是每个人都喜欢看这些节目。

_________, not everybody enjoys _________ these shows.4．你不经常与父母保持联系是不对的。

It’s wrong _____________________________________ with your parents.5．如果政府把这个地方变成一个购物中心，很多人将不得不搬走。

Many people will have to move away if the government __________ a shopping mall.题组A 能力提升练二、完型填空With the development of society, health is becoming more and more important in our daily lives, so it's necessary(必要的) for us to keep __6__. One of the most important rules is to exercise often.The Browns try to do sports every day. Mr. Brown __7__ exercise in the morning because he has to go to work at seven o'clock. But he keeps running every evening. He walks a lot, __8__. And after work he __9__ different sports with his friends. Mrs. Brown goes to a yoga(瑜伽) class __10__ a week.But it wasn't always this __11__ in the past. Mr. and Mrs. Brown used to take buses __12__,even to the drugstore two blocks away. They wouldn't like to walk. But now the Browns __13__ their minds. They believe exercise can keep them healthy.We __14__ exercise every day, but we should try our best to exercise __15__ often as possible.6．A．healthy B．happy C．silent7．A．may not B．cannot C．should not8．A．also B．either C．too9．A．likes B．plays C．makes10．A．two B．second C．twice11．A．way B．kind C．matter 12．A．somewhere B．everywhere C．nowhere13．A．keep B．change C．clear14．A．don't B．mustn't C．needn't15．A．as B．so C．more三、阅读单选ALake Baikal in Southern Siberia is the largest, deepest freshwater lake in the world. Every winter when the lake freezes (冻结) over for half the year, 80-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova straps (用带子系好) on the same ancient skates she’s worn since the 1940s and glides (滑行) across the ice wherever she needs to go.Lyubov has been using the ice to travel around her faraway home for her whole life. As a child, she skated about 2.5 miles each way to school and back. She once fell through the ice and was luckily saved by her classmates.Now Lyubov lives alone in a small house on the shores of Lake Baikal. Her children and five grandchildren seldom visit her because they live five hours away by car. She has to look on a group of dogs, cows and chickens as her friends. Luckily, she has the ice to help her feel free! “For me, ice means being able to go anywhere and everywhere,” the grandmother said.Every day, she skates half an hour each way to the local village to do her shopping. Withtemperatures often reaching lows of-40 C, it’s hard for an old woman to live a normal life! But Lyubov says that her daily skates are the secret to her long life span (寿命). “People keep telling me I should slow down, but I just can’t!” She said with a laugh. “I don’t have time to be bored; there’s too much work to do.”根据材料内容选择最佳答案。