八年级英语上册 Unit 2 School life Reading II教案 (新版)牛津版

Unit 2 School life

Reading (II)

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives

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

1. get further understanding of the two passages by comparing Nancy’s and John’s

schools;

2. learn how to use some important words correctly properly;

3. write a short passage about special school activities in our own school;

4. activate the students’ awareness of enjoying their school by talking about their

ideal school life.

II. Teaching contents

1. New words and phrases: mixed, French, foreign, language, during the week, discuss

sth with sb, buddy, offer sb help, end, play baseball

2. New structure: It is a mixed school.

Among all the subjects, I like French best.

Learning foreign languages is fun.

I often read more books than my classmates.

Near the end of the week, we discuss the books with our classmates

in class.

On Friday afternoon, our school ends earlier than usual.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty

Learn how to use these important words properly.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Show a short video about school life and then ask students some questions

What did the boy Greg and his friend Rowley want to do?

(They wanted to have lunch in the school dining hall.)

What problem did they have?

(They didn’t find a suitable place to sit and have their lunch.)

What do you think of their school life?

(Their school life is so terrible.)

What do you think of the other students in the video?

(The other students are so rude and unfriendly to Greg and his friend Rowley.)

2. Let’s review

Please fill in the table with right details according to the two short passages

in Reading.

Students Nancy, in Year 8, John, 14 years old, in the

a ___1___ student 8th grade, an American

student

Schools Woodland School near

___3___ ___2___ near Denver

School types a ___4___ school a mixed school

Favorite school

subjects ___5___ /

Special school

activities ___6___ ___7___

Feelings Learning ___8___.

Time ___9___. He is my hero.

Our team ___10___.

(Keys: British, Rocky Mountain High School, London, mixed, French, the Reading

Week, the Buddy Club, foreign languages is fun, seems to go faster when we are

reading interesting books, won two games last month)

【设计意图】通过有趣视频的导入，激发学生的学习兴趣以及引起学生对文中学校生活和片中学校生活的简单对比，而任务型表格帮助学生回顾课文内容细节，提示学生如何梳理、整合文章的内容。

Step 2 Presentation

1. Let’s retell

T: You’re great! But who can retell the short passages with the information in

the table.

2. Explain the word “mix”

(1) Explain the word

T: Let’s analyze the two passages and divide them into two parts. The first

part is “About me” and the other part is “About school life”. In the first

part, Andy says that her school is a mixed school. What is a mixed school?

In a mixed school, boys and girls have lessons together.

(2) Exercise

Fill in the blanks with the right forms of “mix”

Our school is a __________ (mix) school.

Our P.E teachers always _________ (mix) different classes to form different

clubs to have P.E lessons.

Sometimes, our P.E. teacher __________ (mix) boys with girls to form training

teams in table tennis.

We practise hard and often win table tennis __________ doubles in Yangzhou.

3. Explain “discuss”

(1) Ask students to finish a diagram

T: “About school life” talks about their own different school lives. Do they

have something in common? They have special school activities, a Reading

Week in Nancy’s school and a Buddy Club in John’s school. How does the

Reading Week work? (Showing pictures) And then complete the diagram.

the Reading Week

/ \

Where do books come from? What do students do during it?

/ / \ \

(borrow… from…; bring in … from …) (read…after class; discuss…

with…in class)

(2) Explain the word with more examples

(3) Exercise

Translate some sentences.

T: Can you guess what we will have a discussion about next?

4. Explain the word “buddy” and “offer”

(1) Explain the word “buddy”

T: Now, let’s discuss the Buddy Club in John’s school. How does the Buddy

work? From the two pictures, we can guess who the buddy can be. Why?

S: Here, the buddies are older students in the school and they aren’t teachers.

T: What do the buddies usually do in the Buddy Club? Please put a tick in the

boxes below.

A. listen carefully to their problems

B. help them learn more about the school

C. help them become heroes

D. offer some help with their problems

(Keys: A, B, D)