Lesson 57: Help!Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: describe, ourselves, myself, personal, yourself, else, anyting Oral words and expressions: unique, talent, strength, think of…as, think aboutTeaching Aims:1.Learn about the foreign culture.2.Show encourage to sb.Teaching Important Points:Introduce one’s hobbies, talents and virtues.Teaching Difficult Points:Show encourage to sb.Teaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Talk about the subject in this unit: celebrating me. In this unit we will find one’s talents. Why are we different from others? Li Ming will give a report to the class to show his talents to the others.Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”. Let the students answer the questions:1.What do you think of yourself? How are you unique?2.Are you proud of yourself? Why or why not?Talk with the partners for a while. Then let some students come to the front and share their ideas with the others.Step3. Listen to the tape. Can the students retell Li Ming’s trouble in a third person? Let them try.Step4. Have a further discussion about Li Ming’s e-mail. Ask the students:1.Can you help him?2.What’s your advice?3.Do you have the same trouble like him?Step5. Listen to Part 2. This e-mail is from Jenny. Let’s see Jenny’s advice together.1.Do your classmates like you? Why do they like you?2.What makes you a good student?3.Are there many special things you do?4.Do you have special talents?Step6. Listen to the tape again. Let’s have a further discussion about the two e-mails.Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Divide the class into several groups. Write the letter and then share your letter with the others in the group. Let every group choose a best one to read in front of the class. Let’s enjoy together. Step8. 1. Finish off the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:The teacher can suppose a situation the same as Li Ming. If you ask the students to describe themselves in their reports, what trouble will they meet? Let tem write down their difficulties. Are they the same as Li Ming’s? Please try.Lesson 58: Georgia Plays BasketballTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: born, be born, return, score, almost, university, be proud of Oral words and expressions: Greece, Greek, junior, Olympics, Nobody else in my school comes from Greece, The score was fifty-one to fifty-one, be different from, Of courseTeaching Aims:1.Listen carefully, know the subject and get the main information.2.Let the students’ have confident in them.Teaching Important Points:What makes you unique?Teaching Difficult Points:Learn to introduce yourself.Teaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Talk about the students’ favourate sports. How many students like football? What do they know about the basketball? The teacher introduces something about the basketball to the students, too.Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.Divide the class into several groups. Discuss the two questions together. Every group chooses the best answer and report it to the class.Step3. Listen to the tape with the following questions:1.Where does his family come from?2.How old is she?3.Is her sister good at football?4.What does Georgia mean by “the game was almost over”?5.What’s her ambition?Step4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. Step5. Let some volunteers read the text in front of the class.Step6. Have a further discussion about the text.1.What do you think of Georgia?2.Do you think her life interesting?3.Does she strive to make her ambition come true?4.What’s your ambition?5.What can you learn from Georgia?Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Work in groups and complete the task. Each student writes a passage and reports it to the others in the group. Every group chooses a passage and shares it with the class.Step8. 1. Finish off the activity book.2.Retell the story.Summary:Let’s begin the class with the students’interests, which must be attractive. Organize the activities. Give them more time to speak and write English in class. Ask the students to research on the Internet about the information we learn today. Thus we can improve their abilities of learning by themselves.Lesson 59: Who Are You?Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: already, themselves, leader, pioneer, work hard (at), Young Pioneer Oral words and expressions: be talented atTeaching Aims:1.Have confident in yourself.2.Cultivate the students’ abilities of learning by themselves.Teaching Important Points:1.Find one’s virtues and improve the interest of learning English.2.Learn to introduce yourself.Teaching Difficult Points:Project pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive pronounsTeaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Make sentences with project pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns. Some able students can say a passage and sum the pronouns with the students.Record some meaningful sentences and analyze them. Write some sentences including mistakes on the blackboard. Let the students correct them together.Step2. Play a gameDivide the class into several groups. Let the students in each group make a word puzzle with the words that we learned in this unit. Then let them change the puzzles and work them out. Write down the time they use.Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it. Let the students have a further discussion about the text.1.Does Li Ming need any help?2.What’s Li Ming’s trouble?3.How does Wang Mei help Li Ming?4.Does his teacher also give him some advice?Step4. Ask the students to discuss:1.What is a talent?2.What are Wang Mei’s personal strength?3.What are Li Ming’s talents?4.What are your talents?Step5. Talk about the questions:1. What is your personal strength?2. Do you have any talents?3. What makes you happy?5.Are you proud of something you have done?Step6. Come to “PROJECT”.We have learned many words about our talents. So the task is easy to the class. The students can write outlines first. Show your photographs to your partners. If you can’t write the report like Li Ming, you can ask others for advice.Divide the class into several groups. What do they like about each plan? What would they change? What illustrates or photographs will they use? Instruct students to revise their outlines, as needed. Make sure students use what they have learned in their discussion and communication with one another.If the project cannot be finished in one lesson, it can last for two or three lesson.Step7. 1. Finish off the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:The best way to learn English is to use what we learn. This task in this lesson is to use the phrases that we learned in these lessons. Show their photographs to the others. It is a very good way to stimulate students’ interests of learning English. Help them to finish the task. Display the result in the English Corner.Lesson 60: You Are YouTeaching Content:Oral words and expressions: confident, strive, quite, hooray, through and throughTeaching Aims:1.Learn about the foreign culture.2.Cultivate the students to take correct attitude towards the future.Teaching Important Points:Learn to sing the song.Teaching Difficult Points:The meaning of the songTeaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. In class, read the song in the student book. Help the students notice the rhyme, rhythm and repetition in the song. These are good devices for developing an “ear for English”. Step2. Play the tape. First let them listen carefully. Then play it again, and then let them repeat after it.Play it for several times. It is a fact that all the students love the beautiful song.Step3. Make sure the students understand the meaning of the song, especially the first stanza. Explain the main phrases to the class.be confident inbe proud ofstrive t do somethingthe best you can do/bethrough and throughMake sentences with the above words.Step4. Let the students sing the song together to see if they have mastered it already. Play the tape again if it is necessary.Step5. Can they translate the song into Chinese? Because the song is more “Philosophical” than the other song we have learned before, the teacher can prepare the translation before the class. Step6. 1. Finish off the activity book.2.Sing the song together if we have time.Summary:The songs in our text are very typical. All the students love to sing it. The beautiful rhythm and the lyric makes the students moved deeply. Sing the foreign is also a good way to have the sense of the foreign culture. Some words of the song has the meaning of education. The teacher can have a good use of it.Lesson 61: I Am a Good PersonTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: excellent, do well inOral words and expressions: confidentTeaching Aims:1.Cultivate the ability of describing the other or one’s own experiences.2.Make more chances to communicate with the others in English.Teaching Important Points:How to introduce oneself.Teaching Difficult Points:The sequence of demonstrating one thing.Teaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Let’s sing the song “You Are You” together.Step2. Try this tongue twister:So See’s saw sawed seesaw.But is was sad to see Soar so soreJust because See’s aw sawed Soar’s seesaw!Step3. Look at the pictures in this lesson and guess:1.What is Li Ming doing?2.What is Ms. Liu doing?Step4. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1.Why does Li Ming say he is a good person?2.What is Li Ming good at?3.What’s Li Ming’s ambition?4.What did Ms. Liu ask Li Ming to do last week? Step5. Read the text silently and check the answer. Then read the text loudly in class. At the same time, the students walk around the class and help the students at any time.Step6. Ask the students to spot some words, phrases, expressions or sentence patterns that stand in the way of their understanding. Here is the list, which can help the students write their own reports:It is time for sb. to do sth.be nervous aboutfeel confident/proudbegin by doing somethingmembers of the Young Pioneersmake oneself/ourselves strongstrive to do something wellgo to universitygive somebody the confidence to do somethingStep7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Work in groups with three or four people. Write down the famous person whom you admire. What is he like? What do you want to learn from him? If you want to be him, What do you want to do now? Share your ideas with the partners.Step8. Finish off the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:This lesson is the key of this unit. All the classes in the unit are around the subject. Li Ming gives his report at last. All the students are eager to know Li Ming’s report. So arranging some questions and letting the students find the answer is a very good way. Then provide them chances to practice in the class.Lesson 62: ConfidenceTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: finger, both, himself, because ofOral words and expressions: spelling, be confident of, have confident inTeaching Aims:1.Cultivate the ability of learning by oneself.2.Learn the foreign culture.Teaching Important Points:1.Guess the main ideas of the text according to the pictures.2.Correct a composition with the help of the teacher.Teaching Difficult Points:Some words and expressions: because, because of, correct the mistakesTeaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Let the students talk about the topic “Why you are unique”in the class. Ask some studentsto speak in front of the class.Step2. Present this riddle to the class: What is black and white and red (read) all over? Step3. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.What words do you think are hard to spell? Why are these words so difficult?Divide the class into several groups and discuss the two questions together. Write the words down and share them with the others in your group. The teacher sums the words. Let every group write their answers on the blackboard.Step4. Listen to the tape with the following questions:1.Why is Peter not good at English?2.What mistakes does Peter make? Can you make examples?3.What does Miss Martin say in order to encourage Peter?Step5. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read it loudly in class.Step6. Read the text in roles. Let some students act it our in front of the class.Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Finish the task in groups with three or four students in one class. When the students are talking, the teacher walks around the class. Let the students speak English as often as possible. When they can’t express themselves, the teacher can help them.Step8. 1. Finish off the activity book.3.Go on the nest reading in the student book.Summary:Discussing in groups is a usual technique that the teacher often uses. When the students are talking, the teacher asks them to speak English. “Practice makes perfect”. We believe the proverb and give the students more time to speak English in class.Lesson 63: Christmas Is Coming!Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: decorate, without, put up, by the wayOral words and expressions: decoration, Germany, in the 1600sTeaching Aims:Know about the foreign festivals and the differences between Chinese and Western countries. Teaching Important Points:Know about the main festivals in Western countries and how do they celebrate them.Teaching Difficult Points:How to celebrate Christmas?Teaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Discuss the Christmas and New Year in western countries. Discuss in groups. After a while, present their answers to the class.Step2. Listen to the tape with the following questions:1.When is Christmas?2.When is New Year?3.Where do people put up their Christmas tree?4.What goes under the tree?5.What do people usually do before Christmas?6.What are the differences between the Western Christmas and the Chinese Spring Festival?7.How do you greet people during the Christmas season or during the Chinese Spring Festival? Step3. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. The teacher walks around and finds the mistakes to correct.Step4. Help the students to retell the story but not word for word.Step5. Listen to the tape again and repeat after it until they can read it correctly and fluently. Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Make a Christmas card!1.Fold a piece of paper in half. Draw a Christmas picture on the front of the card. Here aresome ideas for Christmas pictures: a star, a Christmas tree, Santa, toys, a candy cane, a winter scene with snow or Christmas gifts.2.Write a greeting on the inside of the card. This should be written on the right-hand side ofthe card. The greeting will say:Merry Christmas!Happy New Year!Step7.1. Finish off the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:Christmas is more familiar to the students than the Western New Year. Introduce the Western New Year to the students in detail. The Western New Year’s celebration is quite different from the Chinese New Year’s celebration. It is a minor holiday festival in comparison. It lasts only two days: December 31, New Year’s Eve, and January 1, New Year’s Day.Lesson 64: Unit ReviewTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63.Oral words and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63.Teaching Aims:1.Learn the foreign festivals and culture.2.Cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.Teaching Important Points:1.Improve the students’ abilities of comprehension.2.Finish one project in groups and correct compositions with the help of the teacher. Teaching Difficult Points:Use some words and expressions: talent, confident, decorate…Teaching Preparation: flashcardsTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson: review lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. PROJECT: “All About Me” ReportType: group discussion, individual workLesson time: 15 minutesDescription: The students write and illustrate a report about themselves. First, they plan the report. In small groups, they share, discuss and revise their plans, and then they each write a report based on their plan.Objective: To learn vocabulary for personal description.Resources needed: The students can illustrate their reports with photographs, drawings or magazines cutouts.Step2. PracticeThe students exchange their reports and correct the mistakes with the help of the teacher. After finishing, return them to their owners. Then let the owners check the reports that changed just now. Does it still have mistakes? Check it correctly.Step3. Play a gameOne student says a festival; the others say when, where and how it celebrates. How many festivals can they display? Put all the information about one festival together. Now the students can understand a festival easily. The students can search the Internet before the class.Step4. Do the exercises on Page 79 and 80. The teacher walks around in the classroom. Help them if necessary.Step5. Collect some problems that most of the students don’t understand and explain them on the blackboard in detail.Step6. Have a further discussion about the exercises.Step7. 1. Finish off the activity book.2.Sing the song “You Are You”.Summary:The review lesson can’t be boring. The teacher must make it interesting and lively. At the same time, practice the students’abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students can have a good use of the things at hand.。
冀教版初中英语八年级下册电子课本+翻译Unit 1 Lessons 1-6 Spring Is Coming!第一单元第1-6课春天来了！Lesson 1 How's the Weather?第1课天气怎么样？Good morning, everyone.大家早上好。
I'm Danny Dinosaur on the radio.这是丹尼·戴诺在为你广播。
What's the weather like today?今天的天气怎么样？Here's the weather report.现在是天气预报。
Today is Friday, February 28.今天是2月28日，星期五。
It will be snowy and hot.今天下雪，天气很热。
Danny! When it snows,it's not hot.丹尼！下雪的时候，不是热。
It's cold.是冷。
OK, it's not hot.好的，不是热。
It's not snowing,but it is cloudy.没有下雪，是多云天。
What's the temperature?温度是多少？Let's see.我看看，It will reach 10℃ during the day.今天将达到10℃。
It's quite warm today.今天非常暖和。
Spring is coming.春天要来了。
Is it going to rain, Danny?丹尼，是要下雨了吗？Yes!There will be a shower this afternoon.是的！今天下午会有雨。
Maybe there will be a thunderstorm.可能会有暴风雨。
I hope not!I'm scared of thunder!我希望没有！我害怕打雷！Wow! What strange weather!哇！这么奇怪的天气！Now talk about the sunrise and the sunset.现在说是太阳升起和落山的时间吧。
