8A Unit 7 More practice

The following example shows how to make notes while listening.
Top tip When you make notes, you can use: ·symbols, e.g. +, √, ×, and →. ·short forms, e.g. a.m., p.m., Sat. and Sun.
Who wrote the book?
The English Writer, H.G. Wells, who is called the “Father of Science Fiction”. What did the people in America think when they heard the story on the radio in 1938? They thought it was real.
Person C (Major Marcel): I went and collected the pieces. I gave them to an army expert. He said the pieces came from a weather balloon. However, since I have not seen this kind of metal before, I think this was a lie. Person D (name not given): My parents and I were in the countryside. Suddenly we saw a silver spaceship on the side of the hill. There were the bodies of three aliens lying on the grass. Then some soldiers came and told us to leave. So what is the truth? Perhaps some or all of the people lied. Perhaps a US rocket crashed and people thought it had come from space. Perhaps an alien spaceship really crashed in Roswell.

brain
Change_______________
Live a healthy Have _________________
life.
Give __________________
Stay relaxed. Do not get too___________
分层语言输 入。利用表 格帮助学生 关注和提取 细节信息， 通过完成判
2.听录音扫读。让学生快速读完全文，了解大意，回答问题：
1. What is the main meaning of this passage? 2. What does memory help you do? 3. How many ways are the passage mentioned to improve our memory? 4. How can you live a healthy life?
通过该练 习，检查学 生的阅读效 果，进一步 内化信息和 语言点，靠 近中考题 型。
通过小组讨
Step5. 能力 Have a discussion:
拓展 Do you have any good suggestions to improve our memory?
论，引导学生 进行思考，完 成语言的输
Step4.
巩固 练习
language. Your brain gets (D) lots of regular exercise if you do any of these things. (E) 如果你过健康的生活, your memory will work better. You must have a (F)
1.综合阅读
(A)It is important to exercise your brain. For example, you can do new things

Unit7 More Practice教案1. Teaching material: Unit 7 More practice, Oxford English, 8A2. Teaching time: 40 minutes3. Analysis of teaching material:This unit is about memory. More practice is about how to improve memory. There are only a few new words in the text and it is not difficult for student to understand the article. The structure of the article is obvious and there is a topic sentence in each paragraph. With the topic sentences, students of level A can get the main idea of the whole text more easily.4. Teaching goals:1)Language and knowledge objectives:Get the students familiar with some new words and short phrases: improve, memory, exercise one’s brain, live a healthy life, have a balanced diet, slow down, stay relaxed and so on.2)Language skills and abilities objectives:a). Guide the students to guess the meanings of “memorize” and “sharp” according to thecontext.b). Get the students to learn about the structure of the article.c). Train the students’ ability of obtaining topic sentences of each paragraph.3)Emotion and attitude objectives:Make the students realize the importance of improving memory and learn how to improve it. 5. Teaching important and difficult point:Understand the structure of the article and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.6. Analysis of the students:The students from level A are weak in English. They don’t have enough confidence to learn English. They have difficulty in reading and comprehending. So it is necessary for them to learn the reading skill of getting the main idea of the article and guessing the meaning of the new words.7. Teaching method: Task-based Language Teaching8. Teaching aids: Multi-media teaching equipment, blackboard, worksheet9. Teaching procedures。

Situation
Way to exercise your brain
Linda is interested in learning languages. Recently, she has started to learn French. She recites at least 30 new words every day.
Memory is very important. It helps you remember who you are, where you live, what you have learnt and what you plan to do in the future.
What does memory help you do?
Example
hold information for less than a second
hold about seven items of information at a time, and hold them for about 30 seconds
hold information for the whole of our lives
Read the introduction on page 110 and answer the questions.
What should we write down when we make notes? We should write down the most important words. Do we need to write complete sentences? No, we don’t. In what way are diagrams sometimes useful when making notes? They can show the connection between the paragraphs.