初中英语人教版八年级下册section b

Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet?

Section B 2b

I. The Analysis of the Teaching Materials

1. Status and Function

Unit 8 focuses on “talking about past experiences”. 2b in

Section B is a reading passage about American Country Music.

Seen as an essential component of this unit, it continues this unit

with several step-by-step activities. Each activity focuses on the

target language. I will try my best to let the students know the

information about American Country Music.

2．Teaching Goals:

(1) Knowledge Goals

a. Get the students to learn some new words:

forever; abroad; actually; ever since; fan; modern; success;

belong; one another; laughter; beauty; million; record

b. Key structures:

Country is a traditional kind of music from the southern states

of America.

Garth is one of the most successful musicians in American

history.

(2) Ability Goals

Help the students improve their abilities of listening,

speaking, reading and writing.

(3) Emotion Goals

a. Encourage the students to know more about music.

b. Train the students to learn in life and learn for life.

3. Teaching Important Points:

(1) Enable the students to know the new words and new phrases

completely.

(2) Get the students to master the structure.

(3) Help the students improve their reading skills, such as

skimming and scanning.

4. Teaching Difficult Points: Make the students completely understand the passage.

II. Learning Strategies

1. Analysis of the Students

As we know, the students of Grade 8 are active and show great

interest in English learning. In addition, because of the characteristics of

their ages and cognition, they are more interested in the topics which

have a close connection with their everyday life. They are willing to talk

about the books they have read. As a teacher, I try to create relaxing and

pleasant language surroundings to encourage every student to participate

in all kinds of class activities. I manage to engage students in the learning

process to provide opportunities for individual work, pair work, group

work that will bring the students’ initiative into full play. At the same time,

the students may develop confidence in themselves. Only in this way, can

they do better in English.

2. Learning Strategies

According to their psychological characteristics and perceptive

experiences, they may learn English autonomously, cooperatively and

investigatively under the various situations I created. That is learning by

doing, learning in doing and learning for doing.

III. Teaching Methods

1. Teaching methods

1) Communicative Teaching Method

2) Situational Teaching Method

3) Task-based Teaching Method

2. Teaching aids

Multi-media; a tape-recorder; the blackboard

3. Teaching prediction

Integrating the teaching methods with students’ characteristics, I

predict my students will be able to understand the reading passage after

so much reading practice in the end, and talk about their favorite kinds of

music freely.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Greetings

1. Greet the class as usual.

2. Lead-in.

Let the students talk about their favorite singers and songs freely. 3. Introduce Garth Brooks and John Denvor to the students. Ask the

students to compare and find the common things between them. Then ask

the students to listen to a song “Take me home, country road.” to get

some information about country music.

Step 2 Reading

1. Fast Reading:

Ask the students to read the passage quickly to understand the title and

find detailed information about it.

2. Let the students find more information about country music.

3. Ask the students to read the first paragragh and answer questions,

then get the main idea of the first part.

4. Let the students read the second paragragh and finish questions.

5. Ask the students to answer the questions in the third paragragh.

Step 3 Post-Reading

1. Make the students get the main idea of the three paragraghs and the

passage.

2. Ask the students to write a short summary about the passage.

Step 4 Summary and Homework

1. Summarize this class.

2. Homework:

A. Recite 2b.

B. Ask the students to get more information about American country

music.