2014年八年级英语下册 Unit 1 Past and present Reading 1教案二 牛津版.docVIP

Reading I (Times have changed) Teaching goals To recognize types of questions used in interview To recognize extended answers to raise questions To infer general meaning from the title and the context To guess meanings of specific words from the context To identify true or false statements based on the Reading passage Teaching procedures Step 1 Having a revision Talk about the transport at different times. I used to go to work by underground when I was in London.我在伦敦时,通常乘地铁上班。 I met him on the bus yesterday.昨天我在公共汽车上碰见他。 I had to cross a number of coaches to reach the dining car.我得穿过好几节车厢才到餐车。 She came by train.她是乘火车来的。 He called a taxi for me.他为我叫了出租车。 Step 2 Talking about pictures (Show two pictures to the students.) Picture 1: A small town with some restaurants, shops, a small post office and an old cinema. Near the river, there was a steel plant. Talk about the picture, and teach the new words: restaurant, cinema, steel plant. What do you think of the steel plant? The factory often threw away useless things into the river in the past. (The factory used to dump the waste into the river.) The waste made the river dirty. (The waste polluted the river.) The government got to know the danger and it took action to get rid of the pollution to protect the river. (The government realized it was a serious problem and took action to reduce the pollution.) It has changed a lot. What has it turned into? Picture 2: A town with a large shopping mall, a theater and a central park. What do you think of the central park? It’s nice to have a large area without building. (It’s nice to have open space.) People can meet in the park to play cards and play the Chinese chess. But people have to move out. So it’s hard for them to meet friends. Maybe they will sometimes feel a little unhappy because of that. (They will feel a bit lonely from time to time.) Step 3 Reading to find out the new words There are some new words in the dialogue on page 8. But don’t be worried about the