九年级英语Star signs教案1.docVIP

Unit 1 Star signs Target lesson: Checkout Teaching Objectives: To review key vocabulary and grammar items taught in the unit. To give students the opportunity to reinforce the grammar and vocabulary items learnt in this unit, and to give confidence through doing so. To allow students to check their progress and ask any questions they may still have. Teaching method: Group work Teaching aids: A computer A slide Colored chalk Blackboard design: Teaching Procedure: Step 1 Review the adjectives describing characteristics in this Unit. Teacher can divide the students into 2 groups—a girl group and a boy group. The two groups have a competition. The rules are below: Teacher shows the students some adjectives, the students who know their negatives can stand up quickly and give the answer. The group which gets more negatives wins the competition. Positives Negatives polite impolite successful unsuccessful wise foolish/silly powerful powerless proud modest lazy hard-working strong weak patient impatient fair unfair generous selfish active inactive Ask the students to read each word twice to help them memorize the words better. Play a game to consolidate the uses of the adjectives they have learned in this unit. Teacher divides the students into groups of 4 people. Teacher gives each group a piece of paper on which there is a student’s name. Then the students of the group talk about the student’s characteristics and guess what the student’s star sign is. Finally one reporter from each group reports to the whole class their comments and then the student who they are talking about stand up tell the class what his/her star sign is. Ask the students to do Part B on page 23 to test if they have grasped the spelling of the adjectives. Step 2 Review the two sentence patterns learned in grammar: ‘It is’ +adjective+ ‘of’ +…+ ‘(not) to’ –inf