九年级英语第四单元第一课时教案.doc

Unit4 I used to be afraid of the dark 赵玮峥 The First Period 一、Teaching Aims and Demands 1 Knowledge Objects ⑴ Key words Used to dark ⑵Target language Mario used to be short. Yes, he did. Now he is tall. 2 Ability Objects ⑴ Train Ss’ listening skill. ⑵ Train Ss’ communicative competence 3 Moral Objects Don’t judge a person by his appearance. 二Teaching Key Points 1 Target language 2 The structure: used to 三Teaching Difficult Point The structure used to 四Teaching Method Teaching by induction Pair work 五Teaching Procedures Step One Revision 1． Check the homework 2． Ask some individual Ss their ways of learning English.Step Two 1a The activity introduces the key vocabulary. 1．Call Ss’ attention to the chart with the headlines Appearance and Personality. Say, the word appearance will describe how people look and the word personality will describe what people are like. Ask two Ss to say the sample answers. Then elicit one answer to each column from the class. 2 Get Ss to fill in the chart individually. 3 Check the answers by asking different Ss to read their lists to the class. Make sure that all the Ss understand what each word means. Note: Answers will vary from the sample answers below. Appearance: tall straight hair long hair short hair surly hair short fat thin slim good-looking pretty Personality: outgoing funny quiet kind warm-hearted friendly shy easygoing Step Three 1b The activity gives Ss practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation. 1 Write two dates side by side on the Bb. The first is today’s date, including the year and the second is the same day, but ten years ago. 2 Ask a student to stand up. Use words or phrases to describe that student now. Ask students to suggest words or phrases that describe him/her ten years ago. T: Liu Chang is tall now. Was she tall ten years ago? S1: No, she is short. T: She has long hair. Did she have long hair ten years ago? S2: No, she has short hair. T