【译林版（新）】江苏省泰兴市西城初级中学八年级英语上册 Unit 1 Friends Reading Ⅰ教案.docVIP

Unit 1 Friends Reading (Ⅰ) Teaching Objectives: To guess general meanings from keywords and context To skim text for overall meanings and scan for details To identify specific information about different people form their friends’ descriptions To use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and personalities Teaching contents: Words: slim, shoulder-length, generous, singer, almost, eyesight, smart, true Phrases: travel around the world, have poor eyesight, have a good sense of humour, knock off, a true friend, say a bad word about anyone, vote for Teaching preparations: Tape recorder Computer Teaching procedures: Step1 Leading-in T: Yesterday we learnt to talk about friends. Friends are very important in our lives. Almost everyone needs a friend and almost everyone has a friend, do you think so? Let’s look at some interesting English sayings about friends. Please try to guess the meanings of them. Ss read and discuss. Step 2 Presentation T: Why do you think friends are important? What can friends do for you? Ss give different answers. T: Is your friend’s appearance very important to you? Ss: No. T: Good. We should never judge a person by his appearance or clothes. But it’ll be good for you to learn some words to describe your friends’ appearance, right? T shows the pictures and teaches “shoulder-length”, “slim” and “poor eyesight”. Step 3 Practice Ss do Part B2, P9 individually. After checking the answers, T asks some Ss to give some more details about the appearance of each person in the pictures. Step 4 Presentation 1. T: As you all think that appearance is not very important, could you tell me what is important in your opinion? Ss answer with the adjectives they learnt to describe qualities, such as clean and tidy, helpful, honest, etc. T: Excellent. Now I have some good friends here. Can you use some proper words to describe them? Ss fill in the blanks to complete the sentences. T teaches “generous”, “joke”, “humorous”, “have a good sens