【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 Vocabulary教案.docVIP

Unit 1 Friends Vocabulary Teaching Objectives: To use adjectives to describe appearance To use appropriate adjectives to describe the appearances of boys and girls Teaching Contents: Words: thin, strong, tall, short, small eyes, big eyes, round face, square face, beautiful, pretty, lovely, handsome, good-looking, smart, slim Girls：beautiful, pretty, lovely, slim Boys：handsome, good-looking, smart Teaching preparations: Computer Pictures Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warm-up T: Let’s play a guessing game, OK? You will see 6 sentences describing a person on the TV screen. If you can guess who she is after you read the first sentence, you will get 10 points. After the second sentence you can get 8 points. But after the last sentence you’ll get a zero. Does it make sense? Ss find out the answer without much difficulty. T: It’s easy, right? You have remembered the three friends’ appearances and the words to describe them. Now let’s have a look at these words again. Step 2 Presentation 1. T: Look! Here is a table. When we describe people’s appearances, we usually talk about these different parts: build, height, leg and hair including the style and length. Teach “build” and “height”. T: Now please put the words into the table. 2. T: As the first guessing game is so easy, shall we play once more? Ss: OK. Ss fail to find out who she is. T: Haha, it’s me! Why is it not so easy this time? Because you haven’t learnt this before and the information I gave you is not enough. We need to learn more to describe people’s appearances, right? Ss look at the pictures and learn more words to describe appearance. They try to find out what the words are used for--- build, height, etc. Step 3 Practice 1. Ss do Part A, P11. 2. Ss find out more to describe--- eyes, face, etc. 3. Ss describe the people in the pictures with the words they have just learnt and each time there’s something new added in. Step 4 Presentation 1. T: You’ve just described the appearances of a little gi