英语人教版八年级下册U7 SectionB 1a--1d.docVIP

Unit7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 3 Section B (1a-1d) Teaching Aims Knowledge Objects: Key Vocabulary: weigh, birth, adult, at birth, live up to Target Language: = 1 \* GB2 ⑴ This elephant weights many times more than this panda. = 2 \* GB2 ⑵ This elephant is 200 cm taller than this panda. Structure: = 1 \* GB2 ⑴ Language numbers = 2 \* GB2 ⑵ Comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs Ability Objects = 1 \* GB2 ⑴ Learn to use large numbers to talk about some animals = 2 \* GB2 ⑵ Learn to describe the animals’ features with comparisons of adjectives and adverbs = 3 \* GB2 ⑶ Train student’s listening and speaking skills using the target language Moral Objects: Animals are our friends. Encourage students to care for animals and protect animals. Teaching Key Points = 1 \* GB2 ⑴ Be able to master some special usages of the comparatives with adjectives and adverbs = 2 \* GB2 ⑵ Enable to talk about the animals’ features with the target language by listening and speaking Teaching Difficult Point Learn and master some special usages of the comparatives with adjectives and adverbs Teaching Methods The situational teaching approach, the cooperative learning method, task-based language teaching method and communicative approach Teaching Aids The pictures about animals; tape recording; blackboard Teaching Procedures Step1 Review Show some pictures and ask students to say two comparisons about them with true facts. The Yangtze River and the Nile River; a tiger and a panda. Have one student say the forms of the comparative and superlative degrees with adjectives and the main usage of the comparatives with adjectives and adverbs. Have students finish Self Check 1 individually. Then ask two students to report their answers. Step2 Presentation Show a picture of a panda and a picture of an elephant. Tell students about their height, weight and how much foot they eat every day. Then teach these sentences: This elephant weighs many