英语人教版八年级下册U7.Section A.1a-1c doc.docVIP

Topic: Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period: 1(Section A 1a-1c Teaching aims: Knowledge aims: 1.Get the students to learn the words and phrases: The earth, in Asia, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Nile, in Africa, the Caspian Sea, Qomolangma, desert, the Sahara, square kilometers 2.The students will be able to use the expressions: What’s the highest mountain/the longest river/ the deepest salt lake/ the biggest desert in the world? to express the big numbers using: thousand, million,billion, kilometer long/deep/high Ability aims: 1. The students can use the questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities. 2. To train the students’ cooperation with their partners. Emotional aims: To train the students to care about the world’s environment through talking about the world’s tops. Teaching important points: The comparative and superlative of adj. Note its grammar meaning and use “what” questions to ask about the world’s tops Teaching difficult points: The students can ask questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities. Teaching aids: CAI , a recorder, Teaching procedures: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purposes Step 1 Grammar preview The superlative of adj. Students say the superlative of the adj. 1. Get Ss to review some Grammar meaning of this unit. Step 2 Presentation talk Show on the screen some pictures and learn the new words. 1. Practice the conversations like this: A: What is the longest river in China? B: The Yangtze River. 2. go on talking. The Nile is the longest river in the world. It is 6.671 kilometers long It is in Africa. Get the students to use the structure in a proper way. Pay attention to the names of the places in the sentence. Step3 Activity 1a 1. Get the students to read through the pictures in Activity 1a and match. 2. Get them to make the information into a sentence. Read and match the statements with the right picture. talking: the Yang