英语人教版八年级下册Two letters from parents.ppt

Unit 3 Could you please clean your room? Section B 2a-2c Teaching aims（教学目标） 1.掌握文中重点词汇和句型。 2.进一步提高快速阅读文章领会主体的能力。 3.树立帮助他人，与他人分担责任的意识 Review（复习） 做家务 清洗餐具 倒垃圾 叠衣服 扫地 整理床铺 打扫客厅 洗衣服 do chores at home/housework do the dishes take out the rubbish fold the clothes sweep the floor make the bed clean the living room wash clothes Discussing（讨论） Discuss the following questions with your partner. 1. What do you often do to help your parents at home? I often help my mum…… 2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home? Yes, because…… No, because…… Skimming（略读/跳读） The Sunday Mail magazine（周日邮报） invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim（略读） the following two letters and find out which one agrees and which one disagrees? 阅读策略：skimming- read something quickly to find the main idea without reading every word. Dear Sir, I do not understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home. Kids these days already have enough stress from school.They do not have time to study and do housework, too. Housework is a waste of their time. Could we just let them do their job as students? They should spend their time on schoolwork in order to get good grades and get into a good university. Also, when they get older, they will have to do housework sothere is no need for them to do it now. It is the parents' job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children. And anyway, I think doing chores is not so difficult. I do not mind doing them. Ms. Miller Dear Sir, I think it is important for children to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework. It is not enough to just get good grades at school. Children these days depend on their parents too much. They are always asking, “Could you get this for me?” or “Could you help me with that?” Doing chores helps to develop children's independence and teaches them