英语人教版八年级下册Unit7-4.docVIP

Section B 1a---1d Teaching Aims 1. Knowledge Aims (1)Key Vocabulary: cm, weigh, birth, at birth, up to, adult. (2) Target Language: many times more than/ 200cm taller than/ weigh much more than / eat much more(less) than/ eat many times more (less) than/live up to/ about one to two kilos (3) Structure: comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs 2. Ability Aims (1)Enable students to learn about something about pandas and other endangered animals, hope students to protect them. (2)Teach students how to compare two kinds of animals. 3. Moral Aims To know the importance of protecting animals and environment. Teaching Key Points Students can grasp comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs Teaching Difficult Points Comparatives and superlatives with adjectives and adverbs. Teaching method The cooperative learning method, and the situational teaching method. Teaching Aids The pictures about endangered animals; PPT. Teaching Procedures Step 1 Warming-up Look at the pictures in 1a and the numbers under the pictures, describe elephants and pandas using some simple sentences . eg: This elephant is 350cm tall. It weighs 5000 kilos. It eats 150 kilos of food a day. This panda is 150 cm tall when it is standing on two legs. It weighs 100 kilos. Step 2 Checking the words Ask the Ss to read and say the words and phrases by showing pictures. Step 3 Listening(1b,1c) 1. Play the tape for students to listen and check the numbers they hear. 2. Listen again and complete the sentences in 1c. 3. Ask students to read the sentences in 1c. Students make sentences according to the chart as many as possible. a baby panda an adult panda weigh 0.1 to 0.2 kilos 100 kilos size 15cm long 150 cm long ... Step 4 Role –play(1d) 1. Make conversations according to the above chart in groups. 2. Show time: Act out their own conversations. 3. Writing: a short coconversation about a baby panda and an adult p