初中英语冀教版八年级下册Lesson 38 The World Is a Big Place教学设计及反思

Unit 7 Know Our World lesson 38 The World Is a Big Place

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: land, Europe, America, ocean, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, earth, surface, island, river

Oral words and expressions: Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Arctic, the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, northeast, Nile

Teaching Aims:

1.     Learn more about the world’s geography.
2.     Master the words and expressions of the continents and oceans in English.

Teaching Important Points:

1.     The words and expressions in this lesson.
2.     Know about the world’s physical features.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Some geography features in the world.

Teaching Preparation: a map of the world

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a map of the world

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Talk about the question:

1.     Where do you live?
2.     Do you like to live here? Why?

Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.

1.     Which part of the world do you live in?
2.     What do you know about the place where you live?
3.     How many people are there in the world?

Step3. Listening task

Listen and answer the following questions:

1.     How many people are there in the world?
2.     Where do all the people live?
3.     How big are the world’s oceans?
4.     How many deserts does the world have?
5.     What’s the world’s biggest island?
6.     What’s the world’s longest river?

Step4. Reading task

Read the text and finish Exercise 2 in activity book.

1.     Scientists predict the world’s population will be _______ by 2050. There will be 9.1 billion people by _______.
2.     About ________ of the world is land. The land that is very ________ is called desert. The deserts cover ________ of the earth’s surface.
3.     There are ________ continents. They are ________, _________, _________, _________, North America, South America and Antarctica. Antarctica is the world’s _______ and the world’s _______ continent.
4.     There are _______ main oceans. They cover ______ of the worlds’ surface. They are ________, _______, _______ and the Arctic Ocean. ________ is the biggest ocean. _______ is the smallest ocean.
5.     The world’s _______ island is Greenland.
6.     The Nile River in Africa is the _______ river.

Step5. Listen to the tape again and ask the students to imitate after it.

Step6. Read the text again and talk about the details about the text.

How many deserts does the world have? What are they? Which is the second largest desert in the world?

What’s the world’s longest river? What is the second longest river? What is the third longest river?

What are the physical features of them?

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Prepare a dictionary before the class. When they meet new words, encourage them to look them up in the dictionary.

Step8. Homework

1.     Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2.     Go on the next reading in the student book..