人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级下册Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?Section A第1课时教学设计

Analysis of the Teaching Material

【Curriculum requirements】

1. 能听懂接近正常语速、熟悉话题的语段，识别主题，获取主要信息。

2. 通过说、读的训练，使学生获得英语基础知识和为交际初步运用英语的能力，激发学生的学习兴趣。

3.能在教师的帮助下或根据句意用简单的语言描述人或事物的特征。

Analysis of the Teaching Material：

本部分内容主要围绕地理知识展开，集中呈现了大数字的读法和表示度量的结构，并进一步拓展了比较级和最高级的使用。在这一部分中，学生重点练习数字读法和听说训练，为学生展现大自然之最。

Teaching Aims and Demands

Knowledge Objects：

1) 能掌握以下单词以及短语：

square meter deep desert population population  Asia tour tourist  wall  amazing  ancient  wide

2) Master the cardinal numbers.

3) 能熟悉以下句型：

Sth… is … meters long/ wide/ high or in length/ in width/ in height。

Ability Objects：

1.学习形容词最高级变化形式，规则与不规则 。 

2.学习几项中国之最和世界之最。

Moral Objects ：

1. 培养学生热爱大自然，保护环境的意识。

2. 了解关于中国和世界的地理知识，拓展学生视野。

Teaching Key Points

And Teaching Difficult Points

Teaching Key Points

1.掌握相关的单词和词组

2. 形容词或者副词的最高级变化形式，尤其是不规则变化，如bad-worst, good-best, big-biggest……

Teaching Difficult Points

1. 形容词或者副词的最高级变化形式，尤其是不规则变化，如bad-worst, good-best, big-biggest……..  

2.物体之间的对比。

Teaching aid

Recorder

Design of period

Period 1

Teaching Procedures

Teacher-student Interaction

Revise

Step 1 Presentation

square  n.平方 meter  n. 米 deep  adj.  深的 

desert n. 沙漠 populationn.人口population n. 人口

Asia  n.   亚洲tour  v. n. 旅行tourist n. 旅行者

wall  n.  墙amazing  adj.  令人大为惊奇的

ancient  adj.  古代的 wide  adj.  宽的；宽阔的

Step 2 Warming-up

1.Watch the photos and talk about them “How big/high/long/big is …?’ and help the students to answer:

It’s …meters/kilometers/cm big/high/long/big.

2. Look these photos and practice the dialogue:

e.g. A: How high is Qomolangma?

B: It’s 8,844 meters high.

Step 3 1a Match the facts you know.

Practice in pairs using the information in 1a.

Step 4 Listening

1. 1b Listen and complete the sentences.

1) Qomolangma is ______ than any other mountain in the world.  

2) The Sahara is ____________ desert in the world.

3) The Caspian Sea is ____________ of all the salt lakes.

4) The Nile is _________ river in the world.

Step 5 Explanation

…8,844 meters high.   8,844米高

… meters high (long, wide…)

……米高（长,宽……)。

英语表示“有多长（宽，高……）”时，一般将数词和数量单位放在表示长宽高的形容词前作状语。

e.g. The wall is 1.7 meters wide.

Step 6 Practice

1c Make conversations in pairs.

A: Did you know that China if one of the oldest countries in the world?

B: Yes, I did. It’s much older than my country.

Help the students master the key words and structures.

Show some photos and lead students to talk it

Listen and read to master the listening materials better.

Ask the students to practice the target language

Blackboard Design

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?

square meter deep desert population population  Asia tour tourist  wall  amazing  ancient  wide

Sth… is … meters long/ wide/ high or in length/ in width/ in height

Homework

1. To memorize the important phrases and sentences.

2. To make some dialogues about asking the size of objects.

Record after teaching