英语八年级下册Section A教案

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

Section B1a---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 1 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.

The activity 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

1. Ask the Ss to read and say the words and phrases by
2. showing pictures.
3. Step 5 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.

Step 5. 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 conversation about a baby panda and an adult panda.

 Step 6. Homework

 To be a good learner, please search more information about other endangered animals.