初中英语冀教版八年级下册Lesson 10 Make Your Garden Grow!教学设计及反思

Grade: 8

The type of the lesson: Reading &speaking

Topic  lesson10

Date

Aims

Key competences

A) Language competence: By the end of the class, students are able to learn some words and phrases of taking care of a garden. Such as: consider, test, dry, purpose, make sure, keep…away from, best of all.

B) Learning ability: By the end of the class, students are able to retell factors that make a garden grow.

C) Thinking quality: By the end of the class, students will have fun growing a garden and love gardening.

Emphases and difficulties

Emphases: the words ,phrases,sentence structure, consider, test, dry, purpose, make sure, keep…away from, best of all.

Difficulties: Some vocabulary and exercises are difficult for the students. To express their ideas about gardening in English and speak logically and clearly.

Materials

PPT, marker, textbook.

Time

Stages and aims

T’s activities

Ss’ activities

Green assessments

5mins

Step1 Lead-in

T: Are you happy to be here?

Ss: Yes.

T: If you are happy,just show it.

Video: cup song.

T:Happy is the man who is living by his hobby. If you want to be happy, you must have a hobby.

What is your hobby?

Look at the pictures, can you guess what my hobby is ? Gardening is enjoyable, but how to make a garden grow, that is what we are going to learn in lesson 10

S: Don’t always work. You need to do something you enjoy in your spare time to make yourself fresh and energetic.

I like playing basketball.

Your hobby is gardening.

The student who can answer actively and correctly can score 1.

Step2 Presentation

To help Ss learn the main information of the text and develop their listening abilities

To help Ss learn more information of the text, fully understand and grasp the spirit of the text, and develop their detailed -reading abilities.

Step3:Practice

To check their mastery of the new language points, and to improve their language competence

Listening

1. Listen to the lesson and find out the factors(因素) mentioned in it.

2. Read the text and give your choice to the following statemens.

1. Few plants need a lot of sunlight to grow well. (    )

2. Sometimes there is not enough rain, and the garden gets dry. (   )

3.A fence can help keep small animals away from your garden. (   )

4. Getting exercise is the whole purpose of growing a garden. (   )

3. read the passage in detail and answer the following questions

1.Why should you put compost in your garden?

2. And best of all, you have fun eating all the great food from it.  (translate)

？Think abouti it : why does the writer think the food from the garen is great

4. Complete the sentences with right forms of the given words or phrases in the box.

consider          purpose          best of all          keep…away from        make sure       decide to do                 

1. Ss listen to the tape and then tick the factors mentioned.

To grow a good garden, we need to consider _______, ________, ______, __________.

 A fence, water, soil, sunlight

2. Read the text in detail anddo the reading task.

Read the lesson and do the following tasks.

1.F

2.T

3.T

4.F

1. To make the soil rich enough.
2. 最重要的是，你在品尝来自花园的食物中得到快乐。

It is healthy. It is fresh. It is the food we plant by ourselves.

The student who can give the correct answer score 1for each question .

The student who can give the correct answer score 1for each question .

The group who can give the correct answer score 1for each question .

The student who can give the correct answer score 1for each question .

Step4: Practice

Extensive reading:

Role play:Which is the most important thing for growing a garden? Sunlight, water, fence, soil and a gardener

1.Water your gardener if it is dry. But

  don’t water too much.

2. Pull weeds out in your garden in time.

3.Tall plants such as tomatoes need

   sticks to hold them up.

4.When too many plants come out, you

   need to clear some away.

Four factours:

Sunlight  Soil  Fence  Water

Step 5:Task

Task A

The student who does the task carefully score 1.

Homework

Necessary

. Design your dream garden. Four or more factors should be included and present it to your class.

Optional

Interview a gardener around you. Ask for more tips for growing a garden. Write a passage and present it to your class.

Board design:

                                    Lesson 10 Make Your Garden Grow

consider  test    dry      purpose

soil                                      sunlight      make sure 

keep…away          

            fence                                       water

Self-reflection:

I think true or false statements are better for the design of the extensive readng part.