初中Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.Section B教案设计

Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.

Section B(1a-1e)   

Class Type: Listening and speaking

Teaching aims:

1. To learn about the things you used to like when you were a child.

2. To understand the sentences about the girl and the boy by listening.

3. To practice talking about the things you used to be.

Knowledge Objects:

1)     Key words & phrases：ant，insect ,on the soccer team，be nervous about tests

2)     Key sentences:1. I didn't use to like tests.

2. I used to be nervous about tests all the time.

3)     Key structure：To talk about what you used to like or do by using “used to”

eg：I used to hate PE. Class. / I didn't use to like tests…

Ability Objects

1) To learn how to talk about what a person used to like or do by using “used to” and improve students’ ability of listening and speaking.

2)To grasp and use “used to+verb” in the declarative sentences and negative sentences.

Moral Objects

People surely change. Have students care for the process of their growth.

Teaching Key and Difficult points:

1)     Enable students to talk about what someone used to be like and what he used to do.

2)     To improve students’ ability of listening and speaking.

Teaching aids:  Multimedia,  blackboard ,  chalk.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1   Greeting and Leading in

1. Greet the class as usual and Check the homework.

2. Watch a short video: See yourself in the mirror

3. Show some pictures about their childhoods and let the students to talk about how they have changed using used to and now.

Step2   Pre-listening

①Look at the pictures about the teacher herself. The teacher asks questions to help students describe the pictures. Use the structure “used to” and now.

②Show some pictures and learn the new words like this:

T: What did Miss Zhang use to like to do when she was a child?

S: She used to like (catching) ants/ (watching) insects.

 The teaches the new words, Ss read and understand them.

③ Fill in the blanks and consolidate the new words.

Step 3 While-listening

Work on 1c

1. Tell Ss to read the sentences in 1c and try to understand the meaning of them.

① ____ I didn’t use to like tests.

② ____ We used to walk to school.

③ ____ I used to hate P.E. class.

④ ____ I used to be on the soccer team.

2. Play the recording for the Ss. Ss just listen for the first time. Then play the recording again and Ss check the sentences they hear in 1c.

3. Check the answers.  Answers: 1  3

Work on 1d

1. Ss read the sentences in 1d first.

2. Play the recording.  Listen and fill in the chart.  

3. Play the recording again. Ss listen to the recording carefully and try to correct the words. 

4. Check the answers by asking volunteers to read out the sentences.

5.Make a report.

Step 4  Post-listening

1. Ask Ss to check the things they like /dislike to do when they were children.

Ss finish 1a

2. Check the answer by asking different Ss to report his work .Work like this.

T: What did you use to like to do when you were a child?

S:I used to like painting pictures when I was a child.

3. T asks “what other things did you use to like to do when you were a child?”.

4. Free talk: Ss talk about their changes of their life by using the target language in groups.

1) What did you use to be like? What are you like now?

2) What did you use to like / hate to do? What about now?

3) What was the biggest change in your life? How did it happen?

Think about some changes in your life and write down your own sentences.

Share your changes with your group members in your own ways.  

5. Moral Education: Change is necessary as long as you want to be different.

Step 3　Homework

1．Make more conversations to compare their past with now after class.

2．Write a composition to talk about your changes.