外研版 (新标准)八年级上册Module 4 Planes ships and trains .Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.备课课件ppt

Module 4 Planes, ships and trains

一、学习目标:

A. 单词和短语：

road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, all the time, journey, book, outside, close, park, however, cost

B. 交际用语：

1. What happened?

2. Don’t worry.

3. —Who lives the closest to school?

— Lingling lives closest.

4. — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?

  — By taxi.

5. — What’s the most expensive way to go to school?

— Going by taxi is the most expensive.

6. How do you get there?

7. What’s the cheapest way?

8. What’s the best way to get there?

9. — What’s the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris?

— The cheapest way is by coach.

10. It’s the most comfortable way, but it’s the most expensive.

11. He lives farthest from school.

12. It is the fastest and the second cheapest.

13. The more information, the better.

二. 教学目标

1. Function: Describing and comparing modes of transportation.

2. Structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.

3. Skills: 1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)

2) Comparing modes of transportation.

3) Reading and finding specific transportation

4) Writing a short passage comparing modes of transportation.

4. Around the world: The longest railway

5. Task: Making a holiday plan for a family trip to a city in China.

三、重点及难点:

Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.

四、教学设计:

Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.

Ⅰ Teaching model

Listening and speaking 

Ⅱ Teaching method

  PWP approach

Ⅲ Teaching aims

1. Key vocabulary: road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, close, all the time

2. Key structures: superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.

3. Key sentences:

1) What happened?

2) Don’t worry.

3) — Who lives the closest to school?

— Lingling lives closest.

4) — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?

    — By taxi.

5) — What’s the most expensive way to go to school?

— Going by taxi is the most expensive.

Ⅳ Teaching aids

Tape recorder, OHP, video

Ⅴ Teaching Steps

Step 1 Warming-up

1. Work in pairs. Show some pictures and ask “How do you often go to school/work?”

  “How do you often travel?”

2. Look and say something about the pictures.

Step 2 New words

Using pictures or sentences to learn the new words.

Step 3 Listening and vocabulary

1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.

2. Look at the pictures in Activity 1 carefully.

3. Now match the words with the pictures.

5. Check the answers with the students.

Step 4 Look, listen and match.

1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 2.

2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen to the recording carefully.

T: Listen and match the words in the box with the pictures in Activity 1. You need to use one word more than once.

3. Check the answers with the students.

Step 5 Reading

1. Listen and answer the questions.

  1) How does Lingling go to school? Why?

2) How do you think Betty will go to school?

2. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.

3. Ask the students to read the conversation again and complete the table.

3. Check the answers.

Step 6 Complete the sentences.

1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.

2. Read the sentences.

1) The _________________ way to go to school is by taxi.

2) Tony lives the __________ from school.

3) Lingling’s home is the _________ to school, so she always walks.

4) For Betty, going to school by bike is the ______ choice.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.

4. Check the answers.

Step 7 Language points

1. Maybe I should go to school by taxi. 或许我应该坐出租车去上学。

by 和表示交通工具的名词（名词前没有任何冠词）连用，意思是“乘、坐”。

例如：travel by train/car/ship/ underground/boat/bus/taxi

乘火车/汽车/轮船/地铁/小船/公交车/出租车出行

2. except  prep.   除……之外

  强调被除去的部分不包括在内, 常与all, every, no, nothing等含有整体意义的词连用, 除去的部分常与整体是同类事物。如：

  We have an English lesson every day except Sunday.

  All the students went to the museum last Sunday except him.

Step 8 Practice

1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 5.

2. Read through the sentences.

1) All the students take the bus to school ___________ Sam.

2) The ___________ train in the world is the Shanghai airport train.

3) I saw a(n) __________ on the way to school yesterday.

4) I do not take the bus to school because it is usually very ___________.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.

4. Check the answers.

Step 9 Grammar

形容词、副词的最高级

两者比较用形容词或副词的比较级，当我们要将三个或以上的事物进行比较时，要用它们的最高级。例如：

1. Lingling’s home is the closest to school. 

玲玲家离学校最近。

(形容词的最高级前要用the)

2. It is the most comfortable way, but it’s the most expensive.

这是最舒适的方式，同时也是最贵的方式。

3. Tony lives farthest from school.

  托尼住得离学校最远。(副词的最高级前可以不用the)

4. Of all the students in my class, Macy writes most carefully.

  班上所有的学生中，梅西写得最仔细。

形容词和副词的最高级的变化规则：

一、规则变化

二、不规则变化

    每个单词有其不同的最高级形式，需个别记忆。如：    

    good→best （形容词）

    well → best （副词）

  注意：在表示“A比B……”时，我们用A is … than B，但最高级表达的是三个

及三个以上的事物的比较状况，所以后面通常用in/of/among… 来表示

比较的范围。例如：

        Tom is the tallest in our class.

        Tony lives the closest to school of all my classmates.

Step 10 Practice

I. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.

1. The _________________ way to go to school is by taxi.

2. Tony lives the __________ from school.

3. Lingling’s home is the _________ to school, so she always walks.

4. For Betty, going to school by bike is the ______ choice.

II. 根据句意用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. This boy is __________(tall) of all.

2. The supermarket is ________(good) in our city.

3. I think football is ________________ (difficult) of all the sports.

4. Simon is ___________(thin) child in Class Two.

5. Neal lives ____________(far) from the school in his class, so he has the longest journey.

III. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子, 每空一词。

    1. 他在我们班英语讲得最好。

       He speaks English ______ ___ ____ ______.

    2. 保罗是三个人中年龄最大的。

       Paul is ___ ______ ___ the three.

Step 11 Pronunciation and speaking.

1. Play the recording once without stopping.

2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.

1) —Who lives the closest to school?

— Lingling lives closest.

2) — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?

    — By taxi.

3. Ask the students to listen and underline the speaker stresses.

4. Now listen again and repeat.

Step 12 Work in pairs.

1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 7.

2. Read the example with the class.

— What’s the most expensive way to go to school?

— Going by taxi is the most expensive.

3. Ask and answer questions about the ways of going to school.

Step 13 Homework

1. Remember the new words and phrases in the lesson.

2. Review Grammar.

3. Finish the exercises in the workbook.