初中英语人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级下册Section B教案

Unit 4 Why don’t you talk to your parents?

Section B (1a~2e)

教学目标

【知识与技能】

1) 能掌握以下单词：member, pressure, compete, opinion, skill, typical, football, cut out, continue, compare, compare…with, crazy, push, development, cause, usual 

2) 能掌握以下句型：

① I think Wei Ming should… 

② Although you may be…, you should talk to them.

③ Life shouldn’t just be about …

④ Why don’t they just let their kids be kids?

⑤ Although it’s normal to want successful children, it’s even more important to have happy children.

【情感、态度与价值观】

了解中国及一些其他国家中学生们普通存在的生活及学习上问题，了解别人的生活现状及他们苦恼，知道学习知识是很重要的事情，但它并不是生活的全部。

教学重难点

【教学重点】

1)  掌握本课时出现的生词及用法。

2)  进行听力训练，提高综合听说能力。

3) 阅读短文，获得相关信息，提高学生们的综合阅读能力。

【教学难点】

1. 听力训练

2. 阅读2b部分的短文并完成相关要求。

教学准备

图片、视频、多媒体等

教学过程

Step 1 Objective

Listen to learn the problems Wei Ming talks about and the advices Alice gives to him.

To learn new words: member, pressure, compete…

To learn to face the difficulties and solve the problems

Step 2 Revision

1. Daily greeting.

2. 复习提建议的表达方式，并完成相关任务。

3. Check the homework. Let some Ss give advice.   

Step 3 Warming up

1.  T: Show a picture of student. 

—What’s wrong with the girl?

—She’s too stressed out. 

—What should she do? Can you give her some advice?

2. Ss discuss the problem and give some advices:

e.g.

S1: Why not hang out with her friends.

S2: She could play sports.

S3: She could play computer games. 

S4: She should listen to music and read some books.

Step 4 Writing

Work on 1b

1. Ask one student read the sentences in 1a. Explain some main sentences.

2. What activities do you like to help lower your stress? Order them from 1-8 with being the most favorite thing you do to lower stress. 

3. Ss discuss with their desk mates then order them. 

4. Let some Ss say their answers

Step 5 Talking

 Let some Ss talk about their answers.

 S1: I always hang out with my friends to lower stress.

 S2: I like to listen to music to lower stress best.

Step 6 Listening 

1. Discussion

Try to answer the following questions.

1. Who are the speakers? What’s the relationship between them?

2. What do you think they are thinking about?

3. What expressions do you think they will use?

2. Work on 1c:

1. Tell Ss to read the sentences 1c first. 

2. Play the recording for the Ss. Ss just listen for the first time. Play the recording again and check the problems Wei Ming talks about. 

3. Check the answers: 

3. Work on 1d:

1. Let Ss read the sentences in 1d first. Tell Ss to listen again and fill in the blanks.

2. Play the recording again for the Ss to listen and write.  

3. Ss listen to the recording carefully and try to write the words in the blanks. 

4. Check the answers with the class.  

Step 7 Pair work

1. Work in pairs. Suppose your partner is Wei Ming. You try to tell her some advice and say why.

2. Let two students make a model for the Ss.

3. Ss practice their conversations

4. Teacher can walk around the classroom, and give some help to the Ss.  

Step 8 Thinking

1. T: There are some after-school activities. What activities do you and your classmates usually do? Check them. 

2. Ss check the activities they usually do.   

3. Ask some Ss say their choices.

Step 9 Reading 

Warming up

What did you do after school?

Do you have stress in your life?

How do you relax yourself?

Fast Reading

1. T: Now let’s work on 2b. First, let’s read the questions and make sure we know the meanings of all the questions. Then read the passage quickly and find the answers   to the questions.

1) What is the common problem for Chinese and American families?

2) Who gives their opinions about the problems?

2. Ss read the letter quickly and try to find the answers to the two questions.

3. Check the answers with the class. 

Careful Reading

1. T: Now let’s read these sentences about the letter. Read the passage again. Judge if the sentences are True or False. Please underline under the main sentences.

1) Chinese children have to take so many after-school classes on weekends these days.

2) Cathy Taylor really wants her three children to be successful, so she believes these after-school activities are important for them.

3) Linda Miller thinks parents should send their small kids to all kinds of classes.

4) Linda thinks some parents push their kids too much.       

5) Alice thinks kids shouldn’t have time to relax and think for themselves

2. Ss read the letter again and judge the sentences.

3. Check the answers with the class.  

Post reading

Work on 2c

1. Now look at the words in bold in the article. Can you guess their meanings? Try to match them with the meaning below.

2. Let Ss read and try to match the words. 

3. Give Ss some advice on how to do it.

4. Check the answers with the Ss. 

5. Give some explanation about the difficult words.

Work on 2d

1. Tell Ss to read the passage again and answer these questions below. 

1) Does Cathy Taylor think it’s important for kids to join after school activities?

2) Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy? What’s her opinion?

3) Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda? What does she say?

2. Ss work by themselves.

3. Check the answers together.

Step 10 Language points

1. Many of them are learning exam skills so that they can get into a good high school and later a good university.

  他们中很多人在学习考试技巧，这样他们就能进入好的高中学习，再后来可以到好的大学学习。

  so that & so… that…

so that引导目的状语从句，可与in order that 换用。从句位于中常用情态动词may/might ,can/could ,should , would 连用，意为“以便，为了，使能够”。

e.g. They got up early so that they could catch the early bus.  （翻译）

     为了能赶上早班车，他们早早就起床了。

so that也可以用来引导结果状语从句，意为“因此，结果”，这时其从句中的谓语动词不与情态动词连用。所表示的结果往往同主句有因果关系；

so…that…所表示的结果往往表明so后面形容词或副词和程度。

e.g. He didn’t plan his time well, so that he didn’t finish his work in time.

他没有把时间计划好，结果没有按时完成这项工作。 （没按时完成这项工作的原因是没计划好时间）

It’s so hot that I can’t sleep. 天气热得我不能入睡。 （天气热到人不能入睡的程度。）

so…that…引导结果状语从句。

so后面加形容词或副词，如此……以至于……。

e.g. This book is so interesting that everyone wants to read it.

     He ran so fast that I couldn’t catch up with him.   （翻译）

     这本书很有趣，人人都想看看。

     他跑得那么快，我没赶上他。

2. Maybe I could cut out a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children’s future.

  当然我也可以把他们的活动减少一些，但我认为这些活动对我孩子们的未来很重要。

  cut out 删除；删去

  cut sth. out相当于stop doing。

e.g. I cut out the paragraph in this article. 我删除了这篇文章的一个段落。

与cut有关的短语：

cut out  切断    cut off  减少……的数量, 停止向某人供应某物      cut up 切碎

3. Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child’s development.

  医生说太大的压力对孩子的发展是没有好处的。

  pressure  压力，是不可数名词。

  too much / too many / much too

  too much 后接不可数名词

  too many 后接可数名词复数

  much too 后接形容词

Step 11Summary

play sports 做运动                      watch movies 看电影

spend time alone 独自打发时间           play computer games 玩电脑游戏

give sb. a lot of pressure 给某人施加很大压力

compete with ... 和……竞争              use the Internet 上网 

read books 读书                        exam skills 考试技能 

cut out 删除；删去                     get into a good high school 上一所好高中

have a quick dinner 迅速地吃晚饭         compare ... with 比较；对比

push sb. so hard 逼得某人太紧            cause a lot of stress 造成许多压力

keep on doing sth. 继续做某事             join after-school activities 参加课外活动

Step 12Exercises

Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给首字母提示，补全所缺单词。

1. —Alan, are you in Green Club?

—Yes. My sister is also a m________ of Green Club.

2. We must be q________, or we will miss the early bus.

3. Rose rested for ten minutes and then c________ her work.

4. Our team will c________ with three other teams for the prize.

5. It was c________ of you to skate on such thin ice.

Ⅱ. 根据句意及所给汉语提示，写出句中所缺单词。

1. Mr. Green bought two ________(足球) at the store for his son.

2. I don’t like dogs because they may ________(引起) a lot of trouble.

3. Molly really thanks her mother for ________(督促) her to study.

4. Excuse me, can you tell me your plans for the ________(发展) of your factory?

5. My family is a(n) ________(典型的) American family.

Ⅲ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。

1. 你必须把第二部分删去。

You have to ________ ________ the second part.

2. 你的新房子和旧房子比起来怎么样？

How does your new house ________ ________ your old house?

3. 布朗先生总是为他人着想。

Mr. Brown is ________ ________ ________ others.

4. 这些孩子有必要学习考试技能。

It’s necessary for these children to ________ ________ ________.

5. 生活中有压力是正常的。

It’s ________ ________ have ________ in life.

Keys:

Ⅰ. 1. member    2. quick   3. continued    4. compete       5. crazy

Ⅱ. 1. footballs    2. cause   3. pushing     4. development    5. typical

Ⅲ. 1. cut out            2. compare with           3. always thinking for       

 4. learn exam skills      5. normal to; pressure

课堂作业

1. Read the article again after school.

2. Write a short passage about Cathy’s daily life and her opinions about the education of the kids.教学反思