《Grammar： Comparing the amount of things ＆ Comparative and superlative adverbs》精品教案下载-山东省优质课

2. I will help the students focus on the subjects and the after-school activities by asking some questions:

(1) What subjects does John/Nancy have at his school?

(2) What did they do during their free time?

Step 2 Presentation

1. Inform the students with what they are going to learn in this period. In Unit One (8A), we have learned how to compare two things or more. Most adjectives then are used after a linking verb. In Unit Two, we will learn to talk about the amount of two things or more. It is the comparative and superlative use of adjectives that are used before Show the pictures in Part A (P23) one by one. Ask the students to talk about the pictures.

2. Comparing in pairs

Get the students to compare things that the teacher show in the pictures.

Step3 Practice

1. Talking about the school life

Get the students to talk about their school life by asking questions about subjects and the activities they do at school.

2. Encourage the students to put down the information in the last column of the table. (Part A1

How many subjects do we have?

What are they?

What do you do at school, when you are free?

How much free time do you enjoy?

How long do you spend doing your homework?

3. Get the students to compare their own information with Nancy’s school, John’s school and Daniels school. We have too much homework to do. So we have less free time than John and Nancy. We have more subjects than Nancy.

Step 4.Presentation

1.Write: We have more subjects than Nancy.

We work harder than Eddie.

2.Students sum up the difference of the two sentences.

3.Show comparative and superlative adverbs.

Step 5 Practice

1.Exercises on P24

2.____you are,_______ mistakes you’ll make.

A The more careful; the fewer B More careful; the less

C The more careless; the less D More careless; fewer

3. I think Amy swims __________(slow) than Helen.

4. Simon has ________(little)orange juice than Millie.

Step 6 Homework