八年级下册《Unit Two Campus Life Lesson 1 Our School Newspaper》优质课教案

八年级下册《Unit Two Campus Life Lesson 1 Our School Newspaper》优质课教案教学设计

Teaching Aims: By the end of this period, students are expected to…

Language focus:

1. understand the text

2. review the adverbial clause of condition with unless

3. master the expressions which can be used to ask for opinions, make suggestions and express

agreement

Ability focus:

1. use the adverbial clause of condition with unless

2. ask for opinions, make suggestions and express agreement

Character building:

1. express their own opinions

2. know that reading newspaper can enrich their knowledge

Key and difficult points: Using the adverbial clause of condition with unless and some expressions to express their own opinions

Teaching Procedures:

Stage Teacher’s guide Students’ activities Purposes Warm-up Ask the students to guess a riddle Guess a riddle Lead in the topic. Pre-task preparation: Ask the students to do crossword puzzle

let the students do exercises Do the crossword puzzle

Do exercises Let the students review some important words and phrases

Let the students review the adverbial clause of condition with unless While-task procedure

Step 1 Show the picture and ask some questions Look at the picture and answer some questions Let the students get familiar with the background of the text Step 2 Ask the students listen to the text Listen and tell whether the following statements are true or false Let the students know the details of the text well by listening Step 3 Ask the students read the text by themselves Read and fill the blanks Let the students know the details of the text well by reading Step 4 Ask the students to read the text in chorus

Read the text Let the students imitate intonation and pronunciation Step 5 Ask the students to find some useful expressions which can be used to ask for opinions, make suggestions and express agreement Find the expressions Let the students classify some useful expressions Step 6 Ask the students to do pair work Do pair work Let the students practice the sentence patterns:

…unless…/What’s your view on…?/In my opinion…etc. Post-task Activity Ask the students to make a dialogue Work in groups and make a dialogue about school newspaper editors’ meeting Let the students express one’s own opinion by using expressions learnt today

Assignments: Written work: Read and recite the text.

Oral work: Suppose you are going to publish your own class newspaper, try to have the editors’ meeting and then record the dialogue. Optional Work: Design a class newspaper with your classmates. You can search more information on the Internet.