15（八年级上册）Unit 1 Section B（1a-1e）（教案3）

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Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?
Section B（1a-1d）

Teaching Aims	Language goals   To learn how to describe your vacation by using different adjectives. Key words and phrases delicious, exciting, terrible, expensive, cheap, boring, friendly Key sentences 1. How was your vacation? 2. What did she say about her vacation?
Teaching Difficulties	Let Ss describe their vacations using different adjectives.
Teaching Aids	multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching

Teaching Procedures	Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Ask Ss to think about their last vacations. Ss can think from these aspects: Where did you go on vacation? What did you do? How was your vacation? Later, T can ask Ss to make conversations using these information. Presentation T can show Ss a sample conversation about vacation before ask them to make their own conversations. After giving the example, T can ask Ss to find one or two partners and make conversations with their partners. Free Talk Ask Ss to talk about what place they want to go on vacation and why. Brainstorm Divide Ss into groups of four or six, ask them to think about some adjectives which can be used to describes trips on vacation. For example, we can use exciting, friendly, interesting, etc. to describe to the good parts of a trip; we can use tired, terrible, boring, etc. to describe the bad parts of a trip. After all the groups have finished the task, T can draw two webbing charts on the board and ask one S from each group to write their adjectives in the chart. About vacation Still work in groups, T can ask Ss to make classifications for the adjectives they thought of in last activity. For example, which adjectives can be used to describe people, which adjectives can be used to describe food, etc.
Step 2Presentation & Practice
Pre-listening 1a Before Ss are asked to match the words with the pictures, have Ss cover the words and only look at the pictures. Then have Ss work in pairs to generate five descriptive words for each of the pictures. Next, call on Ss to share some of their words, and write the words on the board. Finally, have Ss do activity 1a. Answers: 1. f  2. a  3. c  4. e  5. b  6. d 1b Ask Ss to look at the words in 1a again. Write positive words on the left, the negative words on the right. After Ss have completed activity 1b, T may want to have Ss work in pairs to compete to expand the list of positive and negative words: Give the pairs of Ss a specific time limit to come up with as many words as they can. Elicit which pair had the most words. Check the spelling of the words. Reward the pair with the most words spelled correctly. Remind Ss that some words can be positive or negative depending on the situation. E.g. cheap, expensive, etc. Answers: positive words: delicious, cheap, exciting           negative words: terrible, expensive, boring While-listening 1c Playing the recording again and ask Ss to answer the questions. In order to make this activity more challenging, T may want to have Ss close their textbooks and write down the questions while T reads the questions aloud. Then after Ss have checked their answers with partners, T can have Ss open their textbooks and see the correct answers. Answers: 1. She went to Hong Kong.  2. Yes, she went to a fun park.   Yes, she did.  4. Yes, she did. 1d Playing the recording again, ask Ss to write down Lisa’s comments on her vacation, the people, the food, etc. In order to reduce Ss’ confusion, T may want to mention that the descriptive expressions in the recording may be one word or two words. Answers: her vacation: great  the fun park: (really) exciting         the stores: (very) expensive  the people: (really) friendly         the food: delicious Show PPT P16 to Ss and ask them to complete the passage according to the listening material and the Chinese. Answers: went to Hong Kong with her family, something special, went to, really exciting, went shopping, were expensive, bought something for her best friend, were friendly, was delicious, had a good time. Post-listening 1e In pairs, Ss ask and answer questions about Lisa’s vacation. Ss can use these questions to help them make conversations: Where did ...? What did ...? Did she ...? How was ...? How were ...? Group Work Ask Ss to do a survey about their classmates’ vacations. Let’s Share! T can encourage Ss to make a report about their surveys to the whole class.
Step 3 Summary & Homework
Summary Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P22-24. Homework: Preview the passage in Section B 2b. Do the exercises in students’ book.
Teaching Reflection	In this period, the students review and learn some adjectives to describe the places and objects. Listening and oral practice are important in this unit. It is necessary for students to talk with their partners by using what they have learned：Yes / No questions and Wh－questions in the simple past tense. We could also teach students to use the example sentence patterns. We can ask students to talk about their vacations to improve their capacity of oral output. And we should teach students to memorize the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.