Unit Know yourself 教案公开课优质课.docx

Unit Know yourself 教案公开课优质课Unit 1 Know yourself 教案 一、 教学对象分析 初中三年级学生，对本课语法并列连词有认知基础，对一些描述人性格的新单词有了解。 二、 教学目标 1. 知识目标 能理解并运用描述人物性格的词组和常用句型。 2. 能力目标 能够用适当的词汇、句型描述人物的性格。能够熟练掌握并列连词。 三、 教学步骤 Step 1.Warming up T: Boys and girls, welcome to my class. Id like to start with two interesting questions: Do you know yourself? How do you know that? What kind of person are you? You see, in this unit we are going to have such funny topics. But first lets look at the pictures. (show them the pictures of Chinese animal signs) What are these? They are twelve lovely animals. What do they represent? Can you name them? What are they used for? Please talk about them in pairs and then share your ideas with the whole class. T: All right. These lovely animals make up of the 12 animal signs in Chinese culture. They are used to count years. Besides, people also use the animal signs to know themselves because someone thinks that each animal represents one kind of persons characters. Do you think it funny? Step 2. Lead-in T: Do you know the animal sign of this year? Its the year of the Horse. People who were born this year are all under the sign of the Horse. So the year you were born in decides your animal sign. Discussion: Would you like to talk in the small groups about the following questions? What animal sign you were born under? What kind of person you may be according to the animal sign? These sentences can help you. My animal sign is I was born in the year of It says I am Step 3.Welcome to the unit T: Do you believe it? Anyway, its really interesting. And Western countries use a different way to do the same thing. That is 12 star signs. However, if you look carefully at these signs, you may find some of the signs look like some certain animals. Please point them out and tell their names. The sign in Picture 1 looks like a young girl. We call it “Virgo”. The sign in Picture 2 looks like a sheep. We call it “Aries”. The sign in Picture 3 looks like a big crab while the sign in Picture 4 looks like a lion. The sign in Picture 5 are two fish. The sign in Picture 6 is a bull. T: There are 12 star signs in total because a year is divided into 12 months. Each star sign represents a period of time in a year. The time of your birthday decides your star sign. The Chinese animal sign system is based on the year you were born in. The Western star sign system is based on the month you were born in. Step 4. Learn the adjectives describing characteristics in this Unit. 1. Teacher can divide the students into 2 groupsa girl group and a boy group. 2. The two groups have a competition. The rules are below: Teacher shows the students some adjectives, the students who know their negatives can stand up quickly and give the answer. The group which gets more negatives wins the competition. Positives Negatives polite impolite successful unsuccessful wise foolish/silly powerful powerless proud modest lazy hard-working strong weak patient impatient fair unfair generous selfish active inactive 3. Ask the students to read each word twice to help them memorize the words better. 4. Play a game to consolidate the uses of the adjectives they have learned in this unit. Teacher divides the students into groups of 4 people. Teacher gives each group a piece of paper on which there is a students name. Then the students of the group talk about the students characteristics and guess what the students star sign is. Finally one reporter from each group reports to the whole class their comments and then the student who they are talking about stand up tell the class what his/her star sign is. Step 5. Learn the grammar Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, bothand, not onlybut also, eitheror, neithernor Step 6. Activities T: Next, lets do some activities. Ill show you four star signs. Lets talk about them by using the coordinating conjunctions and the given adjs. Then please tell me your favorite star sign. Activity1: T: Well, a Leo is generous, a Capricorn is patient, a Pisces is imaginative, and a Libra is polite. Which is your favorite star sign? Can people born under these four star signs be good leaders? Why or why not? What kind of people can be good leaders? Activity2: T: The Students Union has chosen David to be the new chairperson. Why? Lets look at some facts about David. Then use one adj. and one sentence to describe his personality or ability according to these facts. He always gets good marks in tests. What do you think of him? Please give me one adj. and one sentence to describe his ability. S: He is clever. He is clever enough to get good marks in tests. T: He thinks he can do anything if he tries his best. What do you think of him? Can you give me one adj.? S: Confident. T: What about one sentence? S: He is confident enough to think he can do anything if he tries his best. T: He helps other students at all times. What do you think of him? Can you give me one adj.? S: Helpful. T: What about one sentence? S: He is helpful enough to help other students at all times. T: He always does extra work. What do you think of him? S: He is hard-working. He is hard-working enough to do extra work at all times. T: He never forgets to do the things he needs to do. What do you think of him? S: He is businesslike. He is businesslike enough to remember the things he needs to do. T: Well, do you think David is suitable for the post of chairperson? I think he is excellent enough to be a chairperson. Step 7. Revision Help the students to revise the adjectives describing personalities. 1. Tell the students that the principal is looking for an assistant to help him. Encourage the students to recommend themselves for the post and try to introduce themselves to the principal. 2. Draw a flow chart on the blackboard while talking about the news. 3. Teach some of the new words while talking. 4. Tell the students that the flow chart on the blackboard is a good way for us to organize ideas. When we want to write about someone, we can organize our thoughts in this way. We also need some examples to support our ideas. Step 8. Writing 1. Ask the students to read the flow chart on page 18. 2. Ask the students to organize the information in the flow chart into 5 small paragraphs. Teacher can write the first paragraph with the whole class. Example: David is a confident boy. He thinks he can do anything if he tries his best. He isnt afraid of making a speech in assemble at all. 3. Ask the students to play a writing game. The teacher divides the students into groups of four and asks each group to cooperate to write a passage about David. After writing, ask the students to read their own paragraphs in groups and help each other correct some grammatical mistakes. 4. Ask the students to finish Part B on page 19. 5. Help the students to analyze the structure of the writing on page 19 and teach them how to write a recommendation letter. Main body: 1) Purpose of writing the letter. 2) Reasons of choosing the person. (Good personal qualities of the person.) 3) Conclusion. 6. Ask the students to conclude the basic ways of writing a recommendation letter. 四、 家庭作业 完成课本配套练习册，熟读reading部分的课文，识记本课新学单词，准备单元测试。