八年级新目标下Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived.docx

1、八年级新目标下Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrivedUnit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived? I Teaching objectives 单元教学目标SkillFocusTalk about past events.Tell a story.Learn adverbial clauses with when and while.Learn past progressive tense. Read and write about a story.LanguageFocus功能句式Tal

2、k about past eventsWhat were you doing when/at .Where were you when/at .The boy was walking down the street when the UFO landed.While the boy was walking down the street, the UFO landed.The girl was shopping when the alien got out.While the girl was shopping, the alien got out.词汇1. 重点词汇bathroom, bed

3、room, kitchen, land, shirt, while, experience, around, strange, follow, kid, climb, jump, shout, cat, anywhere, happen, accident, plane, modern, kill, murder, bright, playground, bell, close, silence, meaning, earth, hero2. 认读词汇UFO, well, barber, cut, alien, bought, got, scared, rode, ran, met, hear

4、d, Memphis, rang, told, recent, destroy, terrorist, became, flight, flew, tragedy, Ted, Davy, Martin Luther King, Robert Allen 3. 词组和短语get out (of), take off, train station, land on, shout to / at, run away, come in, hear about, barber shop, the Museum of Flight, Beijing International Airport, happe

5、n to, take place, as . as语法Adverbial clauses with when and while.Past progressive tense. Past simple tense.StrategyFocusUsing contextRole playingII. Teaching materials analyzing and rearranging 教材分析和教材重组1. 教材分析 本单元的话题是“Interesting events”，通过单元学习，要求学生掌握如何用过去时态谈论过去发生的事情，并能运用过去时态讲述一个故事。语法结构要求掌握由when 和

6、while引导的时间状语从句、过去进行时以及一般过去时。在了解目标语言的基础上，要求学生能读懂描述过去经历的文章，并进行模仿写作训练，描述一段不寻常的经历。 Section A 1a通过让学生把几个不同的人及其在UFO出现的相应位置进行配对，初步呈现本单元的目标语言，即talk about past events。1b是一个听力活动，要求学生听录音，圈出正确的回答。学生将从听力材料中进一步获取目标语言信息，了解过去进行时。1c是一个会话活动，让学生练习when 和while引导的时间状语从句和过去进行时的表达法。2a和2b是两个听力练习，帮助学生掌握when 和while的不同用法。2c是一个

7、小组活动，要求学生根据图片提示，仿照例句练习用when 和while造句，描述当UFO离开时不同的人在做什么。3a呈现了一封邮件和几个图片，要求学生根据邮件内容给图片排序，检验学生对目标语言的认知程度。3b是对学生目标语言运用能力的检验，要求学生能看图口头复述故事。4是一个小组活动，让学生结合自己的生活实际，以采访的形式练习过去进行时的用法。 Section B 1是一个配对练习，要求学生找出和所列句子匹配的图片，掌握几个词汇的含义。2a和2b是两个听力练习，要求学生听录音，找出录音中提到的行为，并能根据听力材料选出这些行为的实施者。2c要求学生仿照例句谈论2a中列出的行为，练习while引导

8、的时间状语从句的用法。3是一个阅读理解活动，要求学生根据文章内容用所学的句型回答几个问题。4a提供了几幅图画，要求学生能根据图画内容写一段故事，练习用过去时写作。4b是一个角色扮演活动，要求学生根据提示的情境用所学过去时进行会话练习。 Self check 1要求学生对所学词汇进行应用性填空训练，复习巩固所学词汇。2要求学生根据所列时间表写下自己在每个时间段所做的事情，是对本单元目标语言应用能力的检验；3也是对词汇的检验，要求学生从每组中找出不同类别的单词，加强对目标词汇的理解。 Reading Section 1要求学生围绕所提供的两幅图片展开讨论，从而导入文章主题。Section 2是一篇

9、有关Martin Luther King遇刺的文章和阅读策略介绍，帮助学生培养通过标题和主题句理解文章中心思想的策略。Section 3包括3a 和3b两个活动，3a要求学生把一些事件及其发生的时间连接起来，是对阅读细节的检验；3b是一个写作练习，要求学生模仿阅读文章，以自己生活中的一个记忆犹新的事件为中心，描述当自己听到这件事情时正在做什么。Section 4以“你认为坏事能引发好事吗”为主题，小组讨论，说明坏事如何能把人们团结起来，是对文章主题的拓展与升华。2 教材重组和课时分配Period 1 (Section A: 1a, 1b, 1c, 4) FunctionPeriod 2 (Se

10、ction A: 2a, 2b, 2c) GrammarPeriod 3 (Section A: 3a, 3b; Section B: 1, 2a, 2b, 2c) Integrating skillsPeriod 4 (Section B: 3, 4a, 4b) Reading and writingPeriod 5 (Reading: Section 1-Section 4) Extensive reading III. Teaching plans for each period 分课时教案Period 1 FunctionTarget language 目标语言1. Words and

11、 expressions 重点词汇和短语barber, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, UFO, alien, kidding, barber shop, get out2. Key sentences 重点句子What were you doing when the UFO arrived?I was standing in front of the library.What were you doing at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?I was doing my homework.Ability goals 能力目标Learn th

12、e past progressive tense.Learn to talk about past events using the target language.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students understand the situations when past progressive tense is used.Help students learn how to talk about past events with the target language. Teaching important and difficult point

13、s 教学重难点How to talk about past events using adverbial clauses with when/while.Teaching aids 教具准备Tape recording. Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Lead-inShow some pictures of UFO and aliens and let students talk about them. T: Boys and girls, here I have some pictures. Look, what are they? D

14、o you know anything about them? Show the pictures to students.S: I know. It is UFO. T: Yes, you are right. Have you seen one with your own eyes?S: No, I read some news reports about it. T: How about the three pictures? Who are they? They look so strange, dont they? In English, they are called “alien

15、” (write the word on the blackboard). They come from other planets and they travel by UFO. Do you believe in alien?S: I dont believe in it, because I have never seen one. T: But some people in a small town saw it. The UFO arrived at the town. A TV reporter heard about that, and he went to the town t

16、o have an interview. Do you want to know what happened there? Please turn to page 18. Look at the picture.Step II Function presentation (Section A: 1a, 1b)Talk about the picture with students. And let them finish activity 1a. T: This is the small town. What can you see in the picture?S: The UFO, the

17、 reporter, some people and buildings. T: Yes, the reporter is asking the people “Where were you when the UFO arrived?” Read the picture carefully and match the statements with the people in the picture. Before we do the match, first lets deal with some new words.Explain the new words bathroom, bedro

18、om, kitchen, barber and barber shop to students in simple English. Or show some related pictures to help them understand the meanings of these words.bathroom: the place where you wash your bodybedroom: the room where you go to sleepkitchen: the place where you prepare your breakfast, lunch and dinne

19、rbarber shop: the place where you have your hair cutAfter students understand the meanings of these words, the match work will be very easy.Check their match and then move on to 1b.T: Then the reporter asked the people another question, “What were you doing then the UFO arrived?” Now look at the phr

20、ases in 1b. Well listen to the tape and circle the correct responses. Write the question on the blackboard. Play the tape twice, for the first time, students just listen, and for the second time, circle the correct answers. Then let students work in groups of six. One is the reporter, and the others

21、 are a, b, c, d, e. They do the practice as follows. (R=reporter)R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?a: I was standing in front of the library.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?b: I was sleeping late.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?c: I was cooking dinner.R: What were y

22、ou doing when the UFO arrived?d: I was getting out of the shower.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?e: I was cutting hair.Step III Oral practice (Section A: 1c)Talk about what people were doing when the UFO arrived. Point to the man who had his hair cut. T: Where was he when the UFO arrived

23、? S: He was in the barber shop.T: What was he doing when the UFO arrived? S: He was cutting hair.Repeat this by pointing to the other people in the picture. Then let students ask and answer the same question in pairs. Show the following structures on the blackboard or screen. Where was he/she when t

24、he UFO arrived?He/she was in .What was he/she doing when the UFO arrived?He/She was . when it arrived. Then ask some pairs to present their conversations in front of the class. Step IV Groupwork (Section A: 4)Deal with activity 4 on page 20. T: Now lets do a group work. Turn to page 20, look at acti

25、vity 4. Here is a table. You can see a time list on the left. What were you doing at these times last Sunday? Fill in the first column of the table. After students finish the table.T: What were your classmates doing at these times? Now lets have an interview. So what kind of questions should we use

26、in the interview? Now, look at the sample conversation. Id like two of you to read it. (after reading) Good! Now work in groups of three and practice making conversations with your partners and fill in the rest of the table. kidding: to say something that is not true, especially as a jokejust/only k

27、idding e.g. Dont get mad, I was only kidding.No kidding?/Are you kidding?(spoken) used when you are so surprised by what someone has told you that you do not completely believe theme.g. Shes 39 years old? No kidding?Sample conversations:1. A: What were you doing at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?B: I

28、was playing basketball with my friends. A: What were you doing at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?C: I was having lunch with my parents.2. A: What were you doing at 1:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was playing computer games.A: What were you doing at 1:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was listening to mu

29、sic.3. A: What were you doing at 4:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was having fun on the street with my friends.A: What were you doing at 4:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was reading a newspaper.4. A: What were you doing at 6:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was cooking dinner.A: What were you doing at

30、 6:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was watching TV.5. A: What were you doing at 9:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was doing my homework.A: What were you doing at 9:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was playing the piano. Period 2 GrammarTarget language 目标语言1. Words and expressions 重点词汇和短语while, land, tak

31、e off2. Key sentences重点句子The girl was eating ice-cream when the UFO took off.While the girl was eating ice-cream, the UFO took off. Ability goals 能力目标Enable students to learn the different use of “when” and “while”.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to make sentences using “when” and

32、 “while”.Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点Learn the different use of “when” and “while”.Teaching aids 教具准备Some pictures; tape recording. Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Review of present progressive tenseShow three pictures on the screen (some soldiers running, a man playing tenn