人教版英语选修八第一单元集体备课.docx

1、人教版英语选修八第一单元集体备课Unit 1 a land of diversity教材分词与重组本单元的主题是：一个地区的文化多元现象。通过两篇课文，一篇是reading部分的California,重点介绍加利福尼亚的移民历史；一篇是reading and writing 部分的Georges diary, 重点展示了George眼中的加利福尼亚，进而向我们展示加利福尼亚州的文化多元现象。从而我们可以以加利福尼亚为例，通过想象与推理了解文化多元(multicultural)现象。本单元的语法为：名词性从句，是对这个语法模块的复习与升华。Period 1: warming-up and rea

2、ding用一副美国地图启发学生运用已有知识，以看图填充的形式引导学生对美国整个地理位置有个大致的全面认识。并让学生看“阅读”部分的图，叙述加州的土著人，引发学生对加利福尼亚的兴趣。了解加利福尼亚的移民历史Period 2: language points and exercise about the reading通过灵活多样的练习促使学生进一步对文章进行理解，并学习掌握遇到的新表达。Period 3: grammar复习名词性从句作主语、宾语和表语Period 4：writingWrite a essay about a city, province or zone in China.重组原

3、因：根据一周的课时量及学生基础，本单对reading and writing部分只作简单处理。Period 1Warming up & Reading I. Teaching Aims;Knowledge goals: 1.Help students to learn about the knowledge of USA especially California.Ability goals: 2.Develop Ss reading ability by skimming, scanning and careful reading.Emotion Goals 3.Arouse Ss inte

4、rest in science .II. Teaching Important Points Learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California.III. Teaching Difficult Points Encourage the students to discuss the question in page3Ex3 and make a summary of the passage.IV. Teaching Aids The multimedia and other normal teaching tools V.

5、Teaching Procedures: Teaching proceduresStep 1 Warming up.1. Ask the students to discuss If you want to learn something about a country, a state, etc, what we want to know. Size Location Capital Population Language History geography Customs culture climate, agriculture industry, education medical ca

6、re2. A quiz about the general knowledge of the USA (in the PPT-reading)3. Group work: look at the map of the USA with your group. Write on the map the names of as many of the following as you can. Compare your names with other groups. Ocean on the west coast: Pacific Ocean Country to the north of US

7、A: CanadaCountry to the south of USA: Mexico Mountain range in the west: Rocky MountainsGreat Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario Longest river in the USA: Mississippi RiverSome important cities: New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New OrleansStep 2 Pre-readi

8、ng1. Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy, history etc. What do you learn about California?Step 3 Fast reading1. Read through the passage and get the main idea.1.Whats the topic of this text? A. the culture of California B. the history of

9、 California C. the weather of California D. the history of USA2.Which state in the USA has the largest Population? California (over 30 million people)3.How many kinds of people are mentioned in this text? Step 4 Detail readingNative Americans : Answer the following questions1.Time: 15000 years ago2.

10、Where did they come from: from Asian to Alaska3.What happened in the sixteenth century?Native Americans were killed by European were forced into slavery died from the disease survived the terrible timesThe Spanish Fill in the form: note down an important event16th century Spain soldiers arrived and

11、took their land18th centuryCalifornia was ruled by SpainIn 1821California became part of Mexicoin 1846Mexico gave California to the United StatesRussians & Gold MinersDo some T or F questions:1.In the early 1800s, Russian fur trappers began settling in California. T2.In 1848, before the American-Mex

12、ican war, gold was discovered in California. F 3.A lot of adventures achieved their dream of becoming rich. F 4.California become the thirty-first state of the United states of American in 1850. TFilling the blacks StagePeople TimeEventLater arrivalsAfricans1800sMoved from MexicoChinese1860sBuild th

13、e railwayJapaneseEarly 1900sFarmedDenmark1911Established a townJewishBy 1920Developed industryItaliansLate 1900sFished and made wineAfricans1942-1945Worked in ship& aircraft industriesStep 5 After reading Why is California in the 21st century such a multicultural community? (Using 3 or 4 sentences t

14、o explain. )The state of California is a multicultural community because European, African and Asian people have been immigrating to the state for the last 200 years. Before their arrival, native American people had lived there for thousands of years. People from all over the world are still coming

15、to settle in California because of its good climate and the lifestyle it offers. Step 6 Homework Finish “Learning about language” on page 4.Period 2 Language Points Teaching aims1To learn the useful expressions and sentence structures in the reading.2To enable students to use language points both or

16、ally and in written forms.3To further get students inspired.Difficult points:Some key words often used in the exams.Important points:How to use the words and some important rules related to the new words.Teaching steps:Step 1Learning following words and phrases in reading text.1. distinction n. 差别；区

17、分；卓著常用结构：make a distinction between 对加以区分win a distinction for 因而获功勋without distinction 无差别地；一视同仁地distinct adj. 清晰的；明显的；明确的be distinct from . 与不同（的）He has a distinct gift for drawing.他有很明显的绘画天赋。You should make your writing distinct. 你应该把字写清楚。Mozarts style is quite distinct from Haydns. 2. means n. 手

18、段；方法（单数和复数形式相同）常用结构：by means of 用办法；借助by all means 一定，务必；好的，当然可以by no means 决不，一点也不（位于句首时，句子用部分倒装）by every means 用尽一切可能的办法means/way/methodmeans指“方法、方式、工具”，着重于具体的手段（单复数形式相同）。way指“一般的方法、方式或个人的特殊方法、方式”，与技巧或效果的好坏无关。method指“有系统的、有效率的精心拟定的方法”，也可以指抽象概念“条理”。a way to do sth.a way of doing sth./a method of do

19、ing sth. 做的方法in this way/with the method/by this means 用这种些方法means作主语且有every, each等词修饰时，谓语动词用单数；有some, several, many, few等词修饰时，谓语动词用复数。Every means has been tried. 每种方法都试过了。All means have been tried. 所有方法都试过了。3. majority n. 大多数；大半 A/The majority of doctors agree that smoking is extremely harmful to h

20、ealth.大多数医生认为吸烟对健康极为有害。The majority was/were in favour of the proposal. 多数人赞成这个建议。常用结构：be in the/a majority 构成大部分/大多数a majority over sb. 超过对方的票数with /by a majority 以多数，大半major adj.&n. 较大的；主要的；主修，专攻minority adj.&n. 少数；少数民族；（与majority互为反义词）4. elect vt.选择；决定做某事；选举某人elect to do 选择或决elect sb.(to be/as)+

21、n.选某人当elect sb.to do sth.选某人做某事election n. 选举5. occur vi. 发生；存在；出现常用结构：occur to (主意或想法突然)浮现于脑中;被想起，被想到it occurs to sb. to do sth. 使某人想到做某事it occurs to sb. that . 某人想到Just then an idea occurred to me. 就在那时我想起了一个主意。It suddenly occurred to me that I had left my umbrella upstairs.我突然想到我把伞忘在楼上了。happen/oc

22、cur/take placehappen是一般用语，尤其指偶然发生，表示“碰巧、恰好”的意思。Occur发生、突然想起，相当于happen，也可以表示某种想法出现在人的头脑中。 take place 指事先计划或预料到的“发生”，非偶然的发生。此外还有“举行”的意思。break out 发生、爆发常指战争、灾难、疾病等事件的发生。New things are happening all around us.新事物在我们周围不断发生。The explosion occurred at 5:30 a.m. 爆炸发生在早上5点30分。When will the basketball game tak

23、e place?6. indicate vt. 指出；标示；表明；暗示I asked him where my sister was and he indicated the shop opposite.我问他我姐姐在哪，他指了指对面的商店。Research indicates that men find it easier to give up smoking than women.研究显示男人比女人更容易戒烟。常用结构：indicate sth. (to sb.)向（某人）表示某事；把指给（某人）看indicate that .表示；示意indication n. 指出；表明 indica

24、tive adj.指示的；暗示的 7. hire vt. & n.租用；雇用(employ)hire sb.to do sth.雇佣某人做某事hire out 出租,租出去They hire out boats by the hourhire 指“临时或一次性雇佣”；employ指“长时间雇佣”。重点短语1. live on 继续存在；继续生存live on sth. 以某物为食；靠某种经济来源生活live by doing sth. 靠做某事为生live for sth. 以某事物为生活目标live through sth. 经历某事物而幸存live up to sth. 依照某事物行事；表

25、现出符合某事物的标准live with sth. 接受或容忍某现象live to be. = live to the age of. 活到岁live a. life 过着的生活 2. team up with（与某人）一起工作（尤指为共同目标）；与合作The two companies have teamed up to develop a new racing car.那两个公司已合作研制新型赛车。3. mark out 划线；标出的界线mark sb. out for sth. 选出/选定某人做某事mark down 写下，记下；降低的价格mark up 标出；提高的价格mark in 加

26、画；绘入mark out for 看中；选定Just a moment. Let me mark down your name and address.等一下，让我把你的姓名和地址记下来。Some shops marked up the goods unfairly. 有几家商店的货价提高得不合理。He marked the book down to 49 cents. 他把书的标价降为49分。 4. take in 包括；吸收；接纳；欺骗take apart 拆开；剖析，抨击(论点等) take down 拿下，取下；拆卸；记下take back 取回，带回；收回说过的话；使回忆 起昔日ta

27、ke care of 照料；保管take up 开始从事；占用(时间或空间)；着手处理take medicine 服药take it easy 别紧张，慢慢来 take over 继承；接收，接管take off 脱下(衣服等)；起飞take on 承担，从事；呈现take one s place 入座；代替某人的位置take one s time 不急，慢慢干 ：5.keep up 保持 ；坚持；维持；沿袭（风俗、传统等） keep up with 跟上 Keep on doing 继续、反复做某事 keep back;抑制或阻止感情等的流露，隐瞒、拒绝告知某事keep . from .忍住

28、不做某事 keep out; 使不进入、防止进入 keep out of ;避免某事，不受的影响 keep off 使远离、不接触某人某事keep in touch with与保持联系 keep to sth 坚持、不违背（诺言、计划等） keep away from 躲开、避开Step 2Using words and phrasesDo Exercises 1,2 and 3 on Page 4 in Learning about Language.Step 3ConsolidationAsk students to retell the text after learning the u

29、seful words and phrases.Step 4HomeworkGo over the useful words and phrases in the text.Period3 GrammarI. Teaching Aims: Knowledge goals: 1.Learn grammar: Noun Clause（Subject Cause、Object Cause） Ability goals: 2. Enable Ss to use Noun Clause Emotion Goals: 3. Arouse the Ss interest in learning Englis

30、h grammar. II. Teaching Important & Difficult Points: How to use Noun Clause correctlyIII. Teaching methods Discussing, explaining, and practicing and so on.IV. Teaching Aids The multimedia and other normal teaching toolsV. Teaching Procedures:Step 1 Lead-inComplete the sentences with the proper wor

31、ds given in the brackets.（that whatwhetherhowwhy）Step 2. Presentation名词性从句的定义、分类、及连接词1、定义：在句子中起名词作用的句子叫名词性从句（Noun Clause）名词、性从句包 。引导的连词有：名词性从句2、分类根据它在句子中不同的语法功能，名词性从句分为主语从句（Subject Cause）、表语从句(Predictive Cause 、宾语从句(Object Cause)和同位语从句（Appositive Cause）。3、连接词连接词词义功能that无词义不作成分，只起连接作用whether/if是否不作成分，起连接作用what,which什么，哪个作主语、宾语、表语who,whom,whose谁，谁的作主语、宾语、定语whe