初中英语外研版 (新标准)八年级下册Unit 2 We thought somebody was moving about精品ppt课件

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首先通过一些图片导入到本单元文章主题——介绍在张家界的旅行经历。在学习本单元新单词后，先通过速读让学生们对邮件的作者及邮件介绍的内容大体了解，之后通过精读和题目设置让学生逐步提取文章细节并对这次旅行的经历按时间排序。读后将本单元文章中重点短语和宾语从句提取出来让学生记忆理解。最后让学生通过获得的信息写出介绍旅游景点的文章。

教学目标

通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标

1.知识目标：

掌握词汇：square, kilometre, shape, human, wake, somebody, about, path, pull, freshwater, wake sb. up

2.能力目标：

（1）       能够阅读有关旅行的文章

（2）       能获取文章中的细节信息及旅行路线  

（3）       能够写出介绍景点的短文 

3.情感目标：

学习在野外宿营的一些常识，培养爱护环境的好习惯

重点难点

重点：读懂文章，能获取文章中的细节信息及旅行路线；会介绍景点

难点：介绍一个景点

教学准备

PPT 课件，相关图片

授课时数

2课时

教学过程

Step 1 Warming up

1.   Show some pictures and ask students questions.

1)            Where is it?

2)            Have you ever been there?

3)            What do you know about it?

2.   Ask students to look at the photo and write down words that can best describe it.

Possible answers: beautiful, tall, green, quiet, famous, unusual, strange

Step 2 Learning about new words

1.Let students know the meanings of the following new words with the help of pictures and so on.

Square, kilometre, shape, human, wake, somebody, about, path, pull, freshwater, wake sb. up

2.Lead students to read the new words three times or more.

3.Let students circle the new words in the passage of Activity 3 and think about their use.

Step 3 Fast reading

Ask students to read the passage quickly and answer the following questions.

1)          Who wrote the email?

2)          Where is Betty now?

3)          What’s the email about?

   Answers: 1)Betty.  2)In Zhangjiajie.  3)It’s about Betty’s wonderful time in Zhangjiajie.

Step 4 Careful reading

1. Let students read Para.2 and answer the following questions about Zhangjiajie.

1)          Where is it?

2)          How large is it?

  3)What is it famous for?

Answers: 1)It’s in Hunan Province.

2)It’s about 480 square kilometres.

3)It’s famous for the strange shape of its tall rocks.

2. Let students read Para.3 and answer the following questions.

1)        Where did they stay last night?

2)        What animal did they see last night?

Answers: 1)They camped by a small lake.

2)They saw a monkey.

3. Let students read Paras.4-6 and answer the following questions.

1)  What did they do this morning?

2)  What was the weather like?

3)  Where will they go tomorrow?

4)  When will they go back home?

Answers: 1)They climbed Mount Tianzi.

2)It was cloudy.

3)        They will go to Dongting Lake.

4)        They will go back home next week.

4. Let students complete Activity 4 and check their answers.

5. Let students complete Activity 5 and check their answers.

Let students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in Activity 5.

Step 5 After-reading

1.   Ask students to say the meaning of these phrases.

2.   Teach students the structures and meanings of these sentences.

   We thought somebody was moving about.

   Lingling’s uncle said it was an animal.

   ...but Lingling’s uncle said that it was wrong to pull leaves off plants and that we should protect everything here.

   宾语从句：一个句子作动词的宾语

Step 6 Language points

1. I promised to write...我答应过写信……　

   promise此处作动词，意为“承诺”。

(1)promise to do sth. 承诺做某事

Wang Lin promised to look after my cat. 王琳承诺照看我的猫。

(2) promise sb. sth. 答应某人某事

Mother promised me a new watch as my birthday present.

我母亲答应给我一块新手表作为生日礼物。

(3)promise + that从句　承诺……

Miss Gao promised that she could come on time. 高老师答应准时来。

【拓展】promise作名词，意为“承诺”。make a promise意为“做出承诺”。

2. …I’m having a wonderful time here in Zhangjiajie. ……我在张家界这儿玩得非常开心。

have a wonderful / great / good time 意为“玩得开心；过得愉快”，相当于enjoy oneself 或have fun。

We’ll have a wonderful time on the beach tomorrow.

＝We’ll enjoy ourselves on the beach tomorrow.

明天我们在海滩上将玩得很开心。

3.   Some of them look like humans while others look like wild animals.

它们有些看起来像人，而有些看起来像野生动物。

(1)human作名词，意为“人”，复数形式是humans。

Humans can think and talk. 人能思考和说话。

(2) while在此作连词，意为“而；然而”，表示对比。

My father is a doctor while my mother is a teacher.

我父亲是一位医生，而我母亲是一位教师。

【拓展】while作连词，意为“当……的时候”，引导时间状语从句，常与进行时态连用。

While we were waiting for the bus, Daming appeared.

当我们正在等公共汽车的时候，大明出现了。

4. It woke everybody up.每个人都被它吵醒了。

wake sb. up是固定短语，意为“唤醒某人”。wake up是“动词+副词”型短语，宾语是名词时，可放在wake和up的中间或up的后面；当人称代词作宾语时，只能放在wake和up的中间。

Don’t wake up the baby. =Don’t wake the baby up.

不要把那个婴儿唤醒。

Tony is still sleeping. Please wake him up.

托尼还在睡觉。请把他叫醒。

5.We thought somebody was moving about.

我们认为有人正在四处走动。

(1)somebody不定代词，意为“某人；有人”，用在肯定句中。在否定句和疑问句中要用anybody。

Listen! Somebody is knocking at the door.听！有人在敲门。

Is there anybody playing football on the playground?

有人在操场上踢足球吗？

(2)move about 意思是“走来走去，四处走动”。

Don’t move about. You should sit down.别到处走。你应该坐下。

6. We came out without making any noise，and found it was just a hungry monkey looking for food.　我们悄悄走出来，发现那只是一只饥饿的猴子在寻找食物。

(1)make noise意为“制造噪音；发出声响”。

　He walked past me without making any noise. 

  他从我身边走过，没有发出任何声音。

(2) looking for food是现在分词短语，在句中作名词monkey的后置定语，表示动作正在进行。　

　There are some students reading English in the classroom.

  教室里有一些学生正在读英语。

7. From the top we hoped to see the lakes and forests.我们本来希望从山顶上眺望湖泊和森林。　

hope to do sth.意为“希望做某事”，动词不定式作宾语。

I hope to see you again soon. 我希望很快再次见到你。

【拓展】hope＋that从句      希望……

We all hope that our team will win the game.

我们都希望我们的球队会赢得这场比赛。

8.Wish you were here!真希望你们也在这里啊！

这是一个省略了主语的句子，补充完整应为“I wish you were here!”。wish后是一个省略了引导词that的宾语从句，从句中运用了虚拟语气。wish常用来表示祝愿或愿望，其后可接宾语从句，若表示不能实现的或与事实相反的事情，从句常用虚拟语气，be 动词用were，实义动词用过去式。　  

 I wish I were you. 我希望我是你。

Step 7 Writing

1.  Ask students to read the information about Zhangjiajie in Activity 7.

2. Ask students which is more personal, Betty’s email or the information in this table.
3. Ask students to choose the most important or interesting facts about Zhangjiajie and write a passage about it.

  One possible version:

Step 8 Homework

1. Read the passage.

2. Tell your partners about a trip.

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