一、教学目标:
1. 语言知识目标:
1) 学习掌握下列词汇: policeman, noise, wolf, happening, uneasy
2) 学习掌握下列词组:used to, each other, around here, these days, call the policemen, next-door neighbor, see sb. doing sth., run away, too…to…, one’s own, have no idea, go away, have fun doing sth, too much…
3) 学习掌握下列句型表达:There be…doing sth…., There+情态动词+be…doing sth, 主语+情态动词+be…doing sth
2. 能力目标:
1)阅读短文,能按要求获取相关的信息。
2)通过阅读训练来提高学生们的阅读能力。
3)学习运用情态动词表推测。
2. 情感态度价值观目标:
面对身边暂时不可解释的现象,根据已有证据进行合理推测。不信谣,不传谣。
二、教学重难点
1. 教学重点:
1) 掌握本部分出现的生词和词组,达到熟练运用的目标。
2) 阅读短文,获得相关的信息。通过阅读练习,来提高阅读能力。
2. 教学难点:
1) 阅读短文,获得相关的信息的能力。
2) 理解并运用所学的词汇及表达方式。
三、教学方法
任务型语言教学法、合作学习法
四、教学辅助:PPT
五、教学过程
Step I. Revision
1. Check the phrases.
2. Do some exercises about making inferences using must, might, could, and can’t.
Step II. Presentation
Show the picture to students and ask them: “What’s the woman in the picture doing? How is she feeling now? Why?”
Present the new words by having a free talk with students.
Step III. Fast Reading
Work on 3a:
1. Tell Ss to read the article and decide which might be the best title. Then check the answer.
A. A Small and Quiet Town
B. Strange Happenings in my town
C. Animals in our neighborhood
2. Ask them to read the passage quickly, and check the sentences “T” for true or “F” for false. Then check the answers.
Step IV. Careful Reading
1. Work on 3c: Ask students to read the passage carefully and write what people think about the strange noises. Then work in pairs or groups, discuss the answers. Check the answers with the students.
2. Work on 3b: Ask students to skim the passage again, and find words to match the meanings.
Step V. Summary and Exercises
1. Go through the whole passage with students, ask them to find out some key phrases and sentences in the passage, then help them to have a summary.
2. Do some exercises to consolidate what are learned in the passage.
Step VI. Homework
1. Make sentences with these words:used to, have no idea, too... to... ,see sb doing sth…
2. Retell the story.
七、板书设计
Unit 8 It must belong to Carla. (Section A 3a-3c)
1. 重点词汇:policeman, noise, wolf, happening, uneasy
2. 重点短语:used to, each other, around here, these days, call the policemen, next-door neighbor,
see sb. doing sth., run away, too…to…, one’s own, have no idea, go away,
have fun doing sth, too much…
3. 重点句型表达:There be…doing sth…., There+情态动词+be…doing sth,
主语+情态动词+be…doing sth