牛津初中英语 8A Unit Four 教案.doc

8A Unit4 Wild animals Period One Teaching content: Comic strips Welcome to the unit Teaching goals: To introduce the topic and main task of the unit. Help the students to focus on ‘Wild animals’ To learn more about wild animals and then express their preference To think of ways to help the endangered animals Teaching important difficult points: 1．Help the students to learn more about important words and phrases 2．Help the students to learn more about wild animals and then express their preference 3．Help the students to think of ways to help the endangered animals Teaching procedures: Step 1: Answering the question Tell the students that I have got a very difficult question to answer. And I would like to ask you to answer the question, too. Show the question on the board. And get the students to discuss about it. A. You are with a best friend of yours. You know that he/ she likes hamburgers best. Your mother bought you a hamburger. However, there is only one. Will you eat the hamburger by yourself or give the hamburger to your friend or share it with your mother? B. You and your friend are on an island with nothing to eat. However you have only one hamburger. If you don’t eat, you will die. If your mother doesn’t eat, he/she will die If you share the hamburger with your friends, you will both die. Will you eat it by yourself or give it to your mother, or share it with your friend? Get the students to talk about Question A first. (It may not be very difficult for the students to answer.) Then show the students Question B. Give the students a few minutes to discuss about the question. (For more able students, encourage them to speak out their questions, too. ) Step 2: Listening and answering Tell the students that Eddie is now facing such a problem. Get the students to listen to the tape and then answer the following questions: 1. Who has food? Eddie has food. 2. Is he going to share his food with his master / e-dog? No, he isn’t going to share his foo