Teaching content

Module 3 Sports

Unit 1 Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis.

主备人

陈雅丽

参备人

刘利杰，胡洁，

沈臻锐，关静

使用年级

八年级

集体备课时间：2024.9.12

使用时间：2024.9.18

Analysis of the Teaching Material

What: The topic of this module is   "Sports". Under this theme, dialogues and texts set the scene and present   the conversation that introduce their feelings about sports through different   situations. Based on the last years’ learning about English, students may be   familiar with the events, these contents can arouse their curiosity and make   it easier for them to participate in teaching activities. Around this theme,   teachers can also allow students to learn about ways of talking about sports,   which can help them better learning English and learn some ways about   improving their spoken skills.

Why: This unit is a listening and   speaking class. The dialogue content is to discuss their different feeling   about sports ---Watching or playing, mainly using the scene setting to   discuss how to express and talk about their feelings and learn some patterns   about sports. Other activities also revolve around this theme.

How: The dialogue mainly uses the scene   setting to discuss and learn some patterns about describing the sports and   the feelings. Teaching should go further than beginners and provide   sufficient language training.

Analysis of the Target Students

This unit mainly carries on the learning and application of   adjectives in the previous module, and extends to a comparative form, which   is easy for students to accept. Through the comparison of sports to watch and   sports to play, the language foundation is laid for the next unit of learning   in a sports training.

Teaching objectives

1. Use new words to describe different feelings about different   sports.

2. Listen and get information

3. Use comparative adjectives to compare different feelings about   different sports.

Teaching key points and difficult points

Key points:

1.Master the key words, phrases and sentence patterns related to   this unit. Can understand the articles about sports.                       

2. Be able to understand the main idea of the listening material.

Difficult points: Apply the new words and rules of comparative adjectives to compare   different opinions and feelings about s

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods: Task-based approach,   the communicative approach

Learning methods: 1. Individual   learning; 2. Group work

Step1  Warming-up

Lead-in 

1、Let the Ss Ask the students to revise the words and useful expressions.(自主学习）

2、Free talk: Have Ss to talk about their favourite sports.

1. Today we are going to talk about module 3   sports. ( write the title on the board)   

Q: What sports do you know？

2. Look at the   pictures and say some words about the

sports. Lead the Ss to interest the sports.

通过这个环节既能活跃课堂气氛，又能为以下教学内容作好铺垫

Step2  Pre-listening

1. Listen and   number the sports as you hear them.

  (Please look at Activity 1 on page 18.)

Now match the words with the pictures.

2. Listen again   and complete the passage.

 Daming’s   favorite sport is ___________. It is an American sport. Americans like   baseball, too. Football is more ________ than baseball in most countries.   Betty likes __________ and ______. Daming likes __________ too. Both Daming   and Betty like _____________.

3. Ask the students to read the words   in Activity 2

4.Work in pairs. Talk about the sports you like.

--- Hey, Tom. What sport do you like?

--- I like … because it’s … / I like … but it’s…

本部分活动的目的是让学生了解不同的体育运动以及各项运动的特点。同时，引入形容词的表述，为学生学习比较级的构成和表达作好语言上的准备。

Step3  While-listening

1. Ask the students to listen to the dialogue and look for the answers.

1) Did Tony play tennis yesterday?

2) How was staying at home than going to the stadium?

2. Ask the students to read the conversation and check ( √ ) the true   sentences.

1) This week´s match is more exciting than last week´s.

2) Tony played table tennis yesterday.

3) For Tony playing tennis is more exciting than

watching matches on TV.

4)Watching the Olympics on TV was more expensive   than buying tickets for the games.

5)Going to the stadium was more difficult than staying at home.

3. Ask the students to check with a partner.

4. Check the answers.

5.Language points

Step4 Post-listening

1. Read the   dialogue and fill in the table.

2. Ask the Ss to   finish Activity 4.

3. Ask the   students to read the words in the box in

  Activity 1. .

4. Use the words   in Activity 1 to complete the passage

 about   yourself.

My favourite sports is (1) ____________. And I   enjoy

 watching   (2) ____________. I’m quite good at (3)

 ____________. I don’t like playing (4)   ___________.

 And I’m not   very good at (5) _____________.

5. Read the   passage by yourself.

Pronunciation

Listen and notice how the speaker links the words.

Speaking

Work in pairs.Talk about the sports   you like in Activity7.

1.       引导学生进行超越语篇、联系生活实际的活动，用所学语言做事情。

2.       根据新情境，整合运用相关语言表达，模拟向他人介绍自己所喜爱并且参加体育项目的情境，完成交际任务，学以致用。

3.       培养学生在真实情境中，运用所学语言和文化知识，解决实际问题的能力，推动迁移创新。（想象与创造）

Step5  Summary

1、Let the whole class summarize the lesson together, what we learn   today, what should we to make our home town more beautiful? .

T：What have we learned today？

Ss：……

2、Let the Ss choose the best group in this lesson.

此环节能培养学生自主总结的良好学习习惯；小组评价更能激发学生的学习兴趣，树立学习英语的信心。

Step6  Homework

Level A: Recite the key words and sentences.

Level B: Make a poster about your favourite sports.

1.巩固运用本课所学知识，联系生活实际进行介绍运动。

2.锻炼语言输出能力，学习更多体育运动健康知识。

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