Unit 4 He said I was hard-working
Section B


第十八中学 李潇


研究主题

在初二的英语教学中，如何使用“小组活动”学习法，通过布置任务，小组协作完成，来激发学生学习兴趣、发展和培养学生学习能力。


教材依据

人教版英语教材 八年级（下）Unit4 He said I was hard-working.


教学设计

Unit 4 He said I was hard-working
教学目标
语言目标
I’m hard-working.
I’m good at speaking.
In English, I’m better at reading than listening.
I can do better in math.
What did your math teacher say?
He said I was hard-working.

能力目标
1.     direct speech and reported speech.
2.     write students’ own report card and report it to others.

教学重点及难点
1.     Report what someone said.
2.     write students’ own Report card .
3.     Reported speech Simple past tense; Can for ability.
语言结构
Change sentences from direct speech into reported speech.
学习策略
Understand the useful expressions about report card.
重点词汇
hard-working, report card，be good at, can do better ,speaking ,listening
小组活动
Task1: Play a game;
Task2: Make dialogues and dubbing for the animation;
Task3: Prepare a play in group and act it out.




教学过程


Revision
steps
Teacher’s Activities
Students’Activities
Step1
Review sectionA by playing the screen
Students Review by reading and retelling, change these sentences from direct speech into reported speech


课堂实录：

TEACHER: Hello, everyone! What soap operas did you see last night? What happened in it?
TEACHER: Do you still remember what happened in the soap opera“Young Lives”? Let’s review together.

(Show the texts on the screen one sentence by one sentence, students read together.)

TEACHER: All right, you read very well. Now, who can retell the story that happened in Young Lives by changing direct speech into reported speech.

(One student retells in reported speech.)

TEACHER: Good job! Everyone, let’s retell it together.


Leading in
steps
Teacher’s Activities
Students’Activities
Step2
Play a game “tell me what he/she said”
students practice retelling what other people say in a fun way


课堂实录：

TEACHER: It was an exciting week for people in the soap opera “Young Lives”, what about you , do you like exciting life?
S: Yes!
TEACHER: Well, I prepare an interesting game for you, hope you can enjoy yourselves. The name of the game is “tell me what he/she said”

(Teacher explains the game, and ask several groups to play it, let students practice retelling what other people say in a fun way, attracts their attention to the class and also leads to the next step.)


Presentation
steps
Teacher’s Activities
Students’Activities
Step3
Present 1a and 1b, read the sentences and explain the pair-work task
Students talk about themselves by using the expressions in 1a; Make dialogues as in 1b, and perform in a fun way—dubbing an animation.
Step4
Present 2a and 2b by playing the tape
Listen to the tape and do the exercises
Step5
Writing: Send empty report card and ask students to write their own report card and read.
students write their own report card and read.
Step6
AcTeacher: ask students to make dialogues in groups and act it out.

Make dialogues around the topic of report card and pay attention to direct speech and reported speech.

课堂实录：

TEACHER: You just describe other students well, now let’s learn how to describe yourselves. Look at here, please read after me.

(Students read 1a after the teacher)

TEACHER: Well, who want to te
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