八年级新目标(下)Unit3WhatwereyoudoingwhentheUFOarrived

1、Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived? I Teaching objectives 单元教学目标SkillFocusTalk about past events.Tell a story.Learn adverbial clauses with when and while.Learn past progressive tense. Read and write about a story.LanguageFocus功能句式Talk about past eventsWhat were you doing when/at .Where

2、were you when/at .The boy was walking down the street when the UFO landed.While the boy was walking down the street, the UFO landed.The girl was shopping when the alien got out.While the girl was shopping, the alien got out.词汇1. 重点词汇bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, land, shirt, while, experience, around,

3、 strange, follow, kid, climb, jump, shout, cat, anywhere, happen, accident, plane, modern, kill, murder, bright, playground, bell, close, silence, meaning, earth, hero2. 认读词汇UFO, well, barber, cut, alien, bought, got, scared, rode, ran, met, heard, Memphis, rang, told, recent, destroy, terrorist, be

4、came, flight, flew, tragedy, Ted, Davy, Martin Luther King, Robert Allen 3. 词组和短语get out (of), take off, train station, land on, shout to / at, run away, come in, hear about, barber shop, the Museum of Flight, Beijing International Airport, happen to, take place, as . as语法Adverbial clauses with when

5、 and while.Past progressive tense. Past simple tense.StrategyFocusUsing contextRole playingII. Teaching materials analyzing and rearranging 教材分析和教材重组1. 教材分析本单元的话题是“Interesting events”，通过单元学习，要求学生掌握如何用过去时态谈论过去发生的事情，并能运用过去时态讲述一个故事。语法结构要求掌握由when 和 while引导的时间状语从句、过去进行时以及一般过去时。在了解目标语言的基础上，要求学生能读懂描述过去经历的文

6、章，并进行模仿写作训练，描述一段不寻常的经历。Section A 1a通过让学生把几个不同的人及其在UFO出现的相应位置进行配对，初步呈现本单元的目标语言，即talk about past events。1b是一个听力活动，要求学生听录音，圈出正确的回答。学生将从听力材料中进一步获取目标语言信息，了解过去进行时。1c是一个会话活动，让学生练习when 和while引导的时间状语从句和过去进行时的表达法。2a和2b是两个听力练习，帮助学生掌握when 和while的不同用法。2c是一个小组活动，要求学生根据图片提示，仿照例句练习用when 和while造句，描述当UFO离开时不同的人在做什么。3

7、a呈现了一封邮件和几个图片，要求学生根据邮件内容给图片排序，检验学生对目标语言的认知程度。3b是对学生目标语言运用能力的检验，要求学生能看图口头复述故事。4是一个小组活动，让学生结合自己的生活实际，以采访的形式练习过去进行时的用法。Section B1是一个配对练习，要求学生找出和所列句子匹配的图片，掌握几个词汇的含义。2a和2b是两个听力练习，要求学生听录音，找出录音中提到的行为，并能根据听力材料选出这些行为的实施者。2c要求学生仿照例句谈论2a中列出的行为，练习while引导的时间状语从句的用法。3是一个阅读理解活动，要求学生根据文章内容用所学的句型回答几个问题。4a提供了几幅图画，要求学

8、生能根据图画内容写一段故事，练习用过去时写作。4b是一个角色扮演活动，要求学生根据提示的情境用所学过去时进行会话练习。Self check 1要求学生对所学词汇进行应用性填空训练，复习巩固所学词汇。2要求学生根据所列时间表写下自己在每个时间段所做的事情，是对本单元目标语言应用能力的检验；3也是对词汇的检验，要求学生从每组中找出不同类别的单词，加强对目标词汇的理解。Reading Section 1要求学生围绕所提供的两幅图片展开讨论，从而导入文章主题。Section 2是一篇有关Martin Luther King遇刺的文章和阅读策略介绍，帮助学生培养通过标题和主题句理解文章中心思想的策略。S

9、ection 3包括3a 和3b两个活动，3a要求学生把一些事件及其发生的时间连接起来，是对阅读细节的检验；3b是一个写作练习，要求学生模仿阅读文章，以自己生活中的一个记忆犹新的事件为中心，描述当自己听到这件事情时正在做什么。Section 4以“你认为坏事能引发好事吗”为主题，小组讨论，说明坏事如何能把人们团结起来，是对文章主题的拓展与升华。2 教材重组和课时分配Period 1 (Section A: 1a, 1b, 1c, 4) FunctionPeriod 2 (Section A: 2a, 2b, 2c) GrammarPeriod 3 (Section A: 3a, 3b; Sec

10、tion B: 1, 2a, 2b, 2c) Integrating skillsPeriod 4 (Section B: 3, 4a, 4b) Reading and writingPeriod 5 (Reading: Section 1-Section 4) Extensive reading III. Teaching plans for each period 分课时教案Period 1 FunctionTarget language 目标语言1. Words and expressions 重点词汇和短语barber, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, UFO,

11、 alien, kidding, barber shop, get out2. Key sentences 重点句子What were you doing when the UFO arrived?I was standing in front of the library.What were you doing at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?I was doing my homework.Ability goals 能力目标Learn the past progressive tense.Learn to talk about past events usi

12、ng the target language.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students understand the situations when past progressive tense is used.Help students learn how to talk about past events with the target language. Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点How to talk about past events using adverbial clauses

13、 with when/while.Teaching aids 教具准备Tape recording. Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Lead-inShow some pictures of UFO and aliens and let students talk about them. T: Boys and girls, here I have some pictures. Look, what are they? Do you know anything about them? Show the pictures to student

14、s.S: I know. It is UFO. T: Yes, you are right. Have you seen one with your own eyes?S: No, I read some news reports about it. T: How about the three pictures? Who are they? They look so strange, dont they? In English, they are called “alien” (write the word on the blackboard). They come from other p

15、lanets and they travel by UFO. Do you believe in alien?S: I dont believe in it, because I have never seen one. T: But some people in a small town saw it. The UFO arrived at the town. A TV reporter heard about that, and he went to the town to have an interview. Do you want to know what happened there

16、? Please turn to page 18. Look at the picture.Step II Function presentation (Section A: 1a, 1b)Talk about the picture with students. And let them finish activity 1a. T: This is the small town. What can you see in the picture?S: The UFO, the reporter, some people and buildings. T: Yes, the reporter i

17、s asking the people “Where were you when the UFO arrived?” Read the picture carefully and match the statements with the people in the picture. Before we do the match, first lets deal with some new words.Explain the new words bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, barber and barber shop to students in simple En

18、glish. Or show some related pictures to help them understand the meanings of these words.bathroom: the place where you wash your bodybedroom: the room where you go to sleepkitchen: the place where you prepare your breakfast, lunch and dinnerbarber shop: the place where you have your hair cutAfter st

19、udents understand the meanings of these words, the match work will be very easy.Check their match and then move on to 1b.T: Then the reporter asked the people another question, “What were you doing then the UFO arrived?” Now look at the phrases in 1b. Well listen to the tape and circle the correct r

20、esponses. Write the question on the blackboard. Play the tape twice, for the first time, students just listen, and for the second time, circle the correct answers. Then let students work in groups of six. One is the reporter, and the others are a, b, c, d, e. They do the practice as follows. (R=repo

21、rter)R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?a: I was standing in front of the library.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?b: I was sleeping late.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?c: I was cooking dinner.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?d: I was getting out of the sh

22、ower.R: What were you doing when the UFO arrived?e: I was cutting hair.Step III Oral practice (Section A: 1c)Talk about what people were doing when the UFO arrived. Point to the man who had his hair cut. T: Where was he when the UFO arrived? S: He was in the barber shop.T: What was he doing when the

23、 UFO arrived? S: He was cutting hair.Repeat this by pointing to the other people in the picture. Then let students ask and answer the same question in pairs. Show the following structures on the blackboard or screen. Where was he/she when the UFO arrived?He/she was in .What was he/she doing when the

24、 UFO arrived?He/She was . when it arrived. Then ask some pairs to present their conversations in front of the class. Step IV Groupwork (Section A: 4)Deal with activity 4 on page 20. T: Now lets do a group work. Turn to page 20, look at activity 4. Here is a table. You can see a time list on the left

25、. What were you doing at these times last Sunday? Fill in the first column of the table. After students finish the table.T: What were your classmates doing at these times? Now lets have an interview. So what kind of questions should we use in the interview? Now, look at the sample conversation. Id l

26、ike two of you to read it. (after reading) Good! Now work in groups of three and practice making conversations with your partners and fill in the rest of the table. kidding: to say something that is not true, especially as a jokejust/only kidding e.g. Dont get mad, I was only kidding.No kidding?/Are

27、 you kidding?(spoken) used when you are so surprised by what someone has told you that you do not completely believe theme.g. Shes 39 years old? No kidding?Sample conversations:1. A: What were you doing at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?B: I was playing basketball with my friends. A: What were you doi

28、ng at 11:30 am last Sunday morning?C: I was having lunch with my parents.2. A: What were you doing at 1:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was playing computer games.A: What were you doing at 1:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was listening to music.3. A: What were you doing at 4:00 pm last Sunday morning

29、?B: I was having fun on the street with my friends.A: What were you doing at 4:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was reading a newspaper.4. A: What were you doing at 6:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was cooking dinner.A: What were you doing at 6:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was watching TV.5. A: What

30、 were you doing at 9:00 pm last Sunday morning?B: I was doing my homework.A: What were you doing at 9:00 pm last Sunday morning?C: I was playing the piano. Period 2 GrammarTarget language 目标语言1. Words and expressions 重点词汇和短语while, land, take off2. Key sentences重点句子The girl was eating ice-cream when

31、the UFO took off.While the girl was eating ice-cream, the UFO took off. Ability goals 能力目标Enable students to learn the different use of “when” and “while”.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to make sentences using “when” and “while”.Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点Learn

32、the different use of “when” and “while”.Teaching aids 教具准备Some pictures; tape recording. Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Review of present progressive tenseShow three pictures on the screen (some soldiers running, a man playing tennis, a man eating bread). Ask about the pictures one by on

33、e, and help students review the present progressive tense. T: What are they doing? Ss: They are running T: What is he doing? Ss: He is playing tennis. T: What is the man doing? Ss: He is eating bread. Lead the students into real situations.T: What are you doing now? S: I am listening to you. T: Yes,

34、 he is listening to me. Repeat this with one girl student. Practice with the whole class, trying to review the progressive tense with different personal pronouns. Then let students ask and answer in pairs, using the present progressive tense. Step II Introduction of past progressive tenseIntroduce t

35、he past progressive tense to students.Ask one student (student A) to leave the classroom and wait outside the door. Then ask two students to do actions, one (students B) is writing on the blackboard and the other (student C) is walking around the room. They keep doing it until the teacher asks them

36、to stop. T: What are you doing? (Ask student B)SB: I am writing on the blackboard. Write the sentence on the blackboard. Repeat this with student C, and write “I am walking in the room.” on the blackboard.Ask the student outside to come in and sit down. Then ask the two students who are doing action

37、s to sit down too. Ask the student B who was writing on the blackboard.T: What were you doing when student A came in? SB: I was writing on the blackboard when he came in. Write “I was writing on the blackboard” on the blackboard.T: He was writing on the blackboard when student A came in.Ask the clas

38、s to repeat it: He was writing on the blackboard when student A came in.Repeat this with the student C who was walking in the room. Write “I was walking in the room.” on the blackboard.Ask some other students the question: What were you doing when student A came in? Then let students ask and answer

39、the question in pairs.Point to the blackboard. Help students to find out the differences between the two pairs of sentences. 1. I am writing on the blackboard. I was writing on the blackboard.2. I am walking in the room. I was walking in the room. Point to the pair of sentences on the right side and

40、 tell students:T: This is a new tense the past progressive tense. The basic structure is:subject + was/were + v-ing + (adverbial of time)1）概念：表示过去某时正在进行的状态或动作。2）过去进行时的主要用法是描述一件事发生的背景；一个长动作发生的时候，另一个短动作发生。3）常用的时间状语this morning, the whole morning, all day yesterday, from nine to ten last evening, 以及whe

41、n, while引导的时间状语从句It was raining all day yesterday.My brother fell while he was riding his bicycle and hurt himself.It was raining when they left the station. When I got to the top of the mountain, the sun was shining.Step III Listening (Section A: 2a, 2b)Let students do some listening practice with

42、the use of when and while. This will help them better understand the difference between them. T: Turn to page 19, look at 2a. Here are five sentences. Go through the sentences first. Then listen to the tape and you will hear a recording of a reporter talking to several people. Please put number 1 in

43、 front of the thing that happened first, number 2 in front of the thing that happened next and so forth.Play the recording the first time, students only listen and get a general idea of it.Play the recording a second time. This time ask students to write the numbers in front of the sentences.Then ch

44、eck the answers. Then let students go through the sentences in 2b. Play the recording again and let them complete the sentences with “when” or “while”.T: What are the differences between “when” and “while”?Step IV Adverbial clause with when/while Explain the different use of “when” and “while”.T: Th

45、e word “when” comes before a quick action that happens only once. The word “while” comes before an action that continues for some time. For example:When I got home, he was having supper.While I was sleeping, my father came in.So here “got home” and “came in” are quick actions that happen only once.

46、“sleeping” and “having supper” are actions that continue for some time. Now tell which actions in 2b are quick actions and which actions can continue for some time. Quick actions: land, get out, call the police, call the TV stationActions that can continue: walk down, go shopping, buy, visit the mus

47、eumLet students do some substitution drills to practice the use of “when” and “while”. Step V Oral practice (Section A: 2c)This activity provides guided oral practice using adverbial clauses with “when” and “while”.T: We learned yesterday that the UFO landed on the small town. Do you remember? Later

48、, it took off and left. Look at the picture in 2c. How many persons can you see? Ss: Five.T: What was each person doing when the UFO took off? What was the girl doing? Language points:take off: 起飞if an aircraft takes off, it rises into the air from the ground; opposite, lande.g. I felt quite excited

49、 as the plane took off from the airport. land: 着陆if a plane, bird, or insect lands, it moves safely down onto the grounde.g. Flight 846 landed five minutes ago.The bird landed gracefully（优雅地）on the water.S: She was eating ice-cream when the UFO took off.T: Yes. We can also say “While the girl was ea

50、ting ice-cream, the UFO took off.” What was the man in the middle of the picture doing?S: He was taking a photo when the UFO took off.T: Another way of saying of this sentence is .?S: While the man was taking a photo, the UFO took off.T: Good! Now, work in groups of three and make conversations like

51、 this about other people in the picture. Pay attention to the use of “when” and “while”.Move around the classroom, checking the progress of the groups and offering help as needed. Then ask a group to present their conversation to the class.Sample conversations:1. A: What was the girl doing when the

52、UFO took off?B: While the girl was eating ice cream, the UFO took off.C: The girl was eating ice cream when the UFO took off.2. A: What was the man doing when the UFO took off?B: When the UFO took off, the man was taking a photo.C: While the man was taking a photo, the UFO took off.3. A: What was th

53、e boy doing when the UFO took off?B: While the boy was riding bicycle, the UFO took off.C: The boy was riding bicycle when the UFO took off.4. A: What was the policeman doing when the UFO took off?B: The policeman was talking to a woman when the UFO took off.C: While the policeman was talking to a w

54、oman, the UFO took off.Period 3 Integrating skillsTarget language 目标语言1. Words and expressions重点词汇和短语scared, jump, climb, shout, experience, strange, follow2. Key sentences重点句子I had a very unusual experience on Sunday. I was walking down the street when a UFO landed right in front of me.Ability goal

55、s 能力目标Enable students to retell a story orally with the target language.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to tell a story orally with the target language. Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点How to use past tenses to tell about past events. Teaching aids 教具准备Some pictures o

56、f different actions such as jumping, climbing, shouting and scared; tape recording.Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Vocabulary (Section B: 1)T: Turn to page 21. Look at the four sentences in activity 1. There are some new words in them. Please look them up in your dictionary. Then match th

57、e sentences with the pictures. After students finish it, check the answers. Then let students work in pairs and do some practice with these words. Ask them to cover the sentences and talk about the pictures in the following way:A: What is the girl in picture a doing?B: She is shouting.A: What is the dog in picture b doing?B: It is jumping down.A: What is the boy in picture c doing?B: He is scared.A: What is the cat in picture d doing?B: It is cl