1、冀教版八年级英语下册 Unit 4Lesson 21 Books or Computers? 教学设计教学设计Teaching goals:1、Knowledge goals:1.掌握词汇：appear, modern, electronic, sell(sold-sold),press.短语及句型: pass on, by hand, printing press, keep on.2.To know the history of books.2、Ability goal:To talk about books and e-books by using mastery words and s
2、entences.3、Moral goal:To help students get to know the influence of modern technology and instruct them toget into the habit of reading.Teaching Important Points:1.To help students master some words, phrases and sentence patterns about the historyof books.2.To help students talk about the history of
3、 books by using the vocabulary.Teaching Difficult Points:To lead students to talk about advantages and disadvantages of books and e-books.Teaching Strategies:At the beginning of the class, the teacher shows a lot of pictures to help students knowabout the history of books in general. During the clas
4、s, the teacher divides the wholeclass into 6 groups and let them work in groups to solve difficult problems which theymeet in class. Teacher assigns different activities for students to do in every step, suchas Spelling Bee, Reading and Order, telling the history of books and Discussion.Students lea
5、rn the language points in the certain circumstance while they arepracticing their language skills such as speaking, reading and writing.Learning Strategies:Students need to preview the text before new lesson, which is good for developingtheir self-study. They should grasp the meanings of new words a
6、nd phrases by lookingthem up in the dictionaries and surf the Internet to find out information about books,Computers and the Internet. During the lesson, students can grasp every chance tocommunicate with others in English to get more information, which is good for theircooperation. They can ask oth
7、ers for help if they have difficulties in learning. Bydoing these, they can get the methods to do self-study and group-study.Lesson Structure: New Lesson.Class openingGreet the class.T: Hi, everyone. Welcome to our English class.Ss: Hello, Ms. Zhang.Key Concepts:Step 1: Warming up.Teacher and studen
8、ts have a chant together to arouse studentsreading habit.Books, books, I like reading books.Paper books and electronic-books,Help people pass on knowledge.Books, books, I like reading books.Real books or e-books,Which ones will you choose?Books, books, I like reading books.No matter what types,They
9、are the ladder of progress.Step 2: Lead in and showing Objectives.By doing this, students can learn with a clear purpose.Today lets learn Lesson 21 Books or Computers. Here are our objectives.Objectives1、To understand the passage about books.2、To learn some useful words and expressions to talk about
10、 the history of books.3、To get into the habit of reading.Free talk:1、World Book Day is on April 23rd. Which book do you often read, a paper book oran e-book?Introduce what are paper books and what are e-books to students.2 、 Introduce some ancient books, such as Inscriptions on bones, Inscriptions o
11、nbronze ware, a bamboo book and a silk book.3、Talk about paper, paper books, computers and e-books. While talking, use somemastery words and phrases such as appear, keep on, by hand, printing press, sell passon and so on.The purpose of free talk is to teach students to get to understand the meaning
12、of newvocabulary in proper circumastance and to give students a general concept of thehistory of books.Step 3: Check before New LessonActivity: Let students have a spelling bee by playing the turntable. Students need tospell and write them down on the blackboard by filling in the blanks.手工、卖、传递、继续、电
13、子的、现代的、出现、印刷机Step 4: Reading TasksTask 1: Skim and match each paragraph with its key sentence.P1A. The printing press appeared and changed the world.P2B. The history of books is very interesting.P3C. Nowadays, people have many ways to read books.P4D. Recently, computers and the Internet changed the
14、world again.Task 2: Scan paragraph 1 and retell the history of books.Task 3: Scan paragraphs 2 and 3 to fill in the mind map.Task 4: From paragraph 4, we can learn that1、People have many ways to read books.2、Keep on reading.The purpose of the reading part is to train students reading skills such as
15、skimmingand scanning. Students can skim to get the main idea of a passage and they can scanto get detailed information.Step 5: PresentationStudents have learned all the content and now its their show time. Teacher designs 3different activities for students. Students need to choose their own tasks an
16、d makepreparation in groups. Three minutes later, students need to show themselves in frontof the class.In order to make a lively English class, teacher gets students choose tasks on an appletree. There are 5 smiles in the tree. Two of them are lucky presents and the rest ofthem are real tasks. Teac
17、her prepares some presents for students if they have a goodluck when choosing tasks or if they do well when presenting tasks.Activity 1: Order and tell the history of books.() It took a long time to write just one book.() It made it possible for common people to read books.() The e-book appeared.()
18、People had no books, and they shared knowledge by telling stories.() The printing press appeared.() People download books from the Internet.() With paper, people began to write down stories.The purpose of designing the activity is to train students oral English and let themretell the history of book
19、s very clearly, which is the importance of the lesson.Activity 2: Pair WorkLet students make up a dialogue like the following one. The purpose is to helpstudents know the good points and weak points of the two different books.A: Which do you like reading, paper books or e-books? Why?B: I like readin
20、g paper books, because What about you?A: I like reading e-books, becauseActivity 3: Talk about advantages and disadvantages of computers and books withyour group members. Then fill in the table.TalkwithyourgroupmembersAdvantagesdisadvantagesBooksComputersStep 6: Summary and ExtensionWhatever you hav
21、e, a computer, a tablet, a laptop or an e-reader, keep on moving!Never give up! Love reading is a life-long good habit, which helps your development.Choose good books to read!Lets enjoy some mottos:1、Books are the ladder of human progress.2、Abook is the only undead thing.3、Abook is the president of
22、human knowledge.The purpose is to arouse students reading enthusiasm and help them get into areading habit.Step 7: HomeworkTeacher designs 2 different tasks for students, and they just need choose one to do,which is good for their improvement of ability.A: Make sentences by using mastery words and phrases.B: Write a short passage to introduce the history of books to your parents.Class Closing:T: So much for this class. Thats all. Thank you. Goodbye.Ss: Bye.Board Design:
