1、 Topic Unit 4 Whats the best movie theater? Section 3a-3c Teacher Type Writing Analysis of Teaching Material and Students This lesson is from PEP Grade 8 Book 1 Unit 4 “Whats the best movie theater”? The type of this lesson is writing. Students has already learned superlative degree and can express
2、their own ideas with the simple or complex sentences. They will be able to writing something. Teaching Aims Knowledge Aim: a. Use superlative degree in the writing . b. Learn some writing methods. Ability Aim: Be able to introduce a city using proper language, and write their own passages. Emotion A
3、im: Generalize their hometown, and evoke the love to the hometown. Key and Difficult Points Key point: Get the usage of superlative degree and write a passage with it freely. Difficult point: a. Use illustrative methods in writing. b. Enrich simple sentences. Teaching Methods a. Communicative Approa
4、ch b. Situational Teaching Method c. Cooperative Teaching Method Teaching Procedure Step I Lead-in Introduce my friend Mike to the students. He is a boy in London. There is a Greenwood park（picture）near his house. He always enjoys the time there. Show some pictures with the words: crowded, creative,
5、 good, fast, quietly to describe what the park is like. Then practice these words in superlative degree. Step II Reading Fill in the blanks. Check answers. Guide students to find the passage is an exposition. Introduce the features of a good exposition. a.Reading for content Ask students to read the
6、 passage and find out the main idea, ask students “why does the writer go to Greenwood Park?” To meet friends. To see the street performers. Proper content To read or relax in one of the small coffee shop. b. Reading for structure Ask students to find out the topic sentence, the body, and the ending
7、 sentence . Draw the conclusion，the structure of this passage: 总-分-总 c.Reading for writing methods Show students the sentence “Some people think they are boring, but I think they are the most creative people.” comparison 作比较 Introduce more exposition methods to students: statistics, illustration, co
8、ntrast Give example sentences for each exposition method. d. Reading for accumulation Work in groups, ask students to find good sentences and words in this passage, they may find the sentences like: “I always finish my breakfast the fastest on Saturdays because I want to get to Greenwood Park before
9、 10:00a.m.to meet my friends.” -原因状语从句 . . Step III Before writing (3b) ? Ill show some pictures of Harbins famous things/ places. Ask students to choose the ones they like best, and tell their reasons, then finish the chart of (3b). Ask some students to read their chart using the sentence like： “I
10、like.best, because.” Group work : 4 student in one group. Use the writing methods or sentence patterns we just learned to enrich their sentences, then show it. Step IV While-writing Show students the criterion 评分标准. Give students time to write about Harbin and the best places/things there. Practice
11、A :Finish the whole passage or Practice B:Finish a paragraph Teaching Procedure Step V After-writing Show their writings to the class, ask students to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the writing. Step VI Homework Write about a city you traveled to before. Introduce the best things/places there. （Purpose：Consolidation 巩固）巩固）
