湖南省怀化市会同三中八年级英语上册《Unit 12 What’s the best
radio station》教案1 人教新目标版
Teaching objects: 1. Teach the students to use superlative adjectives to compare things.
2. Get the students to master superlative adjectives through making comparisons
and discussions of preferences.
New words and expressions: Popular, popularity, comfortable, screen, fun part of town, cheap-cheapest, close-closest, etc. Sentence patterns:
______ is the _______. Example: Town cinema is the cheapest.
_______has the _______.Example: Town cinema has the friendliest service? Pre task: Guessing Game:
1 Make good use of the phrases on p71-1a 2 Divide the class into 2 groups
3 Provide 4 statements for each group to guess where it is. If they are able
to guess correctly after the first statement, they win 4 points, or they will lose 4 points instead. They can choose to guess at the second, third or the fourth statements, but they can only win fewer points like 3, 2, 1 points. On the other hand, they lose fewer points.
Group A
1) You can see many handsome men and beautiful ladies there. 2) It’s a popular place among young people. Boys and girls usually date there. 3) It’s in a fun part of town and you should buy a ticket to get in. 4) It has a big screen and many comfortable seats in the building. Group B
5) It has friendly service, and you can eat snacks there. 6) Usually you should keep quiet in it, but sometimes you may laugh or cry inside
it.
7) In Xiamen there are two on Zhangshan Road and one close to Zhongshan Road. 8) You can see new movies there.
Free talk: How do you choose a cinema to go to? What is important for you when you want to go to a movie theatre?
Read p71-1a and have students talk about their opinions Give them some choices:
comfortable seats, big screen, friendly service, new movies, distance(how far) from home, lying in a fun part of town, popularity, cheap tickets Possible basic sentence patterns: I think _____ is important for a movie theatre. And I think _____is not important. During task:
1. Make good use of section B 1b:
2. Demonstrate when to use superlative adjectives with the help of a information
form and listening materials.
3. Teach the students how to use superlative adjectives to make comparisons and
discuss preferences. Comparison:
1. Do it in a competition of 2 groups. Every question is worth 1 point 2. Answer in full sentences or u will lose 1 point. distance service price 20 yuan seats screen popularity 20 million people/ year Town cinema 400 meters from home Movie Palace 800m 800 seats 60m×30m 25 yuan 1000 seats 70m×35m 25 million/ year 30 million people/ year Screen City 1km 30 yuan 600 seats 80m×40m Ask the students in the forms of competition:
1. Question: Which cinema is closer, Movie Palace or Town Cinema? Answer: Town Cinema is closer than Movie Palace. Q: Which cinema is closer, Movie Palace or Screen City? A: Movie Palace is closer than Screen City.
Q: Which cinema is the closest of the three?A: Town Cinema is the closest of the three.Q: Which cinema has friendlier service, Town Cinema or Screen City?
A: Town Cinema has friendlier service than Screen City. Which cinema has friendlier service, Movie Palace or Screen City?A: Screen City has friendlier service than Movie Palace. Q: Which cinema has the friendliest service of the three? A: Town Cinema has the friendliest service of the three.
3. Q: Which cinema is more popular, Town Cinema or Movie Palace?A: Movie Palace is more popular than Town Cinema.
Q: Which cinema is more popular, Movie Palace or Screen City?A: Screen City is more popular than Movie Palace.
Which cinema is the most popular of the three? Screen City is the most popular of the three.
Listening Comprehension:
Ask the students to listen to the tape and fill in the blanks. Play the tape two times. Qualities It has the biggest screens. Movie Theatre Screen City It’s the most popular.It’s the closest Screen CityTown Cinema to home. It’s the cheapest. Town Cinema
