冀教版八年级下册英语《Lesson 3: Postcards!》精品教案

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Lesson 3: Postcards!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: road
Oral words and expressions: outdoors
Teaching Aim:
1.       Grasp how to write a letter and the address.
2.       Know more about the spring in China and Canada.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Find the differences between China and Canada in spring.
3.       Find the differences between the clothes that we wear in winter and in spring.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.       What’s the weather like in Edmonton?
2.       How to express one’s idea easily in a letter?
Teaching Preparation: a postcard
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, postcards
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Free Talk
Let the students work in three and talk about the sports that we often do in spring. Then give a talk for the class.
Step2. Have a match
Read the text and see who read it best. Remember to encourage the students who preview the new lesson.
Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it. Play the tape for several times until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step4. Ask the students to find questions and solve them. They can ask the questions like this:
1.       How did Li Ming go to school on March twenty-first?
2.       What’s the temperature that afternoon?
3.       What time does the sun rise this morning?
4.       Is it snowing in Canada?
5.       When does it often snow in winter?
6.       Did Danny fall in the snow?
Step5. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
Write a postcard to your friend to introduce the weather here. Then write the address and stick a stamp on it. Mail it in the post office.
Step6. Homework
1.       Finish off the activity book.
2.       Listen to the song in Lesson 4.

Summary:
Written English is an important part in English learning. Practice is the key to it. Do they have the spelling mistakes or the grammar mistakes in the writing? Find out and help them come over it. Pay more attention to the writing because it’s an important part of communication.