冀教版九年级下册英语《Lesson 5: That’s a Funny Limerick!》精品教案

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Lesson 5: That’s a Funny Limerick!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: both…and…
Oral words and expressions: blank, motion
Teaching Aims:
1.Cultivate the students’ ability of learning by themselves.
2.Master one of the patterns of foreign poems.
3.Compare the differences between the Chinese and foreign poetry.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Know more about the limerick.
2.Learn more words about describing weight, size, feeling and age.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Know how to write a limerick.     Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures   Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
Let the students answer the questions in class in oral.
1.Ask several students to say funny sayings in English. If they can’t express themselves in English, they can say them in Chinese.
2.Let some students tell jokes. Encourage them to tell jokes in English.
Step2. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
根据汉语意思完成句子，每空一词：
1吉姆在路的中央从自行车上摔了下来。
     Jim fell off his bike ___ ______ ______ ______ the road.
2.我多么希望能到美国读书啊！
     How I _____ I ______ _______ in America!
3.我们的友谊是一个没有结尾的故事。
      Our ____________ is a story ________ an end.
4.怎么能有不说话的语言 呢？
      How can there be a language _____ _____ _______?
5.樱桃总是中间有核，是吗？
Cherries always _____ ______ in the middle, don’t they?

______ and _______ help Jenny fill in the blanks in her limerick.
They choose _______ to describe the weight.
Step3. Read and get the main idea of the text.
1.Let the students scan the text. Then tell the main idea of the text.
2.Find the new words and guess their meanings according to the text.
Step4. Do with some language points.
Either…or…, both…and…
Let some students make sentences with the help of the pictures.
S1: He eats either apples or oranges.
S2: Either he or I am good at dancing.
S3: Both his teachers and his parents love him.
S4: Susan loves both reading and listening.
Think of a funny saying in Chinese. 想出一个用汉语说得可笑的谚语。
•saying n.格言，言语，名言。例：
•Do you know any Chinese sayings? 你知道一些中国的谚语吗？
•Will someone please help me fill in the blanks in my limerick? 由谁愿意帮我填充打油诗里的空白吗？
•1) blank n. 空白；空白处；空白纸；空白表格
•He is holding a blank form in his hand. 他手里正拿着一张空白表格。
•Please fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given verbs. 用所给动词的适当形式填空。
•2) limerick n. 五行打油诗（一种通俗幽默的短诗，有五行组成）
•huge adj. 极大的，巨大的。其反义词是tiny。副词是hugely，名词是hugeness。
•a huge house一栋巨大的房子，a huge success一次巨大的成功
•【辨析】：big, large与huge
•1) big adj. 大的，指具体事物，多指面积大，还可表示“巨大，伟大，重要”等意思。其反义词是little。
•He is a big man. 他是个大人物。
•2) large大的，多指面积大。
•China is a large country. 中国是个大国。（强调面积）
•3) huge巨大的，强调体形而非重量。
•a huge animal巨大的动物
•both两者
•both…and………和……都……，可连接名词、形容词、动词等。当连接两个主语时，位于动词用复数形式。反义词组为neither…nor…两者都不。
•Both he and I are students. 我和他都是学生。
•Neither he nor I am a student. 我和他都不是学生。
•She can both sing and dance. 她既会唱歌，也会跳舞。
•She is both kind and gentle. 她既亲切又温柔。
．Now there’s just one more blank. 只还有一个空白。
Step5. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Limerick is a kind of poem that has a pattern.
Study the “Limerick”. Get the results.
1.There are five lines in the limerick.
2.From Jenny’s limerick, we can see the first, second and fifth lines have rhyme.
Look in the library or search on the Internet to find some information about limericks. Show them to the class and let them find the patterns of “limerick”.
Let different groups act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Step6. Homework
1.Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2.Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Limerick is fun. It’s interesting for the students. The students may like to practice it very much. Everyone writes a limerick. The class will be full of laughter. Ask the students to begin the similar dialogue in class to practice the limerick.