2019-2020年八年级英语Unit 4 Wild Animals(VI).doc

2019-2020年八年级英语Unit 4 Wild Animals(VI)Teaching Aims:1. To identify specific characteristics appearance, abilities eating habits and danger in the context of animals.2. To identify vocabulary for describing animals.Teaching Procedures.A Tell the students that animals are human beings friends.We shouldnt hurt them. At the beginning, let the students learn some new words.1. character n. 性格,特性 a strong (weak) character 个性刚强(软弱) The twins have different characters. 2. medicine n. 药 u take medicine 服药 一天服三次药 3. smell n.嗅觉 u a good sense of smell 灵敏的嗅觉 n.香味,气味 uc These flowers have a nice smell. 这些花有香味. v.闻到气味. Dont you smell gas? 你没闻到煤气味吗? 有嗅觉 I cant smell because I have a cold. 我闻不出气味因为我感冒了. 4. insect n. 昆虫 c Bees, flies and ants are insects. 5. snail n.蜗牛 A snail was crawling on the wall. 一只蜗牛正在墙上爬行. as a snails pace (口语) 慢吞吞地 6. loss n. 丧失 I was very sad at the loss of my dog. 我丢了狗,十分难过. 损失 a loss of 10000 dollars 损失10000美元 失败 Our team had three losses. 我们队已经败了3次了. lose v. 丢失工作 迷路 . Listen to the tape, answer the two questions.(1) Whats the name of the largest living cat?(2) Whats Millies favourite animal?Play the tape again, let the students find out the facts in the fact sheet. Some language points:1. live alone 独自居住 alone adv. 独自,单独a. 独自的,一个人的 lonely a. 孤独的,荒凉的,偏僻的练习 He likes being alone. 他喜欢独处.一个偏僻的山村 village一个孤独的老人 他独自居住,但不感到孤独. 夜晚不要独自外出. . B Ask the students to read the letter on Page 65, and plete the letter.Explain some words and phrases.1. chairperson n. 主席 Mr. Brown was the chairperson at the meeting. 2.They are in danger because people like their fur and make medicine from their bones. 它们处于危险中是因为人们喜欢它们的毛皮并用它们的骨头制药.make of 和make from 常用被动结构（be made of /be made from）虽同表示用某种原料制成,但用法有别.通常指原料被制成物品仍具原质者,也可说看得见原质者用 ;如已失去原质者,或说看不见原材料者用 .例如：纸是用木材制成的. 这张椅子是用木头做成的. 这些花是用纸做的. 这些酒（wines）都是葡萄（grapes）酿造的. a house made of stone . Page 65 Part BRead the dialogue and make the students replace the underlined words with their own ideas.Some other language points:1.I dont think thats right. 我认为那不对。 think 是动词，意为“想；思索；认为；以为；觉得”等。 句中出现了从句否定提前现象。think, believe, suppose, guess等动词在主句主语后作谓语时，常将从句的否定转移到主句上来，其反义部分与从句主谓保持一致。我认为她不聪明。 I dont think he can answer the question. 我相信明天不会下雨。 复习：仔细考虑，你将找到答案。 你觉得我的画怎么样？ 2.If I dont buy them, someone else will buy them.就算我不买它们，别的什么人也会买。else 作形容词时，意为“别的；其他的；”常用在由any-,every-,some-,no-开始和由-body,-one,-thing结尾的疑问代词或不定代词之后或特殊疑问词之后。What else do you want? Please ask somebody else. 我手里没别的东西了。 昨天他们还去了别的什么地方？3no one 与 none 区别no one =nobody 用来指人，“连一个人也没有”的意思。后面不可跟of 短语来表示范围，作主语时，谓语动词用单数，用来回答Who的问句。没有人愿意回答这样愚蠢（foolish）的问题。 none 表示对三个或三个以上的人或事物的全部否定，意为“没有什么东西或人”，作句子主语时，谓语动词可用单数，也可用复数。None通常和表示人或事物范围的of 短语连用，none用来回答How many或How much引导的问句。 他们中没有一个人是教师。Who are you speaking to? How much bread did you have this morning? How many books do you have in the bag? .Homework.教后感