八上 Unit 9
Unit9 When was he born?
第一课时SA(1a-2c)
Step1 Warming up
1. Game: How many international sports stars do you know?
Ask a student to come to the front, say some sentences about a famous person or one of the classmates, including his or her birth date, occupation, and so on. And ask other Ss to guess who he or she is talking about. Later, the student gives the answer and shows the pictures.
T: Now, let’s play a game. I’ll ask a student to come here and talk something about a famous person or your classmate, and you guess who he or she is, understand?...
Step 2.Presentation
1.Students think of some stars , for example:Deng Yaping, David Beckham, Tian Liang, Liu Xuan, Yao Ming, Anna Kournikova(库尔尼科娃)
2.Do you know the numbers?
Revise the numbers and the years:13,30,45,134,567,1976,1992,2005 etc.
3. Pairwork
After that, show some photos of other famous people on the screen and ask some pairs of Ss to make dialogues one by one.
A: Who’s that?
B: That’s______. He is _______.
A: When was he born?
B: He was born in _____
Step3 Listening
1.Listen and finish the exercises(1b)
2. Groupwork:Talk about the famous person we admire .
What achievement did they get ?
How did they become outstanding ?
Do you want to be a well –known person ?
What will you do ? And so on .
Step 4.Pairwork
we are going to talk about another kind of famous people. Look at this picture and the chart please. Now, we will listen to a conversation about the two people on this chart. What are their names? … They are two unusual people. What did Charles Smith do? ( He had a world record for hiccupping打嗝.) What did Donna Green do? (She had a world record for sneezing打喷嚏.) Now let’s see how they got the world record. Please open your books and turn to Page 54, Activity 2a. I’ll play the recording twice. While listening, please fill in “How long”, “started” and “stopped” columns.
Show some pictures and make dialogues:
1)-- How long did he hiccup?
--He hiccupped for ___years and ___months
--When did he start hiccupping?
--He started in _____.
--When did he stopped hiccupping?
--He stopped in_____.
2)--How long did he sneeze?
--He sneezed for .
--When did he start sneezing?
--He started .
--When did he stopped sneezing?
--He stopped .
Step 5 Listening 2a2b
Play the recording twice and have Ss fill in the chart on the books. Later, check the answer.
Step6 Pairwork 2c
T: Now, let’s come to Activity 2c—Pairwork. Please fill in the blanks with information from the chart in Activity 2a. (Ask two pairs of Ss to practice the conversation.) Now, I’d like you to work in pairs and make the same kind of conversation about Donna Green, understand? Pairwork, begin. (Ask several pairs to act it out.)
第二课时SA(3a-4)
Step 1 Warming up
Topic : Talk about some people that you admire. Use the sentences and the words that you have learnt.
Step 2 Famous person
1.Let students say the famous person ,such as Tiger Woods,Shirley Temple, Mozart, Mei Lanfang, Ronaldo, Liu Xuan and so on.
2.Pairwork Student A, read 3a and fill in as many blanks as you can in the chart. Student B, go to page 84.
Step 3 Fill in the blanks
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Achievement(成就，功绩)
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Age
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Tiger Woods
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Shirley Temple
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Mozart
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Mei Lanfang
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Ronaldo
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Liu Xuan
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Step 4 Now exchange information with your partner and fill in the chart.
1.A: Who is Shirley Temple?
B: She’s a movie star.
A: When did she become a movie star?
B: When she was three years old.
2.A: Who is Tiger Woods?
B: He is a golfer.
A: When did he start golfing?
B: When he was ten months old.
Step 5 Interview
How old were you when…? How old were you when you started doing the things below? Interview your classmates and fill in the chart.
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learned to ride a bicycle
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started learning English
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started playing sports
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first went to a movie
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first had a party
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Step 6 Sum up
Tell your classmates what you learned about one student.
For example:Selina started things early. She went to her first movie when she was three years old! It was a comedy called…
第三课时Section B (1a~2c)
.Teaching Procedures
Step I Greet the class .
Step II Lead- in and Introduction
Today we start to learn to talk more about people. They are different but just common like us. Show the new words on the screen: talented loving outstanding unusual creative grandchild violinist skating skater become
Point to them and lead the students to learn them.
Step III Section B 1a
First learn the words in the yellow bar at the top of the page. Write them on the board. Then point to the words one by one and ask students to say what they mean. Have students explain the words, or use the words in several sentences to show what they mean. For example ,
T: Talented. A talented person can do something very well. Deng Yaping is a talented table tennis player, Sun Yanzi is a talented singer. Who else is talented?
S: Carlos is a talented soccer player.
Read the instructions and point out the pictures. Ask a student to read the names of the people in the pictures. Help him if he has some difficulties in pronunciation of the names.
Ask students to write one or orwo words from the list under each person’s picture. Give students an example to help them understand how a possible answer is.
Step IV 1b Groupwork
Point to the different people in the pictures in Activity 1a.Ask several students to read to the class the words they wrote under each picture.
Read the sample sentences: A: Arthur is a loving frandfather.
He spends all his free time with his grandson.
Say, Now work with a group. Make your own statements about the people in the pictures using the words you wrote in your book.
Ask students to tell the class what they said about some of the people.
Step V 2a
Read the instructions and point out the words in the list in Activity 1a. Say, Listen to the boy and girl talking about people the admire. Circle the words you hear.Check the answers.
Step VI 2b
Show the eight sentences on the book’ box. Stuents read.Check the answers.
Step VII 2c Pairwork
Point out the sample conversation. Ask two studnts to read it to the class.
Then lead the class to read the sample conversation toghther.
Have students work in pairs. Ask some pairs of students to say a conversation to the class.
Step VIII Summary
Today we have learned to talk about people with words talented, loving, outstanding, unusual, beautiful, creative, kind, famous. And we listened to a story about Midori and Laura. Both of them became very famous when they were very young. Working hard makes a man. You are young, you have chances to prepare and go.
第四课时 Section B 3a-4+Self-Check)
Step1 Warming up
Make dialogues:1)-- Who’s that?-- That’s______. He is _______.-- When was he born?--He was born in _____
2)-- How long did he …?-- When did he start -ing?-- When did he stopped -ing?
Step 2Reading 3a
1. T: Now, let’s do some reading. We will learn some famous people. Most of them started doing things when they were very young. And they became famous when they were young, too. Please look at Activity 3a. Let’s read after the tape…
2. Ask Ss to find some key phrases and underline. Explain some key language points. (Bb)
1. too + adj. +to do sth. 太…而不能…
e.g. The desk is too heavy to carry.
It’s too cold to go swimming.
It’s never too old to learn.
2. start doing sth. 开始做某事 or we can say “start to do sth.”
3. write music 作曲 4. national team 国家队
3. Then say some sentences in Chinese, and ask Ss to put into English.
1、我8岁时就开始踢足球。
2、他们10岁时就开始学英语。
3、Tom太累了不能跑了。
4、Gina什么时候开始上学？
4. Have Ss look at the chart. Point out the headings in the chart. Ask Ss what they think the word achievement means. Explain that it means the important thing each person did. Ask Ss to read the article again and fill in the chart. Later, check the answers. Then ask the whole class to read the article again.
Step 3 Groupwork ---Interview
1. Ask Ss to work in groups of four. Each group chooses a reporter. The reporter interviews other group members about when they started doing these things ( learned to ride a bike, started learning English, started going to school, learned to write, and so on.)
T: Well done. Let’s do an interview. I’d like you to work in groups of four, and each group chooses a reporter. The reporter should ask other group members about when they started doing these things. First, suppose I’m a reporter. (Interview three Ss) Understand, now? It’s your turn to do this exercise. Stand up and do this exercise. When you finish, you can sit down. Now, groupwork, begin!
-- When did you start learning English?
--I started learning English when I was ten years old.
2. Ask three groups to come to the front and act out the interviews.
3. Ask a student to give a report about how old he was when he did these things for the first time.
Step4 Summary
T: OK, let’s summarize. In this period, we have talked about some famous people. They all started doing things when they were very young. And finally they have made great success. So please remember: “You are never too young to start doing things.”(show on the screen). So much for today.
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