Unit 1 Spring Is Coming! Lesson4教学设计冀教版八年级下册

Unit 1 Spring Is Coming! Lesson 4 The Spring City LESSON PREPARATION LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE 掌握词汇：nearly,plenty 接触词汇：budding, millimetre, anytime 短语和句型：long for, all year round, plenty of hundreds of RESOURCES audiotape construction paper a marker a glue stick scissors (see Extension) LESSON STRUCTURE CLASS OPENING Greeting Greet the class. Say: Good morning/afternoon, class. I'm happy today because it's sunny outside./I feel sad today because it's rainy outside. How does different weather make you feel Ask five or six students to respond. Review 1)Homework check. 2)Draw a large Venn diagram on the board and fill it in as a class. Have some students choose one thing from their own Venn diagrams about spring to write on the board. KEY CONCEPTS FOCUS STRUCTURES: Everyone longs for spring. But in my hometown, it feels like spring nearly all year round. There's plenty of sunshine too, with about 2 250 hours of sunshine every year. Because of the spring-like weather, you can find hundreds of beautiful flowers and trees anytime of the year. STEP 1: Present CLASS/PAIR WORK: Think about It 1)Discuss the Think About It questions as a class. Teacher: The weather can definitely affect our mood. That means it can affect how we feel. I don't like winter because the cold weather makes me feel sad. During the winter I long for the summer. Write the phrase long for on the board. Explain and encourage the students to use it in a sentence. Students should master this phrase. I would like to live in a place where it feels like summer all year round. Do you know what that means Write the phrase feel like summer (winter, spring, autumn) all year round on the board. Explain. Students should master this phrase. It means I would like to live in a place where there are no winters. In other words, the whole year would feel like summer and there would be plenty of sunshine and warm weather. Write the phrase plenty ofon the board. Explain and encourage the students to use this phrase in a sentence. Students should master this phrase. How about you Would you like to live in a place where there are no winters Students: I love winter sports. I wouldn't enjoy living in a place where there are no winters./I love warm and hot weather. I would love to live in a place where there are no winters. Teacher: Do you know of any cities or countries where the weather is always warm Display a world map to help the students answer this question. Students: Yes! I know it's always hot in Australia./ Countries in South America are quite hot most of the year./The weather in the south of China is much warmer than in the north of China. Point out on the map that countries south of the equator have warmer weather than those north of the equator. Teacher: Very good. Nearly all of the countries and cities south of the equator are warmer than countries north of the equator all year round. Write the word nearly on the board. Explain. Students should master this word. What do you enjoy most ... ...