冀教版八年级下册英语《Lesson 35: Future Transportation》精品教案

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Lesson 35: Future Transportation
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: certainly, invention, present, round, wing, dangerous, factory, humorous, as long as
Oral words and expressions: presentation, Henry, Ford, North America,
Teaching Aims:
1.       Learn the history of the cars.
2.       Describe one type of transportation in the future.
Teaching Important Points:
1.       Learn about the Danny wheels.
2.       Imagine what types of transportation will be like from one hundred years now.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Let the students think and be creative.
Teaching preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let the students talk about something about the planes and the cars. What do they know about the planes and the cars? If they know, let them say their details.
Step2. Ask the students to talk about the picture in the text. What do they think about this?
Step3. Let’s listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1.       How did people get to another city before people invented plane?
2.       When did Henry Ford open a car factory?
3.       What’s Danny’s invention?
4.       Would someone like to ride in the Danny’s wheel? Why?
Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Then let the students read it loudly in class. After a while, ask the students read the text in roles.
Step5. Let the students act he dialogue out. They can take a circle for Danny’s wheel.
Step6. Ask some students to make sentences with the following phrases:
At that time, need to, present, you’d better not.
At that time, I was a little girl.
You need to wear warm clothes in cold winter.
Present your invention to the class.
You’d better say it again.
Step7. Come to “PROJECT”.
1.       Ask the students to make a survey: ask your grandparents about the old transportation. When they are in a hurry, what did they do? Did they think of the modern transportation today? What do they think of the life today?
Remember to make a report to the class.
2.       Talk in groups of three or four. What do you hope the future transportation will be like? Can you invent some useful invention? Report to the class.
3.       Make a detail about your future transporation.
Step8. Homework
1.       Finish off the activity book.
2.       Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:
Encourage students to make a survey about the old transportation. How did our grandparents go to a big city in the old days? How long did it take? While, we think hard to invent new transportation. What’s its advantages and disadvantages? We can make a detail about it.