冀教版八年级下册英语《Lesson 36: Let’s Take a Drive》精品教案

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Lesson 36: Let’s Take a Drive
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: drive, countryside, ride
Oral words and expressions: drove, driven, highway, rode, ridden, park, afar
Teaching Aims:
1.       Feel the charming of the music.
2.       Know what the people in the foreign countries do in their spare time.
Teaching Important Points:
1.       Sing the foreign songs together.
2.       Use the modal verbs.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Grasp some words and patterns: be late for, get out of, you’d better not
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Listen to the tape first. Feel the charming of the music.
Step2. Ask the students to read the lyric line by line. Divide them into several groups to practice the song.
Step3. Explain the Chinese meaning of the song. Your translation must be like poem in order to take them to a beautiful situation.
Step4. Listen to the tape for several times and repeat with it.
Step5. Work in groups. Talk about the questions:
1.       What do you usually do in your spare time? How do you usually go there? Why?
2.       Talk about your recent journey to the class. What gave your most expression?
Step6. Practice
1.       the use of modal verb “can”.
Can you drive me to school today?
Can he go to my home?
2.       the use of modal verb “may”.
May I speak in Chinese?
May I leave school now?
3.       You’d better not.
--May we eat take a photo here? –You’d better not. Look at “NO PHOTOS” sign.
--May I smoke? –You’d better not. Look at “NO SMOKING” sign.
Step7. Homework
1.       Finish off the activity book.
2.       Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:
Today we learn a song. After a piece of music, we feel a mother’s love. Mrs. Dinosaur’s voice is very interesting, which becomes the modal of some students. We deal with the two modal verbs “can and may” again. Now we know it’s used to ask for permission.