冀教版八年级下册英语《Lesson 37: Flying Donuts》精品教案

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Lesson 37: Flying Donuts
Teaching Content:
Oral words and expressions: fuel, imagination
Teaching Aims:
1.       Stimulate students’ learning interests.
2.       Cultivate students’ listening by catching the useful information in the listening process.
Teaching Important Points:
1.       Encourage students’ to increase creative ability.
2.       Why is the invention called “flying donuts”.
Teaching Difficult Points:
What’s the theory of an invention?
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Play a Game
Let some students explain it in English, while the others guess what it is. You must say the transportation. For example,
A transporter is very long. It can hold many people in it. It can also take goods. What is it?
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1.       What is Danny’s invention made of?
2.       Why is it called “Flying Donuts”?
3.       Will Danny’s invention really work?
Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then listen to the tape again and read after it for several times.
Step4. Ask the students to read the text in roles. Then act the dialogue in front of the class.
Step5. Make sentences with the following language points: on the way to school, turn on, at the front of
Step6. Let’s come to “PROJECT”.
Divide the class into small groups of three of four students. Each group chooses a type of transportation for the students. Instruct students to begin collecting information about that type of transportation. They will prepare a comic strip or timetable of important dates in its development.
Groups present their work to the class. Depending on class size and the length of presentations, you may wish to divide up the class. Groups would then present their projects to one portion of the class.
If the project cannot be finished in one class, it can be continued in the next lesson.
Step7.Homework
1.       Finish off the activity book.
2.       Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:
Let the students create more useful inventions. When one group thinks of a good idea, the others can add their useful information to it. Instruct them to speak in timeline.