一.学情分析:
1.授课对象是八年级的学生,学生掌握知识,尤其是正确使用动词不定式的能力有高有低,他们需要在教师的帮助下形成知识系统。
2. 八年级的学生在课程变难、变多的情况下,渐渐是去了学习的兴趣。
3. 八年级的学生在词汇和句型方面有了一定的积累,教师要抓住这个优势,充分调动他们的积极性,活跃课堂气氛,做好组织者和引领者,让他们在交流和合作中巩固知识。
本单元的中心话题是 “wild animals”,农村学生对animals 比较喜欢。在上两课时,学生对 “giant pandas”,有了很多了解,尤其对大熊猫面临的状况非常担忧。因此,学生由复习能自然过渡到本课学习。
二.教学策略设计:
本课时由复习Reading 入手,引出本课时的语法。通过个人归纳、小组互动等活动,让学生主动参与课堂学习。本课时通过归纳法、练习法 及时巩固教学。拓展环节设置层次性作业,练习不同层次的学生的口笔头表达能力。
三.Teaching aims:
1.To learn to use “ may” for possibility
2.To learn to use “ verbs + to-infinitives”
四.Important and difficult points:The usage of “ may” and “to-infinitives”
五.Teaching aids: Multi-media teaching equipment ,pictures and cards
六.Teaching methods: Practicing
七.Teaching procedures:
Step 1.Revision
Ask students the questions below:
1. Why do people call the panda “Xi Wang”?
2. What will happen to the pandas if the bamboo forests disappear?
3. What can we do to protect the pandas?
Step 2.Presentation
1.T :Yes,you are clever. People call the panda “Xi Wang”, they may hope it will bring them a hope. Now pandas are facing serious problems.We may take actions to protect them. If the bamboo forests disappear , pandas may not have a place to live or food to eat.
2.Write the sentences including may on the blackboard and mark “ may” with colored chalk .
They may not have a place to live or food to eat.
They may disappear from the earth.
Hunters may catch them.
3. Teacher ask students:What will happen to giant pandas if we do nothing?
Students answer:Soon there may be none left.
write the answer on the blackboard, mark the underlined part with colorful chalk and tell students: We use may to say that something is possible.
Step 3. Activities
1. Present the following five sentences, encourage students to think what may happen in the situation in groups of four. Use may to make the second half of each sentence. Choose some