八年级英语Unit 12: What’s the best radio station?

Lesson One

Teaching objects:

1. Teach the students to use superlative adjectives to compare things.

2. Get the students to master superlative adjectives through making comparisons and discussions of preferences.

New words and expressions:

Popular, popularity, comfortable, screen, fun part of town, cheap-cheapest, close-closest, etc.

Sentence patterns:

______ is the _______. Example: Town cinema is the cheapest.

_______has the _______.Example: Town cinema has the friendliest service?

Pre task:

Guessing Game:

1 Make good use of the phrases on p71-1a

2 Divide the class into 2 groups

3 Provide 4 statements for each group to guess where it is. If they are able to guess correctly after the first statement, they win 4 points, or they will lose 4 points instead. They can choose to guess at the second, third or the fourth statements, but they can only win fewer points like 3, 2, 1 points. On the other hand, they lose fewer points.

Group A

1) You can see many handsome men and beautiful ladies there.

2) It’s a popular place among young people. Boys and girls usually date there.

3) It’s in a fun part of town and you should buy a ticket to get in.

4) It has a big screen and many comfortable seats in the building.

Group B

5) It has friendly service, and you can eat snacks there.

6) Usually you should keep quiet in it, but sometimes you may laugh or cry inside it.

7) In Xiamen there are two on Zhangshan Road and one close to Zhongshan Road.

8) You can see new movies there.

Free talk: How do you choose a cinema to go to? What is important for you when you want to go to a movie theatre?

Read p71-1a and have students talk about their opinions

Give them some choices:

comfortable seats, big screen, friendly service, new movies, distance(how far) from home, lying in a fun part of town, popularity, cheap tickets

Possible basic sentence patterns:

I think _____ is important for a movie theatre.

And I think _____is not important.

During task:

1. Make good use of section B 1b:

2. Demonstrate when to use superlative adjectives with the help of a information form and listening materials.

3. Teach the students how to use superlative adjectives to make comparisons and discuss preferences.

Comparison:

1. Do it in a competition of 2 groups. Every question is worth 1 point

2. Answer in full sentences or u will lose 1 point.

distance

service

price

seats

screen

popularity

Town cinema

400 meters from home

20 yuan

800 seats

60m×30m

20 million people/

year

Movie Palace

800m

25 yuan

1000 seats

70m×35m

25 million/

year

Screen City

1km

30 yuan

600 seats

80m×40m

30 million people/

year