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
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
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
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
20 million people/
year
25 yuan
1000 seats
25 million/
year
30 yuan
600 seats
30 million people/
year
Ask the students in the forms of competition:
1. Question: Which cinema is closer,
Answer: Town Cinema is closer than
Q: Which cinema is closer,
A:
Q: Which cinema is the closest of the three?
A: Town Cinema is the closest of the three.
2. Q: Which cinema has friendlier service, Town Cinema or
A: Town Cinema has friendlier service than
Q: Which cinema has friendlier service,
A:
Q: Which cinema has the friendliest service of the three?
A: Town Cinema has the friendliest service of the three.
3. Q: Which cinema is more popular, Town Cinema or
A:
Q: Which cinema is more popular,
A:
Q: Which cinema is the most popular of the three?
A:
Listening Comprehension:
Ask the students to listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
Play the tape two times.
Qualities
Movie Theatre
It has the biggest screens.
It’s the most popular.
It’s the closest to home.
Town Cinema
It’s the cheapest.
Town Cinema
It has the friendliest service.
Town Cinema
It has the most comfortable seats.
Memory Game:
Give the students 1 minute to memorize the form above and ask them questions:
Rules
1. Do not refer to the books.
2. Each question is worth 1 point.
3. Answer in full sentences.
Questions:
1. Which cinema is the most popular?
2. Which cinema has the most comfortable seats?
3. Which cinema has the biggest screen?
4. Which cinema is the closest home?
5. Which cinema has the friendliest service?
6. Which cinema is the cheapest?
After-task:
Analysis.
Language focus:
Review the rules of comparative adj. and get the students to deduce and conclude the rules of superlative adj.
A couple of examples are necessary:
cheap-cheaper-the cheapest
close-closer-the closest
big-bigger-the biggest
friendly-friendlier-the friendliest
popular-more popular-the most popular
comfortable-more comfortable-the most comfortable
Ask the students to pay attention to the differences between them and ask them why, therefore the rules can be deduced by the students themselves.
A discussion and competition:
Talk about the teachers of the class using superlative adj.
Rules: 1. Using superlative adj. only.
2.Do not repeat each other or you will lose 1 point.
Quiz: Top Game.
1. What is the longest wall in the world? The Great Wall.
2. Which country has the largest population in the world?
3. Which is the most famous university in
4. Which is the heaviest animal on the land? The elephants.
5. Which is the earliest dynasty in Chinese history? Xia Dynasty.
6. What is the highest peak in the world? The Himalays.
7. Which language has the most speakers in the world? Chinese.
8. Which is the newest movie theatre in
9. Who is the tallest professional basketball player in
10. Which is the biggest island in
11. Who is the richest man in the world? Bill Gates.
12. Which is the biggest province in
13. Which is the warmest province in
14. Which is the coldest province in
15. Who is the youngest teacher in our school? Miss Zhou.
Pay attention to the letters in purple, if we take them away, it must be very hard to answer the questions, right? When you are comparing things, don’t forget this.
Homework:
1.P71 1b
2.New words and expressions in Unit 12
3.Collect some information about 3 clothes stores in
