1、Chapter 3 A dangerous servantReading Title Chapter 3 A dangerous servant Reading page 29-33Grade EightTeaching ContentsThe reading section in Chapter 3 in Oxford English Book 8B. It mainly trains the students ability in reading and develops the students ability in talking about home safety with its
2、focus on using electricity correctly.LearnersThe students in Grade Eight are in a kind of transformative period. Considering in the intelligent aspect, though their abstract thinking starts to develop, yet imaginal thinking still plays a leading role in their thinking process. Additionally, their co
3、gnitive capability is incomplete. After one and a half school years learning and practising, they are now used to the English study in junior middle school but their childish curiosity which can be transformed into intellectual curiosity with the teachers direction and edification and be used to ful
4、fill their learning task well still exists.Emotion Aims1. Arouse the students stronger awareness of participation and passion for using their learned English language knowledge and skills.2. Be more cooperative in team work and respect others ideas.3. Get them to know that a language is a key to ope
5、n a door to a wider world.Ability Aims1. Enable the students to talk about the differences between winter and summer.2. Improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.3. Improve their ability in cooperation in team work.4. Improve their ability in thinking and solving problems.Teac
6、hing Aims:Knowledge Aims 1 Master the important words and expressions: cable, wire, power station, bubble, flow, metre, bury, connect2 Know how to use electricity correctly and safely.3 Make good preparations for the rest sections in this chapter.Teaching Emphasis1 Practise different reading skills.
7、 2 Grasp the use of the key language items.Teaching DifficultiesDiscussion about the danger in using electricity thoughtlessly.Teaching AidMulti-mediaTeaching Methods1 Natural approach2 Situation approach3 Task-based language teaching (These four tasks go from the easy to the difficult )4 Communicat
8、ive approachLearning strategies:1 Learning by doing method2 Cooperative learning method3 Indirect learning method4 Whole learning methodTeaching proceduresTeacher Students Purpose Pre-task1 Warming Upl Greeting. l A song with the picture of a recorder which stops all in a sudden.l Show them the pict
9、ure of a plug off the power site.2 Leading inl Why did the music stop?l What makes the recorder work,fire,water or electricity?l Check the answer.1.Greeting.2.Listen to and follow the song.3. Give the answer.1.Warming up.2. Make a warm, happy and easy atmosphere3. Lead in the new topic for this less
10、on4. Shift into the following teaching contents.While-task1 Presentation.A Brain storm.l Do you want to go on listening to the music? OK, lets make electricity by ourselves.Do you know how?l Ask the students to choose the materials in forms of pictures for making electricity.B Learn the new words.ca
11、ble, wire, power station, bubble, flow, metre, bury, connectC To celebrate, we listen to the rest of the song.D Ask three students what other things uses electricity to work in our homes. Then show them my answers in pictures.Match the pictures with different kinds of energy.(Do with Part A on page
12、30)E Ask the students:We can buy different kinds of electrical appliance in the shops, but can we also buy 1.Observe (Pictures)Answer questions with the learned English language skills and knowledge and background knowledge.2.Repeat the words and try to remember them.3.Listen to the rest of the song
13、 cheerfully.4. Answer the teachers questions.And match the words with the pictures.5. Think and answer the question.1.Get more knowledge about making eletricity.2. Make learning more interesting for the students.3. Remember the words with the help of the pictures and adjust their pronunciation and g
14、et rid of the obstacle for the following steps which they will need necessarily.4. Make them more interested in dealing with problems on our own. 5. Make a natural and smooth shift to the reading step.6. Encourage the active and voluntary communicating.7. Master some difficult language items.8. Impr
15、ove the classroom teaching effectivenesselectricity there?2 Listening A. Get the students to listencarefully to the tape with the following questions.Did the girl buy electricity?B. Check the answer.1. Listen to the tape with the questions.2. Answer the questions.3. Make answers to the questions ind
16、ividually quickly.1. Train their ability in listening.2.Train the ability in guessing intelligently3. Exaine and consolidate the learning by using it.4. Encourage the active and voluntary communicating.5.Intensive reading skills.3 ReadingA Skip-readingl Read the whole article and fill in the form.l
17、Check the answers.B Scan-reading Answer the questions which need more understanding of the whole article.a) What did Daisy buy?b) Who is looking foolish?c) Who or what is the servant in the title?1. Read the articlequickly and fill in the forms according to the article.2. Answer the questions.1.Trai
18、n the students abililty in skip reading. 2.Train the students ability in scan reading.4 DiscussionThe danger of using electricity carelessly at home.1.Think carefully.2. Group discussion.3.Report. 1.Examine their reading result. 2. Train the ability in asking and answering in English.3. Get them to
19、set up self-confidence in language study and improve their speaking abilities by reading.4. Get deeper understanding of the reading material.1 SummaryA.Summary.B.Exercises.C.Encourage any possible questions.1.Go over this lesson.2.Do the exercises.3.Ask questions if necessary.1.Consolidate the conte
20、nts for this lesson.2.Encourage them to have doubts while learning.2 Assignment Explain the homework.Understand the homework assignment.1.Promote the love for science.3.A proverb:A frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.Translate.2. Encourage the life-long learning and improvement.Post- t
21、ask4.EvaluationGet the students to evaluate their study effectiveness and fill in the formFill in the evaluation chartMake a complete and compulsaryevaluation by respecting and respectingboth the course and the end. Build up the self- confidence for theVI Blackboard designCharpter 3 A dangerous serv
22、antcablewire power stationbubble be connected with Use electricity carefully.flow metre bury connectAppendix. Give the students before class.课堂评价表Name Date A. Very good.（优） B. Good. （良） C. Not bad. （合格） D. Need improvement. （还需努力）学生自评 小组互评 教师总评掌握基本知识认真听讲主动与同伴合作积极提问students and motivate them to studyharder better and harder by knowingthemselves well.
