1、Unit 2 School lifeGrammar I. Teaching aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. compare the amount of things using “more . than”, “fewer . than” and “less.than”;2. use “the most” for the largest amount and “the fewest/the least” for the smallest amount;3. fo
2、rm comparative and superlative adverbs;4. use comparative and superlative adverbs correctly.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: least, further/father, farthest/ furthest, among the three of us, come first/second/ third in the race, run fast, any other classmates, the other students 2. New
3、 structures: Millie has more tomatoes than Daniel.Millie has less rice than Daniel.Millie has fewer bananas than Kitty.Kitty has the most eggs.Daniel has the fewest tomatoes.Millie has the least juice.She ran faster than Millie. Amy came first in the race. She ran the fastest.III. Focus of the lesso
4、n and predicted area of difficultyUse fewer/less.than, the fewest/least to compare the amount of countable nouns and uncountable nouns correctly.Form comparative and superlative adverbs correctly.Use comparative and superlative adverbs correctly.IV. Teaching proceduresComparing the amount of things
5、Step 1 Lead-inT: Do you remember Nancy in Woodland School in London? Her school has a Reading Week every year. Let me tell you something about this years Reading Week.【设计意图】利用 Reading 中的人物和相关背景知识导入到新课，便于学生迅速进入新课并接受新授知识。Step 2 Presentation 1. Explain “more”, “most”, “fewer” and “fewest” before counta
6、ble nouns(1) Compare the books Nancy and her friends read in this years Reading Week.T: In this years Reading Week, Nancy read 3 books. Her friend Kate read two books. Tom read only one book. Who Read more books, Nancy or Kate? Who read fewer books, Kate or Tom? Who read the most books? Who read the
7、 fewest books?Ask some students to answer these questions one by one, show the students answers on PPT. Mark “more books than”, “fewer books than”, “the most books”, “the fewest books” in red. (2) Help the students to work out the rules: we use “more . than .”, “fewer . than .”, “the most”, “the few
8、est” to compare the amount of countable nouns. 2. Explain “more”, “most”, “less” and “least” before uncountable nouns(1) Compare the time Nancy and her friends spent in this years Reading Week.T: Who spent more time reading books in the Reading Week, Kate or Tome? Who spent less time reading books,
9、Nancy or Tom? Who spent the most time reading books? Who spent the least time reading books? Ask some students to answer these questions one by one, show the students answers on PPT. Mark “more time than”, “less time than”, “the most time”, “the least time” in red. (2) Work out the rulesHelp the stu
10、dents to work out the rules: we use “more . than .”, “less . than .”, “the most”, and “the least” to compare the amount of uncountable nouns. 【设计意图】以在今年的阅读周中 Nancy 和她的朋友所读的书的多少为例，谈论可数名词的量的比较。Step 3 Practice1. Compare school lives(1) Give students some time to go through the table, and then complete
11、the sentences. Remind students to pay attention to countable nouns and uncountable nouns. T: Nancy, John and Daniel come from different schools. Daniel wants to compare his school life with Nancys and Johns. Look at the table and help Daniel complete his sentences.(2) Check the answers with the stud
12、ents.2. Compare students own school life with othersAsk students to fill in the last column of the form with the information of their own school life. Get several students to compare their own school life with others. 【设计意图】学生已初步了解如何用 more . than, fewer . than, less . than 以及 the most, the fewest/le
13、ast 来比较可数名词与不可数名词的量，通过 Nancy, John, Daniel 和学生自己的学校生活的几个方面的比较，再一次巩固所学内容 。Comparative and superlative adverbsStep 1 Presentation 1. Explain comparative and superlative adverbs(1) Compare the time spent on practicing baseball. T: We know Nancy, John and Daniel all have some free time. How do they spen
14、d their free time? They spend their free time practising playing baseball. You see John practises harder than Daniel because he spends more time practising. Who practises harder, Nancy or John? Who practises hardest?Ask two students to answer these questions, show the students answers on PPT. Mark “
15、hard than”, “hardest” in red. (2) Work out the rules.Help the students to work out the rules: we use “harder” and “hardest” to describe theverb “practise”, and we call them adverbs. Sometimes we do not use “the” before thesuperlative adverbs. 2. Explain how to form comparative and superlative adverb
16、sShow the rules on the PPT. Tell students that we can form comparative and superlative adverbs in the same way as adjectives. We can divide adverbs into 3 groups. We add “-er” and “-est” to most short adverbs. We add “more” and “most” before long adverbs. We replace the word for some irregular adver
17、bs.【设计意图】利用书中的表格，从谈论自由时间引出练习打棒球的努力程度的比较。自然地过渡到教材的第二部分副词的比较级和最高级的讲解。因为学生已经有了形容词的构成方式的相关知识，教师可以通过讲解直接告诉学生副词的比较级和最高级的构成。Step 2 Practice 1. Fill in the form Ask students to fill in the form to see if the students can learn how to form comparative and superlative adverbs.2. Exercise(1) Complete the part
18、“My classmates”. Help Daniel complete his sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets.(2) Check the answers with students. 【设计意图】通过填写表格完成所给单词的比较级和最高级，通过完成教材中的练习，再一次巩固副词的构成。训练形式由简单机械的变化到语境理解后的词形变化，体现了操练的层次性。Step 3 Consolidation 1. Show the form and play the gameName of clubs No. of stud
19、ents Activity Time (hour) LikesPet Club 43 1 Reading Club 97 1.5 Greener China Club 128 2.5 Helping Hands Club 64 2 T: You know there are many clubs in Sunshine Secondary School. Here is a form about the school clubs. Lets have a competition. Read the form carefully and make a sentence using “more .
20、 than”, “fewer . than”, “less . than”, “the most/least” or “comparative and superlative adverbs”. Each correct sentence can get one point. Lets see which team can get the most points.2. Complete a report(1) Read the form and write a report on their activity to the chairpersonAsk several students to
21、show their reports, praise the student who writes the most correct sentences and the student who finishes earliest and the student who writes the best report.T: Kate, Tom and Daniel all join Greener China Club. They all did very well in their last activity.Name Planting trees 1 Planting trees 2 Carr
22、ying water PlaceTom 15 7 trees per hour 15 buckets (桶) Lizhuang, 4 km awayKate 11 5 trees per hour 11 buckets Tianzhuang, 2 km awayDaniel 18 9 trees per hour 18 buckets Zhaozhuang, 5 km awayDear chairperson, We took part in a meaningful activity last Saturday afternoon. We went to plant trees with s
23、ome of other club members. _ (plant more /fewer/ the most / fewest trees, carry more / less /the most / least water, plant trees more / the most quickly, go farther / the farthest to plant trees ) (2) Get several students to show their reports and check if they can write correct sentences【设计意图】利用游戏的形式激发起学生的兴趣。使得枯燥的语法训练变得生动活泼。最后让学生根据表格提供的信息完成一份报道，通过综合运用当堂课的所学知识达到操练和巩固的目的。V. Homework Go on finishing the report, and try the best to write more effective sentences.
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