初二Lesson 77教案
Lesson 77
Period: The First Period
Properties: Recorder, CAI
Teaching Aims:
A:Knowledge
(1).Remember the 4-skill words: engineer, cancer, sad, cousin, etc.
(2).Students can understand and use “when－clause”
B: Ability
(1).Enhance the students’ four skills.
(2).Students can talk about the topic: “happy and sad” freely in English.
C:The moral purpose
Students should know what is the true happiness.
Language Focus: 1.Topic: What makes you happy/sad?
2.New words: yet, myself, cousin, engineer, cancer, take care of, sad, death.
3.The topic: Happy and sad.
Teaching Procedures:
Warming up: Sing a song “If you are happy.”
Step 1 Presentation:
Show students a happy face and ask :
Can you guess why she is so happy? To train the students imagination.
Students may answer: pass an exam/receive lots of presents/buy a new coat/help
the old/go hiking…
2.Chinese people were very happy in 2001,do you know why? Show students some
pictures on newspaper. Help students to answer:
(1).Beijing became the hosting city of Olympic games
(2).Chinese football team succeeded in rushing out of Asia
(3).Shanghai held the APEC meeting successfully
3.As you know, I am a teacher. Do you know what is the other name of the teacher?(Help to answer: Soul engineer)So what makes a teacher happy?
Ss may answer: It makes the teacher happy when the students work hard/become
useful people.
Ask what makes a doctor/businessman/inventor/engineer happy?
Help Ss answer:
(1) It makes a doctor happy when the patient becomes healthy.
(2).It makes a businessman happy when he makes a lot of money
(3).It makes an engineer happy when he finishes a big project. Etc
4. A riddle…( computer )Let Ss guess. Then present :It makes me very happy if I get a computer. It’s quite
useful and important, but I don’t know how to use it yet.I want to learn it all by
myself.
Step 2 Read and act
Part 1.Play the tape for the Ss to listen and answer
(1).Is Han Mei happy? Why?
(2).Who can help her? What does she do ?
Teach the new words : cousin, engineer. Then let some pairs to act out the dialogue.
Step 3 Presentation
Show students a sad face,:
Can you guess why?
Ss may answer:(1) somebody is ill.
(2)lose something
(3)something is broken
(4)something goes wrong
(5)fall off the tree
(6) fail the exam
(7)have an accident…
2.American people were very sad last year, why?
Show Ss a picture on the newspaper. Help them to answer:
Because on Sep.11,2001,thousands of American people died in the explosition of
the building of the World Trade Centre in New York.
3.Ask: Do you think people are very happy when they smoke a lot or drink a lot ?
Expected answer: No, they aren’t.
Then ask: I think one thing will be their friend, What is it?
Help to answer: It’s cancer. So we must take care of ourselves, we must stop
smoking, try to eat more fruit and vegetables and take more exercises.
Step 4 Read and act
Part 1. Ask: Is Paul happy? Why? What’s wrong with his uncle?
Students answer: No. His uncle is sick. He has cancer.
Step 5 Discuss
Tell students a story: Mr Fat has a lot of money, but he has no friends. So,
he is not happy. While Mr Thin doesn’t have much money, but he is very happy,
because he has many friends.
Discuss: What’s the true meaning of happiness?
Expected answer: friendship, health, kind, success, etc.
Step6 Write:
Ask: What makes you happy/sad?
Let students read the sentences in part2. They try to write at least 5 things of
happiness and sadness.
Homework:
Finish off the workbook exercises.