Unit 1 Comic strip & Welcome to the unit 教学设计2初中英语七年级下册（牛津译林版）

英语（七年级下册） Unit 1 Dream homes Comic strip & Welcome to the unit 无锡市积余实验学校 曹一瑾 I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. understand and act out the comic strip; 2. correctly say the name, the capital, a place of interest, the language and the people of the six countries on Page 7. II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: palace, town, Canada, France, Japan, Russia, UK, London, country, capital, next to 2. New structures: I’d like to live next to a restaurant. There are twenty restaurants in town. The biggest one in Fifth Street! Is Tokyo the capital of Japan? III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. To read the proper nouns on Page 7 correctly and remember them well. 2. To get enough information for the conversation from the teacher’s presentation and the discussion with classmates. 3. To talk about the students’ own favourite countries. IV. Teaching procedures Comic strip Step 1 Lead-in Free talk (1) How was your winter holiday? (2) Did you have a good time? (3) What did you do? (4) Where did you go? (5) What was the best part of your winter holiday? T: Great! All of you enjoyed yourselves during the winter holiday. Some visited interesting places and others just stayed at home and still had fun. Just as the saying goes, “East or west, home is the best.” Though we all think our own home is the best place in the world, we still have our dream homes. Maybe you love your home in the city centre very much, but your dream home is in the countryside. Maybe your small flat is full of love every day, but you dream of living in a big house. This unit we are going to talk about our dream homes. I think it will be an interesting topic. 【设计意图：本课时是寒假过后的第一个新课时，从寒假生活开始聊起能让学生有话可说、有话想说，与同学分享各自精彩的寒假活动，能让课堂气氛很快热烈起来。之后由教师的一段小结性陈述，将话题引入dream homes这一单元话题。】 Step 2 Presentation 1. Watch and answer. T: Eddie and Hobo are also talking about their dream homes. Watch the cartoon and answer the que