Unit 5 Lesson 15 A Young Hero（第一课时）教学设计--2023-2024学年八年级英语北师大版上册

Unit 5 Lesson 15 A Young Hero(第一课时) Lesson Focus • Because and because of • Past continuous questions and short answers • Talking about past actions Warm-up Exercise 1 Purpose: to help students understand a headline · Direct students to the headline. Read it aloud, or have a student read it. Then direct students to the bulleted list. Read the information aloud, or have a student read it. Then ask "What do you think the girl in the picture did?" · Ask some students to say their answers aloud. Have students scan the reading to check their answers. Answer saved people during a tsunami Reading Exercise 2 Purpose: to help students fill in a timeline based on a text · Direct students to the timeline below the text. Point out that there are three events on the timeline, all having taken place the morning of the tsunami. Say“Read the text and fill in the timeline”. Monitor, offering help as needed. If students need support, have them work in pairs. · Go over the answers, asking individual students to read the sentences aloud. Answers told, mother / mum; dad, Everyone / They, People; hotels Exercise 3 Purpose: to help students answer questions based on a text · Direct students to the questions. Read them aloud, or have a student read them. Then say“Now read the text again and answer the questions”Monitor, offering help as needed. If students need support, have them work in pairs. · Go over the answers, having students first compare their answers with a partner's. Then ask individual students to read the answers aloud. Encourage students to answer in complete sentences and to show you evidence in the text for their answers. Answers 1. They were having their Christmas holiday in Thailand. 2. The water went out very far and it was bub-bling, too. 3. People think Tilly saved about 100 people that day. Vocabulary Exercise 4 Purpose: to help students complete sentences with because or because of · Direct students to sentences in the Sentence Builder. Read the sentences aloud. Wr