Unit 4 Smart home-A Smart devices (Viewing and listening)教学设计 2025-2026学年沪教版（五四学制）英语七年级上册

Unit 4 Smart home-A Smart devices (Viewing and listening) This unit focuses on the theme of smart home, specifically on smart devices. Through viewing and listening activities, students will be exposed to various smart devices such as smart fridges, smart doorbells, and smart speakers. They will learn how these devices function, their benefits, and some potential concerns related to them. The materials include a video clip introducing smart home devices, a dialogue about using a smart device, and some related pictures and descriptions. This lesson aims to not only expand students' vocabulary related to smart devices but also improve their listening and viewing comprehension skills in the context of smart home technology. 教学目标 Students will be able to understand and use key vocabulary related to smart devices, such as "smart fridge", "smart doorbell", "smart speaker", "remote control", "app", "connect", "function", etc. Grasp the common sentence patterns used to describe the functions and features of smart devices, like "The smart fridge can tell you what food is inside." and "You can control the smart speaker with your voice." Comprehend the main ideas and important details in the video and dialogue about smart devices. 教学重难点 Key Points Key vocabulary and sentence patterns related to smart devices. Understanding the functions and features of different smart devices as presented in the viewing and listening materials. Improving students' listening and viewing comprehension skills through relevant exercises. Difficult Points Helping students to understand and use some technical terms and complex descriptions about smart devices correctly. Training students to infer information and speakers' attitudes from the listening and viewing materials, which requires a certain level of language sense and logical thinking. Guiding students to express their own opinions about smart devices comprehensively and fluently, using the learned language knowledge. Vocabulary Smart devices: smart fridge, smart doorbell, smart speaker, smart TV, smart lock, etc. Related actions and functions: remote control, connect, disconnect, install, update, check, remind, play music, make calls, tell the time, etc. Other relevant words: app (application), Wi-Fi, battery, screen, camera, sensor, etc. Sentence Patterns The + smart device + can + verb + (object). Example: The smart doorbell can send a message to your phone when someone rings it. You can + verb + the + smart device + by + -ing/with + noun. Example: You can control the smart TV by using the remote control/with your phone. It is + adj. + to + verb + the + smart device. Example: It is convenient to use the smart speaker to play music. 教学过程 Step 1: Lead - in (5 minutes) Greet the students and show some pictures of modern homes on the PPT. Ask students: "What do you think make a home smart?" Let students discuss in pairs for about 1 minute and then invite some pairs to share their ideas. After students' sharing, introduce the topic of this lesson - smart devices. Say: "Today, we are going to learn about some amazing smart devices that are changing our lives." Step 2: Pre - viewing and Pre - listening (10 minutes) Vocabulary Teaching Present the new words related to smart devices on the PPT one by one, along with pictures. For example, show a picture of a smart fridge and say: "This is a smart fridge. It is a kind of smart device. The word'smart fridge' is pronounced as /sm t fr d /." Teach students to read the word correctly several times. Do the same for other new words like "smart doorbell", "smart speaker", etc. After teaching all the words, play a word - reading game. Read the words in random order and ask students to quickly point to the corresponding pictures. Prediction Show the students the title of the video "Smart Devices in Our Life" and some key pictures from the video (without showing the whole content). Ask students to predict what they might see in the video. Encourage them to think about the types of smart devices, their functions, and how they are used. Let students share their predictions in groups of four for about 2 minutes, and then select some groups to report to the class. Step 3: Viewing and Listening (15 minutes) First Viewing/Listening Play the video clip about smart devices for the first time. Ask students to watch and listen carefully, and try to get a general idea of what the video is about. After watching, ask some simple questions to check their general understanding, such as: "What are the main smart devices mentioned in the video?" and "Do these smart devices make our lives more convenient or more complicated?" Let students answer briefly. Second Viewing/Listening Play the video again. This time, ask students to take notes of the functions and features of each smart device shown in the video. After watching, divide students into pairs and let them compare their notes. Then, invite some pairs to come to the front of the class and share the functions of one smart device they noted. Listening to the Dialogue Present a dialogue on the PPT about two people discussing the use of a smart device (for example, a smart speaker). First, let students read the dialogue silently for about 1 minute to get familiar with the content. Then, play the recording of the dialogue. Ask students to listen and fill in the blanks in a handout with the missing words while listening. The blanks can be some key words about the functions or usage of the smart device. After listening, check the answers with the whole class. Play the recording again if necessary for students to correct their mistakes. Step 4: Post - viewing and Post - listening (10 minutes) Comprehension Check Ask some more detailed questions about the video and the dialogue to check students' understanding. For example, "How does the smart fridge help people manage food?" and "What are the advantages of using the smart speaker according to the dialogue?" Let students answer in complete sentences. Conduct a group discussion. Divide students into groups of four. Give each group a topic related to smart devices, such as "If you could invent a new smart device, what would it be and what functions would it have?" or "Do you think smart devices will completely replace traditional devices in the future? Why or why not?" Let students discuss in groups for about 5 minutes. Then, ask each group to choose a representative to share their group's ideas with the whole class. Language Practice Provide some sentence patterns on the PPT, such as the ones in the knowledge list. Ask students to make sentences using the new vocabulary and the given sentence patterns. First, let students practice in pairs. Then, invite some pairs to share their sentences with the class. Step 5: Summary and Homework (5 minutes) Summary Summarize the key points of this lesson with the students. Review the new vocabulary related to smart devices, the important sentence patterns, and the main ideas of the video and dialogue. Ask students to recall the functions of different smart devices they learned today. Homework Ask students to write a short passage about their favorite smart device. They should introduce what it is, what functions it has, and why they like it. The passage should be at least 50 words. Encourage students to find more information about smart devices on the Internet or in books and share it with the class next time. 教学反思 After this class, I need to reflect on several aspects. Firstly, in terms of vocabulary teaching, although the word - reading game was helpful for students to remember the new words, some students still had difficulty pronouncing some complex words like "application". In future lessons, more time should be allocated to pronunciation practice, and more vivid ways such as using word - pronunciation apps or showing pronunciation mouth - shape videos could be adopted. Secondly, during the viewing and listening activities, some students had trouble catching all the important information, especially when inferring the speakers' attitudes. This indicates that more pre - teaching of relevant cultural and background knowledge is needed to help students better understand the materials. Also, more targeted listening and viewing exercises with different levels of difficulty should be designed to gradually improve students' skills. Thirdly, in the group discussion part, some groups were not very active, and some students dominated the discussion while others hardly participated. In the future, clear group - work rules should be set, and students should be trained to cooperate better in groups. Teachers can also move around the classroom during group work to provide more guidance and encouragement. Overall, through this reflection, I will adjust my teaching methods and strategies to make the teaching of this unit more effective and engaging for students. 2 / 37 学科网(北京)股份有限公司 学科网(北京)股份有限公司 $$