Unit 8 Once upon a Time-Section A（1a-1e）教案 2024-2025学年人教版（2024）英语七年级下册

课程基本信息

学科

英语

年级

七年级

学期

春季

课题

Unit 8 Once upon a Time-Section A（1a-1e）

教学目标

Master the key vocabulary: once upon a time, prince, princess, king, queen, castle, forest, stepmother, brave, marry

Grasp the key sentence structures:

“Once upon a time, there was/were...”

“What happened next?”

“Then, ...”

Understand the context and main idea of the listening materials in 1b, 1c and 1e.

重难点

Mastery of the key vocabulary and sentence structures related to fairy tales.

Ability to use “Once upon a time, there was/were...” to start a fairy tale introduction.

Ability to listen for specific information and event sequences.

教学过程

教学环节

学习活动（包含设计意图）

Step 1: Warming-up & Lead-in (5 minutes)

Greeting:

Teacher: “Good morning, class! How are you today?”

Students: “Good morning, teacher! We’re fine, thank you.”

Teacher: “Great! Today, we’ll talk about something interesting—fairy tales. Do you like fairy tales?”

Fairy Tale Video Clip Show: Play 1-minute video clips of Snow White and Cinderella without sound. Ask students: “What fairy tales are these? Can you name the characters in them?”

Vocabulary Introduction: Show picture cards of key vocabulary (e.g., hold up the “princess” card and say: “This is a princess. She is very

beautiful.”). Read each word twice, and ask students to repeat. Then, match the pictures with the words on the screen to check understanding.

Design Intent

The greeting helps build a harmonious teacher-student relationship and quickly focuses students’ attention on the class.

Fairy tale video clips are visually attractive and closely related to students’ life experience, which can immediately arouse their interest in the topic.

Using picture cards to teach vocabulary is intuitive and vivid, which conforms to the cognitive characteristics of Grade 7 students and helps them remember new words easily.

Step 2: Presentation (10 minutes)

Sentence Structure Presentation:

Teacher points to the “castle” picture and says: “Once upon a time, there was a castle.” Then points to two “princesses” pictures and says: “Once upon a time, there were two princesses.” Emphasize the difference between “there was” and “there were”.

Write the sentence structure on the blackboard: “Once upon a time, there was/were...”

Ask students to make sentences with the new vocabulary. For example: “Once upon a time, there was a brave prince.” “Once upon a time, there were three bears.” Correct mistakes in their sentences timely.

Introduction of Event Sequence Expressions:

Teacher tells a short fairy tale fragment: “Once upon a time, there was a little girl. Her name was Little Red Riding Hood. Then, she went to visit her grandmother. Next, she met a wolf in the forest.” Highlight “then” and “next”.

Ask: “What do ‘then’ and ‘next’ mean here?” Guide students to understand that they are used to describe the order of events.

Design Intent

Presenting the sentence structure through pictures and examples makes