Unit 12 Section B （1a～2e）-【绿卡初中创新题】2025-2026学年九年级下册英语同步教案(人教版)河北专版

课时

第3课时 Section B （1a~2e）

课型

新授课

教学目标

【知识与技能】

1. 能掌握以下词汇：

fool, costume, embarrassed, costume party, announce, spaghetti, hoax, sell out, discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing

2. 能掌握以下句型：

(1)What happened to Dave on April Fool's Day?

(2)By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.

(3)By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.

【情感、态度与价值观】

了解不及时做某事而造成的危害，培养学生养成良好的行为习惯。

教学重点

1. 掌握本课时出现的新词汇。

2. 进行听力训练，提高综合听说能力。

3. 阅读短文，获得相关信息，提高学生们的综合阅读能力。

教学难点

培养学生的阅读能力，理解关键词和短语的能力。

教学准备

1. 设计并制作本课时所涉及的图片、教学幻灯片。

2. 本课的音频。

教  学  过  程

Step 1: Leading in

1. Ask students a few questions about the April Fool’s Day, so that the teacher can check how much the students know about the it.

2. Introduce some knowledge about the April Fool’s Day to the students.

Step 2: Pair work

1. Ask students to put the words in the box of 1a in the correct columns. Some words can go in more than one column.

(Answers: Nouns: fool, costume, change, clock

Verbs: fool, invite, go off, get dressed, show up, realize, change, stay up

Adjectives:embarrassed, empty, tired)

2. Tell your partner something that happened to you recently. Use two or more words in 1a.

(Example: Last Friday night, my friend invited me to his birthday party. When I got there, I found it was a costume party. I was the only person who wasn’t wearing a costume. I was really embarrassed.)

Step 3: Listening

1. Asks students to look at the people in the picture and guess their feelings.

(Attention: Ask students to use an adjective to describe how they would feel when they encountered the situation in each picture.)

2. Ask students to listen and write each person’s name under the correct picture.

(Answers: b-Joe, c-Nick, d-Dave)

3. Before playing the recording again, tell students that they can create a chart to take notes. This will help since there are three speakers. A chart with the three speakers’ names at the top will help students keep track of who said what.

(Answers: 1. D  2. N  3. J  4. J  5. D  6. N)

4. Listen and read the listening material.

Step 4: Group work

1. In groups of three, get students to decide which boy’s story they want to retell using the third person.

2. Give students time to retell the stories.

3. Get students to switch roles and tell the stories using the first person. This means that each students will tell another boy’s story as if he / she were that boy.

Step 5: Preparation for 2b

Ask students to work in pairs, and then share their experience of playing jokes on others.

(Attention: The teacher can invite some students to share their experiences to the class.)

Step 6: Reading

1. Ask students to read the passage and then match each paragraph with its main idea.

(Answers:

Paragraph 1- An introduction to April Fool’s Day

Paragraph 2 - Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day

Paragraph 3 - A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day

Paragraph 4 - One of the most famous trick played)

2. Ask students to read the passage and explain the key words and phrases to students.

3. Divide the class into groups of four. Tell students to close their textbooks. Read the questions in 2c aloud to the class one by one, and then get students to discuss and answer the questions in sequence in their groups.

4. Give students a minute or two to discuss and come up with their group answer. After you have read aloud all the questions, allow students to open their textbooks and check their answers.

(Answers:

1. A reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti because spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.

2. It was said that the special water would help people lose weight.

3. He lost both his girlfriend and his show.

4. It was in October 1938.

5. Orson Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story.)

5. Get students to fill in their blanks in 2d before sharing their answers with a