Unit 8 Making a Difference 第一课时 Section A(1a-2d) 教学设计 2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Topic

Unit 8 Making a Difference First Period Section A(1a-2d)

Teaching Content

Through teaching activities such as vocabulary transformation, part of speech identification, passage blank-filling and book report writing, students will be guided to conduct an in-depth study and application of the vocabulary and grammatical knowledge of this unit, and complete the reading log project.

Lesson Type：Lecture Lesson      Period：1

Total Periods

Teaching Material Analysis：This lesson is the opening listening-speaking class of Unit 8, focusing on "making a difference". Through 1a picture matching, 1b-2c listening exercises and 2d dialogue practice, it lays the foundation for related vocabulary and basic sentence patterns, connects with the unit theme, and guides students to talk about things that make a difference and how to help others.

Student Learning Situation Analysis：Eighth-grade students have the awareness of helping others and have related life experiences. They have a certain English foundation but lack vocabulary about making a difference, and are weak in listening for details and fluent oral expression, needing situational guidance.

Core Literacy (Teaching) Objectives：

1. Language Ability: Master basic vocabulary and key sentence patterns about making a difference and helping others, understand short conversations on this topic, complete listening tasks and have simple oral communication.

2. Thinking Quality: Extract key information through listening, sort out dialogue logic and improve language organization ability.

3. Cultural Awareness: Cultivate the awareness of helping others, establish the concept of making a positive difference to society and develop good moral qualities.

4. Learning Ability: Develop the habit of active listening and speaking, and improve cooperative communication and independent learning abilities.

Key Teaching Points： Master core vocabulary and basic sentence patterns related to making a difference, understand listening materials and capture key details, and talk about simple ways to help others.

Difficult Teaching Points：Flexibly use target sentence patterns to describe things that make a difference and express personal views fluently.

Teaching and Learning Methods：Teaching Methods: Situational Teaching Method, Task-based Teaching Method; Learning Methods: Listening-Speaking Practice, Cooperative Inquiry Method.

Teaching Preparation:Multimedia courseware, listening audio, pictures of helping others and core vocabulary cards.

Preview the pre-class preparation section of this period in Learning Method Vision

Teaching Process Design

Revision

 Step 1 Lead-in

1. Ask students:“What volunteer activities do you know? Have you ever done any volunteer work?”

2. Encourage students to give more answers and write down their ideas on the blackboard.