一、教材内容分析

 

This unit is the last unit in the first volume of Grade 8 Go for it. The topic of this unit is mainly about ‘Decision making’. This unit focuses on the communicative function of ‘talking about consequence’, and it is closely related to the students’ life. 

This unit can be divided into two major parts: Section A and Section B. In Section A, it focuses on the activities of listening and speaking, presents the scene that students go to the party and the consequences of various situations which naturally bring students into the real context. At the same time, students are able to review simple future tense and be supposed to obtain new words, phrases and sentence patterns. Grammar focus is mainly concerned with first conditional if+will and modal verb should. It also helps students improve the ability of using appropriate verb forms in different grammar structures.

Section B is based on the learning of Section A, attaching importance to the abilities of reading and writing. Firstly, there is a listening material about future career planning, which can guide students to give others advice and think over their own career planning. Then, the reading material explores the topic of talking to other people when we have problems. The textbook designs some tasks which are beneficial to improve students reading skills, especially for the careful reading. Through learning this article, students are able to build up the confidence to solve problems and prepare for the next activity of writing friend’s problems and the possible solutions.

After learning this unit, the students’ English synthesizing capacity and the study strategy will be enhanced, and they will also obtain some life lessons, such as making future career planning and solving problems positively.

 

课时教学设计

一、教材内容分析

二、学习者特征分析

三、单元教学目标

四、单元重点、难点

五、单元教学安排

六、教学环境及资源准备

七、单元教学过程

八、教学反思