第八课时
Speak up & Study skills
本课时基本任务
1.能流利的说出26个英文字母的顺序。
2.会使用英语词典查单词。
3. 谈论过去和现在的习惯
本课时必会单词：surprised, feeling, over,
本课时必会词组：primary school, junior high school, come before/after…, at the top corner of each page, help somebody do something, the changes in one’s life
本课时要了解的句型：
1.When I was in primary school, my mother took me to school every day.
2.Since I started junior, high school, I’ve come to school by bus on my own.
3.I have the same feeling.
4.I enjoy chatting with you and my friends after class.
5.‘l’ comes before ‘n’. /‘a’ comes before ‘k’.
I. Lead-in
T: We know there have been great changes in Hong Kong over the years from the letter. Have there been changes in your life? Now you are in junior high school .You can go to school by bus or by bike. How did you go to school when you were in primary school?
S1: My father took me to school every day.
S2: My mother took me to school every day. Sometimes my grandfather took me to school.
II. Pre-task
Ask some students where they were born. Some students may answer the question. They were born in Nanjing or in other places. And ask the students who were born in other places where they were. They may give many other places. And what feeling do they have when they come back to their hometown. Some students will say there are many changes in their hometowns. Then the teacher tells them they are very surprised at the changes.That is to say there have been many great changes in many places. Because China is developing very fast, there have many changes in China over/during these years.
三、While-task
Task 1
Listen to Millie and Sandy’s conversation on the tape
Task 2
Ask the following questions.
1)  How did Millie go to school when she was in primary school?
2)  How does Millie go to school now?
Task 3
Read the conversation in pairs. Then let the students make a similar conversation in pairs. Work in pairs and replace the dialogue according to the given.
Task 4
Work in pairs and find out about the changes in your partner’s life.
Task 5
When we do some reading, we often meet many new words. Ask the students what they will do when they meet new words. And tell them to look them up in an English dictionary is the best way to solve the questions. But how do you look up a new word in an English dictionary? Tell them how to use an English dictionary.
First show a dictionary to the students, and tell the students the English words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order from ‘A’ to ‘Z’. That is to say, the words which begin with ‘A’ are at the very beginning of a dictionary. And the words which begin with ‘B’ come after the words begin with ‘A’ and so on. If two words start with the same letter, we look at the second letter to decide the alphabetical order. If the first two letters of two words are the same, we look at the third, and so on. Ask the students to put the following words in alphabetical order. Turn to page 16. Then check the answers.
Task 6 Part B
On the left are some page numbers and guide words from a dictionary. Help Daniel write down the page numbers for the words on the right.
And check the answers.
IV. Post-task Do some games.
1.Give Ss some coded sentences. Ell them that in order to decode the message, they must replace each other letter with the letter that comes before it in the alphabet, e.g.
• Upebz jt Uivstebz. (Today is Thursday.)
• J mjlf dipdpmbuf. (I like chocolate.)
• Xf mjlf jo Cfjkjoh. (We live in Beijing.)
• Uif tvo sjtft jo uif fbtu. (The sun rises in the east.)
2. Give Ss some coded sentences. Ell them that in order to decode the message, they must replace each other letter with the letter that comes after it in the alphabet, e.g.
• Ohyyz hr lx ezuntqhsd ennc.
(Pizza is my favourite food.)
• Kds’r fn sn sgd bhmdlz.
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