Unit 1 Past and present Vocabulary开学必备教案2 牛津译林版八年级下

Vocabulary

(Opposites)

Teaching goals

●To develop an understanding of the opposites.

●To use appropriate adjectives to express positive and negative meanings. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Having a brainstorming

The teacher says the first sentence; one of the students says the second sentence as soon as possible.

My ruler isn’t long. →It’s _____. (short)

My bag is heavy. →It’s not _____. (light)

I’m happy today. →I’m _____today. (sad/unhappy)

The train travels fast. →The bike goes _____. (slow)

This solution is correct. →This solution is _____. (incorrect/ wrong)

Step 2 Having a revision

Ask the students to make sentences with the opposites. Then write them on the blackboard. Ask the students to read them aloud.

Step 3 Presenting

Complete the sentences with proper words.

1. 商店有两件毛衣，红的便宜，蓝的贵。

There are two sweaters in the shop. The red one is _____, and the blue one is _____.

2. Jim是阳光中学的学生。他认为语文简单，英语难。

Jim is the student in the Sunshine School. He thinks Chinese is _____, English is _____.

3. 过多的甜食对人们的身体不健康，我们应该多吃健康的食品。

Too much sweet food is _____ for people, we should eat more _____food.

4. 城里的孩子很幸运。在贫困地区的一些孩子很不幸，他们没钱上学。

The children in the cities are _____. Some children in the poor areas are _____

because they don’t have money to go to school.

5. 乘火车旅行很愉悦，乘坐长途汽车很不开心。

It’s _____ to travel by train. It’s _____ to travel by coach.

(Keys: cheap, expensive; easy, difficult; unhealthy, healthy; lucky, unlucky; pleasant, unpleasant)

Step 4 Practicing

Millie wrote about the interview on the computer, but Andy changed the file and made nine mistakes when Millie was not around. Pl ease read Millie’s profile and underline the wrong words.

(Show the students the passage on page 12)

Step 5 Playing a game

Opposite Snap

Prepare eight sets of cards. Divide the class into eight groups. Give each group a set of cards. Each set consists of 10 pairs of opposites. Ask students to shuffle the cards and redistribute them evenly.

In each group, students take turns to read out one of their cards. If a student has the card with the opposite meaning, he/ she says “Snap!”, taking both cards and placing them face up on the table. If the student who reads out the word has the opposite card in his/her hand, he/ she says the words aloud and places both cards face up on the table and the next student reads out a word.

At the end of the game, when all the cards are on the table, the student in each group with the most sets wins.

Step 6 Doing homework

a. Read and learn these words and sentences by heart:

write an article on… for…, have an interview with…, live here for a short time, ask…about…, look unhealthy, be lonely from time to time, miss one’s friends, feel happy about…, enjoy the changes, tell sb. one’s future plan, move next to…

b. Translation

1. 对老年人大叫是不礼貌的。

2. 在两小时内完成这项工作是不可能的。

3. 那两个双胞胎看起来一样，但他们穿着不同的毛衣。

4. 学生们都不喜欢他，因为他很不诚实。

5. 今天外面是冷还是热？

(Keys: 1. It’s not polite to shout at the old. 2. It’s impossible to finish this task within two hours. 3. These two twins look the same, but they wear different sweaters. 4. None of the students like him, because he is dishonest. 5. Is it cold or hot today? )