Period: The Second Period
Content: Lesson 50
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Understand the text.
2. Learn some useful words and phrases.
Language Focus: room, hour after hour.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing the teaching aims
II. Revision
Get the students to revise the numbers first, then give them a dictation:
A. 173 B. 6854 C. 17 000 D.456789 E.88990 F.378565214. Finally check their answers.
III. Leading in
Ask: Do you know what the population of China or any other country in the world is? Then say: Today we're going to read about the world’s population. The world’s population is growing very fast. It is a big and serious problem. Can you tell me the reasons? Let the students discuss and help them answer with: “There isn't enough food, work for too many people. There aren't enough houses…” etc.
Let the students read the questions at the top of the page, get them to know very clearly, then ask them to read the passage quickly. And answer the questions.
IV. Reading
Get the students to look at the Exercise below:
1. How many babies are born in one hour?
2. What do you think is the greatest challenge of the world today?
3. How is the world’s population growing?
4. When was the population over 6 billion?
5. What will happen in about 600 years?
Go through the questions, then read the passage more carefully, try to find all the answers in the reading. Discuss the answers with the classmates. The students should understand the meaning of the words such as: earth, mouth, space and century from the context. Let them note the use of comparative of adjectives and adverbs in the passage. Finally check the answers with the whole class.
V. Practice
Let the students know a little more knowledge about the world’s population.
The world’s population is now over 60 billion. It's likely to reach 10 billion by the middle of the 21st century. The Third World population is rising rapidly, straining health and education systems, hitting the environment, causing explosive urban growth and complicating food supply. So population has become a serious problem. The reading passage in this lesson aims to draw the student － concern about this great world problem.
VI. Language Focus
Get the students to know how to use the following word and expressions.
1. room: I’m afraid, there is no room ( space ) for us on the bus.
This big bag takes up too much room.
Let me make room for our teacher.
2. hour after hour: The clock goes on striking hour after hour.
Peter stayed in bed day after day.
Year after year went by, she still didn't receive her son's news.
VII. Workbook
Do Exercises 2 and 3 individually, then check the answers with the whole class.
The answers to Exercise 2: about, not, Multiply by. Hour after hour, fast, developing, problem, developed, slow down.
The answers to Exercise 3: 1. hardly 2. at the beginning of 3. path 4. worth 5. Beg your pardon
VIII. Consolidation
Go through the passage again. Discuss the problems that the population explosion will bring. Get the students to use as much English as possible.
Exercises in class
Write a short passage about the population,
1. 人口问题是世界上最大的问题之一。
2. 人口增长非常快。
3. 600年后，地球上将只有立足之地了。
4. 中国人口众多。
5. 如果每个家庭只生一个孩子，问题就会变得好多了。
初三 Unit 13 The world's population Lesson 51教案
Period: The Third Period
Content: Lesson 51
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Review the comparative forms of adjectives.
2. Learn the Future - in - the Past Tense.
Language Focus:
1. Grammar
2. useful expressions: prefer to do something. rather than do sth.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing the teaching aims
II. Revision
Do some numbers practice orally. Then let some students retell the passage. Finally, choose one or two good students to give their own ideas about the worlds population.
III. Leading in
Say: As you know, People's life is getting better and better, more and more people want to buy cars, if you have much money, you'll buy a car. Ask: Do you think cars will become cheaper when more people buy cars? Let the students discuss this question then ask the students: What is the most expensive car in the world?
IV. Read and act
Let the students read the dialogue quickly and find the answer to this question. Then check the answer with the students. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Explain some language points:
1. prefer to do something…rather than do something
I prefer to stay at home rather than go out.
2. agree with: They didn't agree with each other.
3. Be worth: The book is worth 100 yuan.
Then let the students read and act it out.
V. Teaching Grammar
Make up more sentences, such as: I don't know if he will come back next week.
I didn't know if he would come back the next week.
Point out the use of the Future - in - the - Past Tense in the object clause of these sentences, because the action would happen from a given past time mentioned in the main clauses. Let the students see grammar in the Appendix of the students' books.
Do some practice.
1. I didn't know if she would invite me to her birthday party.
2. He didn't tell me when he would come back.
3. She didn't say where she would go.
4. We never know that population would become a big problem.
VI. Practice
Get the students to do Exercise 3 and ask the students to do more oral practice.
VII. Workbook
Do Exercise 2 in the workbook, Fill in the blanks together. The answers are:
did…go, went, Did…buy, bought, were, found, hate, took, moved, know, was, was… crying, found
IX. Summary
Exercises in class
Rewrite the sentences using the Future - in - the - Past Tense
1. I don't know if they will make friends with me.
2. Peter asks Betty when she will decide to stop drinking.
3. Mary says that she will take good care of that baby.
4. Lily hopes that you will catch up with the class.
5. We can't find out if the policeman will find him.
IX. Homework
1. Revise the whole lesson.
2. Make up ten sentences using the Future - in - the - Past Tense.
初三 Unit 13 The world's population Lesson 52教案
Period: The Fourth Period
Content: Lesson 52
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Practise listening.
2. Do the writing according to the diagram.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing the teaching aims
II. Revision
Choose some useful sentences from the students' homework and read them to class, then do more oral practice using the Future -in-the- Past Tense.
III. Leading in
Say: today we're going to hear about different languages in the world, and have the students look at the Exercise 1 in the workbook, read all the questions first, then read the numbers aloud. Try to guess the answers before listening.
IV. Listening
Listen to the tape and do Exercises. The answers are: 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. B7.C 8.A
Check the answers with the whole class.
V. Practice
Ask the students to look at the diagram in Part 2. Discuss it with the students, let them understand the information. Ask the students to do the exercise in pairs. Then check the answers orally. Finally get them to write down the whole passage. Pay attention to the first sentence, it means the people will not be able to find room to stand in if the population is too large. The answers are: small, slowly, quickly, faster, more, smaller, fewer, healthier
VI. Look and ask
Ask the students to look at the list of cards and let the students ask and answer in Pairs. For example: A: How much is the car? or What’s the price of the car? or How much does the car cost? B: It’s… Then discuss about why your car is the best.
VII. Presentation
Ask the students: Do you like travelling in your holiday, let the students discuss. Then tell the students we'll learn something about Sam, ask the questions:
1. Which countries would he travel to for holiday?
2. Was his plan very good?
Listen to the tape and answer the questions. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Explain some language Points:
1. travel to…
Last year Sam travelled to Beijing.
2. become interested in:
He became interested in science when he was eight years old.
3. be busy doing something:
The students are busy reading English now.
VIII. Checkpoint 13
Go through Checkpoint 13 and make sure the students can understand the grammar and useful expressions.
IX. Workbook
Do Exercises 2 and 3, ask the students to do them in pairs.
Do Exercise 4. The answers are: 1. would go, would get 2 would be, would be, said, would be, received 3 decided, didn't know, would teach, said, would leave, wouldn't be 4 was, found, would use, down loaded, made
Exercises in class
Rewrite the sentences.
1. What’s the population of the world?
_________ _________ people _________ _________ in the world?
2. My home is twenty minutes on foot.
It __________________ 20 minutes to go home.
3. I forgot everything, so did Jim.
________I ________ Jim could ________ everything.
4. He was late for school, I was late, too.
He was late for school, I ________ ________ ________, ________.
X. Homework
1. Revise the whole unit.
2. Use the useful expressions to make up a story.
3. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.