八年级英语Unit 12: What’s the best radio station?
Lesson One
Teaching objects:
1. Teach the students to use superlative adjectives to compare things.
2. Get the students to master superlative adjectives through making comparisons and discussions of preferences.
New words and expressions:
Popular, popularity, comfortable, screen, fun part of town, cheap-cheapest, close-closest, etc.
Sentence patterns:
______ is the _______. Example: Town cinema is the cheapest.
_______has the _______.Example: Town cinema has the friendliest service?
Pre task:
Guessing Game:
1 Make good use of the phrases on p71-1a
2 Divide the class into 2 groups
3 Provide 4 statements for each group to guess where it is. If they are able to guess correctly after the first statement, they win 4 points, or they will lose 4 points instead. They can choose to guess at the second, third or the fourth statements, but they can only win fewer points like 3, 2, 1 points. On the other hand, they lose fewer points.
Group A
1) You can see many handsome men and beautiful ladies there.
2) It’s a popular place among young people. Boys and girls usually date there.
3) It’s in a fun part of town and you should buy a ticket to get in.
4) It has a big screen and many comfortable seats in the building.
Group B
5) It has friendly service, and you can eat snacks there.
6) Usually you should keep quiet in it, but sometimes you may laugh or cry inside it.
7) In Xiamen there are two on Zhangshan Road and one close to Zhongshan Road.
8) You can see new movies there.
Free talk: How do you choose a cinema to go to? What is important for you when you want to go to a movie theatre?
Read p71-1a and have students talk about their opinions
Give them some choices:
comfortable seats, big screen, friendly service, new movies, distance(how far) from home, lying in a fun part of town, popularity, cheap tickets
Possible basic sentence patterns:
I think _____ is important for a movie theatre.
And I think _____is not important.
During task:
1. Make good use of section B 1b:
2. Demonstrate when to use superlative adjectives with the help of a information form and listening materials.
3. Teach the students how to use superlative adjectives to make comparisons and discuss preferences.
Comparison:
1. Do it in a competition of 2 groups. Every question is worth 1 point
2. Answer in full sentences or u will lose 1 point.
| distance | service | price | seats | screen | popularity | |
| Town cinema | 400 meters from home |
| 20 yuan | 800 seats | 60m×30m | 20 million people/ year |
| Movie Palace | 800m |
| 25 yuan | 1000 seats | 70m×35m | 25 million/ year |
| Screen City | 1km |
| 30 yuan | 600 seats | 80m×40m | 30 million people/ year |
Ask the students in the forms of competition:
1. Question: Which cinema is closer, Movie Palace or Town Cinema?
Answer: Town Cinema is closer than Movie Palace.
Q: Which cinema is closer, Movie Palace or Screen City?
A: Movie Palace is closer than Screen City.
Q: Which cinema is the closest of the three?
A: Town Cinema is the closest of the three.
2. Q: Which cinema has friendlier service, Town Cinema or Screen City?
A: Town Cinema has friendlier service than Screen City.
Q: Which cinema has friendlier service, Movie Palace or Screen City?
A: Screen City has friendlier service than Movie Palace.
Q: Which cinema has the friendliest service of the three?
A: Town Cinema has the friendliest service of the three.
3. Q: Which cinema is more popular, Town Cinema or Movie Palace?
A: Movie Palace is more popular than Town Cinema.
Q: Which cinema is more popular, Movie Palace or Screen City?
A: Screen City is more popular than Movie Palace.
Q: Which cinema is the most popular of the three?
A: Screen City is the most popular of the three.
Listening Comprehension:
Ask the students to listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
Play the tape two times.
| Qualities | Movie Theatre |
| It has the biggest screens. | Screen City |
| It’s the most popular. It’s the closest to home. | Screen City Town Cinema |
| It’s the cheapest. | Town Cinema |
| It has the friendliest service. | Town Cinema |
| It has the most comfortable seats. | Movie Palace |
Memory Game:
Give the students 1 minute to memorize the form above and ask them questions:
Rules
1. Do not refer to the books.
2. Each question is worth 1 point.
3. Answer in full sentences.
Questions:
1. Which cinema is the most popular?
2. Which cinema has the most comfortable seats?
3. Which cinema has the biggest screen?
4. Which cinema is the closest home?
5. Which cinema has the friendliest service?
6. Which cinema is the cheapest?
After-task:
Analysis.
Language focus:
Review the rules of comparative adj. and get the students to deduce and conclude the rules of superlative adj.
A couple of examples are necessary:
cheap-cheaper-the cheapest
close-closer-the closest
big-bigger-the biggest
friendly-friendlier-the friendliest
popular-more popular-the most popular
comfortable-more comfortable-the most comfortable
Ask the students to pay attention to the differences between them and ask them why, therefore the rules can be deduced by the students themselves.
A discussion and competition:
Talk about the teachers of the class using superlative adj.
Rules: 1. Using superlative adj. only.
2.Do not repeat each other or you will lose 1 point.
Quiz: Top Game.
1. What is the longest wall in the world? The Great Wall.
2. Which country has the largest population in the world? China.
3. Which is the most famous university in Xiamen? Xiamen University.
4. Which is the heaviest animal on the land? The elephants.
5. Which is the earliest dynasty in Chinese history? Xia Dynasty.
6. What is the highest peak in the world? The Himalays.
7. Which language has the most speakers in the world? Chinese.
8. Which is the newest movie theatre in Xiamen? Kaiming.
9. Who is the tallest professional basketball player in China? Yao Ming
10. Which is the biggest island in China? Taiwan.
11. Who is the richest man in the world? Bill Gates.
12. Which is the biggest province in China? Xinjiang.
13. Which is the warmest province in China? Hainan.
14. Which is the coldest province in China? Heilongjiang.
15. Who is the youngest teacher in our school? Miss Zhou.
Pay attention to the letters in purple, if we take them away, it must be very hard to answer the questions, right? When you are comparing things, don’t forget this.
Homework:
1.P71 1b
2.New words and expressions in Unit 12
3.Collect some information about 3 clothes stores in Xiamen and then compare them.