Task: My hometown课件配套优秀

英语（七年级下册） Unit 3

Welcome to Sunshine Town! Task

泰兴济川中学

刘春霞

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. use new words and expressions correctly; 2. make notes about the hometown before writing; 3. write about their hometown.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: hometown, friendly, raise, grow, wheat, smell, drive, raise cows; grow wheat; smell the flowers; 2. New structures: Some families raise cows, and others grow wheat.

I think it is a wonderful place to live.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. To make notes about the hometown before writing; 2. To write about the students’ hometown.

IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in Memory of Sunshine Town. T: Hello, boys and girls, today we will learn Task of Unit 3. Do you still remember the hometown of Class 1, Grade 7 students in Sunshine Middle School? Let’s complete the table. 【设计意图：通过回忆有关阳光镇的内容，引出“家乡”这一主题。】

Step 2 Presentation 1. John’s notes about his hometown. T: You really have a good memory. We have learnt something about Neil, one of the exchange students. Today we will meet another exchange student, John. He wanted to make a video about his hometown, so he made some notes about it. Read the notes and try to remember as much information as you can. 2. New words and phrases.

T: Time is up. John took some photos of his hometown. I’ll show them to you. Can you say something about these photos with the information in his notes?

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Picture 1: raise cows

Picture 2: grow wheat

Picture 3: smell flowers

Picture 4: hear birds sing 3. Make notes. T: Read Neil’s notes again. We can find that his notes include these pieces of information. 4. Listen and answer.

T: Before making the video, John wrote a script. Let’s listen to it and answer some questions. (1) How do people make a living? (2) What can people do for fun? (3) What are the people like there? (4) How do people go around?

5. Different parts of Neil’s script. T: How many parts can we divide the script into? What does each part talk about? Part 1 (Introduction): name, greetings. Part 2 (Main body): my house, things to do, hometown. Part 3 (Conclusion): opinions, invitation. T: Can you find the useful expression? 【设计意图：通过不同形式的练习，让学生充分理解文章。】

Step 3 Practice 1. Writing steps.

T: All right, students. It’s time for you to write about your hometown. Before writing, let’s talk about the writing steps. 2. Writing materials.

T: Here is a video of Wuxi. Let’s find out some information that we can use in it. (Play the video.) T: Can you describe what Wuxi is like? Wuxi is a lively city. Wuxi is a historical city. Wuxi is a modern city. Life in Wuxi is like dancing to music. Life in Wuxi is like drinking a cup of tea. 3. Make notes about Wuxi.

Hometown: about 4650 km2

over 6 million people

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full of beautiful view buses, trains, planes, underground, …

House:

Introduce your house and the environment around your house.

Things to do: go sightseeing

visit old towns

enjoy nice food

do some shopping … is … in area./There are …

Some … and many others …

You can … by …

You can … and you can also …

It’s a good place to …/I hope …

4. Writing structure. T: Here is my advice. You can divide your passage into five paragraphs. Here is what each paragraph is about. You can borrow some from it. 5. Sample writing. 【设计意图：通过对文章的分析，让学生知道文章的大体轮廓。为学生提供一些写作素材，提醒学生在写作中需要注意的地方，并给出范文，让学生自行完成一篇介绍家乡的短文。】

V. Homework

1. Write about your own hometown; 2. Recite John’s script.

Useful expressions: Hello, I am …/I’m going to

…

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