李克瑜  睢县 初中英语  九年级第二单元Section B教学设计

Section B 1 (1a-2e)

Step 1 Presentation

    Show some pictures and words related to Halloween.

    Let students say something about Halloween.

Step 2 Listening

    1. Finish 1a: Look at the pictures and words related to Halloween. What do you

think this festival is about?

 scary      dress up     haunted house     black cat   

candy      ghost        trick or treat     October    spider

      Learn the new words: haunted, ghost, trick, treat, spider

    2. Finish 1b: Listen and answer the questions.

         Answers: houses, turn off, windows, dress up, cartoon, candies, play, give

Step 3 Pairwork

      1d Think about the Halloween activities that interest you most. Discuss what you have learned with a partner.

Step 4 Reading

    1. Warming up: give students some pictures about Christmas and finish 2a .

2. Reading tasks:

  1) Introduce Charles Dickens.

      2) Finish 2b: Read the passage about Christmas and answer the questions.

a. What are the common things that people think of for Christmas?

  Gifts, Christmas trees and Santa Claus.

b. Who wrote A Christmas Carol?

  Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

c. What is the true meaning or spirit of Christmas?

 The true spirit of Christmas is the importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us.

      3) Finish2c: Read the passage again and complete the chart.

      Learn some new words: present, dead

      4) Finish 2d: Answer the questions. Some answers need to be inferred.

      Step 5 Language points

    1. But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas…

      lie  v. (lay, lain) 存在; 平躺; 处于

      注意与lay的区别：

      lay  v. (laid, laid)下蛋; 产卵

     【运用】用lie或lay的适当形式填空。

      1) ________ in bed all the time is bad for your health.

      2) The hen _____ an egg every day.

      3) My mother ____ on the sofa for about an hour this morning.

      4) The duck _____ three eggs last week.

      Keys: Lying, lays, lay, laid

2. He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up like him.

      warn  v. 警告; 告诫

      常用于以下固定短语: warn sb. (not) to do sth. 表示“警告某人(不要)干某事”；warn sb. of/about sth. 表示“提醒 / 警告某人注意某事”。如:

The police warned us not to go out at night.

They warned him of the danger.

She warned her son about the fire.

end up  最终成为; 最后处于

3. The Spirit of Christmas 圣诞精神(圣诞节的意义)

      He also tells Scrooge to expect three spirits to visit him.

      他还告诉斯克鲁奇准备好等待三个幽灵的造访。

      第一个短语中spirit指与肉体相对而言的“精神; 心灵”解; 第二个句子中spirit是“灵魂; 鬼怪; 幽灵”之意。

4. He is mean and only thinks about himself.

      mean在句中作形容词, 意思是“吝啬的; 小气的; 自私的”。如:

      Mr. Smith is a mean old man.

      史密斯先生是一个小气的老头。

      Some people around us are mean with money.

      我们周围有些人在金钱方面十分吝啬。

5. He now treats everyone with kindness and warmth, spreading love and joy everywhere he goes.

      他现在用善良和温暖对待任何人, 到处传播爱与快乐。

      spread  v. (spread, spread) 传播; 展开

             n. 蔓延; 传播

Step 6 Summary

dress up, care about, make money, used to, end up, warn sb. to do ath.,

Step 7 Homework