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八上Unit 4 What’s the best movie theater? （Period 1 Listen and speak）

Ⅰ.Teaching aims

Students learn to make comparisons and discuss preferences.

Ⅱ.Key and difficult points:

A. Vocabulary

popular, comfortable, worse, worst, biggest, closest, friendliest, funniest, cheap, cheapest, pretty bad

service, clothing store, radio station, part, price, screen, seat

B. Target language

1  What’s the best cinema?

Sun Cinema. It’s the cheapest.

    2  Jason’s has good quality clothes.

It’s better than Trendy Teens.

Jason’s is the best store in town.

Structures

Superlatives with –(i)est, the most

Irregular comparisons good, better, the best, bad, worse, the worst

Grammar

The superlative degree of adjectives.

Ⅲ.Teaching methods:

Audio-lingual method; Communicative Approach; PPP

Ⅳ.Teaching procedures:

    Step 1 Warming up

Task 1 Ask students about the stores they like to go to. Write the names of these places on the board.

Task 2 Help students compare the three stores using the words good, better, and best.

    T: Where do you buy CDs?

    S1: I buy CDs at Great Records and New Music.

    T: Does Great Records have good CDs?

    S2: I think New Music has better CDs.

    T: Who has the best CDs?

    S3: The Music Mega Store.

Step 2 Key vocabulary

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Read each item to the class. Ask the students to explain what the word or phrase means in their own words.

Task3 Ask students to decide which of the things are important and which are not important. Write their answers.

Task4. Find out which items students think are most important.

Step 3 Target language

Task 1 Read the instructions.

Task 2 Point to the chart. Explain the meaning of any phrases students don’t know.

Task 3 Point to the list of Movie theaters in the instructions and the blank lines under the Movie theater heading.

   Task 4 Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.

   Task 5 Play again. Ask students to write the names of each movie theater on the blank line.

   Task 6 Check the answers.

Step 4 Pair work

Task 1 Ask students to look at the pictures in activity 1a. Then ask students to read the sample conversations in activity 1c.

Task 2 Ask students to read the instructions to the class .

Task 3 Ask students to work in pairs and make their own conversations about the movie theater in the picture.

Task 4 Ask some pairs to present one or more of their conversations to the class.

Ⅴ Homework

1 Remember the vocabulary and the target language.

2 Review the superlative degree of adjectives.