教材内容分析

This unit is the seventh unit in the first volume of Grade 7 Go for it. It mainly focuses on the communicative function of “shopping”. The topic of this unit is closely related to students’ life. Since most students have shopping experiences, they will have a strong desire to express, which can easily arouse students’ interest in learning and make them willing to participate in relevant activities. At the end of this unit, students can use the target language to talk about the color and size of clothes, ask and answer questions about the price of clothes, provide help for others or respond politely to other’s help. 

This unit consists of Section A and Section B. Section A mainly focuses on the theme of “shopping”, presenting 10 clothing nouns, 8 adjectives representing color and 4 adjectives describing the size and length of clothes. This part also reviews the cardinal numbers 1-9 and the demonstrative pronouns “the, this, that, these and those”. The core sentence patterns of this part are how much is / are …. In addition, this section also introduces some common shopping terms. Based on these language materials, this part requires students to understand the simple dialogue in the shopping center, obtain key information about clothes and price, and be able to use the learned sentence patterns, so as to prepare for further learning of shopping. In Section B, students will learn more cardinal numbers, which build vocabulary for talking more about clothes prices. This part also expands the topic of shopping between the salesman and customers in section A. The listening task is about personal preferences of clothes and the price. The reading material for this unit is an advertisement about Mr. Cool’s clothes store, aiming to train students to analyze the advertisement and write simple personalized advertisements. The post-reading activities not only deepen students’ understanding of the article, but also enable them to practice writing advertisements for their dream clothes stores.

单元重点、难点

Teaching important points:

1.Learn the pronunciation and spelling of the new words, phrases and the sentence patterns accurately.

2.To catch the key words and detailed information in listening activities.

3.To use the target language to make conversations with others accurately and fluently.

4.To employ reading strategies like skimming, scanning and careful reading to get the general and detailed information of the passage.

Teaching difficult points: 

1.Master the pronunciation of English letters in words.

2.Describe the price, size, and color of clothes.

3.Write effective advertisements.