一、教材内容分析

This unit is the fourth unit in the second volume of the book, Go for it, Grade 8. The topic is about some problems——personal interactions, confusions and pressures——faced by contemporary primary and secondary school students, and suggestions for these problems. Personal interaction is close to students’ life, draws students' attention in learning easily, and makes them participate in relevant activities actively. In section A, it talks about problems of study, life, and relationship. Students are encouraged to ask and state various problems they meet and give reasonable suggestions. Section B will influence student in the aspects of communicating with others, adjusting their moods, and releasing stress. Through the study of this unit, students can master the usages of model verbs “could” and “should” to express suggestions, a sentence pattern “why don't you...?” to give advice, and conjunctions “until” “so that” and “although” to express adverbial clauses. Students should reflect on common conflicts in the family, ask and state the troubles of themselves and others, give targeted suggestions, and deal with the communication errors with parents, friends, and classmates. This unit will play a major role to help students face interpersonal issues correctly.

二、学习者特征分析

After five years of English learning, the students have a fundamental understanding of the requirements of English learning in junior high school. However, there is still many a problem to be solved. In general, the students’ proficiency level is not high and attitude towards English study is not positive enough. When outputting, they are still making obvious grammatical mistakes, sentence structure faults, and nonnative expressions. Students are familiar with the topics that are close to life, so they have something to say and are willing to discuss and share. There are also a few students whose English foundation is weak and learning motivation is low. More scenes and activities should be organized by teachers to interest students, and improve their abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 

 

课时教学设计

一、教材内容分析

二、学习者特征分析

三、单元教学目标

四、单元重点、难点

五、单元教学安排

六、教学环境及资源准备

七、单元教学过程

八、教学反思