What Animal Are you？ 八年级新世纪英语说课稿

Warming-up and lead-in:

Enjoy a flash song about animals

Aim:

to arouse the students with the interest in learning English  

Pre-task:

1. Guess riddles about twelve animals

2.      Have a competition

3. A check-up on the words and expressions self- learning

Aim:

1. to help the students step into the text by guessing riddles and having a competition

2. to check the words the students have previewed

While-task: practice on the text

1.  Listen and answer the questions

2.       Act out the text

3.  Complete an e-mail

Aims:

1. to help the students understand the main ideas of the text

2. to improve the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing

Post task:

1. work in pairs: make up dialogues  according to the model

2. Have a discussion in groups: It is said“ A man’s own character shape his fortune”. As a middle school student, what character is the most important for you?

Aims:

1.              to encourage the students to communicate with each other

2.              to develop the students' ability of  co-operation

Conclusion

Assignment:

1. Read and recite the text

2. Conduct a survey among your friends and family members and write six to eight sentences about what animal he or she is.

Aims:

to have the students know more information about animal attributes as well as sb’s personality and character by investigating