七年级新目标上Unit 4 Wheres my backpack教案

for the things they hear and play the recording for a second time.

T: Look at the boxes beside the things in the picture. You’ll write the number in the box after listening to the conversation again.

Check the answers. Then ask the students to read the conversation after the recording.

Step IV Practice (1c: P19)

Ask the students to work in pairs and make new conversations using the words in the box.

T: Now, read the conversation in the box. And then work in pairs and use the words in the box to make new conversations with your partner. Sample dialogue 1: S1: Where’s the bowl? S2: It’s on the table. S1: Where are the apples? S2: They are in the bowl.

For further practice, the teacher can put some common classroom items in various positions around the room (in, on, and under other objects). Ask the students to work in pairs and practicing asking and answering the questions: Where is / are …? It’s / They’re …

Step V Homework

1. Ask the students to finish the exercises on page 13 in the workbook. 2. Learn the words in this unit (on page 108) by heart.

Period 2 Listening and speaking (II)

Target language目标语言

1. Words & expressions生词和短语

baseball, key, pencil case, computer game, backpack 2. Key sentences重点句子 Is the baseball on the sofa?

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No, it isn’t. It’s under the chair. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to talk about where things are. Learning ability goals学能目标

Help the students learn how to talk about where things are. Teaching important / difficult points教学重难点 How to talk about where things are. Teaching aids教具准备 A tape recorder.

Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step I Warming up and Lead-in

In this procedure, ask the students to ask and answer some questions about where things are.

T: Hello, everyone. This class we’ll begin with a game, “chain questions”. Work in groups. The first student in your group asks a question, the second answers the question and asks the third students another question and so on. If you can’t answer or ask a question about where things are, please sing an English song or read an English text. First I’ll ask a question. T: Where is my book, Wang Lin?

S1: It’s on your desk. Where is your backpack, Ma Lin? S2: It’s under the desk. Where is your pencil, Li Jia?

S3: It’s in my pencil case. Is your book on your desk, Huang Jiang? S4: No. It’s in my backpack. Is your sister at school? S5: Yes, she is. Is your …?

Write “on” “under” “in” and “at” on the blackboard. Try to encourage more students to join in the game.

Step II Listening (2a, 2b: P20)

Ask the students to listen to a conversation and number the things.

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T: Tommy has many things in his room. Look at the six things in the picture and say what Tommy has.

S: From Picture 1, I know Tommy has some books. S: From Picture 2, I know he has three keys. S: From Picture 3, I can see he has a computer game. S: From Picture 4, I can see he has a baseball. S: From Picture 5, I know he has a pencil case. S: From Picture 6, I can see he has a backpack.

Encourage or help the students to write the words and expressions “book”, “key” “computer game”, “baseball”, “pencil case”, “backpack” on the blackboard. And ask the students to read the words and expressions together.

T: Now listen to a conversation. In the conversation, Tommy is asking Sally about where his things are. For the first time, just listen carefully. For the second time, put the numbers 1-6 in the boxes in the right order, OK? Now listen.

Ask the students to listen to the recording again and try to find where the things they hear are in the picture and number the things in order.

T: Look at 2b. This is Tommy’s room. He doesn’t know where his things, after listening to the conversation again, find where each of his things is and number the things in order.

Play the recording and then check the answers.

Ask the students to listen to the conversation again and repeat after the recording.

Step III Practice (2c: P20)

Ask the students to work in pairs and ask and answer questions about where the things in the picture above are.

T: Look at Tommy’s room again. There are many things in it. Can you name some things in the room? S: Yes. A TV set, a sofa. S: A chair. S: A bed.

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T: Please work in pairs and ask and answer questions about the things in the picture above.

A sample conversation:

S1: Is the pencil case on the table? S2: No, it isn’t. S1: Where is it? S2: It’s under the sofa. …

Then ask some pairs of students to act out their conversations for the class.

Step IV Grammar

Ask the students to read the sentences in the grammar box and learn to use the prepositions at, in, on, and under.

T: When you talk about where things are, you use at, in, on, and under. Now please read the sentences in the grammar box.

Show the following and ask students to read these expressions or sentences loudly. at

at home / at school / at the door / at his desk Tommy’s sister is at home. Tommy is at school. in

in the same school / in the bag / in my pencil-box / in our class / in the room / in Grade 7

My pen is in the pencil-box. There is a fox in the box. on

on the floor / on the wall / on the blackboard / on the desk The cup is on the table. My books are on the desk. under

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