八年级英语下册 Unit 3 I used to be afraid of the dark Period

Unit 3 I used to be afraid of the dark Period 4

Teaching objectives: Knowledge objective Use the key words and expressions correctly

Ability objective Train Ss the ability of listening and speaking

Moral objective Enable students to know that everyone surely changes

Important points and difficult points

A: The usages of “used to do sth.”

1 words and expressions:

give up, death, afford, cause, patient, in the end, make a decision, necessary, to one’s surprise, exactly, even though, no longer, take pride in, pay attention to, waste, not any more. comic，

2 The usages of “used to do sth.”

B: To make students learn and grasp the key words and the target language. Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

Daily report

Step 2 Revision

Check homework..

Ask students to read their homework “How has my life changed?”

Step 3 Presentation

1.Take up Self-check Fill in the blanks with the words given and then make sentences with them, and then

look at the pictures in part 2 and write about how Yu Mei has changed. 2.Take up the Reading.

Listen to the tape and then answer the question “What made Martin Murray change?” Read the text again, find out the difficult points and then try solve them. Explanation:

① To do this，she had to work，and so was not often at home．

为了做这个(能交得起学费)，她不得不工作，因此不经常在家。

解释：to do this是不定式短语在句中作目的状语，do this替代的是前句中的pay for her children's education。

句中so是连词，意为“因此”，引导的是结果状语从句，从句中省略了主语she。 例如：He was sick, so they were quiet.他病了，所以他们很安静。

②His mother looked after him as well as she could．他母亲尽她所能地照顾他。 这是一个复合句。其中look after是固定短语，意为“照顾”。 as well as 意为“和 一样好”，此结构表示比较，引起一个比较状语从句。

例如：He can operate the machine as well as I do. 他操纵这台机器和我一样熟练。 ③She also told me that even though my father was no longer with us，he was watching me，and would always take pride in everything good I do．

她还告诉我说，虽然我父亲不再和我们在一起了，但他还一直在注视着我，并且将一直为我做的每一件好事而感到自豪。

这是一个复合句,that引导的宾语从句，此宾语从句又是一个复合句。其中even though是让步状语从句，后面的he do是主句。

no longer 意为“不再”，相当于not．．．any longer，强调的是时间上的“不再” 例如：He no longer lives here．＝He doesn't live here any longer．他不再住这儿了。 take pride in是固定短语，意为“对某人(因某事)感到自豪” means: be proud of。 例如：He takes pride in his daughter．他为他的女儿感到自豪。 everything good I do意为“我做的每一件好事”, I do作后置定语修饰everything good，形容词修饰不定代词时要后置。 Step4.Summary

In this class, we've mainly learned how Martin Murray has changed.

Step 5.Practice

Read the text and try to retell it.

Step6. Homework Copy some important phrases in this part and read the text to try to retell it.