1. Tell students that we use adjectives to describe people and things. Explain that we can put an adjective before a noun or after a linking verb. Read the examples on the page and invite students to think of more examples. Prompt students by giving an example with an adjective, e.g., placed before a noun, and ask students to put the adjective, e.g., after a linking verb and make another sentence.

4. To compare two people/ things using ‘(not) as’+ adjective+ ‘as’

Background information

This section further develops the use of adjectives already introduced in the reading and vocabulary sections. The story moves on from describing best friends for a magazine competition to describing classmates at Beijing Sunshine Secondary School. Daniel wants to write to his e-friends about his classmates. We already know some students’ features from earlier passages but we will learn more about their physical appearance and abilities in this section. Most adjectives are familiar so that students are able to focus on using them accurately in sentences. The use of ‘(not) as’+ adjective+ ‘as’ is introduced in the context of a survey about outdoor activities.

Part A

Teaching procedures

3. To use superlatives to compare three or more people/ things

2. To use comparatives to compare two people/ things

1. To use an adjective before a noun or after a linking verb to describe someone/ something

2. Alternatively, tell students who are drawing the pictures to ask as many questions as possible to get information about the person they are drawing, e.g., ‘Is your person a boy/ a man/ a woman/ tall /small /fat /thin? Is his/ her face square/ round?’ The student looking at the picture is only allowed to say ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’.

牛津 8A Unit1 教案(4课时)

Grammar

Objectives

1. Bring some pictures of people into the classroom or ask students to being pictures. These can be magazine or newspaper cuttings or photos. Divide students into groups of five. Give a picture to only one student in each group and ask him/her not to show it to the other students. Give blank pieces of paper to the other students. The student with the picture describes the features of the person in the picture while the other students draw the person. On the board, display the drawings together with the original picture. For stronger classes, invite students to find out the mistakes. For weaker classes, ask students to vote for the best drawing which resembles the picture.

3. Ask students to describe their friends, classmates, relatives or pop/sports stars using the adjectives they have learned. For stronger classes, encourage them to use any adjectives.

Game

2. Ask students to select and write suitable adjectives to describe themselves on a piece of paper. Invite some students to come forward and read the adjectives. Make sure that the atmosphere is supportive and that the rest of the class do not make any unpleasant comments.

1. Ask students to find more adjectives for each category of the adjectives used in Part A. draw this table on the board and brainstorm as many words as possible.

　Go through the adjectives and ask students to draw simple illustrations of the adjectives on pieces of paper. Invite some students to show their illustrations to the rest of the class.

　Provide pictures of people either pinned up on the board or cut out of magazines to groups of four students. Fay an adjective and ask students to find a picture illustrating it.