2.　　 In order to know school life in the countries where English is spoken, ask the questions about reading to know important information.

Step2 Presentation

1.　　 Help Ss make sentences with “more … than, less … than, fewer … than, the most, the least, the fewest, the sane as, different from, the same … as” using the objects in the classroom.

2．　 多媒体、录音机。

教学步骤

Step1 Revision

1．　 人物图片。

3．　 进一步复习巩固本单元的语法项目。

教学肉容：掌握一些重要的词组和句子。

　　　　 词组：number of students　　　　　　 length of summer holiday

　　　　　　　 have weeks off　　　　　　　　 　in the summertime

　　　　　　　 spend… doing/on something　　 have Computer Studies lessons

　　　　 句型：I spend less time doing homework than John does.

　　　　　　　 How many Grade 8 classes are there at your school?

教学准备：

2．　 了解更多中外学校生活的异同点。

1．　 听取细节，提炼信息。

2. 多媒体

教学步骤

Step 1 Starting by checking learning

we learned how to compare two things. Now let me check if you have grasped it very well. Ask the students to open their books and turn to Page 28. Encourage the students to talk about the different schools. This time the students are hoped to compare not only two schools, but also all the schools.

Teachers can use the following questions to guide the students.

(1)Which school has the most subjects? Which school has the fewest?

(2)Who joins the most clubs? Who joins the fewest?

(3)Who enjoys the most free time? Who enjoys the least?

(4)Which school has the most subjects? Which school has the fewest?

(5)Who joins the most clubs? Who joins the fewest?

(6)Who enjoys the most free time? Who enjoys the least?

Get the students to finish Part B1, Page 29. Check the answers.

Step 2 Showing the pictures

Show the pictures on Page 29 one by one. Get the students to talk about them.

Step3 Finishing the exercises

(1)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B2, Page 29.

Encourage the students to make more sentences by comparing the three pictures.

(2)Get the students to finish the exercises in Part B3. (While doing the exercises the students must pay special attention to nouns. They are hoped to tell uncountable nouns from countable one, and then use ‘the most’ ‘the fewest’ with countable nouns and ‘the most’ ‘the least’ with uncountable nouns. )　 Invite the students to check the answers each other.　

(3)Invite the students to finish the exercises in Part B4, Page 30.

Check the answers.

Step 4 Informing the students

Inform the students that we can make another kind of comparison using ‘the same as’ and ‘different from’. The teacher can help the students to understand this by showing real objects.　 Keep doing this so as to make most of the students speak and understand the structures very well. Invite the students to talk about their school uniform. Show the pictures in Part C. Talking about Simon’s uniform, Daniel’s uniform and John’s uniform. It is easy for the students to come to the following sentences.

Step5 Do part C1

Do part of C1. First get the students to look at the pictures. Put it clear that Millie and Simon are from Beijing Sunshine School. And Tina and John are form woodland school. Get the students to complete Part C1 and then check the answers. Do Part C2 and check the answers.

Integreted skills

教学目标：

1. 图片

2. I will help the students focus on the subjects and the after-school activities by asking some questions:

(1) What subjects does John/Nancy have at his school?

(2) What did they do during their free time?

Step 2 Looking ahead

Inform the students with what they are going to learn in this period. In Unit One (8A), we have learned how to compare two things or more. Most adjectives then are used after a linking verb. In Unit Two, we will learn to talk about the amount of two things or more. It is the comparative and superlative use of adjectives that are used before nouns.

Show the pictures in Part A (P28) one by one. Ask the students to talk about the pictures.

Step 3 Comparing in pairs

Get the students to compare John’s school, Nancy’s school and Daniel’s school in pairs.

Step4 Talking about the school life

Get the students to talk about their school life by asking questions about subjects and the activities they do at school. Encourage the students to put down the information in the last column of the table. (Part A2) How many subjects do we have? What are they?

What do you do at school, when you are free? 　How much free time do you enjoy?

How long do you spend doing your homework?

Get the students to compare their own information with Nancy’s school, John’s school and Daniels school. We have too much homework to do. So we have less free time than John and Nancy. 　We have more subjects than Nancy.

Step5 Finishing Part A3

Get the students to finish Part A3. Then get the students to talk about their lives at school. They may get the following sentences. Judy enjoys reading books. She reads more books than we do. She spends more money on books than we do.

Tommy doesn’t like ball games . He spends less time playing football than we do.

Step 6　 Homework

Go over what we learned today and finish off the exercises in the books.

Grammar 2

教学目标

1运用the most 比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最多，运用the fewest和the least比较两个以上的事物，表示数量最少。

2运用the same as 和 be different from 做比较

教学内容

学会运用the same as 和different from 做比较

教学准备