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Unit 4 Then and now
教材分析 本单元学习的主题是谈论事物和人物的今昔变化。教学内容
主要是围绕吴一凡和爷爷、爸爸参观学校校史展览馆的情景来展
开的。教学重点是能听、说、读、写核心句型“There was/were
(no/not)…years ago. Now there is/are…” “Before, I/he/she/it was…
Now, I/he/she/it…”；能听、说、读、写单词和短语“dining hall,
grass, gym, ago, cycling, go cycling, ice-skate, badminton”。
教学目标 知识与能力目标：
能够听、说、读、写并在情景中恰当运用句型以及相关词汇
“There was/were (no/not)…years ago.” “Now there is/are…”
谈论或描述某个地方的今昔
能够听、说、读、写并在情景中恰当运用句型以及相关词汇
“Before, I/he/she/it was… Now, I/he/she/it…”谈论或描述自
己、家人以及朋友过去到现在的变化
能够在语境中理解生词或短语“star, easy, look up, Internet”
的意思，并能正确发音
情感态度、文化意识、学习策略目标：
鼓励学生将自己的烦恼、恐惧讲述给父母，释放内心的压力，
保持身心健康
能够在语篇中捕捉不同类型的信息，提炼文章的主旨大意，
并进行简单的推理
学会上网查阅资料，自主学习
课时安排 第一课时: Part A Let’s try & Let’s talk
第二课时: Part A Let’s learn & Find the mistakes
第三课时: Part B Let’s try & Let’s talk
第四课时: Part B Let’s learn & Listen, match and say
第五课时: Part B Read and write
第六课时: Part B Let’s check & Let’s wrap it up
The first period（第一课时）
Part A Let’s try & Let’s talk▶ 教学内容与目标
课时教学内容 课时教学目标
Let’s try 通过阅读Let’s try板块，能够理解题目要求并对将要
听的内容进行预测。
通过听录音，能够完成Let’s try板块的练习。
Let’s talk 通过观察、谈论Let’s talk板块，在图片、PPT和教师的
帮助下能理解对话大意，并能回答对话下面的问题。
通过听录音，能够按照正确的语音、语调及意群朗读
对话，并能在小组中进行角色表演。
能够听、说、读、写并在情景中恰当运用There be句型
描述某个地方过去与现在的状态和变化。
能够在语境中借助图片，理解新词汇“star, moon, look
up, Internet”的意思，并能正确发音。
了解人类首次登月的一些信息。
▶ 教学重点
能够理解并掌握本课的核心词汇和句型。
▶ 教学难点
能够在情景中恰当运用There be句型描述某个地方过去与现在的状态和变
化。
▶ 教学准备
1. 预习《状元大课堂》《创优作业100分》《状元作业本》中本课时的相关内容。
2. PPT课件、课文音频、视频等。
▶ 教学过程
Step 1: Warm-up & Revision & Lead-in①
1. Greetings.
2. Revision.
Review the verbs of the past form we’ve learned before.
3. Lead-in.
Present two pictures of our hometown, one of the present and the other of thepast. (出示课件)
T: Let’s have a look. What’s the difference?
（Write down the topic of this unit “Unit 4 Then and now”.）
◆ Teaching purpose①
通过快速复习和创设情境导入，引导学生迅速激活之前所学的动词过去式和
核心句型，为接下来的新授内容做铺垫，帮助学生更快地融入本课的学习。
Step 2: Presentation
1. Let’s try.
(1) Present the picture of our school.②（课件出示：一张本校现在的图片）
T: Our hometown changed a lot. So did the school. What’s our school like?
Ss: It’s big/clean/beautiful…
T: Do you know what the school was like many years ago? Is it different now?
Lead students to guess and predict.
T: Did the school change a little or a lot?
Ss: I think it changed…
T: Did the school have computers then?
Ss: No, it didn’t.
T: So students couldn’t use the Internet then. And they couldn’t look things up on
the Internet.
Present the new words “Internet” and “look up”. Learn the new words. Read them
in syllables after the teacher. （课件出示：Internet与look up的相关内容）
◆ Teaching purpose①
创设情境，引导学生关注学校的今昔对比，猜测学校过去的样子，引出并学
习生词Internet和look up。
(2)T: Did your parents go to the same school as you? What about your
grandparents?
Ss: Yes, my…went to the same school./No, they didn’t.
T: Wu Yifan’s grandpa went to the same school as Wu Yifan many years ago.
Now he is a guest visiting the school.
Present the exercise of “Let’s try”. ③ （课件出示：Let’s try板块的练习） Playthe recording.（出示课件）Let students listen and tick or cross. Listen again. Check
the answers. Then answer the question.
T: How did Wu Yifan’s grandfather learn in his old school?
Ss: He listened to the teachers and read lots of books.
(3) Let students read the listening materials and learn the key sentences.
（课件出示：Let’s try板块的听力材料）.
◆ Teaching purpose③
通过正误判断和问答题的听力活动设计，引导学生了解即将学习的对话背景
为即将学习的对话做铺垫。
2. Read and predict.④
Present the picture of “Let’s talk”. (出示课件)
T: Grandpa is visiting Wu Yifan’s school. What can you see in Wu Yifan’s
school?
Ss: We can see a playground/a library/a classroom…
T: Great job! What was Grandpa’s school like? Was there a playground/library in
Grandpa’s old school?
Ss: (Guess.)…
T: Can you predict what they are talking about?
Ss: They are talking about Grandpa’s old school.
◆ Teaching purpose④
仔细观察图片，借助学校的今昔对比，预测吴一凡爷爷的学校曾经的样子以
及即将开展的对话内容，培养学生的观察能力和逻辑推理能力。
3. Watch and answer.⑤
(1)Play the video of “Let’s talk”. (课件出示：Let’s talk板块的视频) Let students
get the main idea of the dialogue and answer the questions.(2)Check the answers.
(3)Check the predictions of Grandpa’s school.
(4)Present the judging clues and teach the key sentences.
◆ Teaching purpose⑤
逐步引导学生深入理解文本。通过学生对祖父故校的描述，帮助学生操练生
词和核心句型，为切实理解对话内容奠定基础，并为后面的拓展活动做好准备。
4. Get more details.⑥
Students read again and find out the answers to these questions.
Check the answers.Watch a short video. (课件出示：美国人首次登月的相关视频) Learn something
about American’s first landing on the moon.
Present and teach the words “moon” and “star”.（ 课件出示：moon和star的相关
内容）
◆ Teaching purpose⑥
通过向学生展示如何利用网络搜索相关信息，并借助互联网呈现人类第一次
登月的相关图片和视频，拓展学生的人文知识以及激发学生对航空航天的兴趣。
Step 3: Practice
1. Make sentences.⑦
T: Who is going to visit the moon one day?
Ss: Sarah.
T: Do you want to go to the moon? What are you going to do one day? Try to
make sentences using “I’m going to…” and then make a brief summary of the usage
of this key sentence pattern. (出示课件)
◆ Teaching purpose⑦
帮助学生在理解对话大意的基础上，借助关键句型进行操练表达，学会熟练
地表达自己在将来想要做的事情。
2. Read and act.⑧
(1)Let students read after the recording and pay attention to the pronunciation and
intonation. （课件出示：Let’s talk板块的音频）
(2)Let students practice the dialogue in roles in groups.
(3)Act out.
◆ Teaching purpose⑧
教师播放录音，学生听录音跟读。引导学生按照正确的语音、语调及意群朗
读对话，并能分小组进行角色表演。
3. Fill in the blanks.⑨
Compare Grandpa’s school with Wu Yifan’s school. What are the differencesbetween now and then? Let students pay attention to the forms of verbs then fill in the
blanks and complete the chart.
◆ Teaching purpose⑨
在完成表格填写的过程中，帮助学生进一步关注对话内容的细节，学会提炼
关键词句。以对比的形式加深对文本内容的理解。
Step 4: Consolidation & Extension⑩
1. Make a presentation.
T: What was your school like five years ago? What is it like now? Draw your
pictures. Then discuss and make a presentation. Show the pictures you draw and talk
about them. You can use the sentence patterns:
Five years ago, there was/were (no/not)… Now, there is/are…
2. Talk about the differences in your life.
T: How was your life in the past? How is your life now? There are some clues on
the PPT. (出示课件) Work in groups and discuss. You can use these sentence patterns:
There were no…many years ago. But there are…now.
Ask several groups to make a report.
◆ Teaching purpose⑩
通过描述学校和自己生活的今昔对比，巩固本课学习的核心词汇和句型，提
高学生的语言综合运用能力。
▶ 板书设计
▶ 作业设计
1. Practice the dialogue.
2. Do the exercises.（ 见“状元成才路”系列丛书《创优作业100分》或《状元作业本》对应课时作业）
▶ 教学反思
1. 教学设计清晰、有层次感，很好地达成了课程教学目标，实现了教学重难
点的突破。
2. 学生活动设计丰富详实，层层递进，由浅入深，注重对学生思维的激发和
引导，培养学生的自主学习能力。
3. 利用直观生动的图片、视频和课件辅助教学，激发学生的学习兴趣，更好
地帮助学生理解生词和文本。
4. 通过创设语言情境，帮助学生在情景中真实自然地使用所学语言。
5. 板书设计清晰明了，重点词汇和句型突出，起到了很好的辅助作用。
▶ Teaching Contents & Teaching Aims
Let’s try
Be able to predict the main content of the listening part by reading the sentences.
Be able to understand the recording and complete the exercise tick or cross.
Let’s talk
Be able to understand the main idea of the dialogue and answer the questions
below the dialogue.
Be able to read the dialogue correctly and then act out.
Be able to use “There be” sentence structure properly to describe the changes from
the past to the present.
Be able to understand and read the new words “star, moon, look up, Internet”.
Know something about man’s first landing on the moon.
▶ Teaching Priorities
Be able to understand and master the key words and sentence tructures.
▶ Teaching Difficulties
Use “There be” sentence pattern properly to describe the changes from the past tothe present.
▶ Teaching Procedures
Teaching Teacher’s Students’ Activities Teaching Purposes
Activities
Stages
Warm-up 1. Greetings. 1. Greetings. Review the key words
and sentence
& 2. Revision. 2. Review the verbs
structures quickly and
of the past form.
Revision 3. Lead-in. get prepared for the
3. Describe the following learning.
&
changes in their Lead in the topic of
Lead-in this class.
hometown.
Presentation 1. Let’s try. (1) Look at the Create a scene to lead
picture. Predict the students to predict the
(1) Present the
changes of our changes of our school
picture.
school. and lead in the new
(2) Present the words. Get to know
(2) Listen and tick
exercise of the background of the
or cross. Listen
“Let’s try”. dialogue through
again and check the
listening activities.
Ask a question. answers.
(3) Teach the key
Answer the question.
sentences.
(3) Read and learn.
2. Read and Read the picture and Cultivate students’
predict. guess the differences ability of observation
between Wu Yifan’s and logical thinking
school and Grandpa’s through prediction.
school. Predict the Get a good
main ideas of this preparation for the
dialogue. following learning.
Presentation 3. Watch and (1)Watch and answer. Lead students to get
answer. deeper understanding
(2)Check the
of the content.
(1)Play the video answers.
and ask
(3)Check the
questions.
prediction.
(2)Check the
(4)Learn the key
answers.
sentences.
(3)Check the
predictions.
(4)Teach the key
sentences.
4. Get more Answer the questions. Learn about human’sdetails. first landing on the
moon.
Practice 1. Make Try to make Practice the key
sentences. sentences using “I’m sentences and get
going to…” and then prepared for the next
make a brief part.
summary of the usage
of this sentence
structure.
2. Read and act. Read and practice in Make sure students
groups. Then act out can read the dialogue
and read in roles. correctly, fluently and
emotionally.
3. Fill in the Fill in the blanks. Learn to catch key
blanks. words while reading.
Get a better
understanding of the
content through the
blank filling.
Consolidation 1. Make a Draw pictures. Then Consolidate students’
presentation. discuss and make a ability of using the
&
presentation. target language
Extension reasonably and
2. Show some Talk about the
properly.
clues and ask differences of the life
students to talk from the past to the
about the present.
differences in
their life.
Homework 1. Practice the dialogue.
2. Do the exercises.
