九年级英语下册 Unit 3 Robots Comic strip and Welcome to the Unit教案 （新版）牛津版-（新版）牛津版初中九年级下册英语教案.doc

Unit3 Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
一、教学目标
1. 谈论机器人的用途。
2. 了解机器人的一些优点。
二、教学内容
1. 掌握词汇：robot, post, explore, outer space, brain, whatever。
词组：one’s own robots, have problems, write a letter to, complain about, a complaint letter, clean the floor, explore outer space, help with homework, do dangerous jobs, put out fires, work on high buildings。
句型：
(1)I don’t know when I’ll post the letter for you.
(2)They could do dangerous jobs like putting out fires or working on high buildings.
(3)They could do whatever they’re asked to.
(4)Could robots help you and me in any way?
2. 谈论机器人能做的事。
三、重点难点
1. 学习重要的词汇。
2. 谈论机器人的优点和用途。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Leading in
Show some pictures about what a robot can do for us to the students. The pictures are:

T: Hello, boys and girls. Welcome to the new topic: Robots. Are you interested in them? Firstly, I’d like you to tell me what robots can do for us in our daily life.
Step 2 Talking about robots
1. Have you seen robots in the films?
2. What kind of robots do you know?
3. Do you like robots? Why?
4. What do you think robots can do for you?
5. Would you buy a robot in the future? Why?
Step 3 Welcome to the unit
1. The purpose of this part is to tell students the knowledge about robots. Ask one student to read the phrases a-d on P37. Make sure that all students understand the meanings of the phrases such as ‘‘do dangerous jobs, explore outer space, etc”.
2. Explain the context Daniel is explaining to Amy what robots can do. Ask students to underline the things that robot can do for us on their own.
3. Ask two students to read the conversation and check mistakes.
4. Encourage students to talk about the robots according to the pictures.
(1)In what ways do robots can help human beings?
(2)Why are they sometimes useful to human beings?
Step 4 Comic strip
1. Listen to the tape for the first time to learn the main idea of Comic strip.
2. Ask students to answer some questions:
(1)How does Eddie feel about his robot?
(He’s not satisfied with it.)
(2)What will Eddie do with his robot?
(He’ll complain to the robot shop.)
3. Listen to the tape for the second time and read after it.
4. Ask some students to act out Comic strip.
Step 5 Discussion
T: Imagine you have a robot and it helps you a lot while you are away. But sometimes it also brings you some unexpected troubles, such as it can’t wake you up at the right time, it does wrong shopping, it forgets to sweep the floor. At this time, what will you do?
Divide the whole class into ten groups to talk about how to solve these problems.
Step 6 Language points
1. complaint:不可数名词，“抱怨”；可数名词，“抱怨的行动或话语，投诉”。
complain:动词，complain to sb./about sth.。
2. post:动词，“邮寄”，post sth. for sb.。
Step 7 Homework
1. Recite the useful vocabulary and Comic strip.
2. Preview Reading.
五、板书设计
Unit3 Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
Useful expressions:
help with homework, explore outer space, put out fires, work on high buildings
Useful words :
complain v. → complaint (n. ) post (v. ) : post sth. for sb.