《英语》（八年级上册）

Unit 4 Do it yourself

Reading (I)

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. identify the general information about Andrew and his DIY;

2. get the specific information about Andrew and his DIY.

II. Teaching contents

1. New words and phrases: crazy, terrible, once, mistake, pipe, fill, ceiling, shelf, whoops, advise, course, already, instead, attend, put in, make a mistake, power cut, fill…with…, not only…but (also)

2. New structure: Now the living room has not only blue walls but also a blue ceiling and floor.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty

Identify the main idea and the specific information about Andrew and his DIY.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Show the pictures about DIY

T: DIY is popular around the world..

2. New words and phrases

Teach some new words and phrases with the help of the story about Hobo.

T: Here is the house made by Hobo. After finishing building the house by himself, he got to love DIY and he is crazy about doing DIY. (Teach new phrase “be crazy about”) Now he is able to do many DIY jobs. Look, he can put in a light. (Teach the new phrase “put in”). Next, he is putting up a picture, putting up a shelf. (Teach the new phrase “put up”). And he is painting the house, painting the ceiling. (Teach the new word “ceiling”) Now, the house looks beautiful.

【设计意图】让学生在情境中学习掌握本课的部分生词，短语和句型，使其能顺利的阅读文章。

Step 2 Presentation

1. Preview

T: Before we read the text, try to answer the two questions by predicting.

What’s the article mainly about?

Is he good at doing DIY?

2. Go through the article quickly, and put it into 3 parts

T: Let’s check the answer. The first part includes paragraph one. The second part includes paras 2-4. And the third part is para 5

3. Read through the article again and try to find the main idea of each part

Part 1: Introduction of Andrew  

Part 2: Andrew’s DIY jobs  

Part 3: Advice from Suzy

4. Read the article again and decide whether the following sentences are true or false

Suzy’s cousin loves doing DIY.

Suzy’s cousin failed to put in a new light in his bedroom.

Suzy’s cousin put a picture on a pipe.

Suzy’s cousin thought the cat was boring, so he painted it blue.

It took Suzy’s cousin only a few minutes to put up the shelf on the wall.

Suzy’s cousin wants to get better at DIY.

5. Find out more about the details of the text

(1) Find out what Andrew has done

T: Now you see why Andrew’s house looks so terrible? Because he isn’t good at doing DIY.

When doing DIY, he caused many problems. Now let’s see what Andrew has done and    

what problems he caused. Try to fill in the form one by one.

 He put in a brighter light in his bedroom, but his whole house had a power cut.

       He put up a picture on his bedroom wall, but he hit a pipe and filled the room with water.

       He painted the wall blue, but the living room has not only blue walls but also a blue ceiling and floor,. Even his cat is blue now.

       He spent five hours putting up the shelf on the wall. But the books couldn’t stay there. Why? Because one end of the shelf was much higher than the other.

(2) Find out what is Suzy’s advice

     T: Since Suzy’s cousin Andrew caused so many problems in the course of doing DIY, Suzy wanted to help. What did she do? (She bought books about DIY for him and advised him to take a course in DIY) What was Andrew’s reaction? (He was very angry.) What does he say? (He says he already knows everything about it.) What does Suzy have to do? (She is reading all the books herself and attending lessons every Saturday.) What is the result? (She knows much more about DIY than Andrew.)

【设计意图】让学生根据课文内容填写表格，以检测学生对课文的理解和概括能力。通过划分课文部分、判断对错、填表格等方式让学生能够充分掌握课文主旨大意和细节。

Step 3 Practice

1. Complete the dialogue between Suzy and Andrew according to the last part of the article

Suzy: I bought some books about DIY for you.

Andrew: Books? I don’t ________________

Suzy: But I think you should learn something about DIY. Maybe you should _________.

Andrew: Are you joking? _______________.

         A month later

Suzy:  Look, I made … by myself.

Andrew: How can you make it?

Suzy: Because ________________.

Andrew: ….

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct words according to the article

Andrew is ________ about DIY. He loves to ________ things and ________ his house. But When he finishes, the house always looks _________.

Once he hit the pipe and the whole house had a ___________ and _______ the room with water.

Last month, he painted the whole living room _______, including his cat.

Another time, he helped me put up a shelf on the wall, but after he finished, the books didn’t ________ on the shelf.

Andrew made a lot of ________, so I __________ him to take a course in DIY, but he didn’t follow my advice because he thought he already knew everything about the subject.

【设计意图】进一步考察学生对课文的内容的掌握情况，同时引导学生进一步思考课文内容.

V. Homework

1. Read the article fluently, and memorize the vocabulary, phrases and sentences.

   2.  Try to recite the article.