Unit 8 Pets Welcome to the unit & Comic strip
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask Ss: How many animals do you know? What are they?
Encourage Ss to think out animals in English as many as possible.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show some pictures to learn some words about this lesson:
pet n. 宠物
rude adj. 粗鲁的
goldfish n. (pl. goldfish) 金鱼
mouse n. (pl. mice) 老鼠，耗子
2. Then read aloud the new words.
Step 3 Look and guess
Show some pictures of animals covered some part, then ask for Ss to guess the names of the animals. Then ask Ss to complete Parts A and B on Page 93.
Step 4 Practice
Show some pictures about animals and let them choose which is their favourite animal and why.
Step 5 Listen to the conversation
1. Listen to Eddie and Hobo’s conversation once and answer:
Is Eddie happy with his pet?
2. Listen again and answer three more questions:
1) What does Eddie want?
2) What does Hobo think of Eddie?
3) Which dog do you like? Why?
3. Act out the conversation.
Step 6 Explanation
1. bring sb. sth. = bring sth. to sb. 给某人拿来某物
Will you please bring me some dog food?
take sth. to sb. 把某物带（去）给某人
Jim will not come home for lunch today. Please take this lunch box to him.
2. something to eat 一些吃的东西
something to drink 一些喝的东西
注：something 常用于肯定句以及表示请求建议的问句中；而在否定句和疑问句中则要用anything。如:
There isn’t ________ to eat in the fridge.
Would you like ___________ to drink？
3. watch them swim around 看他们游来游去
watch sb. do sth. 看某人做某事（不能用to do, 即必须省略to)
Every day the old man watches the children _________(play) games.
4. sleep on my knees 睡在我的大腿面上
5. feed her carrots 给她喂胡萝卜
6. teach him _______ 教他说话
Step 7 Exercises
根据Eddie和Hobo的对话填空。
Eddie is hungry. He asks his pet dog Hobo _______ him _________ to eat. Hobo doesn’t bring him _________ because the pet thinks his master is ________. Eddie has to sa
7B Unit 8 Welcome to the unit 课后反思
本堂课的容量不大，学生对刚开始的猜谜游戏环节比较感兴趣，都能做到认真聆听动物的声音，然后猜是哪种动物，课堂氛围较活跃。
我比较重视过程评价，所以在学生的活动后，总能给与学生积极的评价，这样一来，学生的积极性也能被调动起来，提高整堂课的学习效率。
学生在操练句型时，可以把他们分成小组，通过小组进行练习，并且给表演出色的小组奖励，增强小组的集体意识，培养学生小组合作能力和探究能力。
