魯教版八下Unit2 one How do you study for a test教學設計

3.reading and underlining

we shall read the article once again, this time, to underline all the useful expressions in it. after school, you are going to write them down in your notebook.

this week/ we asked students/ at new star high school/ about the best ways/ to learn more english. many said/ they learnt/ by using english. some students had more specific suggestions. lillian li, for example, said/ the best way/ to learn new words/ was by reading english magazines. she said that/ memorizing the words of pop songs/ also helped/ a little. when we asked about studying grammar/ she said, “i never study grammar. it's too boring.”

wei ming feels differently. he's been learning english/ for six years/ and really loves it. he thinks/ studying grammar /is a great way/ to learn a language. he also thinks that/ watching english movies/ isn't a bad way/ because he can watch the actors/ say the words. sometimes, however, he finds watching movies/ frustrating/ because the people speak too quickly.

lin chang said that/ joining the english club/ at school/ was the best way/ to improve her english. students get lots of practice/ and they also have fun. she added that/ having conversations/ with friends/ was not helpful/ at all. "we get excited/ about something/ and then/ end up speaking/ in chinese,” she said.

4.translating and completing the chart

because you have read this article many times you are going to translate it into chinese first and then complete the chart on page 4.

who will be the first to have a try?

ways of learning english

not successful

ok

successful

lillian li

studying grammar

memorizing the words of pop songs

reading english magazines

wei ming

watching movies

watching english movies

studying grammar

liu chang

having conversations/ with friends

joining the english club

3b doing a pairwork

silence, please! we are going to have a role play in pairs. one of the pair is to be one of the people in 3a. the other is to interview him or her about learning english.

zha excuse me, li hong. could you help me with my english?

li: yes, please. what’s the matter?

zha i have difficulty studying grammar.

li: grammar? i never studying grammar. i study english mostly by memorizing the words of pop songs.

zha no grammar at all?

li: yes, i did study grammar. but i study it by reading english magazines. i put grammar learning into reading articles. that is the best way to understand english grammar.

4 doing a pairwork

turn to page 4 to check √what you do to learn english in the box.