JEFC Book 2  Unit 22  Lesson 87

一、Teaching Objectives:

Finish reading the passage about the relay race and grasp one sentence pattern “not so/as. . .as. . .”

二、Language Focus:

fall behind  winner  come on  bad luck  the finishing line  well done,

congratulations to sb. on sth…  not. . .as/so. . .as

三、Properties: Tape-recorder, Overhead projector

四、Teaching Procedures:

Step1  Leading-in 创设情景，激发兴趣

　　1. Revise the vocabulary of sports meetings by retell the story on Workbook Lesson 86, Ex.3..

　　2. Ask the students to retell the passage about the relay race.

Step2   Pre-task  激活思维，迁移知识

　　1. Ask the students to guess which class won the relay race.

　　2. Ask the students to read the end of the story and see whether their guess is correct.

　　3. Explain the language points.

　　1)not far behind 在后面不远处

　 说一个物体离另一个物体（一处离另一处）很远或不远，用far from或not far from。

　　　2) enough作adv. 修饰adj. 或adv.时，必须位于其后。作为adj. 修饰n. 时，一般位于其前，也可位于其后。

　　①The question is easy enough. We can work it out.

　　②The water is cool enough to drink. Let’s drink. We are all thirsty.

　　③Don’t worry. We have enough tickets for all of you.

　　　3) Class 3 were the winners! class集体名词，指全体，是复数概念，所以were, winners 均为复数。类似的集体名词还有family, school等。

　　①His family are all sports lovers. They all like watching games.

　　②The whole school are shouting with joy at the good news.

　　4) congratulations to sb.on sth.

　　congratulate sb. on sth.

　　① –Congratulations to you on your good result!

　　　– Thank you!

　　② Congratulate you on your good result!

Step3  While-task  巩固拓展，达标反馈

　　1. Ask the students to read the story after the tape, and answer these questions:

　　　Who won the race? / Who was second? / Who was third? / What happened to Wu Peng?

　　2. Get the students to make sentences using fast/faster than/fastest of all about the race.

　　　Jiang Honglin ran fast. Lin Tao ran faster than Jiang Honglin. Wu Peng ran fastest of all.

　　3. Show these sentences form Part 1, and revise the comparative and superlative forms of adverbs.

　 　　Lin Tao didn’t run as fast as Wu Peng.

　 　　Jiang Honglin did well. Wu Peng did better than Jiang Hong lin. Lin Tao did best of all!

　　　　well/ better/best　　badly/worse/worst

　　4. Call several pairs of students and make comparisons like:

　　　　A is tall. B is tall, too. →A is as tall as B. But A didn’t run as fast as B.

　　　　A studies as carefully as B.

　　　　A is as old as B.

　　　　A runs as fast as B.

　　　　A isn’t as/so hard-working as B.

　　　　A doesn't play basketball as well as B.

　　5. Show the pictures on Page 38, summarize the sentence pattern not as/so. . . as .

　　Answer these questions:

　　　　Who did worse, Han Mei or Lucy?

　　　　Who did better, Lily or Han Mei?

　　　　Who did the worst of all?

　　　　Explain the meaning of rather=quite.

　　6. Ask the students to make sentences with “(not) as/so, ..as”.

　 　　The girls’ 100-metre race

　　　　Han Mei　　　　　18"7 (not very well)

　　　　Lucy　　　　　　 20"91 

　　　　Li Fang　　　　　 21"8

　　 　Han Mei didn't do very well. She did rather badly. Lucy did worse than Han Meirnei.

　　　 Li Fang did worst of all. Bad luck!

Step4  Check  布置作业，提升任务

　　1. Finish exercises on page 105.

　　2. Recite the end of the relay race.

　　3. Make ten sentences, using( not) as. . .as, than, of all, in. . . .respectively.

Step 5 Exercises in class

　　Keys: 1.finishing 2.Congratulations 3.Bad 4.farther 5.badly, worst

　　在下列空白处填上适当形容词或副词的比较级或最高级。

　　1. A tortoise is ________ than a duck.

　　2. The Changjiang River is ________ than the Yellow River.

　　3. Hares ran _________ than cats.

　　4. The peasants are ________ in autumn than in winter.

　　5. It is ________ in winter in Harbin than in Beijing.

　　6. Mary's handwriting is _________ in her school.

　　7. When spring comes, the weather gets ________ and ________.

　　8. Jenny usually gets up ________ than her sister.

　　9. The Mount Qomolangma is ________ mountain in the world.

　　10. Which is _________,the sun, the moon or the earth?

　　Keys: 1.slower 2.longer 3.faster 4.busier 5.colder 6.the best 7.warmer, warmer 8.earlier 9.the highest 10.the biggest

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