This unit comes from the second volume of the eighth grade textbook Go for it published by People's Education Publishing House. It takes chores as its theme, and requests politely as its mission. It learns and talks about chores and learns “could I/you...please?”
“Can you /I…?” “May I + do sth? Shall we + do sth?”“Would you like + sth. / to do sth?”and “Would you mind + sth. /doing sth?” The usage of sentence patterns. Cultivate students' ability to communicate with sentence patterns and make requirements. This unit is close to students' daily life, which can attract students' interest in learning. This unit focuses on the vocabulary of chores and the usage of the modal verb could. The difficulty lies in the flexible use of polite expressions of requests and permits.
二、学习者特征分析
The eighth grade is the key period for learning English.Grade eight English plays a connecting role in middle school English teaching, which is not only the derivative of grade seven, but also the foreshadowing of grade nine. Students are lively, curious and eager for knowledge, and they are also eager to express themselves in English. The title of this unit comes from students' daily life. Students have learned a lot of verb phrases in the seventh grade, which provides a sufficient language basis for today's expression and paves the way for the study of this unit. According to the present situation of the students in the class, one third of the students lack basic knowledge and poor understanding ability, which makes it difficult to achieve the preset teaching goal.Some students have poor study habits and no definite study plan. As a language subject, listening and reading are the key links of English study, but most students are not good at them, especially in listening tests.