Module 2 My home town and my country
Unit 3 Language in use
一、教学目标
1. 语言知识目标
能够正确运用形容词（单音节词及部分双音节词）的规则比较级形式。
2. 语言技能目标
能够运用形容词比较级形式对不同的两个地方进行比较。
3. 学习策略目标
（1）能够根据表格信息和图片复习形容词比较级的用法。
（2）积极参与小组讨论，勇于表达自己的观点，认真听取他人意见。
4. 情感态度目标
培养学生对祖国和家乡的热爱。
5. 文化意识目标
通过合作学习了解美国、英国等英语国家的主要城市情况。
二、教学过程
Step 1 Revision ---文本复习
1. At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher guides students to sum up how to describe our hometown with the help of a mind map.
Q： How can we describe our hometown?
【设计意图】: 通过四维导图，引导学生总结在描述家乡时，我们可以从哪些角度进行描述，导入本课话题，同时又激发学生头脑当中的词汇，为后面教学环境打下铺垫。
2. Revise Unit 1 and Unit 2
The teacher asks the students to describe Shenzhen ,Cambridge and London ,according to the information in the table. And then ask students :
Which city do they like better, Cambridge and London? And why do they like it?
【设计意图】: 根据图表信息，转述让学生复述课文内容，激励学生对所学知识进行再次加工，充分调动学生参与课堂的积极性，复习了本模块词汇及话题, 让学生感知语言的运用。
Step 2 Practice ---语法：形容词比较级在具体语境中的运用
1. Pair work.
The teacher gets the students to compare the two pictures and then describe them with correct comparative adjectives.
【设计意图】: 通过图片对比，为学生创设真实的语言运用环境，使学生进一步掌握了形容词比较的用法。
2. Exercises.
Now read the passage first, and then complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets.
In my home town there are two cinemas, the Grand Cinema and the Palace Cinema. The Grand Cinema is __________ (old) and __________(small) than the Palace Cinema. It is also ________(warm) in the Grand Cinema. The Palace Cinema is usually ________(busy) than the Grand Cinema and the tickets are ______________(cheap), too.
