教案在今天推行素质教育、实施新课程改革中重要性日益突出，在教师的教学活动中起着非常关键的作用。下面是一篇八年级英语第八单元教案，欢迎各位老师和学生参考!

Teaching Aims:

1. To learn the new words, gift, shark, aquarium, seal, hang, hang out, souvenir, win, autograph, prize, outdoor, octopus

2. To master the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.

3. To learn how to talk about the past events by using “Were there…? Did you see…? Did you go…?”

4. To understand the two conversations and gain the information to foster the listening and speaking skills.

Teaching important points:

1. Affirmative and negative statements in the past tense, “Did you…? Were there…?” questions.

2. The ways of talking about the events in the past.

Teaching difficult points

1. To master the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs.

2. To learn how to talk about the past events by using “Were there…? Did you see…? Did you go…?”

Teaching Procedures

Step I Warming up

1. Enjoy a song, This Old Man.

2. Greeting.

Step II Pre-task

1. What did he/she do last weekend?

Have a competition among the divided groups. The students say a sentence about each picture, and try to induce the rules of the past tense of regular verbs.

2. What are in the aquarium?

“Last weekend, I went to an aquarium (the pictures). I saw many interesting animals there (pictures to learn the animals).”

“Also, I did others things there (pictures to teach gift, autograph etc.)”

Step III Task-cycle

★ Task 1 Test your memory

Show some pictures on the slide for about 30 seconds, ask them to watch carefully.

Test their memories by using, “Were there …?” or “Did you see…?”

★ Task 2 News Conference

Show some photos about the students’ last school trip for a while.

Ask a student or two to act as a spokesman and the others ask him or her questions.

The slide shows them some questions for help, “Did you go…?”

★ Task 3 Listening

Have the students listen to the tape and do the listening exercise on page 47 & 48. Encourage them to give the answers by having a competition among them.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6

★ Task 4 A Sweet Memory

Get the students to make a survey about what they did in their school trip and fill in the chart below

Name How Where What

When surveying, they can use the flowing sentence patterns,