1、Unit 8 Fashion Task I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. describe features, colours and materials of clothing items; 2. make a plan and some sketches before writing an article; 3. design some clothes and describe them to the class. II. Tea
2、ching contents 1. New words and expressions: jacket, feature, dark, material, design, model, include, dark blue 2. New structures: My design includes a pair of blue jeans. III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. Use the useful expressions to write about the design; 2. Design clo
3、thes and draw some sketches. IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in T: Look at the two pictures. What are they doing? Do you like watching the fashion show? Why do you like watching the fashion show? 【设计意图： 通过熟悉的图片，谈论时装秀，复习本单元话题。 】 Step 2 Presentation T: What do you think of their clothes? S: They a
4、re in fashion. T: Who designs the clothes? S: The designers. T: What is she doing? S: She is designing the clothes. T: What qualities should a designer have? S: She/He should be clever and creative. 【设计意图：通过一系列的问题，导出今日内容：时装设计师，激发学生的学习兴趣。 】 Step 3 Brainstorming T: How do we finish a fashion design? S
5、: We should choose what clothes to design. Then we should talk about their features, materials and colours. 【设计意图：通过“头脑风暴”让学生了解完成时装设计的必要环节。 】 Step 4 Competition T: When we talk about fashion design, we should talk about what to design, its colour, material and feature. Now I will divide our class in
6、to two parts. One is the girls group and the other is the boys group. Lets have a competition. Lets say as many words as possible. 【设计意图：通过竞赛的形式，让学生回顾学习内容，激发学生兴趣。 】 Step 5 Reading 1. Look at Sandys plan. Explain the plan to the students. Sandy wants to be a designer. Read her article about her fashi
7、on design and then answer some questions. 2. Let students ask and answer the questions in pairs. 3. Ask students to read the article aloud and then talk about the general idea of each paragraph. Paragraph 1: general introduction Paragraph 2: about the shirt Paragraph 3: about the jacket Paragraph 4:
8、 about the jeans Paragraph 5: about the material Paragraph 6: about the trainers 4. Read the article again and then fill in the blanks. 【设计意图：通过各种形式的操练，熟悉桑迪的设计内容，为下面自己创作做好准备。 】 Step 6 Discussion T: How can we describe our fashion designs? Try to find some useful expressions in the article. Discuss i
9、n groups of four. 1. The colour of is . 2. look(s) clean. 3. match(es)/go(es) well with any other colour. 4. is/are not too long or too large. 5. look(s) good/cool on (somebody). 6. is/are very popular among young people. 7. is/are made of . 8. is/are light and comfortable. 【设计意图：通过讨论，找出重要句型，为下面的写作提
10、供素材。 】 Step 7 Practice 1. T: I like fashionable clothes. I want to design a down jacket (鸭绒衣), jeans, gloves and a hat. They will look smart on me. First, the colour of the down jacket is light blue. It goes well with a pair of jeans. The jeans are bell-bottoms (喇叭裤). I want them to make me look sli
11、m. Then, Im going to design a pair of blue trainers to go well with the jeans and the down jacket. They are very comfortable and made of leather. Finally, I want to design a pair of gloves and a hat. They are made of wool. They are grey and they can keep me warm in the morning. All the clothes are c
12、omfortable to wear in winter. 2. T: Please design a poster for the “Fashion Wall” in our classroom! You can introduce the kinds of clothes, their colours and materials and the reasons why you design like that. You can also use “First, Next, Then, Finally, ” to talk about your designs. 3. Ask student
13、s to design clothes in groups of four. They can discuss and make a plan and some sketches. Then each group chooses one member to describe their design to the class. 4. Encourage each group to make a poster after class. They can rewrite their article on a separate sheet of paper and add pictures of t
14、he clothing items. 5. Ask students to vote for the best poster. Ask the monitor to collect all the posters and make a “Fashion Wall”. 【设计意图：全开放练习，要求学生发挥创造力设计服饰，并用英语说出来。 】 Step 8 Conclusion 1. T: What did we learn today? We learnt how to design clothes. First we choose clothes and shoes, and then we talk about their features, colours and materials. 2. T: Imagination + Hard work = Success. If you keep trying, you can make it. 【设计意图：概括今日所学，升华情感。 】 V. Homework 1. Revise what we have learnt today; 2. Make a fashion poster in groups of four.
