本课是一个实用性较强的课。谈论体育运动并对其进行比较是人们在日常生活中时常遇到的话题，这与学生的生活经验和认知水平紧密相连，因此该话题易于激发学生的学习兴趣。另外，本节课虽是新授课，然而在小学时学生已经学过形容词的比较级，但掌握的强度不够，通过本课的学习巩固所学的知识，掌握用正确的语言结构对体育运动进行描述与比较。最后在教学过程中应注意，任务的设置应有明确的目的并具有可操作性，这样才有利于提高实际语言的运用能力。
二、 设计理念
根据新课程标准提倡的任务型教学，为了培养学生的主动和创 新能力，在教学中我设计了多种形式的任务，让学生在老师的指导下，通过感知、体验、实践、参与和合作等方式，实现 任务的目标感受成功。
三、 教学目标
1. 知识和能力目标
Dscribing and making comparison of sports(描述并比较体育运动)
1) Key vocabulary:
gymnastics, ski, more, dangerous, safe, popular, unpopular, exciting, boring, relaxing, tiring, be good at
2) Target language: Cycling is tiring.
Cycling is more dangerous than swimming.
2. 过程和方法目标
1) 谈论学生感兴趣的话题，指导学生学习有关运动特征的单词、运动比较的表达及语法知识点“形容词的比较级”。
2) 学生完成教材和老师设置的各项任务，并使用这一课时的目标语言获取与分享信息，自由谈论喜爱的运动并进行比较。
3. 情感态度和价值观目标
1) 培养学生养成爱好体育运动的习惯
2) 体育运动是各国人们团结友爱的一个纽带
四、教学重难点
比较级结构：
1) 主语（sb / sth）+ be +形容词比较级 + than +…
2) The comparatives with “–er/ier” or “more”
五、教学方法
1) Task-based teaching approach
2) The cognitive approach
3) The oral approach
4) The natural approach
六、教学手段
Multi-media, computer, projector, flash pictures, body language, listening, practi ce, chart, patter n-drills, question-answer drills.
七、教学过程
Step 1: Lead-in
T: Boys and girls! Do you like sports?
Ss: Yes!
T: What’s your favourite sport?
S1: Basketball.
S2: Table tennis.
S3: ……
Step 2: Learning Tasks
1. Taking about Olympic sports
2. Describing and making Comparison of sports
Step 3: Rivision
1. Show the pictures. Let the students say the words of Olympic sports.
2. Pay attention to two new sports: gymnastics, skiing
3. Activity1: Listen and number the sports
4. Check the answers
Step 4: Vocabulary
1. Activity2: Match the sentences with the pictures
2. Focus on six pairs of antonyms: popular, unpopular, exciting, boring, relaxing, tiring, difficult, easy, cheap, expensive, dangerous, safe
3. Activity3: Match the words in Box1 with the oppsite words in Box2
4. Check the answers
Step 5: Listening and Re ading
1. Play the tape through for the students to answer the question:
What sports do Damin g and Betty like?
2. Check the answers with the whole class
3. Read the coversation together
4. Pay attention to the language points and the structure of the comparative degree
5. Exercises
Step 6: Discussion
Work in pairs. Talk about sports.
1. Read out the e xample
2. Pair the students to make similar conversations. Stress that it should be what they think
3. Ask several pairs to say one or more of their conversations to the class
Step 7: Summary
Give the Ss a chance to sum up what have learned in this class. (Ss can talk about it freely.) Then Teache r makes a brief sum-up.
1. Key vocabulary and target language
2. The structure of the comparative degree
3. Beijing2008 Olympic Games----- One Word, One Dream
Step 8: Homework
1. Work in groups
1) Make a poster: Our favourite Olympic sport
2) Search the Internet to find more inf ormation about Olympic sports
2. Prepare for Unit 2
教学反思：
本课以素质教育为目的，结合教材重点、难点及英语学科特点，利用任务型教学，从听、说、读、写等方面使学生得到锻炼，在愉快、轻松的氛围中温故而知新，达到初步运用英语交际的能力。
