Teaching aims:

　　Knowledge aim

　　Students can master the basic structure and function of comparative degree.

　　Ability aim

　　Students can use the comparative degree to communicate in daily life.

　　Emotional aim

　　Students can be more interested in learning English.

　　Teaching key and difficult points

　　Key point: students can master the basic structure and function of comparative degree.

　　Difficult point: students can use the comparative degree in daily life and be more interested in learning English.

　　Teaching procedures:

　　Step 1: Warming-up

　　1. Greetings.

　　2. Sing an English song called You and me, the lyrics are as follows:

　　You and me

　　From one world

　　We are family

　　Travel dream

　　A thousand miles

　　Meeting in Beijing

　　Then ask them how they can get to Beijing and what kinds of transportation they may choose to lead in the new topic.

　　Step 2: Presentation

　　1. Ask students to read the passage with teacher to find the sentences that compare the differences between different transportation and write down them on the blackboard.

　　2. Lead students to observe the sentences and find out the similar parts of the sentences.

　　3. Summarize the answers and conclude the structure as well as the function of comparative degree.

　　Step 3: Practice

　　1. Ask students to fill in the blanks on the screen. Tell them to change the adjectives into the right form.

　　Actions speak _____ (loud) than words.

　　She is _____ (beautiful) than her sister.

　　2. Let students describe the pictures on the screen by using the grammar point.

　　Step 4: Production

　　Survey: Let students make a survey in groups of 4 to talk about the transportation they use and make some comparisons about different transportation.

　　Step 5: Summary & Homework

　　Summary: ask a student to conclude the content of the lesson and summarize for the whole class.

　　Homework: ask students to write some sentences to describe the change around them by using the comparative degree.

　　Blackboard design

　　Teaching Reflection