一 教学设计思路：
结合多媒体，利用图片、实物等帮助学生记忆相关物品的词汇；设置情境，帮助学生通过听说练习学会谈论物品的位置。
二 教学目标：
(一)知识目标
掌握本课生词，学习谈论物品的位置Where is/are…?It’s/They’re…。
(二)能力目标
让学生学会如何听和谈论物品的位置。
(三)情感目标
1. 培养学生良好的合作意识，鼓励学生大胆表达自己的想法和意愿。
2. 通过谈论物品的位置，培养学生养成良好的生活习惯。
三 教材分析：
Period 1是Unit4的第一课，让学生提通过活动，学习如何表达物品的位置，并能就物品位置进行提问。
四 学生分析：
七年级学生活泼好动，在教学中，充分利用多媒体，图片、实物等，使英语学习与学生的实际生活更贴近，激发学生学习兴趣，同时创设交际情境，让每个学生在课堂上动起来，积极参与到教学活动中去，更好的实现教学目标，达到理想的教学效果。
五.重点及其突出方法：
充分利用现代教育手段，创设交际情境，为学生提供图像和声音资源，进行语言操练和实践，加强学习效果。
六 难点及其突破方法：
培养良好的语言表达习惯。发挥教师良好的示范作用，注重教师在课堂教学中对学生无意识的影响。
七 教学资源：
多媒体；课件；教材
八 教学过程：
Step 1.Organization Greetings
Step 2.Revision
1. Use a pen to ask and answer between the teacher and the students, and review the key sentences in Unit3.
2. Use a picture of a bag to ask students to write a lost notice and a found notice, and review the los t and found notices, then lead to the new words with the picture(1a:P19).Hold up the picture and point to the objects : table, bed , bookcase, sofa, chair, schoolbag , book, key.
T: What’s this in English?
S: It’s a table/bed/...
Encourage or help students to read the words correctly .Write them down on the blackboard.
3. Quick reaction .Let the students look at the teaching picture in 1a, finish 1a, then check students’ answers.
Step3. Lead in
Show my English book and my two pens, then put them on my desk. Ask students to answer the questions: “Where is my English book?” and “Where are my pens?”.
Try to ask more students similar questions：Where is your pencil?...
Step3.Practice
Ask the students to look at some pictures and things in the classroom and practice talking about where things are.
For example:-where is my clock?
-It’s on the table.
Ask students to work in pairs and make conversations.
Step 4.Talking about thepicture(1a:P19)
1. Ask the students to practice 1c in pairs.
2. Let the students work in pairs and talk about where the things in the picture are on Page19 .
Step 5 Listening
Have students to listen to the conversations and number the things.
Check the answers . Then ask students to read the conversations after the recording.
Step 6 Practice
Ask students to describe their bedrooms.
For example: My cat is on the chair. My English book is on the sofa .…
Step7 Summary
1.--- Where is 单数主语?
… … 在哪？
--- It’s under/ on/ in…
它在…下面/上面/里面。
2. --- Where are 复数主语?
… …在哪？
---They’re under/ on/ in…
它们在… …下面/上面/里面。
Step 8.Homework
1.Remember the new words in the period (on page 90 ) by heat.
2.Practice the conversation in the picture on page 19 with your partner.
3.Talk about where things are in your room.
九 评价方法：
评价Unit 4 ,Period 1的教学效果，可以通过以下几点：
1．学生是否能掌握有关物品和方位的词汇。学生是否能学会运用英语谈论物品的位置。
2．学生能否积极愉悦的参与到课堂教学活动中。
