Lesson 8 The best and the worst Teaching aims: 1. to learn the new words: competition, neat, wooden, pool, path; enter for, more interesting, neat paths, a wooden bridge, over a pool, hard workTeaching focuses: important phrases, such as enter for, win a prizeTeaching difficulties: the structure of the comparative degree of adjectivesTeaching methods: communicative teaching approachTools and materials: a tape and ppt.Teaching procedures:Step I. Lead in1. the topic of garden competition and how to win the competition2. introduce new words and teach the key word “compete”Step II. Read the text s. by s. Step III. Teach the language points: nearly, enter for, win a prize, more, the most + adj. Step IV. Fast reading with questions Step V. Retell the story with the given wordsStep VI. Grammar (Comparative and superlative degrees of adj.)1. lively cases of comparison to introduce the structure of comparative and superlative degrees of adj.2. sentence pattern of comparative degrees: A is adj.-er/more+adj. than B3. sentence pattern of superlative degrees A is adj.-est/the most+adj. 限定范围Step VII. Topic discussion: the most beautiful garden or parktrees and flowers; neat paths more interesting than roads; clear pools; wooden bridges over the pools; the most beautiful/popular park in our city; because there are colorful lights