Unit3. Why do yu like koalas?

　　The first period

　　Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands

　　1.Knowledge Objects.

　　1)Key vocabulary

　　koala tiger elephent.dolphin panda lion penguin giraffe zoo

　　cute map smart

　　2)Target language

　　Let’s see the pandas.

　　Why do you like see the tigers?

　　Because they are cute.

　　2.Ability Objects:

　　1)Train students’abilities of listening and speakng.

　　2) Enable and help the students to learn how to listen to and talk about animals.

　　3.Moral Object:

　　It is very important for everyone to love the nature and protect animals .The earth is our home and animals are our friends..It is our duty to love the nature and protect enviroment.

　　Ⅱ Teaching Key and Difficult Points

　　1)Describe the animals using the words and the target language.

　　2)Get students to learn “Why questions”, “Because answers” and the adjectives of quality.

　　Ⅲ.Teaching methods

　　1)Watching and describing methods

　　2) Oral practicing method.

　　Ⅳ.Teaching Aids:

　　1)objects and some pictures.

　　2)A recorder and computer

　　Ⅴ.Teaching procedures

　　Step1.Warming up

　　1) Play the tape,get the students to listen to music of animals

　　2) Play a guessing game.

　　T: Listening to the voices of animals.

　　What kinds of animals are they?

　　3) Show some pictures about animals after guessing and talk about animals.

　　T: Look,there is a big zoo in our city There are many animals in

　　it.Do you want to see the animals in the zoo?Let’s go into the

　　zoo.What kind of animals can you see?

　　Step2.Present the new words

　　1) T: Look. What is this in Chinese?

　　Ss:“考拉”

　　T: What is this in English?Do you know?

　　Ss: No

　　T: It is a koala. Read after me K-O-A-L A, koala.

　　2)Show some new words in the pictures.and teach students to learn them.:

　　koala tiger elephent.dolphin panda lion penguin giraffe

　　zoo cute map smart

　　Step3. Practice the new words(1a)

　　1)Get students to read the words in 1a

　　2)Match the words with the animals in the oictures.

　　3)After that check the answers.

　　Step4. Task

　　1) Look at the pictures of animals and describe the animals like this. T: Let’s see the pandas .Do you like them?

　　S1: Yes.I like them very much.

　　T: Why do you like them?

　　S1: Because they are cute .Let’s see the lions.

　　T: Why do you want to see the lions.?

　　S1: Because they are smart.

　　T: Do they live on the land or in the water?

　　S1: They live on the land.

　　(At the same time,Teach the students the words,smart,cute)

　　2)Get students to come up wth more new adjectives of quality to describe the animals.

　　cute, smart, fun, interesting, scary, shy, lazy.

　　(At this time,we can also let the students have a competition.This method can make the students active in class and it can help them develop their quick response and wide thinking)

　　3)Get students to ask and answer in pairs to descibe the animals.

　　4)Get students to performin in front of the class.

　　Step5. Listening

　　1)Play the tape,get students to listen and check.the animals in 1

　　2)Play the tape again.Ask students to work in pairs.Students listen and repeat after the recording

　　3)Check the answer.

　　Step6. Pairwork

　　1)Ask the students to make conversations in pairs. Show the followng.

　　A:Let’s see the elephant.

　　B:Why do you want to see the elephant?

　　A:Because they are very smart.

　　(T:Now please make conversations in pairs ,using the animals in Activity 1c.You can have a competition and let’s see which pair of students is the best?)

　　2)Get a few pairs to show their conversations.

　　Step7 Summary

　　Today we have learnt lots of new words of animals,and the target language.We can describe the animals and other things using the target language.Now,We should remember the earth is our home and animals are our friends. It is our duty to protect animals and love the nature. Step8 Homework.

　　1)Make a survey:What animals do you like?why?

　　2)Write them down and make a conversation

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