Lesson 17: People Love Pets
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: pet, keep
Oral words and expressions: amazing, imagination
Teaching Aims:
1. Animals play an important part in our life.
2. Practice the students’ spoken English.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Reminding and Warning.
2. Grasp the key words in the listening.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The imaginary pets
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Teaching Type: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
1. What’s your favourite animal? Why?
2. Do you have a pet? Would you like to have one?
Discuss the questions in groups with three or four people. Then report to the class.
Lets’ have an interview. How many students in your class like cats? How many students in your class like dogs? Does anyone in your class have strange pet? Why do you think it is strange?
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. Does Jenny have a pet? What is it?
2. What animal would Danny like to have for a pet?
3. What animal would Brain like to have for a pet?
Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then read the text again. Play the tape again and let the students read after it. Play the tape for several times until they can read it correctly and fluently.
Step4. Let some students lead the class to read the text sentence by sentence.
Step5.Practice
Work in pairs. Practice the similar dialogue according to the text.
Step6. Come to “PROJECT”.
Do you have a pet? Do any animals live with your family?
Describe your pet, or describe a pet you would like to have. Write a passage about your pet or your imaginary pet. Draw a picture to match it. Then put them on the wall.
Divide the class into several groups. Let them give a report to the class.
If you can’t finish the project in one lesson, go on it the next lesson.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the next lesson.
Summary:
Dogs are people’s friends in the life. They are very important in many ways. We hear many stories that the animals save the owners out of danger. We must give love to the animals and we must love each other.
Lesson 18: Brandy Hates Cats
Teaching Content:
Oral words and expressions: Brandy, chase, squirrel, branch, fierce, Amy
Teaching Aims:
1. Understand the main parts of a story.
2. Describe one’s experience with the help of the pictures.
Teaching Important Points;
1. The Past Continue Tense.
2. Express one’s ideas in English.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The Past Continue Tense
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Show the picture of Mike and the dog to the class. What does the passage describe according to the picture? Let the students to express theirs ideas in English.
Step2. Come to ‘THINK ABOUT IT.”
Step3. Read the test silently and ask the students to answer the following questions:
1. What’s the name of the dog?
2. Does the animals need love? What do we do?
3. What does Brandy like to do when we are walking?
4. What are sticks?
5. Is Brandy fierce? What is she scared of?
Step4. Play the tape and let the students read after it. Pause after every line, and ask the students to repeat.
Step5. Let some students read the text in class and the others listen to see if they have any mistakes. Can they find and correct the mistakes?
Step6. Let the students rewrite the story and read it to the class.
Step7. Discuss the reading with the students. Use as much English as possible. Ask questions to make it easier for students to participate.
Ask questions like this:
What does Mike do to look after his dog?
Lots of people in North America have pets. In this way, are people in North America the same as, or different from, people in China?
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Review the next lesson.
Summary
It’s easy and interesting for the students to talk about the familiar dialogues in English. Give them chance to practice in class. They can prepare before the class, too. Some students need more time. If they don’t have a real one, what animals do they really want to have?
Lesson 19: Brandy Hates Cats!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: open, somewhere, lake, all kinds of, protect, scientist
Oral words and expressions: extinct, gorilla, protect…from…, go extinct, stop…from doing
Teaching Aims:
1. Ask the people to protect animals.
2. What are the zoos for?
Teaching Important Points:
1. What will we take if we go to a zoo?
2. Write a story about a trip to the zoo.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Some words and expressions
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Show some pictures of animals to the class. Ask the students:
What animals do you like best?
What animals can you see in the zoo?
Step2. Read the text and let the students repeat the main ideas of the text.
Step3. Listen to the tape, pause after every line, and ask the students to repeat (a) in chorus, (b) in small groups, (c) individually.
Step4. Practice
Deal with the vocabulary. Select one or two words for discussion. For example, the word kind can be used as an adjective (Mr. Smith is a kind person) or a noun (I like this kind of pet). The word open can be used as a verb (Open the door) and an adjective (The door is open). Can students think of other examples? You may want to compare zoo with school. Remind the students that while we say, “ go to school” (here the word the is not used), we usually say “go to the zoo”(here the word the must be used).
Step5. Read the text in roles. The teacher walks in the classroom while they are reading. Help them if necessary.
Step6. Let some students come to the front and act the dialogue out.
Step7. Come to “PROJECT 2”
Divide the class into several groups and finish the task.
Instruct the students to write a story about a trip to the zoo they have taken or would like to take. The story can be real or imaginary. They should illustrate their stories with pictures or photographs. Students may continue working on their stories during the next two lessons.
Step8. Homework
1. The third reading in the reader.
2. Finish off the activity book.
Summary:
It is important for us to protect animals from extinction. Let the students look up after class about the information about the animals. How many animals are there in the world? Now how many kinds of animals have been extincted? What do we need to do immediately? What have our government done for this? What’s your opinion about this? Can you give some good advice?
Lesson 20: Stand So Still
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: still, make friends with, while, camel, fear, shy, bear
Oral words and expressions: waddle, toss, seal
Teaching Aims:
1. Continue animals as our friends.
2. Learn about the foreign culture.
Teaching Important Points:
1. How do you make friends with animals?
2. What are the animals’ habits?
Teaching Difficult Points:
Make friends with animals
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure;
Step1. Free Talk
Talk about your trip to a zoo. Work in groups. Write a passage and report it to the class. You can answer the following questions:
1. Where did you go?
2. How did you go”
3. What’s the weather like that day?
4. What did you do in the zoo?
5. Where did you have lunch?
6. Where did you have a rest?
Step2. Listen to the tape and repeat after it. Let us lose ourselves in the beautiful music now.
Help the students to guess the meaning of the new words that appear in the text. This will in turn help the class understand the meaning of the song.
Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. How do you make friends with the animals? Why?
2. What does Danny like to do?
3. What animal would he like to make friends with?
4. Do you think what animals are fierce?
Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Then let the students read it loudly in class. After a while, ask the students to act it out in front of the class.
Step5. Make sure everybody can sing confidently. Let volunteers come to the front and sing loudly.
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Work in groups and give their opinions in class. Encourage them to speak freely. Maybe they will have good advice. You can write a letter and show your opinions to the local government.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Review the next lesson.
Summary:
Let the students draw a picture of you and your favourite animal. Put them up on the wall. According to the content of today, we can practice spoken English about a trip to a zoo. Make up a dialogue in two or three and act it out in front of the class.
Lesson 21:Fun at the Zoo
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: danger, surprised, mad, lazy, nearly
Oral words and expressions: entrance, cage, No Photos!
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the instructions in the zoo.
2. What are the animals’ habits?
Teaching Important Points:
1. Express one’s idea with the help of the teacher and the picture.
2. Cultivate the students’ active attitude to the future.
Teaching Difficult Points:
What we can’t do in the zoo? Why?
Teaching Preparations: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Show a picture of the zoo to the class and say: “Today we are going to have a trip in the zoo. Who is the tour guide?
Step2. Remember any other signs you have seen or read before? (Wet Paint! No Noise! No Smoking! Men’s Room/ Ladies’ Room)
Step3. Check the homework. Let’s see if the students have previewed the lesson. Let them ask questions. They can ask like this:
1. When is the zoo open?
2. What do we can’t do in the zoo?
3. Why can’t we take photos?
4. What animal would Danny like to make friends with?
Step4. Listen to the tape and repeat after it. Play the tape for several until they can read it correctly and fluently.
Step5. Read the text in roles. Then change the roles each other. Help them during their reading.
Step6. Let some students act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
In a group of three, act out a trip to the zoo. Each group member takes one of the three roles (Brain, Jenny or Danny). Try changing the story. Be creative.
Give the students time. Then let them act it out. Choose which group is the most creative.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
When we practice spoken English like step7 “LET’S DO IT”. Remember to give chance to the poor students. Encourage them to speak loudly in class. Praise them when they have some progress. Encourage others to help them in many ways to cultivate their confidence
Lesson 22: April Fools’
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: joke, yourselves
Oral words and expressions: fool, trick, April Fools’, play joke on…
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the foreign culture in western countries.
2. What are the main festivals in western countries?
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn about the things that we can do in April Fools’.
2. What we usually in China on April Fools’?
Teaching Difficult Points:
the main festivals in western countries
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
Explain April Fools’ Day in English. Let’s see how many students can understand you. Tell them what they usually do on that day.
Step2. If happens today is April Fools’, play a joke on the students. When the teacher comes into the classroom, says we will have a quiz today. The students may feel surprised and puzzled, why didn’t the teacher tell them earlier? When they all in a hurry, tell them we only play a joke on them. Now they can understand the festival clearly.
Step3. Listen to the tape and let some students retell the main idea about the text. If they can’t do well, don’t publish them. Encourage them and say: “I know it is very difficult for you. It’s also difficult for me. Let’s face the problem together.”
Step4. Read the text silently and answer the following questions:
1. What is the date today?
2. What’s the meaning of April Fools’ Day?
3. What do they decide to do?
4. Did Danny believe what Brain and Jenny said?
Step5. Listen to the tape for several times until they can read it correctly and fluently.
Step6. Let some students read the text in roles. Then change the roles. Now let’s briefly discuss the reading. To dertermine students’ level of understanding, ask them to ask questions about the text. They may begin like this:
1. What did Brain and Jenny want to do?
2. Did the bear get out of the zoo?
3. Was the cage open?
4. Who said the bear looked hungry?
5. What did Danny say on Saturday?
Step7. Let some students act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Listening is a difficult part in English teaching. So teaching the students how to improve one’s listening ability is very important. We can use many types in class. The main types are: listen and answer the following questions; listen and fill in the blanks; listen and choose the best answer; listen and repeat the main idea about the story. Of course, the last one is the most difficult. The teacher should practice the students listening ability step by step.
Lesson 23: Famous Zoos
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: giraffe, Asian
Oral words and expressions: Egypt, Africa, pyramid, Italy, wedding, Siberian, be famous for
Teaching Aims:
1. Know about the history of the zoo.
2. Call on people all over the world to create a more life for the animals.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn about the growth of the zoo.
2. Improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Some words and expressions: Egypt, Africa, Italy, Siberian, be famous for
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Deal with the words first because the words in this lesson are a little difficult. Let some students read the words. Then read after the teacher. After several times, let some students read the words and the others read after it. Now close the cooks, let some students read the words in class, at the same time, the others read after it.
Step2. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks:
1. One of the world’s first zoos was in ______, about ________ years ago.
2. Egypt is a country in _______.
3. China built its zoo about _______ years ago.
4. ________ years ago, a king kept many wild animals in his zoo.
5. When he got married, he took _______, _______, ________ and ________ to his wedding.
6. One hundred years ago, a new kind of zoo opened in _______.
Step3. Read the text and briefly discuss the reading. To determine students’ level of understanding, ask questions like this:
1. When the first zoos built in Egypt?
2. What people can go to the zoo?
3. Where is Egypt? What is it famous for?
4. When did China build its first zoo?
5. Were there animals in wedding clothes eight hundred years ago? What did they do?
6. Where did a new kind of zoo open one hundred years ago?
Step4.Listen to the tape again and repeat after it until they can repeat it correctly and fluently. Let some students read the text in class. Choose the best one to encourage from the students’ pronunciation and intonation.
Step5. Ask the students what they know about the history of the zoo. Encourage them to search on the Internet and report to the class in next class.
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Divide the class into several groups and discuss the task. What are the good ways for animals living in the zoos? What are the bad ways? Let the students give them advice freely.
Animals should have a better life. But what can we do? Can the students give more good advice? Report to the class and discuss together.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the students’ book.
Summary
Everyone does not know the history of zoos. In order to get more information, we can use the Internet and the time after class to enlarge the knowledge. Then the teacher give them chance to show their performance to the class.
Lesson 24: Unit Review
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 17 to Lesson 23.
Oral words and expressions from Lesson 17 to Lesson 23.
Teaching Aims:
1.Teach people to love life, animals and environment.
2.How can we make a better life for the animals?
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn about the festivals in western countries.
2.Teach the students the ways of learning by themselves.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The Past Continue Tense
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: review lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let some students come to the front and sum the main content that we learn in this unit.
The teacher helps him when he has difficulties. If one can’t say clearly, the others can add it.
Step2. Ask the students to review the grammars that we learn in this unit. Provide help if it necessary. If one student can’t finish it, the others can go on.
Step3. Make up sentences with the important words and expressions that we learn in this unit. Such as: protect…from… be famous for. The teacher can arrange an order, according to the time or the length.
Step4. Talk about the favourite animals. Divide the class into several groups and share the pleasure that the animals bring you.
Step5. Do the exercises on Page 29. The teacher walks around the classroom and provides help when they are in trouble.
Step6. Explain some problems on the blackboard. Let’s discuss together. Practice “Speaking the Language” in class.
Step7. Let’s sing the song, if we have time.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2.Sum what we learn in this unit.
Summary:
The content in this unit is very familiar to the students. Give them more chance to practice in class. Let them search on the Internet for the further information. Teach them the ideas of learning by themselves, which is very important to the students’ learning in the future.