Lesson 1: What’s the Weather Like?
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: rather, shower, rise, rose, risen, set
Oral words and expressions: thunder, storm, sunrise, sunset
Teaching Aims:
Talking about weather
Teaching Important Points:
1. Describe the weather in spring;
2. Talk about the temperature.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Describe the nature phenomenon.
Teaching preparation: the pictures of spring
Teaching Aids: audiotape; flashcards; pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Free talk
1.What weather do you like? Why or why not?
2.What sports can you do in this season?
Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
Let the students work in groups and answer the following questions:
1. Look outside. What’s the weather like today?
2. How does this weather make you feel?
Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What’s the weather like today?
2. It is snowing, isn’t it?
3. what’s the temperature?
4. is it going to rain today, isn’t it?
Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Read the text in roles.
Step5. Practice
Work in three students. Suppose you are a weather reporter. Now report today’s weather to the others in your group. Then report it to the class.
Step6. Practice
Make up a dialogue between two or three students in class. It is about the weather in spring. Let some students act it out before the class.
Step7. Homework
1. Find something that represents spring and show it to the class next time.
2. Finish off the activity book.
Lesson 2: It’s Getting Warmer!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: become, became, become, fact
Oral words and expressions: daylight, melt, lightning, fascinating
Teaching Aim:
1. Know something more about spring;
2. The compound words.
Teaching Important Points:
1. When does spring begin?
2. How many hours of daylight are there on March 21st?
3. What is the weather like?
Teaching Difficult Points:
the compound words
Teaching Preparation: some pictures of spring
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, some pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let the students on duty reports the weather to the class. The others listen and decide it is right or wrong.
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What’s the date today?
2. How many ways can you write dates?
3. How many hours of daylight are there on March 21st?
4. What is spring weather like?
5. What is the temperature of the air near lighting?
Step3. Read the text and check the answers.
Step4. Listen to the tape again and imitate after it until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step5. Ask the students to ask other questions according to the text. You can begin like this:
1. When does the sun rise in the morning and when does it set in the evening?
2. Does it snow in early spring?
3. What is sometimes with thunder and lighting?
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Work in groups and discuss these questions. Then let them report it to the class.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Write a composition about spring.
Summary:
We are enjoying spring now. We can feel it is warmer than before. But not all of us know when the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. Let the students observe after class, write it down and report it to the class. It can cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.
Lesson 3: Postcards!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: road
Oral words and expressions: outdoors
Teaching Aim:
1. Grasp how to write a letter and the address.
2. Know more about the spring in China and Canada.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Find the differences between China and Canada in spring.
3. Find the differences between the clothes that we wear in winter and in spring.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. What’s the weather like in Edmonton?
2. How to express one’s idea easily in a letter?
Teaching Preparation: a postcard
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, postcards
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Free Talk
Let the students work in three and talk about the sports that we often do in spring. Then give a talk for the class.
Step2. Have a match
Read the text and see who read it best. Remember to encourage the students who preview the new lesson.
Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it. Play the tape for several times until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step4. Ask the students to find questions and solve them. They can ask the questions like this:
1. How did Li Ming go to school on March twenty-first?
2. What’s the temperature that afternoon?
3. What time does the sun rise this morning?
4. Is it snowing in Canada?
5. When does it often snow in winter?
6. Did Danny fall in the snow?
Step5. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
Write a postcard to your friend to introduce the weather here. Then write the address and stick a stamp on it. Mail it in the post office.
Step6. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Listen to the song in Lesson 4.
Summary:
Written English is an important part in English learning. Practice is the key to it. Do they have the spelling mistakes or the grammar mistakes in the writing? Find out and help them come over it. Pay more attention to the writing because it’s an important part of communication.
Lesson 4: Sun Is Rising
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: one by one, change
Oral words and expressions: hillside, gently, blossom
Teaching Aim:
Enjoy the beauty of the spring
Teaching Important Point:
Grasp the changes that spring bring us
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to use “warm” and “gently”.
Teaching Preparation: something that represents spring
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures or flowers
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Read the song aloud as a poem. This song has this song has common English words: come with me, through the trees, one by one, the flowers blossom. Translate these expressions into English.
Step2. Play the audiotape and let the students just listen with the eye closed.
Step3. Play the tape again and let the students sing with it.
Step4. Explain the common English expressions.
Step5. Practice the song a few times, with and without the audiotape.
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
STEP7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Write down what you can see in spring.
Summary
We use this lesson to cultivate the students’ sense of enjoying English songs. Pay attention to the rhyme, rhythm and repetition in the song. Learning English songs is a little difficult from Chinese songs. Find the ways in which we can learn fast.
Lesson 5: Fun in the Sun
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: shall, kick
Oral words and expressions: cycling, How/What about…? Shall we…?
Teaching Aims:
How to enjoy oneself in spring.
Teaching Important Points:
1. the sports that we do in spring.
2.some drills: How about…? Let’s…
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to advice sb. to do sth.
Teaching Preparation: basketball and soccer
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards and balls
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Listen to the tape of Lesson4 again, then let’s sing the song together.
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What’s the degree?
2. What will Danny wear tomorrow?
3. What will they do after school?
4. Why don’t Danny like basketball?
Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then read the text again.
Step4. Act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Step5. Make up a similar dialogue according to the text. Let’s the students act it out in front of the class.
Step6. Come to “PROJECT”.
Divide the class into several groups. Write the answers down. Ask the several groups to change their answers.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Review the last lesson.
Summary
Spring is a beautiful season. It’s the favourite season of many people. In this season, everything begins to turn green. Spring represents the beginning. We have many things to do in it. We can fly kites and play ball games. Running in the wind is what we like to do in our childhood. Lead your students to think hard what they like to do in this season. Let them talk freely in the class.
Lesson 6. Danny the babysitter
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: playground, hold, hold on, come down, push
Oral words and expressions: babysitter, babysit, Debbie, bar, swing, swung
Teaching Aims:
1. We should love each other.
2. The duty of a babysitter
Teaching Important Points:
1.How to demonstrate one thing clearly.
3. Cultivate the spirit of loving each other. Let’s love life and peace.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Some verb phrases: turn around, hold on, fall off, run to, come down, climb on, give sb. a push
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Work in pairs. Tell your partner what you did after school yesterday. The teacher walks around to provide help if necessary.
Step2. Skim the text and ask questions by the students themselves. Then solve them by themselves, too. Let some students write their questions on the blackboard. Then let others answer them.
Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it until they can read it correctly and fluently.
Step4. Ask some students to come to the front and act it out. Pay attention to who is clever enough to add something new.
Step5. Retell the story in a third person.
Step6. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
In a group of three, make up a “babysitting” role-play. Ask volunteers to act it out. Then it’s the other students’ turn.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. suppose one day, you become a babysitter, what will you do?
Summary
When we practice in the class, don’t forget to give chances to the poor students. When they have a little progress, encourage them to work hard. That’s what a good teacher should do.
Lesson 7: Danny’s “Debbie” Day
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: herself
Oral words and expressions: partly, all day
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn to write a diary.
2. What do we write in a diary.
Teaching Important Points:
When we are babysitters, what can we do?
Teaching Difficult Points: the Past Tense
Teaching Preparation: some toys
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, some toys
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Work in groups. Retell Lesson 6 in Past Tense in a third person.
Step2. Read the text silently by students themselves. Then answer the questions in the activity. Check the answers in the class.
Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it. Some students may think it is easy to listen with the book. Then listen to the tape again with the book closed. At the same time, the teacher asks some students to repeat some sentences to see if they can listen clearly.
Step4. Let some students read the text aloud in front of the class. Let’s have a match. Who can read it fast and correctly?
Step5. Practice
Work in groups. Write down experience that you have ever been a babysitter. Do you think it easy to be a babysitter? Why or why not?
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Do the exercises on Page 9.
Summary
Can you write down your experience clearly? We often write in a time order. Expressing your ideas in English is not easy. So give the students more chance to practice. Writing is also an important way to check the grammars.
Lesson 8: Unit Review
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions from Lesson1 to Lesson8.
Oral words and expressions from Lesson1 to Lesson8.
Teaching Aims:
1. Know about more knowledge in spring. There are many things that we don’t know before.
2. What sports do people usually do in China and in Canada?
Teaching Important Points:
1. What’s the weather like in spring?
2. The sports that we do in spring.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The using of some expressions: Let’s…, shall we…?turn around, come down, finally, then
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. First let’s sing the song together.
Step2. Talk with your partners about the differences between the sports that we do in China and in Canada.
Step3. Have you ever been a babysitter? Let some students talk about their experience in front of the class.
Step4. Finish the exercises on Page7. Find some difficulties and solve them in front of the class.
Step5.Let some students talk about what we learn in this unit. What do they want to say about spring?
Step6. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in activity.
2. Prepare for a small quiz.
Summary
The aim of teaching is not what they learn. The most important is to teach them how to learn. Cultivate the ability of learning by themselves in the class. Encourage them to find and solve questions in class.