1、Unit 4 I want to be an actor.Language goals: l In this unit students learn to describe animals and express preferences. New languages: l Lets see the pandas first. l Why do you like want to see the pandas? l Because they are very cute. l Because theyre kind of shy. l Because theyre kind of interesti
2、ng. l Because they are fun. l Because they are smart. l Do you like giraffes? l Where are lions from? l They are from South Africa. l The animal is ugly / beautiful / friendly / small / shy / clever / cute / scary. l She likes to play with her friends and eat grass. l Shes very beautiful, but shes v
3、ery shy, so please be quiet. l He sleeps during the day, but at night he gets up and eats leaves. Difficult points: 1. Listening for the names of animals. Listen for the description words about animals. 2. Read the description words about animals. Write about the animal you know. 3. why, what, where
4、 questions, because, adjectives of quality Teaching aids:l A tape recorderl Some pictures Teaching periods: l Period 1:Section A1a, 1b, 1c l Period 2:Section A2a, 2b, 2c l Period 3:Section A3a, 3b, 4 l Period 4:Section B 1a,1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c l Period 5:SectionB 3a, 3b, 3c, 4 l Period 6:Self Check P
5、eriod 1 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Lets see the pandas. Why do you want to see the lions? Because theyre cute.3. Enable the students to talk about animals. 4. Help the students learn how to listen to and talk about animals. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warming up
6、Talk about animals using pictures. Teach new words about animals by the pictures. Step 2.Match work(1a) Ask the students to read the words and the picture, and then match the names with the pictures ah. Encourage or help the students to say something about the picture and do the match work. Step 3.
7、Listening (1b) Point to the numbered list of words in activity 1a and play the recording. Ask the students to listen to the recording and circle the countries in 1a. Play the tape and then check the answers. Ask the students to listen to and repeat after the recording and then check the answers. Fur
8、ther activity: Ask the students to do some pair work in the following way if they can understand the listening material well. Step 4. Pair work(1c) Ask the students to make conversations in pairs. Show the following. Lets see the pandas / giraffes / lions / penguins / dolphins / koalas / elephants /
9、 tigers? Why? Because theyre cute / interesting / fun / interesting / smart. Say: Now please make conversations in pairs, using the animals in activity 1a and the description words in activity 1c. Homework 1. Ask the students to remember the new words in this period (on page 116) by heart. 2. Ask th
10、e students to practice the conversation in activity 1c. Period 2 Teaching aims: 1. Learn the vocabulary words and useful expressions. 2. Target languages: I like dolphins.Why do you like dolphins? Because they are kind of interesting. 3. Enable the students to talk about animals and tell why they li
11、ke them. 4. Help the students learn to talk about animals and tell why they like them. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Free talk and lead-in Revise the names of the animals. Say: In last period we learnt the names of some animals. Now lets do some revision. Please look at the pictures one by one and yo
12、u have to tell me the name of the animal in the picture. OK? Show the students the animal pictures one by one. Revise the conversation learnt in the last period. Give more chances to more students to practice talking about the animals and expressing why they like the animals. Step 2. Listening (2a,
13、2b) First ask the students to listen and fill in the chart in activity 2a. Play the recording for the first time. Ask the students to listen carefully and write down the animals. Play the tape the second time. Ask the students to pay attention to the words in the box in Activity 2b. Ask the students
14、 to pay attention to the conversation in activity 2b. After that, check the answers. Then ask the students to listen to and repeat the dialogue after the recording. After this, ask the students to practice the conversation without the help of the recording. Step 3. Pair work(2c) Ask the students to
15、work in pairs, ask and answer about animals they know. Ask the students to practice: Why? Because they are Step 4.Grammar focus Ask the students to read the sentences in the grammar box and sum up the sentence structure. Practice suggestion: Ask the students to work in groups and write down their ow
16、n opinions on the animals in Activity 1a on a piece of paper; show their work to the group members. And then ask and answer questions. Homework l Ask the students to do the following: 1. Make similar dialogues according to the conversation in 2c.2. Use the words in the box in activity 2b to make sen
17、tences. 3. Ask the students to find more description words about animals. Period 3 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Where are lions from? Lions are from South Africa. 3. Enable the students to say where some animal are from. 4. Help the students to say where some animal
18、s are from. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Free talk and lead-in Show the students some pictures and ask some questions. Show the first picture with a panda in it. Show other pictures of animals and ask questions and go on with others in the same way. Step 2.Match work (3a) Ask the students to read th
19、e maps and the animals in activity 3a. Let the students look at the three animals. Let the students match the countries and the animals. Move around the classroom to see if the students need help. Ask the students to draw lines to match the maps with the pictures. Step 3. Pair work(3b) Ask the stude
20、nts to read the conversation in activity 3b. Ask the students to work in pairs and ask and answer questions. Step 4. Game Ask the students to read the list of countries and animals. Let the students look at the list of countries and animals and find a person to translate the list of countries and an
21、imals into Chinese. Show the students how to play the game. Play the recording for the first time. Play the recording again and check the answers by replaying the tape. Homework l Ask the students to practice talking about where animals come from in Activity 3a. Period 4Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocab
22、ulary words. 2. Target languages: What animals do you like? I like elephants. 3. Enable the students to talk about why they like some animals. 4. Help the students to learn how to talk about why they like some animals. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warming and lead-in Check the homework by asking som
23、e questions. Show the pictures of lions, pandas and koalas. Say: Where are pandas from? Where are koalas from? Where are lions from? Show a picture of a big elephant. Step 2.Match work (1) Ask the students to read the words and the picture, and then match the names with the pictures ah. Point to the
24、 pictures one by one. Ask the students to read the eight numbered adjectives at the top. Ask the students to do the match work. Step 3. Listening (2a, 2b) Point to the numbered list of words in activity 1 and play the recording. Ask the students to listen to the recording and circle the description
25、words in activity 1. Play the tape for the first time. And then play the recording the second time. Ask the students to pay attention to the headings in 2b. Play the first four lines of the recording of the conversation and stop the tape. Play the rest of the conversation. Check if the students get
26、the right information. If not, play the part students cant understand well or get the right information again (and again). Step 4. Pair work(3) Ask the students to read the dialogue. As the students work, move around to see if help is needed. Ask the students to work in pairs. Homework 1. Ask the st
27、udents to try to remember the new words learned in this period. 2. Ask the students to try to practice talking about the animals they like according to activity 3. Period 5 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: She likes to play with her friends and eat grass. Please be quie
28、t. He sleeps during the day, but at night he gets up and eats leaves. 3. Enable the students to write a description of an animal. 4. Help the students to write a description of an animal. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Before the new lesson, do some revision to check the homework. Show some p
29、ictures with a panda, a lion, a koala, an elephant, a dolphin, a tiger and penguin in each of them. Say: Morning, boys and girls. Nice to see you again. Have you remembered we learned how to describe animals? Can you say some of them? Ask some students to answer questions. Give more students chances
30、 to say, and let them have enough practice. Step 2. Presentation (3a) Let the students read the pictures and the descriptions. Ask the students to read the articles in 3a and answer the following questions. Show the following. Explain some language points that students may not understand. For exampl
31、e, the difference between play and play with. Step 3. Reading and filling in the blanks (3b) Ask the students to look at the pictures in activity 3a and teach new words. Say, Look at picture d. What is the panda eating? What is the koala eating? Write leaves on the blackboard. Ask a student to give
32、the Chinese meaning and go on with the others in the same way. Ask the students to read the box on the left in activity 3b. Point out the description in 3b with blank lines where some words are missing. As the students work, move around the room checking progress and offering language support as nee
33、ded. Ask the students to try to recite the description. Step 4.Writing (3c)Ask the students to write an article about the animal they like. Show the following. Whats the name of your favorite animal? How old is it? Where is it from? What does it like to do? What description words can be used to desc
34、ribe your favorite animals? After that have them present to the class. After the students finish writing the description, let them share their writing with others in the class. Step 5.Group work(4) Point out the example in the speech bubbles in activity 4. Ask two students to read it. Then divide th
35、e class into groups of four. Say: You will take turns reading your description from 3c to your group. The other students in the group guess what animal you wrote about. As students work, move around the classroom, making sure each student has a chance to read his or her description to their group. A
36、sk a few students to read their description to the class. Homework 1. Ask the students to practice writing an article about one of their favorite animals. 2. Ask the students to share their description in 3c with more students. Period 6 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Enable the student
37、s to write about animals. 3. Help the students to write about animals. Teaching procedures: Step 1.Warming up Check the homework. Then show some animal pictures to the students. Say: We learned to talk about animals you like in the last period. And I asked you to write an article about one of your f
38、avorite animals. Did you finish it? Whod like to share your work? Step 2.Key word check(1) Ask the students to read all the words in this part. Say: In learning to talk about animals, you learned many words on the topic. Now read and check the words you know in 1 on page 18. Then make a8 sentence wi
39、th each of them. Step 3.Vocab-Builders (2) Ask students to write five new words in their Vocabulary-Builder on page 112. After they are finished, ask two students to write their words down on the blackboard. And ask them to read the words and the whole class repeat. And tell the whole class to remem
40、ber them after class. Step 4.Writing (3, 4) Point out the example-the description of the elephant. Say, Look at the description of the elephant. I want to ask one of the students to read it to the class. After that, ask them to write a similar description of the other animals. Homework 1. Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this unit. 2. Ask the students to write an article about one of their favorite animals.