1、Les son 1 1: Do n’t Fa ll , D an ny! Teaching Content: Mastery words and expression: weigh, ton, including, human Oral words and expressions: whale, average, bumblebee, bat, gram, centimeter, Thailand, tortoise, cheetah Teaching Aims: 1. Learn more about the animal’s world rec
2、ords. 2. Stimulate the students’ learn ing interests. Teaching Important Points: 1. Comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives a nd adverbs. 2. Some words and expressions. Teaching Difficult Points: Compara tive and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs. Tea
3、ching Preparation: pictures Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures Type of lesson: new lesson Teaching Procedure: Step1.Let the students talk about the world records of the animals. What do you know about the world records? How do you know this information? Can you see something about th
4、e anima, such as: Where do they live? What do they like to eat? Divide the class into groups of three or four and discuss the questions. Then ask one of th e groups give a report in front of the class. Step2. Now let’s listen to the tape and tell us what Danny is doing, why does he do so? Ask th
5、em try to listen to the world’s longest, smallest, oldest and fastest animals . If there are some students can answer the questions, remember to praise it. Step3. Role-play Ask the students to act out a dialogue in former groups. They must think of a world record that they are going to break. T
6、hen let one s tudent do this. The others say something about the world record. You’d better let them search for a real world record before the performance. They try to imitate the action. Now they can begin their dialogue. After five or six minutes, let them act it out in the front. The others can
7、correct their mistakes. Step4. Read the text and try to answer the following questions: 1. What’s the world record of standing on one foot? 2. What’s the world’s largest animal? 3. What’s the wor ld’s smallest animal? 4. What’s the world’s oldest animal? 5. What’s
8、t he word’s fastest animal? Check the answers in the class in oral. Step5. Let’s discuss the text in details. 1. How long h as Danny stood on one foot when Jenny saw him? 2. How largest is the world’s largest animal? 3. How small is the world’s smallest animal? 4. How o
9、ld can the tortoises live in the world? 5. How fastest can the cheetah run? Di scuss the questions in former groups. Then give a report to the class. Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”. Begin this part in groups. They can imagine the appearances of the animals and the habits of the animals. Wo
10、rk together and then present their results to the class. Give a vivid demonstration of the animal they create. Step7. Homework 1. Finish off the activity book. 2. Go on the next reading in the student book. Summary: Ask them to search on the Internet for the information of the animals. Then report in class. Now they use the grammars we are going to build: Comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs. Compare some animals with the others. Tell the differences between two animals that they say one time.






