Unit 1  Where’s the post office

teaching aims:

listening practice: write the names of the animals

oral practice: ask and answer questions about animals.

grammar focus

teaching difficulty: difference between the words very and kind of.

teaching methods: listen and say

teaching procedures:

step 1 revision: can you say the names of the animals? ask some students to say and two students to write on the blackboard.

step 2 free talk: making a conversation in pairs, talking about animals.

step 3 presentation(2a)

do you want to go to the zoo? julia and henry are talking about the animals in the zoo. let’s listen together.

play the recording twice →students write in the names of the animals →draw a line between animals and adjectives

step 4 listening practice(2b)

hear the recording again →complete the conversations with the words given →tell the words: very & kind of ( they always come just before the adjectives in the sentences. look at the cartoons under 2b. we can make sure. another example: if we are familiar with percentages, we might use the following scale to help explain their meaning:

                0%       50%      95%

                not       kind of    very)

step 5 pair work(2c)

practice the target language.

ask and answer questions with the given words.

step 6 consolidation: ask some pairs to act out the conversations.

step 7 summary: grammar focus

step 8 homework: practice the target languages.

教后一得：

現(xiàn)在的英語課堂是開放式的，本著啟發(fā)學(xué)生思維，培養(yǎng)學(xué)生的觀察力，想象力，創(chuàng)新能力和合作精神的原則，我們?cè)O(shè)置了一些活動(dòng)，能夠調(diào)動(dòng)學(xué)生課外英語學(xué)習(xí)的積極性，鍛煉學(xué)生獨(dú)立或以合作形式收集資料、處理信息的能力。為學(xué)生提供實(shí)際運(yùn)用英語的機(jī)會(huì)。

period 3 contents on p9

teaching aims:

say the names of the countries on the maps.

talk about where the animals come from.

game: bingo.

key points:

countries: china, australia, south africa, japan, brazil.

animals: lions, pandas, koala bears, dolphins, elephants, giraffes.

teaching methods: use the geography knowledge to match the countries and animals; play the game—bingo.

teaching aids: tape, recorder, maps, use coins, paper chips or scraps of paper as markers.

teaching procedure:

step 1 revision: free talk

work in pairs, describing the animals.

step 2 presentation

we have known many more animals. do you want to know where the animals are from? let’s look at the maps and say the names of the countries (show the maps).