ⅠTeaching model

Reading and writing.  

ⅡTeaching method

 Interactive approach

ⅢTeaching aims

1. To get information about animals from the reading material.

2. To learn to find specific information in the reading.

3. To learn to use capital letters.

ⅣTeaching Objectives

Key vocabulary: Africa, Asia, Europe, little, only, kilo (= kilogram ), people, African, grass, large, usually, alone, strong, catch, even, world

Key phrase: a little, as well as, be good at

Key structures:

The elephant lives in Africa and in Asia.

The zebra is an African animal.

The zebra doesn’t eat bamboo.

The tiger lives in Asia.

Monkeys live in Africa, Asia and America.

ⅤTeaching aids

Recorder , OHP , video

ⅥTeaching Steps

Step 1 Warming-up

1. Review the text of Unit 1. 

2. Introduce the new words.

Step 2 Find these places on the map.

1. Show a map of the world.

2. Find these places (Africa, America, Asia, Europe)on the map.

3. Check with a partner.

4. Call back the answers from the whole class.

5. Show some pictures, ask the students to look at the pictures, then talk something about the pictures. 

elephant

The elephant lives in Africa and in Asia. It eats plants, leaves bamboo and a little fruit, but it doesn’t eat meat. It likes water.

panda

There are only about 1,800 pandas in China and about 200 of them live in zoos. The panda eats about 30 kilos of bamboo a day, as well as plants and leaves.

zebra

The zebra is an African animal. Like the panda, it’s black and white. It eats plants and leaves, as well as grass, but the zebra doesn’t eat bamboo.

tiger

The tiger lives in Asia. It usually lives alone. It likes water and is good at swimming. It’s strong and catches many kinds of animal for food.

 monkey

Monkeys live in Africa, Asia and America. There are about 200 kinds of monkey. Monkeys eat meat, leaves, fruit and even eggs!

Step 3 Reading.

1. Play the recording.

2. Ask the students to read through the passage.

3. Read the passage and complete the table in Activity 3.

Animal	Home	Food
Elephants
Pandas
Zebras
Tigers
Monkeys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Check with a partner.

5. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:

Elephants  Africa and Asia           plants, leaves, bamboo and a little fruit

Pandas    China                   bamboo, plants and leaves

Zebras    Africa                   plants, leaves and grass

Tigers    Asia                     many kinds of animals

Monkeys  Africa, Asia and America    meat, leaves, fruit and eggs

6. Read the passage again and fill in the blanks.

Elephants live in Africa and Asia and they eat plants, ______, bamboo and a little fruit. Pandas live in China. They eat bamboo, ______ and leaves. Zebras live in Africa. They eat plants, leaves and ______. Tigers live in Asia and they eat many kinds of _______. Monkeys live in Africa, Asia and ________ and they eat meat, leaves, fruit and even ______.

Keys: 1. leaves  2. plants  3. grass   4. animals  5. America    6. eggs

7. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words and expression from the box in Activities 4.

African  a little  grass   kilo  only  world

1) The elephant eats __________ fruit.

2) The pandas eats about 30 ______ of bamboo a day.

3) The zebra eats plants, leaves and _______ but not bamboo.

4) There are ______ about 1,800 pandas in China.

5) Monkeys live in many countries all over the ______ but not in Europe.

6) You can find elephants in Africa and Asia, but zebras are only _______ animals.

8. Check with a partner.

9. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:  1. a little  2. kilos  3. grass  4. only  5. world  6. African

Step 4 Language points

1. 重点短语:

1) a little  少量

2) all over the world  全世界

3) as well as   并且，还

4) be good at    擅长

5) many kinds of  许多种类

2. 语言点

1) 两种常见的 “类别” 表达方式：

   一种是“定冠词 the + 名词的单数形式”

   e.g. The elephant lives in Africa and Asia. 大象生活在非洲和亚洲。

   另一种是 “名词的复数形式”

   e.g. Monkeys live in Africa, Asia and America.

      猴子生活在非洲，亚洲和美洲。

2) It eats plants, leaves, bamboo and a little fruit, but it doesn’t eat meat.

   little  adj.  极少量的，强调“几乎没有”，表示否定意义;

   a little意为“少量”，表示肯定意义。它们都用来修饰不可数名词。

e.g. There is little beef in the fridge.  冰箱几乎没有牛肉。

      Kevin wants to have a little bread.  凯文想要点面包。

little用作形容词时，还可意为“小的”或“年幼的”，常修饰名词。

a little意为“稍微；有点儿”时，可修饰形容词。

e.g. I have a little brother. 我有一个小弟弟。

     The book is a little interesting.  这本书有点意思。

根据汉语意思完成英语句子。

(1) 露西想喝点儿果汁。

      Lucy wants to drink ______________.

(2) 我有一只小狗。

      I have a ___________.

(3) 今天有点儿热。

     It is ________ hot today.

Keys: 1. a little juice   2. little dog     3. a little

3) The panda eats about 30 kilos of bamboo a day, as well as plants and leaves.

   as well as意为“并且，还”，连接句子中的多种成分，强调的是其前的内容。

   e.g. Amy likes football as well as basketball.

      埃米不但喜欢篮球，还喜欢足球。

根据所讲内容将下面的句子翻译成英语。

杰克不但喜欢红色，还喜欢蓝色。

Keys: Jack likes blue as well as red.

4) It likes water and is good at swimming.

  be good at意为“擅长”，其同义短语为“do well in”。

  e.g. Jill is good at Chinese. = Jill does well in Chinese.   Jill擅长语文。

  根据所讲内容写出下面句子的同义句。

  King does well in basketball.

  Keys: King is good at basketball.

5) This black and white animal is the favourite of people all over the world.

  the favourite of ...表示“……最喜爱的事物或人”，这里表示“最喜爱的动物”。通常，也可以用“形容词性物主代词+ favourite”或“名词所有格+ favourite”来表达同样的意思。

根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。

(1) 牛肉是他的最爱。

Beef is ____ __________.

(2) 玛丽的最爱是米饭。

______ _________ is rice.

(3) 这座图书馆是这座城市人民的最爱。

The library is ____ _________ ____ people in the city.

  Keys: his favourite; Mary’s favourite; the favourite of

Step 5 Do exercises:

A.首字母填空：

1. China is a country in A___________.

2. They are Europeans. They come from E_______.

3. The dog is my favourite a _________.

4. In autumn, we can see the yellow l__________ of the trees.

5. The old man lives a________. I usually talk with him.

Keys:

1. Asia  2.Europe  3. animal 4. leaves  5. alone

B.完成句子：

1.狮子是欧洲的吗？

Is the lion ____________________?

2.他们不是亚洲人。

They don’t ____________________.

3.这是只非洲大象吗？

Is this _________________________?

4.你愿意住在美洲吗？

Would you like _________________?

5.熊猫一天吃30公斤竹子，也吃植物和叶子。

The panda eats about 30 ____________ a day, ___________ plants and leaves.

Keys:

1. from Europe  2. come from Asia 3. an African elephant  4. live in America  

5. kilos of bamboo  6. as well as

C.综合填空：

Susan likes animals very much. She often goes to the zoo with her parents. (1)T_____ are many animals in the zoo. Such as (2)g______ , (3)t______ and many more. (4)P____ like eating bamboo, (5) e_______ are very big and strong, they have long noses and they like (6) d_____ water. (7) M_______ are Susan’s favourite animal. They like eating bananas and climbing trees. Susan doesn’t like (8) l______ because they are very dangerous. The (9) g______ tells the family the kind of animals are from (10)E_______. But her parents like them very much. Susan always has a good time too.

Keys: 1.There  2. giraffes 3. tigers 4. pandas  5.elephants

6. drinking 7. Monkeys 8.lions 9.guide, 10.Europe

Step 6 Writing.

1. Read the introduction about a zoo.

2. Correct the mistakes.

3. Ask the students to notice capital letters.

The zoo has many animals. The animals come from many different countries. The panda lives in China and it eats bamboo. There are elephants from Africa and Asia. The tiger comes from Asia. It eats meat.

4. Learning to learn

In English, we use capital letters with the first word of a sentence. We also use capital letters with the names of countries, towns, places etc.

Step 7 Homework

Collect some information about your favourite animals.