Teaching plan

Unit Three   At the zoo  

A. Teaching objectives

At the end of the class, students should be able to: 1. Knowledge objectives（知识目标）:   Read new words.  Describe animals by using learned words and sentences.2. Ability objective（能力目标）:   Improve their oral English.                      3. Moral objective（情感目标）:   Love and protect animals. B. Teaching important and difficult points

1. Make sure students master the four adjectives “fat, thin, tall, and short”.

2. Rectify students’ pronunciation and intonation.C.Teaching Aids

Computer, blackboard, chalk.

D. Teaching methods

Communicative approach and Task-based teaching method .E. Teaching procedures

Step1  warm-up

The teacher performs the chant herself, and asks students to guess what the chant is talking about.

Step2  Presentation

Activity1

The teacher shows four pictures on PPT to present new words.

Activity2

One student acts what he hears from the teacher, others guess and say, using  “It’s …!”

Step3  Practice

1.Pair work：

Ask students to work in pairs,using “Look at that…  It’s …”

2. Team work:

Ask students to work in a team to find out how many animals their team can talk in 3 minutes.“Look at that …   It’s …!”

Step4  Consolidation

1. A game: Who’s faster?

The teacher shows pictures quickly, two students who can describe it faster wins.

2.Listen and tick

The teacher says some sentences such as “It’s fat.”  The students listen to the teacher, then tick and cross them.

3. Show a picture of cute dogs

The animals are so lovely. Please love them.

F. Homework

1.Read sentenses on page 25 with your parents

2.Write two sentences to describe your favorite animals, using “Look at that...” and “It’s...”.

G.Blackboard design