UNIT 5 Animals1.docx

Unit5 AnimalsPeriod 1 Teaching aims:1. Know the words about animals and their personalities. 2. Enable the students to talk about and describe their favorite animals.3. Educate the students to love and protect animals.Teaching importance:1. Master these words: zoo, animals, panda, tiger, elephant, koala, lion, giraffe, cute, beautiful, smart, lazy, scary, kind of, South Africa, Australia,Asia.Teaching difficulties:1. Master the following sentence patterns:------ Why do you/don’t you like …? Because they are …------What animals do/don’t you like? I like ...------ Where are … from? They are from …Teaching aids: a tape recorder, pictures. Teaching steps:Step One Greetings Say Hello to the students.Step Two Lead-in What animals do you know?Step Three Presentation 1. Teach new words with pictures.2. Present the following sentences with pictures.Why do you/don’t you like …?Because they are …Step Four ListeningPlay the recorder and ask students to do activity 1b.Step Five Pair work Show some pictures and a sample dialogue to the students, then ask them to make more conversations and act them out.A: Let’s see the lions.B: Why do you want to see them?A: Because they are interesting.cute interesting fun smart beautiful friendly shy…Step Six Work in groups. Ask and answerShow a sample dialogue to the students, then ask them to make more conversations and act them out.A:I like dogs. B:Why do you like dogs?A:Because they are cute and friendly. B: What animals does she like? Why does she like them?A:She likes pandas. Because they’re cute Step Seven Pair work1.Present a map of the world to teach new words and the new sentence pattern “Where are they from?” “They are from…”2. Show some pictures of animals and have students make conversations with the following sentences:A: Let’s see…Do you like …? B:Yes, I do./ No, I don’t.A: Why do you/ don’t you like them? B: Because they are… .A: Where are they from? B: They are from… .Ask several pairs to show their conversations.Step Eight Listening1. Listen and complete 2a. Play the recorder twice, for the first time , students find out the animals they hear. Then they guess the description words and countries. Next, play the recorder for the second time and students to make sure the answers. Step Nine Homework and Blackboard design 1. Make a list of the animals you know and try to describe each animal with a word we learned in this class. 2. Write an article about your favorite animals and describe their appearances, personalities, food, hobbies and where they are from. 3. Blackboard designAnimalsPeriod 1Animal words Adjective words Sentence structurespanda cute Why do/don’t you like pandas? koala interesting —Because they're interesting.lion smart What animals do/don’t you like? elephant fun — I like ...tiger lazy Where are … from?giraffe beautiful —They're from ...。