Unit 3 Look at the shadow!
Learning Aims
Knowledge objectives:
1.To learn the words and expressions:
hill, lawn, path, bench, rise, go down, grow short, at noon
2.To learn the sentences, e.g.
1) The sun goes down in the evening
2) It is on the lawn.
3.To learn the new text: Look and learn& Look and say &Make and say
Skill objectives:
1.Be able to master the words.
2.Be able to use prepositions to indicate positions.
3.Be able to make a shadow and say.
Emotion objectives:
Explore the mystery around.(探索大自然的奥秘。)
Learning key and difficult points
1.Be able to master the words.
2.Help students use prepositions to indicate positions.
3.Help students make a shadow and say.
Learning procedure
I.Pre-task preparations
1.Say a rhyme
I see green.
I see yellow.
I see blue.
I see purple.
I see the beautiful rainbow, shining over there, outside the window.
2.Free talk:
1) Put one thing on the desk.
2) Put a pencil in my bag.
3) Put your hand in the bag. Touch one thing. How does it feel What is it
4) Whose …
3.Show Time: The blind brothers and the elephant
II. While-task preparations
A.The text I
The sun is shining. Alice and Danny are in the park. What do they see in the park Let’s have a look.
Alice: Wow! What a nice park! I can see a hill. It’s small. I can fly a kite on the hill. I can see a lawn beside the hill. It’s green. I can have a picnic on the lawn. I can see a bench. It’s beside the path. I can sit on it. How beautiful!
Show the picture of the park and ask the students some questions
e.g. What’s in the picture
What can we see in the park
2.Try to learn the word: awn, hill, bench, path
3.Look at the picture of the park and say about it
e.g. Where’s the bench
How is the bench
4.Guessing game:
e.g. It’s hard and smooth. You can see it in a park. You can see it in a park. You can sit on it. What is it
B.The text II
Danny: Look, what’s this It’s black. It’s so big. Is it a tree
Alice: No! It’s the tree’s shadow.
1.Elicit the word: shadow
2.Read the word and say about it
e.g. What colour is the shadow
Where can you see it
When can we see the shadow
3.Try to say _____’s shadow
C.The text III
Look at the sun. In the morning, it rises behind the hill. The tree’s shadow is long. At noon, the sun is high in the sky. The tree’s shadow grows short. It is on the bench. The sun goes down in the evening. The tree’s shadow grows long again.
Read the new phrases: grow short/ grow long/rise/go down
Read the text III
Answer the questions:
1) How is the sun in the morning
2) How is the tree’s shadow
3) Where is the shadow
Try to describe the sun
5.Read the text again and complete the table:
Time The sun The shadow
in the morning
on the bench
in the evening
III. Post- task preparations
1.Try to complete the sentence
1) The sun ______ behind the ______ in the morning. The building’s shadow is ________. It is _______ the building.
2) The sun is __________ in the sky at noon. The building’s shadow grows ___________. It is _______ the building.
3) The sun ________ _________ in the evening. The building’s shadow _______ long again. It is ______ ______ ______ the building.
2.Fill in the blanks:
1) The sun _________ (rise) in the morning.
2) The shadow ________ (grow) long in the evening.
3) The tree ____________________ (grow and grow) in spring.
4) The moon ________ (go) up in the morning.
5) The tree’s shadow ________ (grow) short and small at noon.
6) The cat _______ (like) the bench.
3.Try to make a tree’s shadow
1st: Paint a tree and a hill.
2nd: Cut them out.
3rd: Stick a pencil.
Introduce the tree’s shadow.
in the morning, at noon, in the evening
B.Word: torch, torches (short, or, morning, tortoise)
shine the torch
Shine the torch and make a shadow.
e.g. in the morning, at noon, in the evening
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