Teaching plan forUnit 8 On the farm
Teaching content: Part A, B, C, D, E , F and G.
Teaching aims:
Knowledge aims:
1.Asking Wh-questions.
2.Using the verb ‘to like’.
3. Use plural nouns
4.Master how to describe and identify the animals.
5.Identifying questions, statements, imperatives,etc. by recognizing intonation.
6. Understanding simple words, phrases and sentences with the help of pictures.
Emotional aims:
Pupils can express simple feelings, e.g. likes and dislikes
E.g. I like ducks. I don’t like pigs.
Teaching main points:
1.Sentence patterns: There’s / There are (number) (animal).
What’s your favourite animal? I like …
Look at the _____s. They’re _____and _____. (adjectives)
They can ________(action verbs)
Useful expressions: What about you?
Hey, stop.
Teaching difficult points:
Correctly use the plural nouns in the sentence patterns.
Correctly use the singular and plural forms of the structure ‘there be’
Teaching aids:
A computer, a tape recorder, picture cards, word cards and transparencies.
Teaching methods:
Audio-visual, aural-oral, scenery, comparative, intuitional and elicitation method of teaching.
Teaching periods :
The whole unit will be done in 5 periods.
Period 1
Teaching content: Part A
Teaching aims:
1. Using the structure ‘there be’ to identify the animals..
2. Using the plural nouns..
3. Revise asking Wh-questions ‘What can you see on the farm? What’s on the farm / at school / in the classroom / in the school bag?’ and ‘How many…?’
4.Revising the some animals pupils have learnt before.
5. Revise the numbers from 1 to 20.
Teaching main points:
Sentence paterns: What’s (on the farm)?
How many ____s are there?
There’s / There are (number) (animal).
Mastery of words and phrases in Part A.
Teaching difficult points:
1.Correctly use the plural nouns in the sentence patterns.
2.Correctly use the singular and plural forms of the structure ‘there be’
3. Master the plural form of the word ‘sheep’.
Teaching methods: Comparative Method; Intuitional Method; Scenery Method. Audio- visual Method.
Teaching aids: picture cards and recorder
Teaching Steps:
一、Warming-up
1. Dialogues between teacher and pupils.
How are you?
What day is today?
What’s the weather like today?
How do you feel?
Who’s on duty today?
Is everyone here?
二．Presentation
1. Show some animals they have learned. Ask the class: What can you see? Let the pupils answer I can see … Then show the Unit heading: On the farm. The class read after the teacher. Ask the pupil to look at the picture and answer: What’s on the farm? The pupil answer by using ‘There is/are…’.
2. Show the animals to be taught in the unit. Introduce the animals by saying Look. There’s a … Write the words on the board. Show the flash cards to invite the pupils to read the names of the animals.
3. Show more than one of the same animals. Answer the question: How many ____s are there? Tell the pupils that we do not use ‘s’ at the end of the word ‘sheep’ even if there are two or more.
三．Practice and consolidation
1. Listen to the tape for Part A. Repeat after the tape.
2. Get pupils in pairs practise the structures ‘What’s on the farm? Or How many ____s are there? There’s / There are …’by looking at the picture on Part A. Then ask some pupils to act.
3. Put the pictures of some animals in the box asking ‘What’s in the box? Ask a pupil to come and take out the pictures saying There’s a_____.
4. Play a miming game. Tell the pupils to mime an animal for the others to guess.
四.Summary by computer
Teacher summaries the main points by computer.
五.Homework
1. Listen to the tape for Part A and read aloud.
2. Copybook
Handwriting on the board:
Period 2
Teaching content : Part B
Teaching aims:
1. Asking Wh-questions.
2.Using the verb ‘to like’
3.Using the plural nouns.
Teaching main points :
Sentence structures : What’s your favourite animal?
I like (animal)s. What about you?
Teaching difficult points:
Correctly pronounce the word ‘favourite’.
Correctly use the plural nouns in the sentence pattern.
Teaching aids: pictures; cards; recorder; projector slide
Teaching methods: Situation Simulating Method; Deductive Method; Imitating and Analogizing Method.
Teaching steps:
一、Warming-up
1. Dialogues between teacher and pupils.
How are you?
What day is today?
What’s the weather like today?
How do you feel?
Who’s on duty today?
二． Revision and presentation
1. Revise some animals by using the structures ‘What’s on the farm? There’s /are…’
2.Display the toy animals. Pick up one animal. Revise structure I have a …by making a sentence about what you are holding, e.g. I have a pig. Now pretend to consider a different animal to choose. Pick one up and say, e.g. I want a cow. Holding both, say I like cows. I like pigs. Choose between the two, putting the cow down saying I like pigs. Pigs are my favourite animal. Write favourite animal on the board.
3. Ask a pupil to come out to the front to look at the animals. Ask him /her What’s your favourite animal? Encourage the answer I like…s. Repeat with a few more pupils.
三．Practice and consolidation
1. Open the books and listen and read after the tape.
2. Read the speech bubbles with the pupils. Point out the animals in the children’s thought bubbles and help the pupils to complete their sentences.
3.Ask the pupils to work in groups of four to complete the conversation at the bottom of the page. The pupils answer with their own preferences.
4. Show some other things with Powerpoint. Asking, e.g. What’s your favourite fruit? Encourage pupils to talk about their favourite things.
E.g. What’s your favourite toy. I like dolls.
四.Summary by transparency
Teacher summaries the main points by transparencies.
五.Homework
1. Listen to the tape for Part B and read aloud.
2. Written work: Copy the sentences.
Handwriting on the board:
Period 3
Teaching content : Revise Part A and B.
Teaching aims:
Revise some animal names by using the structure ‘there be’.
Express their feelings ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ about other objects.
Teaching main point:
1. Sentence paterns: What’s (on the farm)?
How many ____s are there?
There’s / There are (number) (animal).
What’s your favourite ________?
I ( don’ t) like __________s.
Teaching difficult points:
1.Correctly use the singular and plural forms of the structure ‘there be’.
2.Correctly express their feelings ‘like or dislike’ about things by using the structure ‘What’s your favourite ________? I like / don’t like…
Teaching aids: pictures cards and objects
Teaching methods: Comparative Method; Sentence Making; Question-and-Answer Practice
Teaching steps:
一. Warming-up
Dialogues between teacher and pupils or pupil and pupil
Singing songs
二. Revision and presentation
Going over the words learned last two periods.
1. Let pupils say aloud the sentences in A& B by themselves. Then show a farm or a zoo questioning ‘what’s at the zoo or on the farm?’ Encourage pupils to answer ‘There is / are …’
2. The teacher points to some animals saying ‘ My favourite animals are sheep. What’s your favourite animal?’ Ask some pupils to answer ‘My favourite animals are / My favourite animal is a…’
3. Then the teacher continues to say ‘I like sheep. I don’t like tigers. What about you?’ Prompt pupils to respond ‘I like…I don’t like…’
三. Practice and consolidation
1. Pairs work. Show another picture of animals on a farm and talk about it. For example, What’s on the farm? There’s one sheep. Where is the sheep? The sheep is under the tree. Then ask some pupils to show their work in the front.
2. Ask pupils to continue to talk about the farm. E.g. I like sheep . I don’t like cows. What about you?
3. Get pupils to talk about their favourite things. E.g. My favourite clothes are skirts. What are your favourite clothes? My favourite fruits are apples. What’s your favourite fruit?
4. Play a guessing game. Get some pupils to mime the animals they like asking ‘What’s my favourite animal? The others will guess ‘Your favourite animal is a …’
四.Summary by transparency
Teacher summaries the main points by computer.
五.Homework
1. Listen to the tape for Part A & B and recite.
2. Memorize the phrases and sentences in Part A & B.
Handwriting on the board:
Period 4
Teaching content: Part C
Teaching aims:
1. Talk about some animals and introduce them.
2. Act the story in groups.
3. Say words, phrases & sentences correctly.
4. Master the skills of listening, speaking, reading & writing of the words
and patterns of Part C .
Teaching main points:
Structures: Look at the _________s.
They’re________.
They can_____.
Expressions: What about you?
Hey, stop!
Teaching difficult points :
Correctly use the plural nouns and the personal pronoun ‘they’ in the structures.
2. Use the correct intonation and pronunciation to act the story.
Teaching aids: Pictures and Recorder
Teaching methods: Aural-Oral Method and Audio-Visual Method
Teaching steps:
一. Warming-up
Dialogues between teacher and pupils or pupil and pupil
二. Revision and presentation
1. Ask some pupils to talk about their favourite animals and other things.
2. Show Koko English for the story questioning ‘What animals can you see?What can they do?’
3. Then point to the farm saying ‘Look at the animals. I like the farm. It’s big. Look at the ducks. They’re yellow. They can swim.’ Ask pupils to repeat them. Get pupils to learn the structures ‘Look at the ______.
It’s / They’re____. It/They can________.
4. Get pupils to know how to use the useful expressions ‘What about you? Hey, stop.’
三. Practice and consolidation
1. Ask the pupils to read the story after the Koko English.
2. Ask the pupils to come up and play the roles of Pat, Tim and the other boys.
3. Ask the pupils to role-play the story in groups of four and read the characters’ speech bubbles. Some groups may like to come out to the front and act the story.
4. Ask pupils to take out their pictures of their favourite animals and talk about them in groups. E.g. I like horses. Look at the horse. It’s brown and tall. It can run.
5. Play the Koko English again.
四.Summary by transparency
Teacher summaries the main points by transparencies.
五.Homework
1. Listen to the story and act out in groups.
2.Prepare for E .
Handwriting on the board:
Unit 1 My school
Period 5
Teaching content: Part E, F and G.
Teaching aims:
Learn the sound ‘ar’ and the words: farm far arm car.
Draw an animal and do a survey to practice asking about preferences.
3. Listen to and sing a song to practise identifying animals.
Teaching main points:
1. The sound: ar and the words: farm far arm car.
2. The sentence structures: What’s your favourite animal? I like________.
Teaching difficult point:.
Correctly pronounce the sound ‘ar’ and say the rhyme.
Teaching aids: pictures and recorder
Teaching methods: Presentive Method Sentence making Method.
Teaching steps:
一. Warming-up
Dialogues between teacher and pupils or pupil and pupil
二. Presentation
Say the sound and the words.
1.Play the tape and ask the pupils to listen to the sound and the words. Point out the spelling of this sound.
2.Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the pupils are saying the sound correctly.
3.Point to the pictures and check that the pupils can say the words without model.
4.Play the tape again. Ask the pupils to listen to the rhyme and tick the correct pictures. Then ask the pupils to say the rhyme.
三. Practice and consolidation
Look and do
1. Tell the pupils to work in groups of six. Tell the group leader to find out the favourite animals of the members of the group by asking them one by one, What’s your favourite animal? The other pupils reply I like…
2. Draw a bar chart on the board similar to the one in the book. Ask the group leader, e.g. How many horses? Get group leaders to write the numbers on the rows of the correct animals.
3. Revise the names of the animals shown in the small pictures. Read words for the animal sounds under each of the small pictures. Play the tape for the pupils to listen to the song and sing it.
四.Summary by transparency
Teacher summaries the main points by computer.
五.Homework
1. Make sentences about the existence (statements and questions)
2. Memorize the words and sentences in the unit.
Handwriting on the board:
课件24张PPT。Unit 8 On the farmfarmWelcome to our farm!duckThere’s a duck on the farm.There are six ducks on the farm.sheepThere’s a sheep on the farm.There are seven sheep on the farm.horseThere’s a horse on the farm.There are eight horses on the farm.chickenchickenThere’s a chicken on the farm.There are ten chickens on the farm.cowThere’s a cow on the farm.There are five cows on the farm.pigThere’s a pig on the farm.There are four pigs on the farm.animalfavouriteWhat’s your favourite animal?
I like ducks.How many pigs?There is a pig How many pigs?There are four pigs. How many cows?There are two cows. How many sheep?There are two sheep. How many horses?There are four horses. How many ducks?There are six ducks. What’s your favourite animal?
I like …
