Module 1 Using my five senses Unit 1 Touch and feel enjoy a story 表格式教案

The Teaching Plan for the Blind Men and the Elephant
of Unit 1 Touch and feel
The teacher’s name School Grade The title of the lesson
BHFLEPS ?Grade 4 The Blind Men and the Elephant
The Analysis of the Teaching Material This is a story in Unit 1 Touch and feel. It is adapted from the traditional Chinese story, The blind men and the elephant. In this short story, four blind men use their hands to touch the elephant but have different feelings and opinions because they touched different parts of the elephant.
The Content of the Lesson Students will enjoy the story: The blind men and the elephant and learn to use the key words and sentences to express their feelings of touching.
Notes: T : the teacher Ss: the students
Teaching Aims 1.?Knowledge Objectives
Ss can read and understand the short story.
Ss can use grasp the words about feelings in these sentences:
The elephant is hard.
It’s soft.
It’s thin.
It’s thick.
2. Ability Objectives
Ss will be able to:
Predict the story.
Act out the story with group members.
3. Affective Objectives
Ss will learn to be cooperative.
Ss will learn to describe the elephant as a whole, not just describing the parts.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points Key Point
Ss read and understand the story.
Difficult Point
Ss work in groups to act out the story.
Teaching Procedures
T’s activities Ss’s activities
Step 1 Warm-up 1. Sing a song:

How does it feel?
1. Sing a song.
Review the four words learnt before: hard, soft, thick, thin.
Step 2 Pre-reading 1. Show a picture of four men sitting under a tree and ask some questions.
2. Teach the new word: blind by showing pictures. Answer these questions:
1. Why are they sitting under a tree?
2. Are they sleeping?
Why are they closing their eyes?
3. Learn the new word: blind. 1. Predict the story.
2. Prepare for the reading.
Step 3 While-reading

1. Fast reading
Guide the Ss listen and read the first part.
2. Detailed reading
(1)Attract Ss’s attention by the sound of the elephant.

(2) Guide Ss to think over some questions before reading and encourage different opinions.
Let Ss read the whole story.

(3) Let Ss finish a table.

1. Fast reading
Listen and read the first part to check their guessing in pre-reading.
2. Detailed reading
(1) Talk about what an elephant is like.
(2) Read the whole story and answer these questions:
How can the blind men get to know what the elephant is like?
Do they have the some opinion?
(3) Read the story again and finish the table.

Get some background information about this story, such as weather.
Get to understand the story in details.
Step 4 Post -reading

1. Encourage Ss to retell the story.
2. Guide the Ss to act out the story.
Give them an example.
Ss work in a group of 7 to act out the story.
Ss understand the story better and learn to cooperate to act it out.
Step 5 Consolidation
Encourage the Ss to think over the questions:
1. Why do the blind men have different opinions?
2. After reading the story, what is an elephant like?
Ss think over and answer the questions.
Ss look at the pictures and learn different parts of the elephant. Make Ss understand this story better.
Step6 Homework
1. Read the story again and tell it to your parents.
2. Read more stories.


1. Consolidate what we have learnt today.
2. Learn more stories.
The Blackboard Design

Teaching Reflections and Evaluation 1. The newly developed learning material must be thoroughly studied
first. If necessary, adapt the text into a more suitable one after
consideration.
2. More time should be given to students to read and think.
3. The purpose of evaluation is to encourage the students and to
stimulate their learning interest.