Step 3 Section D 1b
1. Collect some words of food and drinks that the students have learnt and ask the students to spell the words out.
fish, meat, chicken, hamburger, bread, French fries, rice, dumpling, noodle, porridge,
tea, coffee, Coke, milk, juice,
2. Divide the students into several groups and let the students discuss the questions:
Whats your favorite food?
Do you want to have a picnic with your friends?
If you do, what food do you want to bring?
Step 4 Section D 2a, 3
1. Show the sentences to the students and explain something about Present continuous.
2. Have a competition. Ask the students to make a sentence with Present continuous.
3. Section D 2a, 3 Ask the students to fill in the blanks and get four students to write down their answer on the blackboard. Check the answers.
Answers:
He is reading.
She is listening.
She is running.
They are eating.
Ask the students to pay attention to the words with -ing.
Step 5 Section D 2b, 4
1. Review the sentences. Ask the students to read the sentences and then let the students practice the sentences with their partner.
2. Section D 4 Get the students to number the sentences to make a conversation.
Answers: 4 Yes, this is Lucy. Please ask him to go to school and have a meeting tomorrow morning.
2 Hello! May I speak to Mr Li?
3 Im sorry. He is not at home. Can I give him a message?
6 Thank you!
1 Hello?
7 You are welcome.
5 Ok. Ill give him the message.
Step 6 Homework
Review some words and some target language in Section A-D.
Unit 7 Lets go to the zoo
Section A
Teaching aims:
1 read and understand the dialogue as a whole
2 In this section, students learn to talk about preferences and show the reasons .
Important points in teaching
1 names of animals,
2 language points
3 improve students ability of listening and speaking
Difficult points in teaching: what questions and answer.
Teaching aids: some animal cards , a tape recorder
Teaching methods: communicative method
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greet and review what they learned last period.
Step 2 Lead-in
Activity 1 Say to the students, " Today we will go to the zoo to pay a visit "and ask "what animals do you know , you should tell me in English.?" Then write the names of the animals on the right of the blackboard.
Step 3 Presentation
Activity 1 Hold up the lion card and ask:
T: Whats this?
S : Its a lion.
T: Yes, its a lion, I like lions. They are strong. And the lion is the king of the beasts.
Then show them some other animal cards to consolidate the names of the animals.
Activity 2 After that, ask students to read the words after you
Activity 3 Ask three students the question "What animal do you like best?" respectively : and then write the following on the left of the blackboard
T : " What animal do you like best?"
S1 I like .
T What animal do you like best?"
S2 I like .
T What is your favorite animal?
S3 My favorite animal is .
Step 4 Practice
Activity 1 Say to the students:
"These are very useful structures. Now every one please find a partner and use them to make a simple dialogue " .At the same time , you can also make a dialogue with another student to check how well he masters.
Activity 2 ask several pairs to act their dialogue out. And you should remember to try your best to praise and encourage their performance
Purpose :improve students courage and ability of speaking.
Step 5 Ask students to read the dialogue on page 93 themselves. then read together. And do the exercise of page 93.
Step 6 Explanation of the Language points.(write the following in the center of the blackboard)
1 be free :闲的，空闲的， 自由的。如：Im free today.
2 What animal do you like best?=Whats your favorite animal? 这是用来询问别人喜好的句型，还可将animal 换成food, sport 等类型的词。如：
---Whats your favorite sport?
---My favorite sport is basketball.
Step 7 Ask students to look at the two pictures of page 94.and ask students to guess "where are the students now?" "Who is the lady?" then let them listen to the passage ,following the questions
1 "When do they go to the zoo?"
2 "How long do elephants live, fifty or sixty years?"
After the listening comprehension, ask students to read the passage by themselves and then make following sentences to lead to the language points of this passage.
1 我们谈论了许多关于大象的事。
2 一会儿之后，我们就到达了学校。
