Unit 8

Why do you like koalas?

龙口中学高翠娟

一、教学目标与要求

Ａ　知识目标：Learn about the names of animals, describe the features of animals

Tell everyone what animal you like or not and why not.

B 能力目标：学会用英语与他人谈论动物园中动物名及其个性特征，并表达自己喜欢与不喜欢的理由，以达到进一步提高听力能力和语言表达能力。

Ｃ　情感目标：通过师生双边活动中主动性和创造性的发挥，激发学生学习英语的兴趣，了解动物世界，爱护动物，体现知识与生活的相互依存，更多地关爱我们的家园——地球。

二、教学重难点

１、教学重点：

a：重点词汇

Koala zoo panda cute map tiger elephant dolphin penguin smart Africa friendly shy grass sleep lazy relax leaf daring beautiful

b：重点句型：

１、 Let’s see the lions

２、 Why do you want to see the lions?

３、 Because they’re cute

４、 Because they’re kind of interesting

５、 Where are lions from?

６、 What animals do you like?

７、 What other animals do you like?

８、 Because they’re friendly and clever

９、 She likes to play with her friends and eat grass

１０、 He usually sleep and relaxes 20 hours every day

２、教学难点“

培养学生的听、说、读、写能力以及应用所学知识表达思想的能力

三、教学手段：

任务型教学手段模式

四、课时划分“

第一课时：Section A (1a)-----(2b)

第二课时：Section A (2c)-----(4)

第三课时：Section B (1)-----(2c)

第四课时：Section B (3a)----(4)

第五课时：Self-check

The first lesson

教学目标：

１、 Learn the names of animals

２、 Learn to describe the animals

Teaching Steps:

Step 1：Leading in the new lesson

Teacher:：Boys and girls, do you like animals? Do you have and pets at home? Let’s talk about animals today OK?

Show the animals’ pictures

Tiger 老虎　 elephant 大象　 　　

考拉熊koala dolphin 海豚　 　　

狮子　lion penguin 企鹅　 　　

长颈鹿　giraffe

(Do more reading according to the pictures)

Step 2 ：Match (1a)

Do this exercise in order to read and learn the words and use the important sentence “Let’s see the pandas…first”

(调动全班同学对动物的兴趣)

Step 3：Pairwork

A：Let’s see the lions (Explain ：see = look at)

B：Why do you want to see the lions?

(Explain：Why 是特殊疑问副词“为什么？”它引导的疑问句是特殊疑问句，是对原因进行提问的，用Because 引导的句子来回答，意思是“因为……”)

A：　Because they’re cute

Make conversations about the other animals in the picture use the words below.

Cute interesting Fun smart

Step 4： Listening

(2a) Listen and write the animals you hear . Draw a line from the animals to the description words

(2b) Fill in the blanks (Listen twice)

Julia：Let’s see the koalas(1)

Henry：Why do you like _____(2)?

Julia：Because they’re ______(3)cute

Henry：Well, I like ______(4)

Julia：Why do you like ____(5)

Henry：Because they’re _____(6) interesting

Step 5：Make a survey and complete the form (on the paper)

Student’s name	Names of animals I know	Names of animals I learn from partners

Step 6：Summarizing

Students summarize what they have done and learnt in class, find the difficulties

Step 7：Have a test

1、There are many lovely ________/ /here

２、What kind of animals _______Jim _______(like)?

３、 Do you like ________(大象)

４、 Want Why do the lions you to see (组句)

５、 Jim likes pandas because they’re fun

Step 8：Homework

把调查表中的动物按照会跑的，会游泳的，会飞的，既会跑又会游泳的进行分类。

The Second Lesson

教学目标：１、学会表达喜好并陈述原因

　　　　　２、了解动物地域常识

Teaching steps：

Step1：　Leading in the new lesson

Teacher：Class, we have learnt many animals

Who can tell us their names (go over the old words)

Teacher：Why do you like them?

(通过老师的提问，引导学生进入教材2c中，训练他们听说能力)

Step 2：Give them a question ：Do you know where they are from?

New words ：　Africa 非洲　

Australia 　澳大利亚　

China　中国

South 　Africa　　南非

After talking about, match (3a)

Step3：Pairwork

Use the pictures of animals and countries more on the blackboard

Make conversations ：

A：Where are lions from? (Explain：be from=come from 来自)

　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｂ：Lions are from South Africa

Step4：First, Let’s sing an English song “month” the listen (4)

Step5：Make a survey

Animals	penguins	dolphins	elephants	lions	koalas	tigers	giraffes
Countries

Step6：Summarizing

Students summarize the importance of this lesson

Step7：Quiz (on the screen)

１、 你喜欢什么样的动物？_____ _____ _____do you like?

２、 Lions are from china (同文句)

３、 Pandas come from (china)

４、 The ______ is the king of the forest

５、 Because they’re ____ ____interesting

Step8：Homework (Writing)

动物和人类共同生活在地球上，动物是人类的朋友，写一篇你最喜欢的动物，字数在40个左右，语法正确

The third lesson

教学目标：

１、Describe the features of animals

２、Learn the new words and important sentences

Teaching steps：

Step1：Leading in the new lesson

The teacher has all ready found eight animals’ pictures ,let the students describe the features of animals ,如丑陋、害羞、漂亮、聪明、可怕……进入新单词学习中

Ugly 丑陋的　beautiful 漂亮的　　friendly 友好的　　be friendly to somebody 对某人友好　　shy 害羞的　　clever 聪明的

DO more reading and answer the teacher’s questions

What are the tigers like?

Step2：Training (section 1)

Step3：First ,Let’s sing an English song “I can play the trumpet”then Listen (2a)(2b) Fill in the form

Animal	Maria’s Words	Tony’s Words
Elephants
Pandas

Step4：Pair work

Using the eight animals’ picture, make a conversation

Like 2c (调动全班同学进入对话角色，更好描述动物特征)

Explain on the screen：

Other：① 作形容词　别的，其他的　eg：some other books

② one…….the other 一个…….另一个（2者）eg：I have two brothers. One is a teacher, the other is a actor.

Step5：Make a survey and complete the form

Names	Animals He/she likes	Reasons	Animals He/she likes	Reasons

Step6：Summarizing

Students summarize the importance of this lesson

Step7：Have a test (on the screen)

１、 Panda is ____to people

２、 Lingling is very cute and _______(beauty)

３、 The movie is very _______(interest)

４、 The dolphins are very friendly

５、 我有２本书，一本是语文书，另一本是英语书

Step8：Homework

以对话形式，两人交谈自己喜欢的小动物，仿P46 2c

The fourth lesson

教学目标：

１、进一步描述动物特征及其地域知识

２、学会用拟人法写一篇小动物

Teaching steps：

Step one ：Leading in the reading and writing lesson

According to the teachers’ description, guess the names of animals

⑴ This is Molly .She is twelve years old. She is from Africa, She likes to play with her friends and eat grass

Explain：(On the screen)

１、 She likes to play with her friends

① like to do sth 喜欢做某事（具体）

eg：She likes _____(swin) in summer

Jim likes _____(go) to see a movie this Sunday

② play with “和……玩”

eg：Do you like playing _____ _______？(和我)

Jim plays the basketball(改错)

２、 This is Lingling, She’s five years old .She ‘s from China .She’s very beautiful ,but she’s very shy , so please be very quiet .

Explain：(on the screen) so 在句中是连词“因此　所以”但英语中because 和　so 不能同时出现在一句话中。

Eg：因为熊猫可爱，所以我们才喜欢它。

３、 This is Bill, Isn’t he cute? He is from Australia, He sleeps during the day ,but at night he gets up and eats leaves

Explain(on the screen)

１、 during 介词　“在……期间” during the day 在白天期间

２、 at night 在夜里

３、 Leaf (pl) leaves

Step2： Fill in 3b together

This is Larry. He’s from _______. He is eight _____old .He ____meat, Larry is _______. He usually ______and relaxes 20 hours every day.

Step3：Write a description of another animal (用第一人称I)

(Give them minutes to write)

Step4：Check up the writing by themselves and find the winners.

Step5：Make a survey using the whole knowledge of this unit.

Name	Names of animals	The place /they live	Description words	Like /dislike	Reasons	Be from
1
2

Step6：Quiz

Writing work：Choose the one of the animals to stand for our school and tell the reason.

Step7：Homework

Find the knowledge of this unit and the difficulties this unit

The fifth lesson

教学目标：

１、Go over the words, phrases and importance sentences

２、Master this unit

Teaching steps：

Step1：Have a test about words on the paper

Then check up each other, correct their wrong words

Step2：Use the phrases to make sentences (on the screen)

１、有些动物既友好又聪明（some of……）

２、他白天睡觉，夜里起来吃树叶（during the day ,at night）

３、你妈妈看起来有些累了　（kind of ）

４、星期天你想干什么？　（want to do ）

５、你还喜欢其他什么动物？ (Other animals)

６、你为什么想看狮子？因为它们可爱 (why, because)

７、老虎从哪里来？南非 (be from)

８、狮子对我们很友好 (be friendly to someone )

９、吉姆喜欢与拉里玩 ( like to do ; play with)

１０、 因为海豚可爱，所以我们喜欢它 (because /so )

Step3：Use the words and phrases finish self-check3 .4

Some students do them on the book; other s do them on the blackboard (同学，互帮)

Step4：Do more training (on the screen)

A

１、 In summer, the ____(leaf) turn green

２、 Pandas are very _____(interest)

３、 She usually ________(relax) after supper

４、 These elephants are from______(Japanese)

５、 She likes _______(sing) very much

B

１、 The little girl likes animals

２、 Where is Jim from (同义句)

３、 We like the boy (because he is very friendly)

４、 John is an American (同义句)

５、 Other what animals like do you? (组句)

Step5：Give them a few time to find out their difficult points, them discuss

Step6：Have a test (on the paper)

Step7：Homework (oral work)

Draw a picture of your favorite animal, next class, descripe it in class.