一、教学目标

1. Students can read, write, listen and spell the words: dolphin, giant panda, squirrel and zebra.

2. Students can grasp the sentence patterns: “What wild animals do you like best? I like…best.” to talk about their favorite animals..

3. Students can express their attitudes towards wild animals and give reasons.

4. Students can use different channels to know more about the information of wild animals.

5. Students can develop the awareness of protecting nature and the wild animals.

二、教学重难点

Students can understand and grasp the key words and sentence patterns and improve their listening and speaking skills.

Students will be able to use the language points to describe their favorite animals.

三、教学过程

Step 1. Lead-in

The teacher plays the clip from the movie The Lion King and asks students to conclude all the kinds of animals they can find from this clip. Then the teacher shows pictures of pet dogs and cats. Based on these pictures, students need to tell the differences between the animals on the pictures and the ones from the movie clip.

Step 2. Presentation

1. The teacher presents the pictures of six animals: dolphin, bear, tiger, giant panda, squirrel, and zebra, then asks students what they can see on the pictures to review the learned words “bear” and “tiger” and elicit the new words “dolphin, giant panda, squirrel and zebra”.

2. According to the pictures, the teacher asks students if they like these animals. Show the pictures of Millie, Peter, Kitty and Simon, then invite students to relate the pictures about animals with these four people and guess what they may talk about to predict the main idea of their conversation. The teacher plays the tape for the first time and students confirm their predictions.

3. Students open their books and listen to the tape for the second time. After listening, the teacher asks students to make a list about the animals they like by using the sentence pattern “What wild animals does Millie/ Peter/ Kitty/ Simon like best?”. Students need to present their list based on the dialogue using the sentence pattern “Millie/ Peter/ Kitty/ Simon likes…best” Then the teacher asks students to answer the question “Of all the animals we learned today, what wild animals do you like best?”

4. The teacher plays the tape for the last time and students read after the tape. Meanwhile they should pay attention to their pronunciation and intonation.

Step 3. Practice

Activity 1: You do, I guess.

Students work in pairs. One student imitates the actions of a wild animal they learned today, and the other guesses the name of the wild animal.

Activity 2: Role-play

The teacher divides the class into groups of four and asks each group to role paly the conversation. Then teacher will pick some groups to present their performance.

Step 4. Consolidation

Task: Describe your favorite.

Students work in groups to discuss about the wild animals they like best and give their reasons. During the discussion, key sentences should be used. They need to make a report about their group discussion and each group sends a group representative to share the report with the whole class.

Step 5. Summary

Students summarize what they have learned in this class and the teacher makes supplements if necessary. The teacher emphasizes the importance of protecting nature and animals.

Step 6. Homework

Students make up stories about wild animals and act out their stories in the next class.

四、板书设计