Unit 4 Animal Homes
2008-09-27
Sep 11th, 2008
Lesson plan
Designed by: Heather
Teaching Content :
Unit 4 Animal Homes (Project)
Teaching Objectives:
1. Describe how animals look.
2. Tell where animals live and what they can and can’t do.
3. Make up riddles and answer them
Teaching Key Points:
Ditto
Teaching Difficult Points:
Write riddles with basic facts of animals.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Warm up
Elicit the title of this unit. Present a picture of a zoo and have students name the animals they see in it. Ask the students to tell where animal live besides the zoo. Classify animals into different catalogues such as wild animals, farm animals, pets, etc. Show animal pictures and have the class identify them.
II. Practice
1. Play “10questions”. Encourage the students to ask me questions to get information for guessing the animals I’m thinking of, using “Do they live on/in…?” “Do they have…” “Can they…?”
2. Present animal riddles. Display each riddle sentence by sentence. Invite the students to read them and guess, such as “They live on the plains. They have long necks and long legs. They are birds but they can’t fly. They can run fast.”
3. Ask the class what they can write about to make animal riddles. Elicit the basic elements such as “Where do they live?” “ What can/can’t they do?” “How do they look?” “Do you know any fun facts about them?” Show animal pictures. Lead the students to describe them orally with the help of these questions. Try pair work and invite volunteers to present their speeches.
III. Application
1. Recall the few elements needed to describe animals. Write clues on the blackboard, such as “Where? What can/can’t? How? Fun facts?” Have the students write about their favorite animals. Walk around the class to see whether they need help.
2. Invite volunteers to read their writings for the others to guess.
Blackboard Design
Unit 4 Animal Homes Where do they live? What can/can’t they do? How do they look? Do you know any fun facts about them? |
Reflection:
The students were encouraged to write a short passage about an animal they like. Most of them were able to complete the task without too much trouble because they were well prepared with necessary vocabulary and sentence patterns by participating the class activities step by step. As for the new comers, I should have given them more support, providing the key patterns so that they could finish the task by filling in the blanks.
