朗文版小学英语四下教案 Unit 3 Seasons教案

朗文版小学英语四年级（下册）教案

Unit 3 Seasons
Task objectives
Understand simple questions in class
Interact more freely with others by using simple expressions and structures learned
Participate in simple games and role-plays
Provide information by using tables
Language focus
Where are you from? I’m from Changchun.
What’s the weather like there in winter? It’s very cold in winter. It often snows.
When do you want to go? I want to go in summer.
Why? Because I can swim then.

The first period
A. The children are looking at a website about weather. Make sentences about the seasons and weather in different places. Listen, look and say.
Presentation
T: What’s the weather like today? (Revise the words hot and cold) it’s not always hot and cold. Sometimes it’s not very hot, then we say it’s warm. Sometimes it’s not very cold, then we say it’s cool.
Teach the words rain and snow using the pictures. Ask the pupils What do we wear when it rains? to revise the word raincoat. Then ask the pupils to say the names of the months. Write the names of the four seasons on the board and write the names of the months under the appropriate seasons. Tell the pupils to repeat the seasons in the order in which they come in the year.
Show Transparency. Play the cassette and point to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to repeat after the cassette.
Practice
1. Show Transparency. Teach the pupils the pinyin spellings for the places in China in the map.
2. Play the cassette and get the pupils to repeat.
3. Point to the cities on the map and ask the pupils to make sentences about the weather in those cities.
Homework
Copy the new words and make sentences.
课后记
这一课表示天气的词有形容词、动词和名词，学生用的时候有点分不清楚，如我们说It’s warm.学生就会说It’s snow in winter.来表示冬天下雪，而对It snows in winter.的表达不熟.

The second period
Revision
What’s the weather like today?
What’s the weather like in spring/summer/autumn/winter?
Does it snow in Shenzhen in winter?
Which season do you like best?
B1. Tim and Pat are talking to some new students. Listen, say and act.
Presentation
1. Bring in a map of China with the city names written in pinyin.
2. Show the pupils the map. Tell the pupils where I come from. Point to the place on the map. Write on the board, I come from … Where do you come from? Ask the pupils to tell me where they come from.
Where do you come from? I come from …
Where are you from? I’m from …
3. Ask confident pupils What’s the weather like in (city) in winter?
Practice
1. Show Transparency. Play the cassette. Point to the cities mentioned on the map.
2. Read the conversation and ask the class to read it after me.
3. Divide the class into two large groups and ask them to role-play Pat, Tim and the new children. Repeat the activity and ask the groups to exchange roles.
B2. The children are reading a poster. Listen, say and act.
Presentation
T: What’s your favourite season /animal /subject/ festival /sport?
S: I like …
T: Why?
S: Because …
Get the pupils to practise using Why and Because to ask and answer questions.
Teach: fly kites, make a snowman, ride bikes, ride a horse
Practice
1. Show Transparency. Point to the poster and ask the pupils to read it silently. Ask the pupils, e.g. When can you ride bikes? to check comprehension.
2. Play the cassette and ask the pupils to repeat the sentences after the tape.
3. Ask the pupils to listen to the conversation once more.
4. Ask the pupils to work in groups of four. Each one chooses when they want to go to Beidaihe. They take turns to ask each other when they want to go and their reason for choosing that season.
Homework
Recite B2.
课后记
Where are you from? 和Where do you come from? 学生用的时候分不太清楚，要多给他们比较。

The third period
Revision
Where are you from? /Where do you come from?
I’m from …/I come from …
Which season do you like best?
Why?
Because …
B3. Koko and Pat are talking to a girl at the park. Listen and circle.
1. Tell the pupils that they are going to hear a conversation between Pat, Koko and a new girl. Ask the pupils to look at the choices in the girl’s thought bubble. Review the cities, seasons and activities shown.
2. Play the cassette and tell the pupils to circle the information the girl gives.
3. Ask the pupils to listen to the conversation once more and to check their answers.
4. Ask the pupils to work in pairs to check their answers.
C. A story: The ugly baby duck.
1. Point to the duck and ask the pupils for the name in English. Ask what is inside the eggs.
2. Play the cassette for the pupils and ask them to say the sentences after the cassette.
3. Ask the pupils to look at picture 2. Ask the pupils Should the baby ducks talk like that to the ugly baby duck? The other ducks are rude. What should they be? to revise the words rude and polite from the previous unit.
D. Read the story again. Write the answers.
1. Ask the pupils to read the story again. Show them where to write the answers.
2. Check the answers with the pupils.
Homework
Recite part C.
课后记
丑小鸭的故事学生都比较熟悉，让他们用英语来表演他们都很感兴趣，也有助于他们对这个故事的理解。

The fourth period
Revision
Recite Part C.
E. Say the sound and the words.
1. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and ask the pupils to listen to the sound and the words.
2. Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the pupils are saying the sound correctly. This sound should be short and unstressed.
3. Point to the pictures and check that the pupils can say the words without my model.
4. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette again. Ask the pupils to listen to and say the poem.
5. Ask them to listen to the four words at the bottom of the page and to circle the words with the same letters and sound. Get the pupils to repeat the poem.
F. Do a survey.
The pupils do the activity as shown in their books.
G. Listen and chant.
1. Play the cassette for the pupils to listen to the chant.
2. Play the cassette again and encourage the pupils to join in with the words.
H. Think about it! Circle the correct answer.
Tell the pupils that Antarctica has only two seasons-summer and winter.
Homework
Do Workbook exercises.

The fifth period
Do Workbook exercises
Workbook (p.13)
Tell the pupils to look at the pictures and read the words in the box. Then ask the pupils to write about the weather and seasons by choosing the correct words from the box.
Workbook (p.14)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the Workbook Cassette. Then ask them to circle the correct words according to what they hear on the tape.
Workbook (p.15)
Ask the pupils to look at the picture and listen to the cassette. Then ask them to fill in the blanks according to what they hear on the tape.
Workbook (p.16)
1. Ask the pupils to look at the first part of the page and listen to the workbook Cassette. They need to circle the words with the same sound and the same letters according to what they hear on the tape.
2. Ask the pupils to look at the second part of the page. Tell them to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.
Workbook (p.17)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the questions. Then tell them to complete the dialogues by choosing the correct words from the box.
Workbook (p.18)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the dialogues. Then tell them to fill in the blanks by choosing the correct words from the box.