Primary English for China Book 4
Unit 2 At school

Task objectives
Guess the meaning of a word through miming
Identify questions, statements, imperatives, etc. by recognizing intonation
Use simple expressions and structures learned to interact with others
Spell vowel letters correctly in words
Language focus
What do you do in the …?
We … and …
We play in the …
Topic vocabulary
study, paint, line up, eat, drink, play, dining hall
Additional language
We can fly in here.
Your school’s cool.
Throw-away words
Sound and rhyme words: seat, then
Song words: each day, great fun

The first period
Teach A. Look and say.
Presentation
1． (Books closed.) Revise with the pupils the verbs they learned in Pupil’s Book 2 Unit 3 (run, dance, jump, sing, read, write). Do actions for run, dance, jump, sing, read and write and have the pupils repeat the words after me. Then encourage the pupils to do the actions with me by saying, for example, Let’s run.
2． Teach the new words with actions to demonstrate their meanings. For example, open more than one book, and make notes for study, draw a paintbrush and pretend to paint, get a few pupils to line up, mime eat and drink and gently throw a ball to a pupil, saying Let’s play.
3． Drill the new words by saying a word and getting the pupils to do the appropriate action or by doing an action and getting the pupils to say Let’s …
4． Show Transparency and play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Ask the pupils to repeat the words in the speech bubbles after the beeps. Do the same with the vocabulary items.
Practice
1． (Books open.) Show Transparency. Point to the children on the page who are painting. Say Let’s paint. Get the pupils to do the action and join in with them. Do the same with Let’s line up.
2． Point to the other words on the page. Ask the pupils to repeat them after me and to do the action I have taught them.
3． Ask the pupils to work in groups of four. Give a word cue like study. Nominate one pupil in the group to make a sentence with Let’s … and to invite the others to do the action with him or her.
More to do
The pupils play a miming game. Prepare strips of paper with the words written on them. Ask the pupils to choose one, read it silently and mime the action for their team. The team guesses by saying Let’s … Award points for correct guesses.
Homework
Recite the words.
Write the copybook.
课后记
强调Let’s是let us的缩写形式。在听写的时候有很多学生写错。Let’s后面接动词的原形。

The second period
Revision of Part A
Write the following verbs on a piece of paper: line up, eat, drink, sing, dance, study, paint, draw, play, walk, run, jump, swim, read and write, ect. Stick the paper on the board. Get the pupils to do the actions as they read the verbs.
Say “Let’s line up/sing/paint… in the …” and do the actions.
Teach B. Say and act.Presentation

1． (Books closed.) Point to an appropriate room on the plan. Make sentences about what the pupils do in the room. For example, say We study in the classroom.
2． Drill the pupils by asking about the different rooms, e.g. What do you do in the dining hall? Encourage the more able pupils to use more than one verb by saying And? With rising intonation after they have told me one thing they do, e.g. Pupil: We eat. I: And? Pupil: We drink. Reformulate the sentence for the pupil to repeat after me by saying, Yes. We eat and drink. or We eat and drink in the dining hall.
3． (Books open.) Show Transparency and play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Point to the speech bubbles and get the pupils to repeat the sentences after the beeps.
Practice
1． (Books open.) Show Transparency and play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. The pupils listen and follow in their books. Continue to play the cassette and ask the pupils to repeat the words after the beeps.
2． Show the pupils the characters and explain that Mike is in Pat’s school.
3． Point to the pictures and ask, for example, What do you do in the playground? Encourage the pupils to make a sentence about each small picture in the thought bubbles.
4． Show the pupils, using the sentences in the speech bubbles, that when we talk about more than one thing we can use … and … to link the actions. We can also use …, too to link a sentence to a previous sentence.
5． Point to Pat’s thought bubbles in picture 3. Help the pupils to link the actions shown by using … and … or …, too.
6． Ask the pupils to work in pairs to complete the conversation. The pupils take turns to role-play Pat and Mike.
More to do
1． Write the names of the different rooms on the board. Using strips of paper with the action verbs written on them, ask the pupils to stick a strip of paper under an appropriate room name.
2． Ask a pupil about a room, for example, What do you do in the music room? The pupil makes a sentence using the word on the strip of paper under the room name. This game can also be played in teams for points.
Homework
Recite part B.
Write the copybook.
课后记
B部分的句型学生还是掌握得比较熟练。可以把What do you do in the …?的内容扩展一下，比如问What do you do at home?等。

The third period
Revision
What do you do in the …? We …
Teach C. Storytime
1. Point to the characters in the pictures and read their speech bubbles aloud. Ask the pupils to point to the speech bubbles as I read them.
2. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette for the pupils and ask them to say the sentences after the cassette.
3. Ask the pupils to role-play the story in groups of three and to read the characters’ speech bubbles. Some groups may like to come out to the front and act the story.
4. Use Storycards to revise sequence and language of the story.
Teach D Tick or cross.
Ask the pupils to read the story again. Read the words in the speech bubbles with the pupils and tell them to repeat the sentences. Demonstrate how to write a cross in the first one as an example. Use Transparency to check the answers.
Dictation about the words and sentences in this unit.
Homework
Recite part C.
课后记
掌握好和练习好We … in the …这个句型。

The fourth period
Revision
Recite part C.
Teach 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. Point out the spelling of this sound. It is important that the pupils realize the vowel sound is spelt with two letters.
3. Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the pupils are saying the sounds correctly.
4. Point to the pictures and check that the pupils can say the words without my model.
5. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette again. Ask the pupils to listen to the rhyme and point to the children. Ask the pupils to read what is written on the wrappers of each child’s ice cream. Tell them to circle the winner. Get the pupils to say the rhyme.
Teach F. Look and do.
1 Ask the pupils to draw their own face in the blank faces on page 62. Tell them to cut out the pictures and to stick them in the four rooms at the top of page 11. Tell them not to show their friend.
2 Tell the pupils to work in pairs. Ask them to take turns to ask What do you do in the …? The other pupil answers according to the picture he or she has put in that room. The pupil asking the questions ticks the correct boxes in the grid at the bottom according to their partner’s answer.
3 At the end, the pupils check to see if their pictures and their partner’s grid match.
More to do
The pupils draw a picture of their favourite room in the school. They write a caption to tell what they do there.
Teach G. Listen, point and sing.
1 Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette for the pupils to listen to the song. Ask the pupils What do you do in the …? For each of the rooms listed at the bottom of the page.
2 Play the cassette again and tell the pupils to point to the correct pictures for each of the verses.
3 Play the cassette again and encourage the pupils to join in with the words.
Homework
Do Workbook exercises.

The fifth period
Do Workbook exercises
Workbook (p.6)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and write the correct words for each sentence.
Workbook (p.7)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the Workbook Cassette. Then ask the pupils to put ticks in the boxes for the correct pictures.
Workbook (p.8)
Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the Workbook Cassette. Then ask the pupils to number the pictures according to the sequence of language they hear on the tape.
Workbook (p.9)
Ask the pupils to look at the first part of the page and listen to the Workbook Cassette. They need to circle the correct TVs according to the sound they hear on the tape.
Ask the pupils to look at the second part of the page. Tell them to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks in the sentences.
Workbook (p.10)
Tell the pupils to look at the pictures and read the speech bubbles. Then ask them to put a tick in the boxes if the sentences are correct or a cross if they are not.