【正文】 e they are fun. l Because they are smart. l Do you like giraffes? l Where are lions from? l They are from South Africa. l The animal is ugly / beautiful / friendly / small / shy / clever / cute / scary. l She likes to play with her friends and eat grass. l She’s very beautiful, but she’s very shy, so please be quiet. l He sleeps during the day, but at night he gets up and eats leaves. Difficult points: 1. Listening for the names of animals. Listen for the description words about animals. 2. Read the description words about animals. Write about the animal you know. 3. why, what, where questions, because, adjectives of quality Teaching aids:l A tape recorderl Some pictures Teaching periods: l Period 1: Section A1a, 1b, 1c l Period 2: Section A2a, 2b, 2c l Period 3: Section A3a, 3b, 4 l Period 4: Section B 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c l Period 5: Section B 3a, 3b, 3c, 4 l Period 6: Self Check Period 1 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Let’s see the pandas. Why do you want to see the lions? Because they’re cute.3. Enable the students to talk about animals. 4. Help the students learn how to listen to and talk about animals. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warming up Talk about animals using pictures. Teach new words about animals by the pictures. Step work (1a) Ask the students to read the words and the picture, and then match the names with the pictures a–h. Encourage or help the students to say something about the picture and do the match work. Step 3. Listening (1b) Point to the numbered list of words in activity 1a and play the recording. Ask the students to listen to the recording and circle the countries in 1a. Play the tape and then check the answers. Ask the students to listen to and repeat after the recording and then check the answers. Further activity: Ask the students to do some pair work in the following way if they can understand the listening material well. Step 4. Pair work (1c) Ask the students to make conversations in pairs. Show the following. —Let’s see the pandas / giraffes / lions / penguins / dolphins / koalas / elephants / tigers? —Why? —Because they’re cute / interesting / fun / interesting / smart. Say: Now please make conversations in pairs, using the animals in activity 1a and the description words in activity 1c. Homework 1. Ask the students to remember the new words in this period (on page 116) by heart. 2. Ask the students to practice the conversation in activity 1c. Period 2 Teaching aims: 1. Learn the vocabulary words and useful expressions. 2. Target languages: I like dolphins.Why do you like dolphins? Because they are kind of interesting. 3. Enable the students to talk about animals and tell why they like them. 4. Help the students learn to talk about animals and tell why they like them. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Free talk and leadin Revise the names of the animals. Say: In last period we learnt the names of some animals. Now let’s do some revision. Please look at the pictures one by one and you have to tell me the name of the animal in the picture. OK? Show the students the animal pictures one by one. Revise the conversation learnt in the last period. Give more chances to more students to practice talking about the animals and expressing why they like the animals. Step 2. Listening (2a, 2b) First ask the students to listen and fill in the chart in activity 2a. Play the recording for the first time. Ask the students to listen carefully and write down the animals. Play the tape the second time. Ask the students to pay attention to the words in the box in Activity 2b. Ask the students to pay attention to the conversation in activity 2b. After that, check the answers. Then ask the students to listen to and repeat the dialogue after the recording. After this, ask the students to practice the conversation without the help of the recording. Step 3. Pair work (2c) Ask the students to work in pairs, ask and answer about animals they know. Ask the students to practice: Why? Because they are… Step Ask the students to read the sentences in the grammar box and sum up the sentence structure. Practice suggestion: Ask the students to work in groups and write down their own opinions on the animals in Activity 1a on a piece of paper。 show their work to the group members. And then ask and answer questions. Homework l Ask the students to do the following: 1. Make similar dialogues according to the conversation in 2c.2. Use the words in the box in activity 2b to make sentences. 3. Ask the students to find more description words about animals. Period 3 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Where are lions from? Lions are from South Africa. 3. Enable the students to say where some animal are from. 4. Help the students to say where some animals are from. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Free talk and leadin Show the students some pictures and ask some questions. Show the first picture with a panda in it. Show other pictures of animals and ask questions and go on with others in the same way. Step work (3a) Ask the students to read the maps and the animals in activity 3a. Let the students look at the three animals. Let the students match the countries and the animals. Move around the classroom to see if the students need help. Ask the students to draw lines to match the maps with the pictures. Step 3. Pair work(3b) Ask the students to read the conversation in activity 3b. Ask the students to work in pairs and ask and answer questions. Step 4. Game Ask the students to read the list of countries and animals. Let the students look at the list of countries and animals and find a person to translate the list of countries and animals into Chinese. Show the students how to play the game. Play the recording for t