Unit 2 Butterflies
Teaching aims:
1. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information e.g. What’s that? How do you spell that in English?
2. Using predicative adjectives to describe objects e.g. It’s beautiful.
3. Using formulaic expressions to express lave of knowledge e.g. I don’t know.
4. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. It’s a cocoon
5. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. It lays some eggs on a
leaf
6. Using adjectives to describe objects e.g. The eggs are small and white 7. Using imperatives to give instructions e.g. Draw two big wings 8. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. Which one do you like, Alice?
Important and difficult points:
1. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information e.g. What’s that? How do you spell that in English?
2. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. It lays some eggs on a
leaf
3. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. Which one do you like, Alice?
Time allotments:
There are three periods in this unit
P47 1 period
P48 1 period
P49 1 period
Period 1
Teaching aims:
1. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information e.g. What’s that? How do you spell that in English?
2. Using predicative adjectives to describe objects e.g. It’s beautiful.
3. Using formulaic expressions to express lave of knowledge e.g. I don’t know.
4. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. It’s a cocoon
Important and difficult points:
Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information e.g. What’s that? How do you spell that in English?
Teaching aids:
Cassette animals pictures in white and black colour pens Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Ask and answer in pairs
What’s this/that in English? It’s…
What are these/those in English? They’re…
I don’t know.
Step3 Presentation
1. Invite students to draw insects and animals on the blackboard. Point to the parts, ask and answer: What’s this/that?
2. Learn the new word: cocoon
Step4 Practice
1. Play the cassette: Look and say. Students listen and follow it 2. Students listen and repeat
3. T: Look at the butterfly. Is it ugly or beautiful? Get the answer: It’s beautiful.
Step5 Production
1. Draw a butterfly on the blackboard and point to different parts of the butterfly. Ask:
What’s this? How do you spell that in English?
2. Divide the students in groups of four
3. Give the pictures in white and black. Students work in group to make a poster. Name different parts of the butterfly.
4. Get the students to give a title to the poster
5. Get the students to make similar posters of the topics e.g. insects, animals, plants Step6 Exercise
Workbook page 27
1. Students read the first dialogue and complete the other dialogue orally in pairs 2. Read and act the dialogue in pairs
3. Complete the dialogue individually
Step7 Homework
Grammar practice book 5a page40
Blackboard design:
Unit 2 Butterflies
It’s ugly/beautiful
How do you spell that in English?
Period 2
Teaching aims:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. It lays some eggs on a leaf
2. Using adjectives to describe objects e.g. The eggs are small and white 3. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information
e.g. What are these? How do you spell that in English? 4. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The caterpillars grow Important and difficult points:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. It lays some eggs on a
leaf
2. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information e.g. What are these? How do you spell that in English? 3. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The caterpillars grow Teaching aids:
Cassette wallpicture
Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Ask and answer in pairs
What’s this/that?
What are these/those?
Step3 Presentation
1. Show pictures in students book5a page 48
2. Review the words: eggs, butterfly(butterflies), cocoon 3. Learn the new word ‘caterpillar’
Step4 Practice
1. Play the cassette: Look and read. Students listen and follow in their books 2. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Point, ask and answer. Point to the
pictures and ask: What’s this? What’s that? What are these? What are those? How do you spell that in English? And get the answers
3. Students work in pairs to ask and tell their partners what the pictures represent
using the sentence structures
4. Invite the students to draw caterpillars, cocoon, eggs and butterflies on the board
5. Ask the students to use the pictures on the board to show the life of butterflies. Get
the students to arrange the pictures in the right order Step5 Production
1. Read the sentences about the butterflies’ life
2. Talk about the butterflies’ life. Ask the following questions to guide them: Where do butterflies lay eggs?
What will the eggs become?
What do caterpillars eat?
Caterpillars make little houses. What do we call the little houses? What comes out from a cocoon?
Step6 Exercise
Workbook page28
Step7 Homework
Read page 48 for four times
Blackboard design:
Unit 2 Butterflies
Where do butterflies lay eggs?
What will the eggs become?
What do caterpillars eat?
Caterpillars make little houses. What do we call the little houses?
What comes out from a cocoon?
Period 3
Teaching aims:
1. Using imperatives to give instructions e.g. Draw two big wings 2. Using the simple present tense to express interests e.g. I like butterflies 3. Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. Which one do you like, Alice?
Important and difficult points:
Asking ‘Wh-’ and ‘How’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. Which one do you like, Alice?
Teaching aids:
Cassette scissors colour pens paper
Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Ask and answer in pairs
What’s this/that?
What are these/those?
How do you spell that in English?
Step3 Presentation
1. Review colours
2. Collect classroom objects e.g. pencil cases.
3. Ask the students: Which do you like?
Step4 Practice
1. Ask the students to read the instructions in Make a butterfly 2. Play the tape: Make a butterfly. Students listen
3. Listen to the tape again. Get the students to repeat
Step5 Production
1. Divide the class into groups. Ask the students to follow the instructions in their
books and make two butterflies
2. Ask the students to talk about the butterflies they like and dislike, using the dialogue in Make a butterfly
3. Invite individual students to report back. They tell the class the butterflies their
group members like and dislike. Ask: Which one does xx like? Get the answer: He/She likes…