UNIT 6 SeasonsGeneral objectives:1. Master the way to talk about festival and seasons.2. Show best wishes.3. Mater the using of “be going to” and exclamatory sentences.4. Learn to talk about activities of different seasons.5. Know about some culture of Christmas Day and Spring Festival.New languages:What do you like to do? I like to ______.Merry Christmas! That’s great!This is for you/ me/ him/ her.Why? Because _______.What is he going to do? He is going to _______.It’s somebody’s turn to do _____.What a wonderful festival!Difficult points:1. How to improve the students reading and speaking abilities according tothe reading materials.2. Grammar: be going toexclamatory sentencesTeaching aids:computer, video, recorderTearing periods:Period 1: Lesson 41Period 2: Lesson 42Period 3: Lesson 43Period 4: Lesson 44Period 5: Lesson 45Period 6: Lesson 46Period 7: Lesson 47Period 8: Lesson 48Lesson 31 What strange weather!Teaching aims:1. Teach vocabulary words.2. Main sentences: What do you like to do?What a cold, snowy day!3. Master exclamatory sentences.4. Train the speaking and listening abilities.5. Learn to talk about the winter.Lesson structure:Class opening:1. Greeting.2. Duty report.3. Sing “the month song”.4. Play “what day is it?” to review the seasons.Key concepts:Put on _____ (winter, jackets, scarf, mittens, hat…)What a cold, snowy day!skate, ski, ice, snowLearn, teach.Step 1. Presentation1. Teacher: (Show a window, some snow outside it with a computer. Pretendto be very cold.)What’s the weather like today?Students: it’s cold and snowy.Teacher: Yes. Look out of the window. It’s snowing. It’s winter.What do I wear in winter? I want my mittens. Now I am puttingon my mittens. What a cold snowy day!2. Demonstrate ski and skate with pictures that show Danny skiing andskating.Teacher: Look! What is Danny doing?Students: Danny is skating.Teacher: What is Danny doing?Students: Danny is skiing.Teacher: Can you ski? (To student 1)Student 1: No, I can’t.Teacher: Can you skate? (To student 2)Student 2: Yes, I can.Step 2. Practice1. Drill1) Teacher: What a cold day!Students: What a cold day!Teacher: What a cold, snowy day!Students: What a cold, snowy day!Teacher: Put on the winter jackets!Students: Put on the winter jackets!Teacher: Mittens.Students: Put on the mittens!Teacher: Scarf.Students: Put on the scarf!2) Student A: (To B) Can you ski?Student B: No, I can’t. (To C) Can you skate?Student C: yes, I can. (To D) Can you swim?Student D: yes, I can. (To E) Can you jump?3) Teacher: I like to skate.Students: I like to skate.Teacher: I like to skate on the ice.Teacher: Ski.Students: I like to ski.Teacher: I like to ski Students: I like to ski.Students: I like to ski Students: I like to ski.2. Listen to the dialogue with the following questions:What does Li Ming like to do?What does Li Ming want to learn?After listening answer the questions together. Discuss the dialogue again and make sure they can understand the meaning of the text.3. Read aloud.4. Ask for volunteers to read the dialogue.5. Divide the class into small groups. Ask each group to male up adialogue about a cold, snowy winter day.6. Talk about exclamatory sentence. Use this sentence as an example:What a cold, snowy day!The structure of the exclamatory sentences:What + a (an) + adj. + n. + (sub. + v.)You can give more examples then ask students to make some sentences. Step 3. Conclusion1. Learn and master the vocabulary words.2. Master the main sentences: What do you like to do?What a cold, snowy day!Steps 4. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Practice the dialogue in this lesson.3. Preview next lesson.Lesson 32 I can’t wait for winter!Teaching aims:1. Teach vocabulary words.2. Main languages:First, we make a big ball of snow.Then, we make another snowball, and put it on top of the other two.Look out! D on’t throw snowball at me.3. Practise the speaking ability.Lesson resources:Class opening:1. Greeting.2. Duty report3. Sing “the month song”4. Play “What day is it?” to review the week, months and ordinal numbers.5. Play the variation of “dress up” to review the seasons.Key concepts:Make a snowman/ snowball, look out, and throw.Step 1. PresentationShow a picture about a snowman and some children throwing snowballs with the computer.Teacher: What’s this?Students: I t’s a snowman.Teacher: What are the children doing?Students: They are throwing snowballs.Teacher: Do you play with snow in winter?Students: Yes. / No.Step 2. Practice1. DrillTeacher: Snowballs.Students: Snowballs.Teacher: Make snowballs.Students: Make snowballs.Teacher: Make snowballs and throw snowballs.Students: Make snowballs and throw snowball.Teacher: They are making snowballs and throwing them.Students: They are making snowballs and throwing them.2. Books closed! Ask some questions: what are the children doing? Arethe having fun? Listen to the audiotape.3. Check the answers4. Listen to the dialogue with the following questions:What happens to Jenny?What do Jenny and Li Ming make?After listening answer the questions together. Discuss the dialogueagain and make sure they can understand the meaning of the text. Dealwith the language points at the same time. 5. Practice in smallgroups.6. Present. Ask some volunteers to act the dialogue.7. Discuss:What are Jenny and Li Ming making? What do they do first? How manysnowballs does the snowman have? Does the snowman have eyes/ ears/arms/ feet/ a mouth/ a nose? Li Ming wants to go inside. Why?8. Make up a new dialogue. Divide the class into small groups. Ask eachgroup to make up a dialogue about playing with snow.Step 3. ConclusionMaster the words of this lesson and some main languages.Step 4. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Practice the dialogue in this lesson.3. Preview the next lesson.Lesson 33 Kim’s Favourite SeasonI,Teaching important points1,Master the new words and phrases in this lesson. Such asa kind of, be filled with, pick up, in front of , in the frontof,give sb. sth. = give sth. to sb.2,Talking about the different seasons.II,Teaching difficult points1,The differences bet ween in front of …and in the front of…2,The usages of pick up,be full of and be filled with.3,How to write a report about different seasons correctly.III,Teaching timeOne periodIV. Teaching stepslead-in:Hi, everyone! There are four seasons in a year, but what’s your favourite season? (spring, summer, autumn or winter). Do you know Kim’s favourite season ? (No).OK, Let’s learn about Kim’s favourite season.(showing the title of Lesson 44 by PPT).Step 1. Showing the aims ( by PPT).1,Master the new words and phrases in this lesson.2, Revise “be going to”3,Learn about some activities related to the seasons.4,After learning this lesson, students can write a report about different seasons.Step 2. Self-learning and discuss in groups1, Read the text and find out the words that they unknown, and discuss them, then I teach them to read the words.2, Read the text and answer the following questions, first, they answer them by themselves. Then check the keys and discuss them in groups.1) ,Who is talking at the front of the class?2) . What season is Kim talking about?3).How is the temperature is in this season?4).What does Kim often wear?5). How many bags do they pick the apples?3, Write a short story about your favourite season. What activities do you like to do? What clothes do you like to wear? What food do you usually eat? Do NOT write what the season is. Can your classmates guess?! 4,Talk about the following language points. ( I can give them some cues by ppt )Pick, full, clap, kind, fillBe going to, in front of/in the front of, give Sth. to Sb.Step 3, Teaching and explaining1,She stands in front of the class and holds a very big, black bag? in front of 指在某一范围以外的前面,而in the front of 指在某一范围以内的前面。