Unit 3 Seasons

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 wan to go in summer. Why? Because I can swim then. Topic vocabulary warm, cool, rain, snow, spring, summer, autumn, winter, often Additional language The ducks are going for a swim. You’re not like us! Now it is spring again. Can I swim with you? Yes, swim with us. Throw-away words Unit heading: Seasons Sound and rhyme words: biker, diver, hiker Rubrics: Then cut the symbols from page 79 and paste them in the chart on page 23. Ask four other students about their favorite seasons. Fill in the survey. Display your survey. Which is your favorite season? Chant words: raindrops, leaves, fall, and snowmen Period 1 Aim: Ask Wh-questions Understand a series of instructions and act accordingly. Interact with others by using simple expressions and structures learned Language focus: Master the new words and expressions. Use the preposition ‘it’. A. The children are looking at a website about weather. Make sentences bout the seasons and weather in different places. Listen, look and say. Bring in pictures of different weather conditions in different parts of China. Display the pictures of different weather conditions. Revise the words hot and cold to describe the air temperature with the pupils. Then tell the pupils It’s not always hot and cold. Sometimes it’s not very hot, and we say it’s warm. Sometimes it’s not very cold, and then we say it’s cool. Write the words on the board. Teach the words rain and snow using the pictures, ask: What do we wear when it rains? Ask the pupils to tell me 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 order in which they come in the year. Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and point to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to repeat after the cassette. Practice Show Transparency. Teach the pinyin spellings for the places in China on the map. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette or read the speech bubbles of the people on the page and ask the pupils to repeat them after me. Point to the cities on the map and ask the pupils to make the sentences about the weather in those cities. Tell the pupils to work in pairs and role-play the drills. Check the answers with the whole class. More to do The pupils take turns to make sentences about the weather in their city in each of the seasons. Play a miming game with the class. Ask individual pupils to think of a season and to mime how they feel or what they do in that season. The rest of the class guesses which season it is. Do Workbook P13. Tell the ... ...