Unit 6 Bird watching
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to:
1. know the English names of some birds;
2. identify the basic characteristics of these birds;
3. learn to talk about the birds in English.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: birdwatching, market, hen, crane, sparrow, feather, swan, eagle, rare
at the market, long thin neck, broad wings, 15 types of cranes
2. New structures: They have long legs and a long thin neck.
How many types of cranes are there in the world?
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Remember the English names of different birds.
Learn to describe and talk about the birds in English.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Comic strip
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Free talk
Show some pictures.
What can you see in the picture?
What sound can you hear?
Can you guess what we are going to talk about today?
2. Learn some new words
(1) Explain the new words.
T: Look at the picture. What are these people doing?
S: They are watching the birds.
T: Yeah, and we can also call the action “watch the birds”－birdwatching. (Lead into the new word.)
T: Do you like birdwatching? How do we call these people who are watching the birds?
(Lead into the new word ‘birdwatcher’)
(2) Read the new words after the teacher.
【设计意图】让学生初次接触观鸟的话题，通过声音、图片导入，使其身临其境。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Listen and answer
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(1) Listen to the conversation and
T: Our friend Eddie also likes birds. What kind of birds does he like? Can you have a guess? Let’s listen to the conversation between Eddie and Hobo and find out the answer to this question, “What birds does Eddie like”?
(2) Check the answer. Present the new words ‘hen’, ‘duck’ and ‘yummy’ through pictures.
T: Who has got the answer?
S: Hens and ducks.
T: Look at these pictures. They must be yummy. Yummy means…
S: ...
2. Repeat and act
(1) Repeat the comic strip
T: Let’s listen to their dialogue again and repeat after the recording, paying attention to their pronunciation and intonation.
(2) Work in pairs and get the students to act out the dialogue according to the four pictures.
3. More questions to know about Eddie
T: Do you think Eddie really like watching the birds at the market?
S: No, he doesn’t. He just likes eating.
【设计意图】通过复述和表演，学习和巩固漫画部分的内容。
B Welcome to the unit
Step 1 Presentation
1. Present something interesting about birds
T: Let me show you something interesting about birds. Do you know what the biggest bird in the world is? How much do you know about them? How about the smallest one?
2. Watch and learn
(1) Show the pictures of a crane to the students. Present the new words and learn something about its basic characteristics. Learn some new words to describe the birds from the colours of feathers, the body types and their characteristics.
T: What is this in the picture?
S: … (Maybe in Chinese)
T: What do we call it in English?
S: … (Learn and read the new word)
T: What does it look like? How do you know about it?
(2) Use the same way to present the other three birds: swan, eagle and sparrow. Get the students to watch carefully and learn to describe their characteristics.
3. Read and match
Open your books and turn to page 69. Match the pictures with the correct ones. Write the letters in the boxes. Check the answers.
4. Watch and guess
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T: Now boys and girls , as we have learned much about the four birds. Let’s have a guessing game. I will show half of the picture and some descriptions. Tell me what kind of bird it is.
5. Learn the dialogue
(1) Listen and answer
T: We have talked about many different kinds of birds. Annie and Simon are also interested in birds. Let’s listen to the tape and find out what kind of bird they are talking about.
S: Cranes
T: Can you still remember what cranes look like?
S: They are tall. They have long legs and a long thin neck.
T: How many kinds of cranes are there in the world? Let’s listen again and check the answer.
S: Only 15 types of cranes. (Type means kind)
T: So they are very rare. (Guess the meaning of the new word according to the context.)
(2) Repeat and act
Listen to the recording again and repeat after it.
T: Let’s work in pairs and talk about your favourite birds. Make a similar dialogue.
A: Which is your favourite bird?
B: My favourite bird is ….
A: Why do you like it best?
B: Because they have … and they are …
【设计意图】让学生了解世界上最大的、最小的鸟的信息，使其保持学习的兴趣。让学生通过半张图片和部分描述来猜测是什么鸟，使其保持持续学习的积极性，并复习前面所学知识。
Step 2 Consolidation
1. Ask more questions to know about the cranes.
T: There are only 15 types of cranes in the world. Do you think there are in danger?
S: Yes.
T: What can we do for them?
S: We should protect their homes. We shouldn’t catch them any more…
2. Show more pictures about the endangered birds and arouse the students’ consciousness of protecting them.
【设计意图】唤起学生保护珍稀鸟类的意识。
V. Homework
1. Try to remember the words, phrases and structures in this period
2. Read and recite the dialogues in Comic strip and Part B.
3. Search the Internet for the information about Zhalong to preview Reading
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