Primary English teaching design
PEP Unit 4 At the farm Part B Let’s learn
Theoretical basis: The new English curriculum strives to accomplish for more than just help students learn English. It should involve helping students to develop a level of comprehensive language competence and the ability to use language for real communication. However, the new curriculum also serves students’ all –around development. Such as strengthen their interest in studying English; grow in self-discipline, perseverance and self-confidence; improve their cooperative, investigative and thinking abilities. Forever students are put at the centre of the curriculum and individual differences are respected. So in this teaching plan I focus on the vocabulary and sentence teaching, all the tasks and procedures are designed for developing ability to use language in real communication
Analyzing teaching material: This unit is elected from the PEP edition Book 2 Unit4 At the farm. In this unit we mainly learn the nouns of animals and vegetable on the farm and sentences about general question and it’s positive response and negative response. Meanwhile we learn the plural form of nouns and personal pronoun“they”. Let’s learn in AB is to learn the words and sentences. Let’s talk and Let’s play are for communication. Draw and say and Let’s chant are for using language in real life. The content in this class is press close to real life and good for students understanding. It also can stimulate their interest in studying English and their love for animals.
Analyzing students: Grade4 students are around 11 years old and they are active and lively. They like intuitive thinking and are interested in games and competitions. I believe the words of animals must give full play to their initiative.
Teaching content: Unit4 At the farm Part B Let’s learn Draw and say
Teaching objectives: knowledge objectives 1 to learn the new words: cows, hens, horses, sheep. 2 to learn the sentence pattern: These are……. They’re……. Ability objectives: 1 able to recognize the plural form of nouns. 2 able to use sentence pattern to describe things. Moral objective: build the emotion of students’ carefully observing and love animals.
Key points: 1 able to recognize the plural form of nouns.
2 able to use sentence pattern to describe things.
Teaching aids: PPT /new words cards/animals’ pictures /flash/ video of a song
Type of the lesson: vocabulary speaking
Teaching procedures:
Step I warm-up
1 Sing a song Mary had a little lamb (with flash)
2 Greeting
T：Good morning, boys and girls!
Ss: Good morning, Miss Fang.
T: How are you today?
Ss: I’m fine, thank you. And how are you?
T: I’m fine too, thank you so much. Sit down please.
【design intention: It can make Ss feel comfortable and enjoyable when they sing a song. In the lively rhythm Ss not only review the content learned in last class but also prepare for this class with high interest.】
3 Link: Do you like animals? Now this class I lead you go to the zoom to have a look.
Step2 presentation
Learn the new words (the singular form and the plural form)
a) 1 Look at the PPT and have a guess: what’s the first animal? And introduce the word “hen”, write “hen” on the blackboard.
2 Teaching Ss to read “hen” with the help of picture.
3 Whole classes read “hen” with the high and low voice game.
4 Present many hens in PPT and ask Ss to observe the changes.
The singular form: hen
The plural form: hens
Pay attention to the pronunciation of “s” in “hens”
【design intention: creating situation with PPT can stimulate Ss ‘s eager to learn new knowledge initiatively.】
b) 1 Present the words “horse/horses, cow/cows, sheep/sheep” with PPT and pictures. The method to teach each new word can be various and flexible. The games such as: the size of sound game; one sounds like animal, one say the word……
2 Pay special attention to the singular form and plural form of sheep.
【design intention: by means of words games Ss can master the pronunciation clearly and correctly, meanwhile games can practice Ss ’s attention and reaction capacity. 】
Sentence learning
1 To introduce the sentence pattern with the plural form of hens/horses/cows/sheep:
–These are cows /horses /hens /sheep.
–Wow! They’re so cute!
Pay attention to the subject-predicate consistency.
2 Play the dialogue flash firstly.
3 Ss follow the flash to read the dialogue and while copy the pronunciation and intonation.
4 Pair- work. Read the dialogue in role play.
Step3 consolidation
Task 1 play a missing game: there are five word cards. Each time teacher put up four cards and Ss guess which one is missing. The one who say it out quickly enough is the winner.
Task 2 play a sound game: sound like animals. One sounds, one say the word out.
Task 3 recompose the song Mary had a little lamb and Ss sing it together with accompany.
Replace the word “lamb” with “hen/horse/cow/sheep”.
e.g.: Mary had a little hen, little hen.
Mary had a little hen. It’s fleece was white as snow.
Everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went.
Everywhere that Mary went, the hen was sure to go.
Optional activity: work in pairs to make some dialogues with the sentence pattern.
【design intention: These tasks comes to the top of this class. Ss can perform in groups and everyone has a chance.】
Task 4 To complete Draw and Say on the textbook. Ss draw a picture of their farm and students in pair introduce their farm in front of class. Teacher gives comment to their excellent performance.
【design intention: it is creative to recompose the song in this unit. Ss can consolidate what they have learned when they sing the recomposed song. 】
Step4 assignment
Sing the recomposed song among classmates.
Board-writing
Farm hens cows horses sheep
These are sheep!
Wow! They’re so cute!
I love my farm!
Evaluation methods:
In this class my evaluation is various. It stimulates student’s learning interest and efficiency.
1 oral encouragement: Teacher gives the immediately encourage when Ss perform well. The language is such as “Very good! Excellent! Well done!”
2 material rewards: When Ss are well performed teacher gives each one a colorful flower as a present. With the help of flowers it can boost their performance desire and build strong learning atmosphere.
3 group assessment: The whole is divided into six groups. The one who perform well can obtain 5 scores for their group. At the end of this class the group which comes to the highest score is the winner.
After class reflection
This class went on well. Ss were quite excited and motivated. But not enough time was given at
the practice stage so some Ss still have difficult saying sentences. More practice and checking are needed for those students.
