教学目标：

1．掌握本课重点词组和词汇。

2．能够运用本课所学的内容对一些动物进行介绍并表达自己的看法。

教具：Picture and recorder

教学过程：

Step 1 Revision

（1）       Revise the dialogue

让学生表演自编自演的关于本周末计划去动物园的对话。

（2）       Revise the words

教师出示动物园的图片，找一个同学当导游向同学进行简单的介绍。

例如： I am a tourist guide. Welcome to the zoo. This is a panda .The panda is only lives in China. This is a snake .It is dangerous. There are still a lot of interesting animals in our zoo. The exciting dolphin show is waiting for you. Come and see。

（3）       Pre-teach:组织学生根据刚才导游的介绍和导游图就教科书上的问题进行讨论。

Step 2 Presentation

（1）       教师指导学生快速默读阅读课文并判断True or False.

A: The writer thinks the animals in the cage cannot be happy.

B: The dolphin is human’s friend.

（2）       学生阅读课文找出影响理解文章含义的地方并根据上下文判断出生词cage, forest, feel, fall, if的大意。

“Cage” is a piece of framework in which birds or animals may be kept. Draw it on the board. “Holiday” is the day when people don’t have to go to work or school. We teachers and students have summer holidays and winter holidays. At the beginning of May, We have a seven-day- holiday. “Forest” is a place where a lot of trees grow. Use a gesture to teach “tired”. If you are tired, you need some rest  (For “it’s …for …to …” “feel sorry for…” just give some examples.)

（3）       教师就本课的知识点进行讲解和分析。

（4）教师指导学生听课文录音，并跟读课文。

（5）学生阅读短文并回答练习册上的问题。

（6）教师可以组织学生可以根据第18课课文内容进行角色表演。（根据探究活动的素材进行）

Step 3 Practice

Play the tape for students to read and they ask and answer questions about the text in pairs.

Then try to retell the text, (Paragraph by paragraph) give the following questions as a reminder.

Paragraph one

1. Where do your parents often take him to on holidays?

2. What do you like?

3. What do you see in the zoo?

4. How are these animals?

5. Where do some of them stay? What do you feel about that?

Paragraph two

1. Where do tigers usually live?

2. What do they do usually?

3. What do they do in the zoo?

Paragraph three

1. What animal do you like best?

2. Why?

Step 4 Summary.

学生自己总结本课的重点词语。

Step 5 Exercises in class

 1. Write out six animals you can see in the zoo ____ ____ ____ ___ ____ _____.

 2. Fill in prepositions.

 ①I never stay at home ____ holidays.

 ② ____ the zoo, there are many animals.

 ③ Dangerous animals have to stay ____ cages.

 ④ It’s bad ____ your teeth to eat much sweet.

 ⑤) He likes living ____ the forest.

 ⑥ Tigers eat small animals ____ rabbits and deer.

 ⑦ I feel sorry ____ the animals.

 ⑧ Dolphins often play ____ a ball, and they can walk ____water.

 ⑨ Be careful ! Don’t fall ___ the water.

 3. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.

 ①Monkeys like ______ (eat) nuts.

 ②I ______ (not have) many toy animals.

 ③May I ______ (borrow) your dictionary?

 ④It’s good ______ (read) English in the morning.

 ⑤I have a lot of thing ______(do) today.

 ⑥I think the dolphin is ______(interesting) animal in the zoo.

 ⑦Which animal is ______ (dangerous), a tiger or a bear?

 ⑧Some animals are ______ (friend) to people.

Answers:

 1. (Open answers) eg ; monkey, lion, elephant, bird, snake, deer.

2. ①on ②in ③in ④for ⑤in ⑥like ⑦for ⑧with, on ⑨into

3. ① eating ② don’t have ③ borrow ④ to read ⑤to do ⑥the most interesting ⑦ more dangerous ⑧ friendly

Step 6 Homework

（1）Copy the new words and phrase.

（2）收集有关动物的资料，并写一篇参观动物园的日记。