The second teaching period
Contents: Reading---‘My Dog’
一、Objectives
1. To learn about rhyme schemes, stress and intonation of poetry.
2. To learn new words to talk about pets:
Four skills: chase, wide, hunt, hide, trick, build, camp, stick, bite, end, trouble
Three skills: bubble, hutch
3. To understand the meaning of the first poem ‘My Dog’
4. To read about animal behavior.
二、Key and difficult points
1. To learn about rhyme schemes, stress and intonation of poetry.
2. To understand the meaning of the first two poems‘My Dog’
三、Teaching aids
A tape recorder
四、Teaching procedures
Step 1 Revision
1.Have a dictation（Seven words they learned last class）
2.Guessing games.
Guess what animal it is according to what Teacher says.
a. It’s small and soft. It likes eating rice.（mouse）
b. It is a long animal. It doesn’t have ears and it can ‘hear’ with its tongues.
c. It is kind. It had long ears and red eyes. It likes eating carrots.（rabbit）
d. It is lazy. It likes sleeping. It can catch mice.（cat）
e. It is friendly. It likes walking. It likes eating bones.（dog）
f. It is small and lovely. It can’t live in your hand. It lives in water.（goldfish）
g. It is very big. It has long teeth. It can walk on tiptoe.（elephant）
h. It’s noisy. It can say hello and sing. It’s a bird.（parrot）
3.Say one or two sentences about your favourite pet.
Step 2 Presentation
1.Let the students talk about a dog. Say some words about a dog, them teach some new words about a dog.
Verb: chase, catch, hunt, hide, bark, bite, fight
Adjective: clever, fierce, kind, helpful
Noun: friend, trick
Other: wide, build, camp, stick, end
2.Ask the students to say some Chinese poems. Then let them say the characteristic of Chinese poems.
3.Listen to the tape of ‘My Dog’.
Step 3 Read and learn
1.Ask the students to read ‘My Dog’themselves.
2.Listen and repeat.
3.Try to find the rhyme scheme.
Step 4 Practice
1.Do some reading.
2.Finish the task of Part B1（1-5）on Page 90 and Part C1 on Page 92.
3.Try to say something about a dog.
The dog is lovely and friendly. It likes…. It can….
Step 5 Consolidation
1.Fill in the blanks with proper words
My dog
My dog is the cleverest animal of all.
He doesn’t just _____________and catch a ball.
With eyes open wide,
He ____________ when I____________.
He does wonderful_____________.
Builds me camps out of sticks.
He’d never bark or___________,
And he doesn’t like to____________.
My dog is my very best friend,
And I’ll look after him until the end.
2.Fill in a word rhyming with the word given
a. ‘Fly’ rhymes with_____________________.
b. ‘Call’ rhymes with_____________________.
c. ‘Slow’ rhymes with_____________________.
d. ‘Stair’ rhymes with_____________________.
e. ‘Bush’ rhymes with_____________________.
f. ‘Close’ rhymes with_____________________.
g. ‘Beach’ rhymes with_____________________.
Step 6 Homework
1. Recite the poem.
2. Learn the new words by heart.
3. Preview the other two poems.