Unit 2: What Color is it?

of Class

New Lesson

Content

1. The text of page seven.

2. Sentence pattern: What color is it? And its answer: It’s …

3. New words and expressions: colour, sweater, like, yellow, green, red, black, white, brown, purple, blue, look at.

Aim

1. To build a language context by means of video and recorder, let the pupils grasp the meaning of the text and read the text out.

2. To make the pupils master the functional sentence “ What Colour is it?” and its answer “ It’s…”. To improve the pupils’ abilities in listening, speaking and in reading, and also teach them how to use such sentences in simple language context.

3. To teach the pupils, through various activities, how to use the following words: yellow, green, red, black, white, brown, purple, blue.

4. To encourage the pupils to participate actively in the teaching-learning process by different forms of teaching methods. And to form their interest in English study.

Main Points

1. Understanding of the text

2. Pronunciation and use of words

3. The use of the functional sentence “What color is it?” and the answer pattern: It’s …

Difficult

Points

1. The tone and pronunciation of some words

2. How to understand and use the sentence pattern “I like…”

Teaching

Materials

Computer software, tape recorder, video, color card, a yellow sweater and a red one, a big umbrella and two small ones, two pieces of garment and two colorful candies

Teaching Process

Time Material

Organizing the class

Listen and sing a song:

“Who is wearing yellow today?”

Warm up and attract the pupils

One minute

Tape recorder

Lead in the new class

The teacher named three pupils dressed in yellow to introduce the word “ Yellow”

To introduce the new words by songs

Study of new text

Study the words “green, black,

purple”. according to the song and

the garment the pupils wear

The teacher uses “ Is … wearing yellow/… today?”

The teacher sorts out the color cards to help the pupils to read the words

Some pupils have known the words.

Provide an opportunity of acknowledgment for all levels of pupils

A visual method to help to pupils to remember the words

8-9

Practice the four words: yellow,

green, black, purple, and study the

new word color.

Study brown, white, red, blue. (pupils teach each other)

Mutual aid and cooperation among teachers and students

Study the sentence pattern “I like the color”

The teacher sorts out his/her favorite color and puts it on his/her dress to help the pupils to understand the meaning of “I like the color.”

The pupils sort out the colors they like, saying “I like the color.”

Emphasize the word “like” by body language

The pupils overcome the difficulties by practicing

Study the sentence pattern “What color is it?” and try to use the sentence pattern

Read the words of color in the

umbrella

teamwork, divide the pupils into seven sections, the pupils put the words with the corresponding color cards.

Practice the sentence pattern: “What color is it? It’s…” in the game

Group game, practice the sentence pattern “What color is it? It’s …” The whole class is divided into seven groups, the teacher provide the materials and let students to practice the sentences by feeling and touch..

Form the ability to grasp new word. Mutual aids and cooperation among pupils

Connect the words with their meanings

Active the pupils’ interest.

Teamwork and inter-group cooperation active the whole class.

Study the text

Watch the video twice

The questions after the first time:

1. How many girls are there in the dialogue?

2.What are they talking about? Focus on the word sweater.

-Is it a new sweater?

To let the pupils understand the text in a real language context., and provide some practice to improve the listening, teach the new word:

Yellow sweater

-Yes.

-This is Lucy’s sweater.

-I have a new sweater, too.

-What colour is my sweater? Guess! (take out the sweater)

-Red. It’s very nice.

3.What color is the sweater?

Listen the tape twice. Focus on the key words: look at, open the book at page 37, read the text aloud.

The pupils read by themselves.

The second time guided by the teacher

The third time all the class read aloud together

sweater.

Let the pupils to form a good habit by practicing.

Practicing

Practicing the text

To read the text by role, give flowers of different colors to the pupils, practice five to six groups..

Practice the sentence pattern “What color is it? It’s …”. Review the materials in the software, the pupils read after it..

The teacher gives three language contexts on the basis of which the pupils make dialogues.

熟悉巩固课文

to further the understanding of the sentence pattern: “What color is it? It’s …”

to make the pupils think creatively