Text analysis:

Topic: animals in the zoo

Functions (Teaching aims): 1. Describe animals 2. Express preferences and give reasons

Structures:1. Why, What, Where questions 2.Because 3. Adjectives of quality

Target language: Why do they like koala bears? Because they’re cute. They’re kind of shy. They’re very big.

Vocabulary: 1. zoo, animals, tiger, elephant, koala bears, dolphin, panda, lion, penguin, giraffe 2. smart, cute, fun, ugly, intelligent, friendly, shy, kind of 3. South Africa

Recycling: beautiful, small, quiet, scary, interesting, Australia, Japan, Brazil, China.

He is from-- She’s five years old.

Learning strategies: 1. Using what you know 2. Inferring content

Multi-intelligence: 1. Know the nature 2. Knowledge of places 3. logical expressions

Periods: six

Period 1 section A 1a 1b 1c

Period 2 section A 2a 2b 2c Grammar focus

Period 3 section A 3a 3b 4

Period 4 section B 1 2a 2b 3

Period 5 section B 3a 3b 3c 4

Period 6 self check

Period 1

Teaching aims:

Learn new words: animals—tiger, koala bear, elephant, dolphin, panda, lion, penguin, giraffe description words—cute, fun, smart

Listen and check(√) the animals.

Practice the conversation: describe animals

Teaching methods: listen and say, read and write

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Presentation(1a)

We are going to learn the names of some more animals.

Show the animals on the map of the zoo → point to the animals and say the names →let students read the words → match the words with the animals in the picture → practice the words(read and write)

Step 2 Listening practice(1b)

Point to the animals in 1a and ask students to say the names→ play the recording of the conversation twice → check(√) the names of animals

Step 3 Pair work(1c)

Practice the conversations using the description words.

A: Let’s see the lions.

B: Why do you want to see the lions?

A: Because they’re cute.

Step 4 Consolidation: Free talk

Ask students to present their conversations to the class.

Step 5 Summary: words and conversations

Step 6 Homework: remember the words and conversations.