七年级英语下册 Unit 3教案 人教新目标版

用心 爱心 专心 1 英语：Unit 3教案（人教新目标七年级下）

Language goals:

 In this unit students learn to describe animals and express preferences and give

reasons.

New languages:

 Let’s see the pandas first.

 Why do you like koalas?

 Because they’re cute.

 Because they’re pretty interesting.

 Because they’re kind of shy.

 Because they’re very big.

 names of animals such as tiger, elephant, koalas, dolphin

 description words such as smart, cute, clever

 names of countries: Australia, South Africa

Recycled language

 between, across from

 He’s/ She’s from …He’s/ She’s five years old.

 name of countries: China, Japan

Difficult points:

1. Listening for the names of animals. Listen for the description words about

animals.

2. Read the description words about animals. Write about the animal you know.

3. why, what, where questions, because, adjectives of quality

Teaching aids:

 A tape recorder 用心 爱心 专心 2  Some pictures

Teaching periods:

 Period 1: Section A1a, 1b, 1c

 Period 2: Section A2a, 2b, 2c

 Period 3: Section A3a, 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:

1. Teach vocabulary words.

2. Target languages:

Let’s see the pandas.

Why do you want to see the lions?

Because they’re cute.

3. Enable the students to talk about animals.

4. Help the students learn how to listen to and talk about animals.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Warming up

Talk about animals using pictures.

Teach new words about animals by the pictures.

Step 2.Match work (1a)

Ask the students to read the words and the picture, and then match the names

with the pictures a–h.

Encourage or help the students to say something about the picture and do the

match work. 用心 爱心 专心 3

Step 3. Listening (1b)

Point to the numbered list of words in activity 1a and play the recording.

Ask the students to listen to the recording and circle the countries in 1a.

Play the tape and then check the answers.

Ask the students to listen to and repeat after the recording and then check

the answers.

Further activity: Ask the students to do some pair work in the following way

if they can understand the listening material well.

Step 4. Pair work (1c)

Ask the students to make conversations in pairs.

Show the following.

—Let’s see the pandas / giraffes / lions / penguins / dolphins / koalas /

elephants / tigers?

—Why?

—Because they’re cute / interesting / fun / interesting / smart.

Say: Now please make conversations in pairs, using the animals in activity

1a and the description words in activity 1c.

Homework

1. Ask the students to remember the new words in this period (on page 116) by heart.

2. Ask the students to practice the conversation in activity 1c.

Period 2

Teaching aims:

1. Learn the vocabulary words and useful expressions.

2. Target languages:

I like dolphins.

Why do you like dolphins?

Because they are kind of interesting. 用心 爱心 专心 4 3. Enable the students to talk about animals and tell why they like them.

4. Help the students learn to talk about animals and tell why they like them.

Teaching procedures:

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Free talk and lead-in

Revise the names of the animals.

Say: In last period we learnt the names of some animals. Now let’s do some

revision. Please look at the pictures one by one and you have to tell me the

name of the animal in the picture. OK?

Show the students the animal pictures one by one.

Revise the conversation learnt in the last period.

Give more chances to more students to practice talking about the animals and

expressing why they like the animals.

Step 2. Listening (2a, 2b)

First ask the students to listen and fill in the chart in activity 2a.

Play the recording for the first time. Ask the students to listen carefully

and write down the animals.

Play the tape the second time.

Ask the students to pay attention to the words in the box in Activity 2b.

Ask the students to pay attention to the conversation in activity 2b.

After that, check the answers.

Then ask the students to listen to and repeat the dialogue after the

recording.

After this, ask the students to practice the conversation without the help

of the recording.

Step 3. Pair work (2c)

Ask the students to work in pairs, ask and answer about animals they know.

Ask the students to practice: Why? Because they are…