Reading 1: A trip to the zoo优秀公开课教案

Reading I Teaching Aims: 1. Learn some new words about talking about different animals. 2. Practise reading skills by learning the trip to the zoo Step 1. Presentation Present the new words and read them aloud. everybody straight on bamboo all day long

along

road king

remember

that

dangerous

sound

forest funny

laugh

giraffe

quite

neck

leaf （leaves）

north-east

bridge

cross

Step 2. Warming up Ask Ss the questions:

Where is the zoo in our city? How can you get to the zoo from our school?

What animals do you like? Tell us why? Show some pictures of pandas, lions, birds, monkeys, giraffes, elephants. Step 3. Reading

1. Listen to text and answer the questions: 1) How many kinds of animals are there in the article? Six.

2) What are they? They are pandas, lions, birds, monkeys, giraffes and elephants. 2. Read the article again and complete part B1 on page45. 3. Read aloud the article and put T or F in the blanks. The students start their visit from the North Gate.

_____ Pandas do not like to lie down all day long.

______ Visitors cannot go near the lions.

______ The birds in the zoo are very quiet.

______ Monkeys are clever and funny.

______ To the north-east of the giraffes there is a hill.

______

Keys：FFT FTF 4. Discuss and fill the table of B3 on Page 46. 4. Read aloud the text together. 5. Complete B4 on page 46.

Wendy: Hi, Millie. How was your trip to the zoo? Millie: Not bad. There are lots of ________ in the zoo. Wendy: Are there any pandas? Millie: Yes. Pandas are _____. Every year, lots of _______ come to see them. Wendy: Are there any lions? Millie: Yes, but they’re __________. We can’t go near them.

Wendy: There are also birds, aren’t there?

Millie: Yes. I like to hear birds ______. There are monkeys too. Wendy: I like monkeys. They’re clever and ________.

Millie: Yes, they are. And there are also tall _______. Their long necks help them eat the ________ from the trees. Keys: animals

cute visitors dangerous sing funny giraffes leaves Fill in the blanks to retell the text.

Here is the South Gate. Go _______ on, and you’ll find the Panda House. Walk _____ the road. To the _____ of the Panda House, you’ll find the lions. _____ left, and to the ____ of the Lions’ Area, _____ find the World of Birds. ___ the north of the World of Birds is the Monkeys’ Forest.

Then turn _____, and to the east of Monkeys’ Forest, you’ll see the _______. __________ of the giraffes there is a bridge. _____ the bridge, and you’ll see the _________.

Keys: straight

along

north

Turn

west

you’ll

To right

giraffes

North-east

Cross elephants 6. Check the answers

7. Act B4 out. 8. Group work

Imagine that classroom is a zoo. There are different sections for different animals. Please work in groups of four. One of the group members will be the guide.

He or she should show the three visitors the way to the different animals. The other three students will ask the way to the sections for their favourite animals.

Step 4 Homework 1. Read aloud the article and underline the difficult parts. 2. Remember the new words in this lesson.