On the farm

　VI．Exercise in class
　　1. Complete the sentences
　　　①公共汽车和轿车，哪个开得快？轿车。
　　　　Which goes__________ ______, the car or the bus? The car_______.
　　　②所有人当中，我摘的玉米最多。
　　　　I can pick ________ ________ corns of ______.
　　　③她喜欢住在乡下。
　　　　She likes ______ ______ the country.
　　　④迈克经常读书到深夜。
　　　　Mike often reads ______ ______ ______ ______.
　　　⑤我认为住在城市比城镇有趣得多。
　　　　I think ______ in the city is ______ ______ ______ than in the town.
　　　⑥她经常帮她阿姨干农活。
　　　　She often ______ her aunt ______ the farm work.

　　Answers: ①more quickly, does ②the most, all ③living in ④until late at night ⑤living, much more interesting ⑥helps, with/do

　VII. Homework
　　1. Preview new lessons.
　　2. Copy the text and ask three questions.

　VIII. The design of the blackboard

Lesson 16

     Period: The Fourth Period

     Content: Lesson sixteen

     Properties: Tape recorder, pictures

     Teaching Objectives: Students should grasp

     　　1. the pronunciation     2. the text

     Language FOCUS:
　　1. Review the future intention “be going to”
                    　　2. Pronunciation:
　　　                     /u: / u, oo  /u/ u, oo, oul  /uE/ ure, ua,

     Teaching procedures:

     　I. Organizing the class
　　    Greeting and a duty report.

     　II. Revision
　　    Students read some words on the cards. “term, certainly, first, third, turn, early, hard, class, half, house, now, evening, leave, machine, ship, forget, broken, away, heavy, second, family, hungry, young, many, etc.

     　III. Pronunciation and spelling
　　    Play the tape for students to listen and repeat, then ask students to give more words having the same pronunciation.
　　    Play the part of “rhyme” for students to repeat and recite.

     　IV. Listening practice
　　    Listen to the tape and answer the questions.

     　V. Reading
　　  Students read the text silently and answer the following questions.
　　    1. Where are Ji Wei and John now?
　　    2. What are they talking about?
　　    3. Where did they do just now?
　　    4. What is John going to do after school? After college?
　　    5. What does he want to learn at college?
　　    6. Who is following them?

     　　Play the tape, students follow, teacher answers question they ask and explain some difficult point “college, school for higher education”, “each, every” nobody, not anybody, not anyone .

     　VI. Speaking
　　    Students describe the picture of Aunt Peggy’s farm, first in pairs, then together.
　　    Another picture for them to describe (a city scene).

     　VII. Word puzzle
　　    First explain the word “haystack, large pile of hay firmly packed for storing.”
　　    Then students find out the words in pairs.

     　VIII. Exercise in class
　　    Complete the words, using the proper words.
　　    Different people have different ideas.
　　    O______ people like life in the country, but y______ people don’t. They think life in the country isn't i ______. They like to go to the  c______, have dinner in the r______ and s______ and dance with their friends.
　　    My uncle and my a______ aren't f ______, but they live in the country. They grow f______ and vegetables for f ______. Every morning they will walk r ______ the fields. They can hear b ______ singing and sheep bleating. They often say, “Life in the country is much b______ now.”

　　Answers: Old, young, interesting, cinema, restaurant, sing, aunt, farmers, fun, round, birds, better.

　IX. Homework
　　1. To write out the description of the picture.
　　2. To finish off the workbook.

　X. The design of the blackboard

比气球

（1）教师可以准备一些气球，分给每人一个。学生三人一组。

（2）教师先给学生2分钟把气球吹起来。

　　然后举着气球用英语进行讨论。使用下列句型：
　　What is your ball like?
　　Is your ball green?
　　Do you like the cartoon on the ball?
　　Whose ball is the biggest?
　　Whose ball is the most beautiful?
　　Which one do you like best?

（3）教师对表现出色，讨论情况好的组进行表扬。

出墙报

　　教师组织学生收集有关美国乡村的材料，出一期墙报，体会中美文化差异。

　　要求：
　　（1）学生利用业余时间自己从报刊杂志书籍或网上搜集材料。
　　（2）篇幅不宜过长，中英文均可，图文并茂。
　　（3）要求学生以小组为单位进行讨论，每组4人或5人皆可。
　　（4）内容以介绍美国农村生活为主，教师适当给予指导。
　　（5）评选最优秀的板报，并给予奖励。

投票选举活动

　　教师可以组织学生投票选举Who is the most beautiful girl? Who is the strongest student? Who studies hardest? Who runs fast? 

　　（1）教师让学生事先准备好选票四张。先以小组为单位就以上问题进行讨论。
　　（2）然后用简单的英语句子写出被选者，注意要使用形容词和副词的最高级。学习好的学生可以写明这样选的原因。
　　（3）教师对获奖者给予