Dates, months and seasons

　　让学生统计本组的，生日，看看那一个月份过生日的最多。

　　Step 4 Consolidation

　　编一段小短文，假定我们班一月份有五个同学过生日，说出这五个同学的生日，我们准备给他们集体过生日，要开一个生日Party, 定一个日期。并向全班宣布时间、地点。

　　Step 5 Exercises in class

　　Filling in the blanks: (keys in the following brackets)

　　1. New Year is on January, _________(the first)

　　2 .May the first is _________(Labor Day)

　　3. We love our teachers, we say Happy Teachers day on _________ (September, the tenth)

　　4. Flowers come out in________(spring)

　　5. Our second school - term lasts from ____ to ____. (February to July).

　　6. June the first is _________. (Children’s Day).

　　7. ______ is our National Day. (October, the first)

　　8.We can make a snow man in _________(winter)

　　9. September is the _________ month of year. (ninth)

　　10. ________, the twenty - fifth is Christmas Day. (December).

　　Homework

　　1. Recite the numbers, seasons and months.

　　2. Make five English sentences according to this lesson.

　　3. Do workbook.
The design of the blackboard

Lesson 42 教学设计方案

　　教学目标

　　学会描述四季天气，信的基本写法。

　　教学用具

　　投影仪、录音机以及用过的外国的信封、信纸等。

　　教学步骤

　　Step 1 Revision

　　1. Duty Report: 让值日生报告，包括以下问题： What day is it today / tomorrow？What day was it yesterday? What is the date today / tomorrow? What was the date yesterday?等，并问学生What’s the weather like today? 老师可自己回答 It’s fine / cold.

　　2. Review the names of 12 months and four seasons.

　　Step 2 Presentation

　　1．通过叙述四季教新单词。如能配合媒体效果会更好。老师可看着媒体描述四季，让学生们注意听。

　　Spring is the first season of the year. The weather is very warm. 教warm, weather. I like spring best. Everything begins to turn green. Flowers come out. We can wear beautiful clothes, again. 教 come out. Summer is the warmest season of the year. It often rains, sometimes quite heavily, in the South. 教 heavily. The crops grow very quickly. 教 crop. Autumn is the busy season of the year. We often help them with their harvest. We really enjoy working on the farm. Because I like working better than having classes in the classroom. 教really. Winter is the coldest of the year. Old people don’t like it, but children like it. Because it sometime snows, sometimes very heavily. 教snow. Children can make a snowman. 教snowman.

　　引导学生讨论re-reading questions。先找一两个较好的同学说一说，再找几个小组的学生代表在全班展示。

　　2．观察信的格式

　　信纸的右上角写什么，称呼用什么标点，落款写什么。

　　阅读P.12, P.69和P.153三封信。让学生总结写信应有些什么套话。

　　老师可总结一封信的格式, 用你自己学校的地址。

观察SB P132 信封的写法。也可给让学生看一个真正的用过的信封、信纸。

　　让学生听录音，并跟读。

　　Step 3 Practise

　　1）让学生快速阅读这封信，Say something about the weather in spring, summer, autumn and winter in Hangzhou.

　　2）Say something about the four seasons in Beijing. 可以小组讨论后，代表发言，也可个人发言。

　　1. There are four seasons in Beijing.

　　2. It’s windy in spring. It’s warm in autumn.

　　It’s hot in summer. It’s cold in winter.

　　3. People like to have a picnic in spring.

　　They like to swim in summer.

　　They like to go outing in autumn.

　　They like to go skiing in winter.

　　Addition: How many kinds of sports do you know?

　　eg. running, skating, playing basketball, playing football, playing volleyball, the high jump, the long jump, relay race.

　　3）做Workbook

　　Step 4 Exercises in class

　　T: Let the students close their English books and fill in the missing words according to the letter. Then check the answers.

　　___1__Helen ,I___2___you are well. Thank you___3__your last letter. You__4___me about the weather here in China. There__5__four seasons in a year___6__spring,__7__, autumn and winter.

　　I think spring is the___8__season of the year. The weather___9___warmer, and the days___10__longer.___11__the fields everything begins to___12__. Trees__13__green, and flowers start to come__14__.

　　Summer__15___after spring. It is the__16__season. It often reins .sometimes quite__17___ The crops grow very quickly. Many people love this__18__of year, __19__it is good for___20__. I often go___21__, sometimes in a___22_near my home, and sometimes in a___23__. I enjoy it very___24__.

　　___25__is a busy season. The days get___26___and the nights get__27__. It is the harvest time, and all farmers are___28__.Often, we help them___29_the harvest.__30__month we helped them with the rice harvest. We really enjoyed__31__on the farm.

　　The coldest season of the year is winter. Some people___32___like winter, __33_I like it. Sometimes it snows, and the land is___34__white. Then we can play in the mow. I like to___35___snowmen.

　　How many seasons are__36___in your country? I___37__it is cold all the year __38__.There are not four seasons,__39__there?

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