小学Unit 5 Dinosaurs公开课教学设计

Unit 5 Dinosaurs

Objectives

      Get to know different kinds of dinosaurs.

      Students can tell about the dinosaurs.[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]

      Students can use simple past tense of irregular verbs freely and correctly.

Tasks

      Make a dinosaur and give a description of it.

      Listen and chant to practice talking about dinosaurs.

Language Focus

Dinosaur K was a long / short dinosaur.[来源:Z_xx_k.Com]

It had two legs.

It ate plants.

It walked slowly.

It ran / swam.

It did not run /swim.

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Language skills

      Communicate freely with others by using simple expressions and structures

      Introduce a topic and briefly interact with others

      Write short paragraphs following sample writing

Topic vocabulary

dinosaur, ate, drank, had, sharp teeth, lived near lakes, ran, fast, flew, swam, heavy

Resources

      Computer learning programs

      Posters, flash cards, plastic toy dinosaurs, Overhead Transparencies, etc.

      Interactive CD-Rom

      Cassette Tape

Period 4 --- Part C & D

Teaching procedures

1.  Warming-up

    Tell students some dinosaur jokes.

2.  Revision

    Show Transparency and the notes on dinosaur k and dinosaur S.  Ask

the students to work in pairs to say about them.

3.  Presentation

    a. Ask the students some questions, e.g. Have you ever seen a real

dinosaur? Are there any dinosaurs on earth now? 

    b. Tell the students All the dinosaurs died 65 million years ago.  They

died in just a few years.  No one knows why.  Some people have

ideas about what happened.

    c. Students listen to the tape twice.

    d. Ask the students How many different ideas are there? What are they?

4.  Practice

    a. Let the students read the text silently.  Then play the tape for the

students and ask them to say the sentences after the tape.

    b. Read the question at the end of the page.  Ask the students to show

their hands if they agree with the ideas.  Ask if the students know of

any other ideas.

5.  More to do

   a. Ask the students to read the story again and to answer the questions.

    b. Check the answers with the students.  Ask some students to read

aloud their answers.

6.  Sum up

    The dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, at the end of the

Cretaceous period, which was a time of high volcanic and tectonic activity.[来源:学。科。网]

There are a lot of theories why the extinction occurred. The most widely

accepted theory is that an asteroid impact caused major climactic changes to

which the dinosaurs couldn't adapt.

7.  Homework[来源:Zxxk.Com]

a. Copy the story.

b. Listen and follow the tape.  Try to recite the story.