Unit 2: What Color is it?
Beijing Publishing House English Book Three
of Class
New Lesson
Content
1. The text of page seven.
2. Sentence pattern: What color is it? And its answer: It’s …
3. New words and expressions: colour, sweater, like, yellow, green, red, black, white, brown, purple, blue, look at.
Aim
1. To build a language context by means of video and recorder, let the pupils grasp the meaning of the text and read the text out.
2. To make the pupils master the functional sentence “ What Colour is it?” and its answer “ It’s…”. To improve the pupils’ abilities in listening, speaking and in reading, and also teach them how to use such sentences in simple language context.
3. To teach the pupils, through various activities, how to use the following words: yellow, green, red, black, white, brown, purple, blue.
4. To encourage the pupils to participate actively in the teaching-learning process by different forms of teaching methods. And to form their interest in English study.
Main Points
1. Understanding of the text
2. Pronunciation and use of words
3. The use of the functional sentence “What color is it?” and the answer pattern: It’s …
Difficult
Points
1. The tone and pronunciation of some words
2. How to understand and use the sentence pattern “I like…”
Teaching
Materials
Computer software, tape recorder, video, color card, a yellow sweate
r and a red one, a big umbrella and two small ones, two pieces of garment and two colorful candies
Teaching Process
Time Material
Organizing the class
Listen and sing a song:
“Who is wearing yellow today?”
Warm up and attract the pupils
One minute
Tape recorder
Lead in the new class
The teacher named three pupils dressed in yellow to introduce the word “ Yellow”
To introduce the new words by songs
Study of new text
Study the words “green, black,
purple”. according to the song and
the garment the pupils wear
The teacher uses “ Is … wearing yellow/… today?”
The teacher sorts out the color cards to help the pupils to read the words
Some pupils have known the words.
Provide an opportunity of acknowledgment for all levels of pupils
A visual method to help to pupils to remember the words
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Practice the four words: yellow,
green, black, purple, and study thenew word color.
Study brown, white, red, blue. (pupils teach each other)
Mutual aid and cooperation among teachers and students
Study the sentence pattern “I like the color”
The teacher sorts out his/her favorite color and puts it on his/her dress to help the pupils to understand the meaning of “I like the color.”
The pupils sort out the colors they like, saying “I like the color.”
Emphasize
the word “like” by body language
The pupils overcome the difficulties by practicing
Study the sentence pattern “What color is it?” and try to use the sentence pattern
Read the words of color in the
umbrella
teamwork, divide the pupils into seven sections, the pupils put the words with the corresponding color cards.
Practice the sentence pattern: “What color is it? It’s…” in the game
Group game, practice the sentence pattern “What color is it? It’s …” The whole class is divided into seven groups, the teacher provide the materials and let students to practice the sentences by feeling and touch..
Form the ability to grasp new word. Mutual aids and cooperation among pupils
Connect the words with their meanings
Active the pupils’ interest.
Teamwork and inter-group cooperation active the whole class.
Study the text
Watch the video twice
The questions after the first time:
1. How many girls are there in the dialogue?
2.What are they talking about? Focus on the word sweater.
-Is it a new sweater?
To let the pupils understand the text in a real language context., and provide some practice to improve the listening, teach the new word:
Yellow sweater
-Yes.
-This is Lucy’s sweater.
-I have a new sweater, too.
-What colour is my sweater? Guess! (take out the sweater)
-Red. It’s very nice.
3.What color is the sweater?
Listen the tape twice. Focus on the key words: look at, open the book at page 37, read the text aloud.
The pupils read by themselves.
The second time guided by the teacher
The third time all the class read aloud together
sweater.
Let the pupils to form a good habit by practicing.
Practicing
Practicing the text
To read the text by role, give flowers of different colors to the pupils, practice five to six groups..
Practice the sentence pattern “What color is it? It’s …”. Review the materials in the software, the pupils read after it..
The teacher gives three language contexts on the basis of which the pupils make dialogues.熟悉巩固课文
to further the understanding of the sentence pattern: “What color is it? It’s …”
to make the pupils think creatively