Unit 5  On the Farm
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Ⅰ Analysis of the text
This lesson is the first lesson of unit 5,Book6.The main task is tolearn and say the farm items,including tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, carrots, a chicken, a duck, a pig, a cowand the dialogs ,namely,How many chickens are there? There are six.）.It is the basis of this unit.
Ⅱ teaching objects：
① knowlege
words：?tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, carrots, a chicken, a duck, a pig, a cow
dialogs：How many chickens are there? There are six.
What are these ? These are …
What are those ? Those are …
② ability：
a．understand  “vegetables” and“animals”
b．ask and answer questions about farm
③ emotion：
Know the farm and love the farm
Ⅲ  key and difficult points
① key points： tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, carrots, a chicken, a duck, a pig, a cow
② difficult points：
How many chickens are there? There are six.
What are these ? These are …
What are those ? Those are …
Ⅳ  Teaching procedures
1.?Warm-up and revision
(1)Free talk.
What’s your name? How are you today?What fruits do you like to eat? Apples?Yes,they can keep you fit and healthy!What are these?These are ….  What are those? Those are ….
 Do you like singing? Ok, let’s sing a song together.
 (2)Lead-in
T：In this song, we have pigs, cows, chickens,ducks. What are they? Are they fruits?
S: No.They are animals.(show “animals”)
T: Where can you see them?
     Can we see them at school? At fun fair? At the playground?
   Ss: No.
   T: Can we see them on the farm?
   Ss: Yes.(put the title on the board)
   T: Well ,luckily ,I have an aunt. She has a farm. Do you want to have a visit? Ok,let’s go!
（3）Before we go ,I’d like to put the class into several groups ,and let’s see which group will have done a good job.(draw a house on the board for the assessment)
2. Introduction and drills
(1) show animal pictures on the screen.
 What’s this? It’s a….    what are these? These are ….
How many … are there?  There are ….
(2)On my aunt’s farm，we can not only see a lot of interesting animals, (show “a lot of interesting”) but also,we can see a lot of intereting vegetables too. (show “vegetalbes”)Let’s see what they are.
Do you like to eat tomatoes?...
(3)Listen to the tape and get the main idea of the story.
Just now ,we see a lot of interesting things on my aunt’s farm.Now, Bob,Jiaming,Pam,Meiling and Dongdong are going
to a  farm too.Whose farm is it? And what are there? Let’s go with them.
①play VCD ,listen and repeat.
②ask and answer questions about the story.
3. Practice
       (1)visit the teacher’s QQ farm.
（2）pair work“I’m the owner”(我是小小农场主)。
Hints： A:     Welcome to my farm.
B:      What are these/ those?
A:      These/ Those are …
B:       How many … are there?
A:       There are …
（3）chant
Ⅴ  Homework
1)????? listen to the tape and review.(听磁带复习课文)
??2)???Do a survey about your friend’s QQ farm. (调查报告)
A Survey about My Friend’s     QQ Farm
Friend’s
Name
Animals
Vegetables

















































Hints:        How many __________are there?
                 There are________.
Ⅵ  Board design
               On the Farm
How many tomatoes are there?
               There are six.