Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: geography, population, ever, abroad, Asia, Japan, Japanese, village, town, India, world

Oral words and expressions: some day, It is fun to travel around the world.

Teaching Aims:

1. Talk about the countries.

2. Be proud of one’s country.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Talk about the geography.

2. Learn something about the foreign countries.

Teaching Difficult Countries:

What languages do they speak in other countries?

Teaching Preparation: a globe

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a globe

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Look at the globe. Point to our country. Ask the students the questions:

What country are you in?

What language do we speak?

Have you been abroad?

Has anyone in your family been abroad? Where has he been? When?

Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.

What’s your favourite subject?

What is geography?

Do you like geography?

Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

1. Has Danny been abroad?

2. What language do they speak in Japan?

3. How long has Brain’s father been in Africa?

4. Where’s Jenny’s mother’ pen pal from?

Step4. Read and check the answers.

1. Read the text in roles.

2. Let some students act the dialogue out.

Step5. Discuss the details in groups.

1. Where would Danny love to go?

2. What countries has Brian been to?

3. Does Danny speak Chinese?

4. Where is Brian from?

5. Can you explain the meaning of “pen pal”?

Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Talk about the countries that you have visited. If you haven’t visited, what country would you like to visit? Why?

Give a report to your class.

Step7. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in the activity book.

2. Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Travel around the world and know about the culture and customs of other countries. That’s all what we want to do. How many countries do the students know? What do they know about them? Can they have a vivid explanation of the countries that they are interested in?

Lesson 50: The World Is a Big Place!

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: land, Europe, America, ocean, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, earth, surface, island, river

Oral words and expressions: Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Arctic, the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, northeast, Nile

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn more about the world’s geography.

2. Master the words and expressions of the continents and oceans in English.

Teaching Important Points:

1. The words and expressions in this lesson.

2. Know about the world’s physical features.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Some geography features in the world.

Teaching Preparation: a map of the world

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a map of the world

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Talk about the question:

1. Where do you live?

2. Do you like to live here? Why?

Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.

1. Which part of the world do you live in?

2. What do you know about the place where you live?

3. How many people are there in the world?

Step3. Listening task

Listen and answer the following questions:

1. How many people are there in the world?

2. Where do all the people live?

3. How big are the world’s oceans?

4. How many deserts does the world have?

5. What’s the world’s biggest island?

6. What’s the world’s longest river?

Step4. Reading task

Read the text and finish Exercise 2 in activity book.

1. Scientists predict the world’s population will be _______ by 2050. There will be 9.1 billion people by _______.

2. About ________ of the world is land. The land that is very ________ is called desert. The deserts cover ________ of the earth’s surface.

3. There are ________ continents. They are ________, _________, _________, _________, North America, South America and Antarctica. Antarctica is the world’s _______ and the world’s _______ continent.

4. There are _______ main oceans. They cover ______ of the worlds’ surface. They are ________, _______, _______ and the Arctic Ocean. ________ is the biggest ocean. _______ is the smallest ocean.

5. The world’s _______ island is Greenland.

6. The Nile River in Africa is the _______ river.

Step5. Listen to the tape again and ask the students to imitate after it.

Step6. Read the text again and talk about the details about the text.

How many deserts does the world have? What are they? Which is the second largest desert in the world?

What’s the world’s longest river? What is the second longest river? What is the third longest river?

What are the physical features of them?

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Prepare a dictionary before the class. When they meet new words, encourage them to look them up in the dictionary.

Step8. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2. Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Ask the students to prepare a dictionary before the class. Some words are new for the classmates. Especially some names of places. When the students are discussing, help them if it is necessary.

All the questions have only one answer. When you have questions, remember to search on the Internet.

Lesson 51: Asia

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: area, Russian, mountain

Oral words and expressions: square kilometer, geographical, feature, Mont Everest, Qomolangma, Himalayas, the Yangtze River, Tokyo

Teaching Aims:

1. Use the Internet and the tools to search the information.

2. Create the students interests in learning English.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Learn the geographical features of Asia.

2. Name the main countries in Asia. What are in the main cities in the countries?

Teaching Difficult Points:

Some words and expressions are too difficult for the students.

Teaching Preparation: a map of the world

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a map of the world

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Say some countries and the capital cities.

Country Capital City

U. K. London

U. S. Washington, D. C.

Canada Ottawa

Australia Canberra

China Beijing

Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT.”

1. What continent do you live in?

2. What languages do people speak in Asia?

Talk about the countries and the languages that they speak.

Step3. Listening task:

Listen and answer the following questions;

1. How big is Asia?

2. What countries are in Asia?

3. How many people live in Asia?

4. What languages do they speak?

5. What are the main geographical features of Asia?

6. What are the biggest cities in Asia?

Step4. Read the new words for the students. Then let them read after the teacher for several times. Now ask them if they have some words that are new to them. Let them talk about the words and guess the meanings together.

Step5. Reading task

Read the text and check the answers. Read the text again and finish Exercise3 in the activity book.

How big is Asia? Asia is the ______ continent. It _______ more than 44 million square kilometers. There are over ______ countries. China is the biggest country in ______ and population. More than three _______ people live in Asia. That’s more than _______ the world’s population. Mount Qomolangma is the highest ______ in the world. The Yangtze River in China is the ______ longest river in the world. Tokyo and _____ are two of the biggest _______ in Asia. The ______ city of China is Beijing. The Great Wall in China is world-famous.

Step6. Read together. Find the mistakes and help them correct them.

Step7. Come to “PROJECT”.

CHOOSE A CONTINENT

Talk about the project in groups of three of four. Each group chooses a region of the world. Students collect the facts of the region. They must work together and give a report to the class.

Instruct the students to begin writing their reports. Let them draw a map of their region. Can they locate cities and other features of the map?

Students continue to work in the same group. Instruct the students to begin writing their reports. Remind the students to think about illustrations for their presentations.

In the next class, students continue to work in their groups. Go on writing their reports. Encourage them to search more information on the Internet.

Step8. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2. Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

It is difficult to finish the project. Students must search more information on the Internet. They must work together to finish different parts by different students. If they want to give a good report to the class, they must have good translation. When they need help, the teacher should help them at once because this is a challenge for them.

Lesson 52: East We Go

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: coast, Russia

Oral words and expressions: Will/ Would/ Could you please…?

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn about the rhythm of the foreign songs.

2. Know more about the world’s geography.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Travel around the world.

2. How to look up words in a dictionary.

Teaching Difficult Points:

The way we travel around the world.

Teaching Preparation: a map of the world

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a map of the world

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Point to the map of the world and explain the song to the class. Ask the students: “Do you want to travel around the world?”

Step2. Let the students read the song and understand the meaning of it. Draw the way of traveling on the map. Make sure students can read rhythmically with a good sense of the rhymes!

Step3. Listen to the tape and sing after it. Play the tape again. Have the class follow in their books.

Step4. Have the students practice singing the song repeatedly until they sing it well.

Step5. Practice some words. Let the students find their meanings in the dictionary.

Step6. Make up dialogues.

Divide the class into several groups. Practice how to use a dictionary. Let them act the dialogue out in front of the class.

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT.”

Make up dialogues and act them out in front of the class.

Step8. Homework

1. Sing the song after class.

2. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

Summary:

It is hard for Chinese students to learn English songs well. Many students don’t have a good sense of the rhymes. The time in class is limited. We don’t have enough time to practice. Let the students practice after class. In the next lesson, we give him a chance to sing loudly in front of the class.