新目标英语七年级下册Unit3教案.doc

新目标英语七年级下册Unit3教案 　　Unit 3 Why do you like koalas? 　　Language goals: 　　l In this unit students learn to describe animals and express preferences and give reasons. 　　New languages: 　　l Let’s see the pandas first. 　　l Why do you like koalas? Because they’re cute. 　　l names of animals such as tiger, elephant, koalas, dolphin 　　l description words such as smart, cute, clever 　　Difficult points: 　　1. Listening for the names of animals. Listen for the description words about animals. 　　2. Read the description words about animals. Write about the animal you know. 　　3. why, what, where questions, because, adjectives of quality 　　Teaching aids: 　　l A tape recorder 　　l Some pictures 　　Period 1 　　Teaching aims: 　　1. Teach vocabulary words. 　　2. Target languages: Let’s see the pandas. 　　Why do you want to see the lions? Because they’re cute. 　　3. Enable the students to talk about animals. 　　4. Help the students learn how to listen to and talk about animals. 　　Teaching procedures: 　　Step 1. Warming up 　　Talk about animals using pictures. 　　Teach new words about animals by the pictures. 　　Step work ( 1a) 　　Ask the students to read the words and the picture, and then match the names with the pictures a–h. 　　Encourage or help the students to say something about the picture and do the match work. 　　Step 3. Listening (1b) 　　Point to the numbered list of words in activity 1a and play the recording. Ask the students to listen to the recording and circle the countries in 1a. 　　Play the tape and then check the answers. 　　Ask the students to listen to and repeat after the recording and then check the answers. 　　Further activity: Ask the students to do some pair work in the following way if they can understand the listening material well. 　　Step 4. Pair work (1c) 　　Ask the students to make conversations in pairs. 　　Say: Now please make conversations in pairs, using the animals in activity 1a and the description word