Lesson 1: What’s the Weather Like?Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: rather, shower, rise, rose, risen, setOral words and expressions: thunder, storm, sunrise, sunsetTeaching Aims: Talking about weatherTeaching Important Points:1. Describe the weather in spring;2. Talk about the temperature.Teaching Difficult Points:Describe the nature phenomenon.Teaching preparation: the pictures of springTeaching Aids: audiotape; flashcards; picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Free talk1.What weather do you like? Why or why not?2.What sports can you do in this season?Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”Let the students work in groups and answer the following questions:1. Look outside. What’s the weather like today?2. How does this weather make you feel?Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What’s the weather like today?2. It is snowing, isn’t it?3. what’s the temperature?4. is it going to rain today, isn’t it?Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Read the text in roles.Step5. PracticeWork in three students. Suppose you are a weather reporter. Now report today’s weather to theothers in your group. Then report it to the class.Step6. PracticeMake up a dialogue between two or three students in class. It is about the weather in spring. Letsome students act it out before the class.Step7. Homework1. Find something that represents spring and show it to the class next time.2. Finish off the activity book. Lesson 2: It’s Getting Warmer!Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: become, became, become, factOral words and expressions: daylight, melt, lightning, fascinating


Teaching Aim:1. Know something more about spring;2. The compound words.Teaching Important Points:1. When does spring begin?2. How many hours of daylight are there on March 21st?3. What is the weather like?Teaching Difficult Points:the compound wordsTeaching Preparation: some pictures of springTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, some picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Let the students on duty reports the weather to the class. The others listen and decide it isright or wrong.Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What’s the date today?2. How many ways can you write dates?3. How many hours of daylight are there on March 21st?4. What is spring weather like?5. What is the temperature of the air near lighting?Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Step4. Listen to the tape again and imitate after it until they can read it fluently and correctly.Step5. Ask the students to ask other questions according to the text. You can begin like this:1. When does the sun rise in the morning and when does it set in the evening?2. Does it snow in early spring?3. What is sometimes with thunder and lighting?Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.Work in groups and discuss these questions. Then let them report it to the class.Step7. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Write a composition about spring. Summary: We are enjoying spring now. We can feel it is warmer than before. But not all of us know whenthe sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. Let the students observe after class, write itdown and report it to the class. It can cultivate the students’ interests of learning English. Lesson 3: Postcards!Teaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: roadOral words and expressions: outdoors


Teaching Aim:1. Grasp how to write a letter and the address.2. Know more about the spring in China and Canada.Teaching Important Points:1. Find the differences between China and Canada in spring. 3. Find the differences between the clothes that we wear in winter and in spring.Teaching Difficult Points:1. What’s the weather like in Edmonton?2. How to express one’s idea easily in a letter?Teaching Preparation: a postcardTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, postcardsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Free TalkLet the students work in three and talk about the sports that we often do in spring. Then give a talkfor the class.Step2. Have a matchRead the text and see who read it best. Remember to encourage the students who preview the newlesson.Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it. Play the tape for several times until they can read itfluently and correctly.Step4. Ask the students to find questions and solve them. They can ask the questions like this:1. How did Li Ming go to school on March twenty-first?2. What’s the temperature that afternoon?3. What time does the sun rise this morning?4. Is it snowing in Canada?5. When does it often snow in winter?6. Did Danny fall in the snow?Step5. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”Write a postcard to your friend to introduce the weather here. Then write the address and stick astamp on it. Mail it in the post office.Step6. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Listen to the song in Lesson 4. Summary:Written English is an important part in English learning. Practice is the key to it. Do they have thespelling mistakes or the grammar mistakes in the writing? Find out and help them come over it.Pay more attention to the writing because it’s an important part of communication.


Lesson 4: Sun Is RisingTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: one by one, changeOral words and expressions: hillside, gently, blossomTeaching Aim:Enjoy the beauty of the springTeaching Important Point:Grasp the changes that spring bring usTeaching Difficult Points:How to use “warm” and “gently”.Teaching Preparation: something that represents springTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures or flowersType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Read the song aloud as a poem. This song has this song has common English words: comewith me, through the trees, one by one, the flowers blossom. Translate these expressions intoEnglish.Step2. Play the audiotape and let the students just listen with the eye closed.Step3. Play the tape again and let the students sing with it. Step4. Explain the common English expressions.Step5. Practice the song a few times, with and without the audiotape.Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.STEP7. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Write down what you can see in spring. SummaryWe use this lesson to cultivate the students’ sense of enjoying English songs. Pay attention to therhyme, rhythm and repetition in the song. Learning English songs is a little difficult from Chinesesongs. Find the ways in which we can learn fast. Lesson 5: Fun in the SunTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: shall, kickOral words and expressions: cycling, How/What about…? Shall we…?


Teaching Aims: How to enjoy oneself in spring.Teaching Important Points:1. the sports that we do in spring.2.some drills: How about…? Let’s…Teaching Difficult Points:How to advice sb. to do sth.Teaching Preparation: basketball and soccerTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards and ballsType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Listen to the tape of Lesson4 again, then let’s sing the song together.Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What’s the degree?2. What will Danny wear tomorrow?3. What will they do after school?4. Why don’t Danny like basketball?Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then read the text again.Step4. Act the dialogue out in front of the class.Step5. Make up a similar dialogue according to the text. Let’s the students act it out in front of theclass.Step6. Come to “PROJECT”.Divide the class into several groups. Write the answers down. Ask the several groups to changetheir answers.Step7. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. Review the last lesson. SummarySpring is a beautiful season. It’s the favourite season of many people. In this season, everythingbegins to turn green. Spring represents the beginning. We have many things to do in it. We can flykites and play ball games. Running in the wind is what we like to do in our childhood. Lead yourstudents to think hard what they like to do in this season. Let them talk freely in the class. Lesson 6. Danny the babysitterTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: playground, hold, hold on, come down, pushOral words and expressions: babysitter, babysit, Debbie, bar, swing, swung Teaching Aims:


1. We should love each other.2. The duty of a babysitterTeaching Important Points:1.How to demonstrate one thing clearly.3. Cultivate the spirit of loving each other. Let’s love life and peace.Teaching Difficult Points:Some verb phrases: turn around, hold on, fall off, run to, come down, climb on, give sb. a pushTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1. Work in pairs. Tell your partner what you did after school yesterday. The teacher walksaround to provide help if necessary.Step2. Skim the text and ask questions by the students themselves. Then solve them bythemselves, too. Let some students write their questions on the blackboard. Then let others answerthem.Step3. Listen to the tape and read after it until they can read it correctly and fluently. Step4. Ask some students to come to the front and act it out. Pay attention to who is clever enoughto add something new.Step5. Retell the story in a third person.Step6. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.In a group of three, make up a “babysitting” role-play. Ask volunteers to act it out. Then it’s theother students’ turn.Step7. Homework1. Finish off the activity book.2. suppose one day, you become a babysitter, what will you do? SummaryWhen we practice in the class, don’t forget to give chances to the poor students. When they have alittle progress, encourage them to work hard. That’s what a good teacher should do. Lesson 7: Danny’s “Debbie” DayTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: herselfOral words and expressions: partly, all dayTeaching Aims:1. Learn to write a diary.2.