Unit6Atafarm，AletslearnPEPGrade4

　　Part 1 Analysis of the students
　　The students of Grade 4 have already learned some animals on the farm. They are familiar with these animals and interested in them. For they are still children they are very active and competitive.
　　Part 2 Analysis of the teaching material
　　1. In this lesson some animals are learned before, so the students are familiar with them. In this lesson teacher should pay attention to the pronunciation of the plurals of the animals.
　　2. The key points of this lesson is the plurals and how to use them correctly. Teacher needn’t explain them in details but enable the students to use them in correct way.
　　3. The part of Let’s do is not the important point. Teacher only let students know the actions and do them with the help of the tape.
　　Part 3 Teaching aids
　　CAI a recorder clothes of a farmer
　　Part 4 Teaching procedures and my purpose
　　All the procedures are pided in three big parts: Presentation, consolidation and practise
　　Procedures:
　　Step 1 Greeting and Warming-up
　　a. sing a song: Old Macdonald
　　b. TPR: act like a fish, a bird, a monkey, etc
　　[Purpose: To produce a warm and relaxing teaching atmosphere and review some animals to reserve the next step. ]
　　Step 2 Guessing
　　a. teacher presents a farm and lets students guess ＂What’s at the farm?＂
　　dog cat horse sheep
　　If students guess right teacher gives him/her a star.
　　b. teacher shows these animals one by one and lets students guess ＂ How many ______s are there?＂
　　dog------three dogs
　　cat-------five cats
　　horse------six horses
　　sheep------two sheep
　　[Purpose: In this step from the guessing game teacher can arouse the students’ interests easily. Because as students of Grade 4 they are active and have wide imagination. Further more in b. from letting students guess the number teacher can teacher the pronunciation of plurals naturally.]
　　Step 3 Finding
　　a. teacher let students look for the other animals and present the key structure ＂What are they?＂ ＂They are goats.＂
　　b. Teacher lets students make dialogue and pays more attention of the usage of the plurals.
　　------What are they?
　　------They are goats./ cows/ hens/lambs.
　　c. have a competition: teacher presents a big farm with many animals are there and lets students make more dialogues. Then see which group finishes it quickly.
　　[Purpose: in this step the communicative approach is used here. From the finding games and competitive games teacher can arouse the students’ interest in the high. At the same time let students practice the key structure one by one and also in the different ways can provide more time and space for students to master the key structure.]
　　Step 4 Consolidation
　　Make a employment
　　Teacher acts as an old farming who is working hard and difficultly. So he needs an assistant to help him. Then imagine you are an employee and you go to the farm. The old farmer will ask you some questions:
　　1. Can you feed the hens?
　　2. Can you ride a horse?
　　3. Can you milk a cow?
　　4. Can you shear a sheep?
　　5. Can you hold a lamb?
　　(from Let’s do. Teacher asks and acts, let students understand them. At last listen to the tape and chant.)