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Unit 1 Spring Is Coming!
Lesson 4 The Spring City
LESSON PREPARATION
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
掌握詞匯：nearly,plenty
接觸詞匯：budding, millimetre, anytime
短語(yǔ)和句型：long for, all year round, plenty of hundreds of
RESOURCES
audiotape
construction paper
a marker
a glue stick
scissors (see Extension)
LESSON STRUCTURE
CLASS OPENING
Greeting
Greet the class.
Say: Good morning/afternoon, class. I'm happy today because it's sunny outside./I feel sad today because it's rainy outside. How does different weather make you feel
Ask five or six students to respond.
Review
1)Homework check.
2)Draw a large Venn diagram on the board and fill it in as a class. Have some students choose one thing from their own Venn diagrams about spring to write on the board.
KEY CONCEPTS
FOCUS STRUCTURES:
Everyone longs for spring.
But in my hometown, it feels like spring nearly all year round.
There's plenty of sunshine too, with about 2 250 hours of sunshine every year.
Because of the spring-like weather, you can find hundreds of beautiful flowers and trees anytime of the year.
STEP 1: Present
CLASS/PAIR WORK: Think about It
1)Discuss the Think About It questions as a class. Teacher: The weather can definitely affect our mood. That means it can affect how we feel. I don't like winter because the cold weather makes me feel sad. During the winter I long for the summer.
Write the phrase long for on the board. Explain and encourage the students to use it in a sentence. Students should master this phrase.
I would like to live in a place where it feels like summer all year round. Do you know what that means
Write the phrase feel like summer (winter, spring, autumn) all year round on the board. Explain. Students should master this phrase.
It means I would like to live in a place where there are no winters. In other words, the whole year would feel like summer and there would be plenty of sunshine and warm weather.
Write the phrase plenty ofon the board. Explain and encourage the students to use this phrase in a sentence. Students should master this phrase.
How about you Would you like to live in a place where there are no winters
Students: I love winter sports. I wouldn't enjoy living in a place where there are no winters./I love warm and hot weather. I would love to live in a place where there are no winters.
Teacher: Do you know of any cities or countries where the weather is always warm
Display a world map to help the students answer this question.
Students: Yes! I know it's always hot in Australia./ Countries in South America are quite hot most of the year./The weather in the south of China is much warmer than in the north of China.
Point out on the map that countries south of the equator have warmer weather than those north of the equator.
Teacher: Very good. Nearly all of the countries and cities south of the equator are warmer than countries north of the equator all year round.
Write the word nearly on the board. Explain.
Students should master this word.
What do you enjoy most about spring
Students: I enjoy the flowers/the rain/the warm weather/the fresh air/etc.
STEP 2: Read
INDEPENDENT WORK: Let's Do It! No. I
I) Instruct the students to read Lesson 4 (The Spring City) silently, and answer the questions independently.
2)Students should check and correct their answers in groups.
3)Discuss the answers as a class. STEP 3: Listen
CLASS WORK: Let's Do It! No. 2
1) Play the listening material for Lesson 4 (The Spring City). Play it once and ask the students just to listen.
2)Play the listening material a second time and ask the students to complete the exercise.
3)Check the answers as a class.
STEP 4: Task
PAIR/INDEPENDENT WORK: Let's Do It! No. 4 1)Instruct the students to work in pairs to discuss what spring is like in their hometown. Students should use the article in Lesson 4 as a guide to their discussion.
2)Independently, students should write a short passage like the one in Lesson 4 about spring in their hometown.
3)Ask the students to present their passages in front of the class.
CLASS CLOSING
1)Complete Let's Do It! No. 3.
Students do the exercise independently, then check the answers in groups, and finally as a class.
2)Assign homework:
Where Else Would I Live Do some research about another place you would like to live in. Write about it.
Why would you want to live there
What can you do there
What is different about this place from where you live now
How would your life be different
EXTENSION
CLASS WORK: Diagraph Garden
Create a Diagraph Garden to review and practice vocabulary that uses the consonant diagraphs /th/, /sh/ and the vowel diagraph /ea/. Part of word building is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget that there are 44 phonemes in the English language and only 26 letters.
In this activity, we will focus on two of the consonant digraphs: /th/, /sh/, and the two pronunciations for the vowel diagraph/ea/.
1)To start, you will need construction paper, a marker, a glue stick, and scissors.
2)Cut out your circle (for the centre of the flower) and five petals in 4 colors.
3)Write the consonant or vowel diagraph in the centre of each circle.
4)Tape 2 pieces of blue construction paper together and use a glue stick to place the stem at the centre of the flower.
5) Instruct the students to come up with a list of 5 words for each diagraph. Students may use their student books and/or a dictionary to help them make their word lists.
For example:
/th/ think thank through path math /sh/ sunshine shower short bush wash /ea/ [i:] beach season clean bean leave /ea/ [e] weather head instead spread feather
6) Have the students write the words for each diagraph on the same colour petals and glue them to the corresponding diagraph.
**Post the students'flowers up around the classroom. This is a good way to encourage students to be proud of their work and make the classroom beautiful and bright.
Sample diagraph flower
LANGUAGE NOTES
Everyone longs for spring.每個(gè)人都向往春天。 long for 意為“渴望，憧憬，向往”。
例如：
I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望 到好望角去旅行。
They long for a mother's goodnight kiss.他們渴望 得到一個(gè)母親道晚安時(shí)的親吻。
2. But in my hometown, it feels like spring nearly all year round.但是在我的家鄉(xiāng)，幾乎全年都是春天的感覺(jué)。
feel like+名詞，意為“感覺(jué)好像··，覺(jué)得好
像··”。feel like+物質(zhì)名詞，意為“摸起來(lái)好像是··”，feel like+doing=want to do意為 “想要做··”。例如：
It feels like rain soon.好像馬上就要下雨了。 This stone feels like a potato.這塊石頭摸起來(lái)像土 豆。
I don't feel like eating today.今天我感覺(jué)不想吃飯。 3. There's plenty of sunshine too, with about 2 250 hours of sunshine every year.陽(yáng)光也很充足，每年 大約有2250個(gè)小時(shí)的日照時(shí)間。
1）plenty of 意為“許多，大量”，后跟可數(shù)名詞復(fù)數(shù)或不可數(shù)名詞，與many, much, a lot of, lots of同義。例如：
I need plenty of ( a lot of lots of much)time to finish the work.我需要很多時(shí)間來(lái)完成這項(xiàng)工作。You can see plenty of ( a lot of lots of many) books on the shelf.你可以看到架子上有很多書(shū)。 2）with表示伴隨狀況。例如：
China is an ancient country, with a history of over five thousand years.中國(guó)是一個(gè)具有五千多年歷史 的古國(guó)。
4. Because of the spring-like weather, you can find hundreds of beautiful flowers and trees anytime of the year.因?yàn)榇禾彀愕臍夂颍憧梢栽谝荒曛械娜魏螘r(shí)候都能看到數(shù)不清的美麗的花。
1)“because of+名詞或代詞”和“because”引 導(dǎo)的原因狀語(yǔ)從句，都表示“因?yàn)椤ぁぁぁ薄＠纾篒 didn't go to school because I was ill. (because 導(dǎo)狀語(yǔ)從句）因?yàn)樯。覜](méi)有去上學(xué)。
I didn't go to school because of my illness. (because of加名詞性短語(yǔ)）因?yàn)樯。覜](méi)有去上學(xué)。
2）hundreds of意為“許許多多，數(shù)百的”。如果是具體的數(shù)字，hundred 后不加s。例如：
The farmer keeps hundreds of pigs on his farm.那 個(gè)農(nóng)場(chǎng)主在農(nóng)場(chǎng)里養(yǎng)了幾百頭豬。
The farmer keeps 6 hundred pigs on his farm.那個(gè) 農(nóng)場(chǎng)主在農(nóng)場(chǎng)里養(yǎng)了六百頭豬。
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