Module One The natural elements
Unit One Fire
The first period
Oral practice
Text
1. Review: barbecue, chicken wings, fire, cook
2. Learn: raw meat, cooked meat. Say: This is a barbecue. He is cooking some chicken wings. This is raw chicken wing. This is cooked chicken wing. Ask: What is this? What is he doing?
3. Recording: Look and learn. Follow---Listen---Repeat
4. Ask: Do you like raw meat? Yes, I do. / No, I don’t like raw …Many people don’t like raw…
5. Read: Look and read. Follow---Listen--- Repeat Ask: What are they doing? How does it smell / taste?
6. Practice in pairs and act it out.
7. Look and think: Do you know who cooked food first?
Homework: read and recite the words and phrases and the text.
GB page 1
Get Photocopiable Page 1, 2 for tomorrow.
Recite the past: live, eat, have, throw, give, cook, do, take, be, taste
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The second period
Oral practice
Text
1. Introduce: cave, heat, light, berries, fire
2. Elaborate on the story to the students. Ask: Who are they? Where did they live? …
3. Recording: Read a story. Follow---Listen---Repeat
4. Ask sts to tell the story about Stone Age People by making use of the wallpictures.
5. Photocopiable page 1,2. Finish the book report.
6. Read the book reports aloud.
7. Collect them for marking.
Homework: WB page 1
GB page 2
Prepare photocopiable Page 3, 4
Read and recite the words and phrases and the text.
Recite the past: live, eat, have, throw, give, cook, do, take, be, taste
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The third period
Oral practice
Text
1. Finish T/ F individually. Read aloud and correct.
2. Learn: wood, charcoal, gas, electricity by pictures. I like to cook with …I like …because … what do you like to cook with? Why do you like to …?
3. Recording: follow---listen--- repeat
4. Ask: What does Ben / Kitty like to cook with? Why? What does Ben / Kitty like better? Why?
5. Do a survey at page 4 and photocopiable page 3. Check the writing.
6. photocopiable page 4. Write a report and check.
Homework: WB page 2
Prepare photocopiable page 5
Read and recite the words and phrases and the text.
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The fourth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Learn: fire-warning, low, high, extreme. This is a … The fire danger is …
2. Reviews:
Learn: helicopters
Many things can start a fire. Cigarettes, camp-fires, barbecue can all start fires the countryside or at home.
3. Recording: follow --- listen --- repeat. Ask: What does Ben like to cook with? Why? What does Grandma Wang like to cook with? Why? What does Kitty like to cook with?
Do pairwork, then role-play
4. Photocopiable page 5, complete the description and check.
Homework:. Read and recite the words and phrases and the text.
WBpage3 GB page 3
Recite the past: be, drop, fight, do
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The fifth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Show eight signs, ask What does this mean? Write the correct answer under each sign?
2. Recording: follow ---listen ---repeat
3. Play a game. Learn fire-safety, must, mustn’t, poster
4. Read the text and act it out.
5. Listen and draw.
Homework: WB page 4 GB page4
Prepare photocopiable page 6,7
Read and recite the words and phrases and the text
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The sixth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Show the poster: What else did Mark’s father say?
He said we must not smoke.
2. Recording: follow ---listen ---repeat.
3. The fire rules in our school: we should / must / mustn’t…
4. Recording: follow --- listen --- repeat
5. Photocopiable pages 6, 7. look at pictures and write the rules. Match the cut-out pictures with the rules.
6. Write a rule on the board and draw the apprepriate picture.
7. Listening test: page 25
Homework: Recite the past
GB8
Read and recite the words and phrases and the text
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Unit two Air
The first period
Oral practice
Text
1. Learn: air, lift, breathe, survive, alive
2. Recording: follow ---listen --- repeat
3. Recite the poem and act it out.
4. Ask: How does a plane stay in the air?
How does a balloon rise in the air?
It rises on air.
5. Learn: handkerchief, corners, object. Do an experim ent. Sts listen and follow. Pass one handkerchief, four pieces of string and the toy object to each group of four sts.
6. Take the groups to an elevated area and allow them to throw their parachutes over the edge.
7. Ask: What happens? The parachute rides on air.
Homework: Read and recite the words and phrases and text.
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The second period
Oral practice
Text
1. Review the parachute experiment on page 8.
2. Think and choose: follow ---listen --- repeat. Sts circle the correct answers, check.
3. Ask: How does the balloon stay up? And give sts time to circle the correct word before eliciting answers from the class.
4. Learn: air pollution
5. Recording: follow ---listen ---repeat. Practice the dialogue and act it out.
Homework: WB page 5 GB page 5
Read and recite.
Prepare photocopiable page 8,9
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The third period
Oral practice
Text
1. Learn: factories, dust, construction sites.
2. Ask: Where does air pollution come from? And elicit responses. Write them on the board and check the answers.
3. Recording: follow ---listen ---repeat. Sts talk about air pollution in Garden City. Sts practice Ask and answer. Then act the dialogue out.
4. Take out photocopiable page 8: make a poster for a display board about air pollution. Take out photocopiable page 9: fill the blanks again and cut the pictures up for use on their pollution poster. Distribute magazines to the groups so sts can cut out more pictures of things that make pollution and write about them on their poster.
5. Ask representatives of each group to come forward to show their poster and read what they
have written.
6. Collect the posters and put them on the display board.
Homework:
WB page6 GB page 6
Prepare photocopiable pages 10, 11.
Read and recite.
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The fourth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Review: airport, power station, factories, construction sites, traffic, air pollution.
2. Label the map. Go over the answers together in class.
3. Pairs talk about air pollution in Garden City, follow the dialogue in Point ask and answer.
4. Act the dialogue out
5. Distribute photocopiable pages 10, 11. Sts fill the blanks.
6. Play a game: Sts who are seated ask, some sts answer in front of the class.
Homework: read and recite.
Prepare photocopiable pages 12, 13
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The fifth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Ask: Where do you live? Ilive in / on…
2. Look at the map and explain the different zones of air quality as shown on the page.
3. Pairs practice the dialogue and act it out.
4. Distribute photocopiable page 12. Ask six people where they live and what the air is like in that district. Sts come forward to report their findings to the class. Distribute photocopiable page 13, have them write a report on their findings.
5. Ask sts to read their reports aloud in class.
Homework: WB page7 GB pages 7, 8, 9.
Read and recite.
Prepare photocopiable pages 14, 15.
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The sixth period
Oral practice
Text
1. Look at the pictures on page 13. Ask: What is this? Is it old or new? It’s an aeroplane. It’s an old aeroplane .
2. Learn: metres and kilometers per hour.
3. Recording: follow --- listen --- repeat
4. Distribute photocopiable pages 14, 15. Discuss and write short notes about the story The first aeroplane. Then sts complete the book report by filling in the blanks on photocopiable page 14. Some students read their book report in class. Check the answers.
Homework: WB page 8
Read and recite.
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