Lesson 9: How Does a Plant Grow?

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: plant, water, grow, leaf, cover, itself

Oral words and expressions: seed, poster, bud, stem, sunshine, pot, soil, root

Teaching Aims:

1. Let the students love nature.
2. Learn more about the agriculture.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Listen to the tape and catch the key words.
2. Talk about the purpose.

Teaching Difficult Points:

The main plants of the plants.

Teaching Preparation: pictures of plants, seeds, flowers, markers

Teaching Aids: audiotape; flashcards; pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Bring a plant to the class. Ask the students:

1. What is it?
2. How does it grow?
3. Have you ever planted a seed?
4. How do you plant a seed?

Teach the students the words: seed, soil, water, plant, grow, leaf. First let some students read the words in class. Then ask all the students to read after him.

Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

1. Does Wang Mei need water?
2. What grows into flowers?
3. What does Wang Mei use the green markers for?
4. What does “grow into” mean?

Step3. Skim the text and check the answers. Help them if they need any help.

Step4. Read the text loudly in class in roles.

Step5. Listen to the tape again and repeat after it.

Step6. Let some students act the dialogue out.

Step7. Come to “PROJECT”.

Work in three or four students in a group. Each group should finish the task. They need to plant a seed in a pot. They can plant any seed that he likes. After planting it, put it in sun. now we can observe it every day.

When they are planting, the teacher walks around the class. Make sure all the students are speaking English. If they are in trouble, help them.  The teacher can ask the questions like this:

What are you doing now?

Have you watered your seeds?

What do you cover with it?

When will they sprout?

Make sure that every group labels their pots with their names or group number (Example: Group 1). You may wish t have students also write the type of seed and the date on the label.

Every group makes a poster with pictures and words. Describe what their plants will be like. What do they do? Instruct the students to label each part of the plant in English. Have them label which parts of the plant are above ground and which parts are below.

Summary:

Bring a real plant to the class. Point to the parts of the plant and ask some questions. Because this unit is about the plant, we must finish the project. Of course we can’t finish it in a class. We can do it after class and check the homework in the next class.

Lesson 10: Plant Parts

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: feed, fed, from…to…

Oral words and expressions: sunlight, billion, billions of

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn to describe how a plant grows.
2. Learn about plant parts and what they use for.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Plant parts and what they are used for.
2. Describe it in English.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Describe plant parts and what they are used for in English.

Teaching Preparation: pictures, a plant

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Bring a real plant to the class. Ask the following questions:

1. How many parts do plants have?
2. What do roots do?
3. What is the stem for?
4. What are leaves for?
5. Why do plants have flowers?
6. What parts do we eat?

Let them answer the questions in English. If they have trouble, help them immediately.

Step2. Listen to the tape and let the students complete the answers correctly.

Step3. Read the text and check the answers.

Step4. Practice

Let the students take out the pictures they bring to the class. Work with partner. Talk about the main parts of a plant and the main use of them. If they have difficulty, they can look at their book.

Step5. Listen to the tape again and imitate after it until they can read it fluently and correctly.

Step6. Let some students read the text in class. Find the mistakes and correct them.

Step7. Homework

1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Review the text is very important. The students know what they will take to the class, what is useful to the study. Let them to observe the vegetables that we eat. What parts do we eat? What is it used for? Can they draw pictures of them?