1、M3U2 Whats the elephant doing?. Teaching contents: 1. Vocabulary: sing, dance, draw, jump 2. Grammar: present progressive tense. 3. Emotional attitude: awareness of protecting animals.Teaching objectives： 1. Ss can pronounce and know the usage of new words accurately. 2. Ss know use “What is doing?”

2、 and “ What are doing?” and know the differences between the 2 sentences. 3. Ss can summarize the changes of verbs in present progressive tense. 4. Arose Ss awareness of protecting animals. Important and difficult point: 1. The usage of present progressive tense. 2. The changes of verbs in the prese

3、nt progressive tense. Teaching procedure: 1. Greetings. 2. Warning-up. . T asks Ss about their favourite animal. . Watch a video. Q: What animal can you see in the video? After watching Q: Where are they? Answer: They are in the wild. (New word: wild.)Q: Can these wild animals play football? 3. Lead

4、ing in. (Activity learing.) . Q: Can these monkeys in the video play football? Fill in the blank: What _ _ doing? Ss watch the video without subtitles and answer: Yes, they can. Theyre playing football. . T (shows pic. of the elephant in A): Look at the elephant. What ? Please fill in the blank. An:

5、 What is it doing? Ss (watch and repeat, then answer): Its drawing pictures. Ss say and write new word “draw” with T. T: Do you like drawing pictures? T (Ask two Ss to draw some trees and a lake on the BB. While Ss are drawing): What is he/she doing? Ss: He/ She is drawing pictures/ tress/ a lake. .

6、 T: Are the monkeys and elephant in the wild? Ss: No. ( Ss can say where the animals are in Chinese.) T: They are in the circus. ( Show pic. of a circus and write.) 3. A learning. . T: What animals are in the circus, too? Ss (watch the video without subtitle and answer): Tigers, a bird, a horse.T gr

7、oups Ss into groups of the four animals. The animals have a race in this class. T: What are they doing? Ss (watch, repeat and answer): Theyre jumping. (tigers) Its singing. (bird) Its dancing. (horse) Attention: silent “e”. Ss say and do the actions to memorize the verbs. . Conclude: What are they d

8、oing? Ss describe the animals activities. 4. Practice. . T shows 9 of animals on PPT. Ss use “What is doing?” or “What are ?” to ask questions. . Pair work: ( T cover part of these SA:Look at picture _. What is/ are doing? SB: Its/ Theyre . Ss act out after 3mins. . Ss find the rules of some verbs:

9、drop silent e or double the last letter. Then read these words together. 5. Lets help the animals. . Ss find what animals are in the circus among the 9 and think about their feelings. . Ss help these animals back to the wild. There are some roadblocks on the way, Ss have to use the animals power to go through it. While one kind of animals are doing? T/ The other animals (Ss): What are they doing?Animals (Ss): They are . . The anim