一、教學內容及教學目標

　　本節課為第四單元第六課時的故事教學。講述的是老松鼠給小松鼠講松鼠尾巴變濃密的故事。

　　教學目標：通過閱讀趣味故事，復習鞏固本單元所學元，增加學生語言的輸入。能理解故事內容、能朗讀故事，能恰當提取并運用故事中的語言。

　　二、教學重難點

　　重點：理解、朗讀并表演故事。

　　難點：觀察、發現小松鼠尾巴的作用，理解文本傳遞的信息。

　　三、教學過程

　　I. Warm-up

　　Free talk

　　T: Do you like animals? What’s your favorite animal? What are your hobbies? What are …’s hobbies?

　　【設計意圖】

　　II. Lead-in

　　1. Teacher shows some pictures of cute animals (a puppy is playing a ball; a kitty is sleeping; a monkey is eating banana; a squirrel is eating nuts), then asks students the favorite food of these animals, which leads to the hobbies of squirrel, the story of squirrel.

　　2. Teacher tells a story and asks a question

　　T: There is a squirrel family in the forest. One day, the little squirrel asked its grandpa, why is the squirrel’s tail bushy? Grandpa then told the little squirrel a story.

　　III. Presentation

　　Teacher tells the story and leads students to look at the picture so as to better understand the plot of the picture.

　　1. Teacher tells the plot of picture 1 with the aid of picture, TPR.

　　2. Teacher illustrates picture 2, leads students to watch the facial expressions of the monkey King, and asks questions:

　　T: Does Monkey King like these gifts?

　　T: Can they get food from his forest?

　　T: Zac is hungry. He needs some food. But the Monkey King doesn’t like these gifts. What can he do?

　　3. Teacher explains picture 3 and asks question about monkey’s interest.

　　T: What are the Monkey King’s hobbies? Does the Monkey King like Zac’s music?.

　　4. Teacher elicit students’ thinking about the change of the squirrel’s tail by asking question T: Why is Zac so happy?

　　5. Teacher tells picture 5 and 6, instructing students to catch the main idea.

　　IV. Practice

　　1. Students listen to the tape.

　　2. Students listen to the tape and read after it. (Teacher presents picture 1, 2)

　　T: If you were Zac or Monkey King, what would you say?

　　S: Maybe Zac would say… Maybe Monkey King wuld say…

　　3. Reorder the sentences according to picture 1,2 (參見下面課文)

　　( ) He likes singing and dancing very much.

　　( ) Then the Monkey King lets them get food from his forest.

　　( ) Zac lives in a forest.

　　( ) Every day the squirrels have to give the Monkey King gifts.

　　4. Make dialogues

　　5. Match the texts with pictures.

　　6. Careful reading questions: why is the squirrel’s tail bushy?

　　a. The squirrel falls off the tree, and the tail becomes bushy.

　　b. Tail can do many things. It can keep warm, keep balance and talk with others.

　　根據選擇結果回應故事結局：Is the story true? No, it isn’t, but it’s very interesting.

　　V. Consolidation

　　1. Teacher acts as Zac together with a student acting as Monkey King as a role model for students. Then students act the story in pairs.

　　2. Teacher plays an English video clip to introduce the function of squirrel’s tail briefly to broaden students’ horizon.

　　VI. Summary

　　VII. Homework