教程目标：
New words: farm, duck, sheep, horse, chicken, cow, pig …
There’s/There are （number）（animal）
教学重点：
farm, duck, sheep, horse, chicken, cow,…
教学难点：
There’s/There are （number）（animals）
教学准备：
word cards, picture, tape-recorder
教学过程：
Ⅰ。 Sing a song
Ⅱ。 Free talk
What’s the weather like?
It’s …
Do you like it?
Yes, I do./No, I don’t.
III. Presentation
1. Bring in toy versions or pictures of the animals to be taught in the unit. Try to have more than one of some of the animals.
2. Introduce the animals using the toys or pictures saying Look. There’s/There are … Write the names of the animals on the board.
3. Pick up or point to the animals one by one and see if the pupils can tell you the name.
4. Ask the pupils to count the animals live on a farm.
5. Tell the pupils that animals live on a farm.
6. Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and point to the corresponding speech bubble when the characters speak. Continue to play the cassette and ask the pupils to repeat after the beeps. Do the same with the vocabulary items.
Ⅳ。 Practice
Show Transparency. Read the characters’ speech bubbles. Get the pupils to point to the correct animals.
Point to the animals on the page. Prompt the pupils to say There’s/There are … as you point.
Ⅴ。 More to do
Put one of each toy animal in an opaque bag. Ask a pupil to come out and feel a toy inside the bag. Ask them What’s in the bag? Help them to reply There’s a …
VI. Summary:
The new words and sentence patterns.
1. Copybook P28
2. Workbook P34
板书设计：
Unit 8 On the farm
New words
（picture cards）
Welcome to our farm.
There are twelve ducks.
There’s one sheep.