A doctor for animals

　　Do an example with one student. Then let the class make up their own dialogues in pairs. Get them to act out their dialogues. Ask the students to discuss the questions. Ask:

　　Do you think it's more important to help people than animals? Why?

　　What kinds of jobs do you know?

　　What would you like to be in the future?

　　What are your parents' job?

　　Do your parents like their job? Why or why not?

VI. Presentation

　　Ask the students to find the Infinitive sentences. 1. To be a doctor for animals is very rewarding. 2. To help animals is helping people. Ask the students to pay attention to the Infinitive. Give them more examples to understand better. Then go through Part 3. Choose the possible answer. Let the students master this form:

　　It is adj . + to do something / To do something is + adj .

　VII. Workbook

　　Do Exercise 3 in class. Let the students translate the sentences into Chinese.

VII. Summary

　　Exercises in class

　　Have a dictation.

　　1. Do you like being a doctor for animals?

　　2.To be a doctor for animals is very rewarding.

　　3. To help animals is helping people.

　　4. A pet can help a person feel less lonely.

　　5. To play with a pet is a lot of fun.

　　6. To complain too often isn’t a good thing.

　　7. To work hard brings success.

　　Open the books check the answers by themselves and correct their spelling mistakes.

IX. Homework

　　1. Recite the dialogue.

 

　　2. Pre - read in Lesson 58.
Lesson 58教学设计示例

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector.

Teaching Objectives:

　　1. Understand the text.

　　2. Learn some useful words and expressions.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showily the teaching aims

II. Revision

     　　Check the homework. Then revise the dialogue in Lesson 57. Ask the students to act out the dialogue. Study the new words in this lesson.

III. Leading in

　　Ask the students this question: There is a famous animal doctor in England. He wrote many books about animals, what’s his name? Let the students read the text and answer the question.

IV. Reading

　　Ask the students to listen to the tape and answer the question: Which animal did Herriot like best? Then go through the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook. Make sure they can understand them. Ask them to read the story more carefully and discuss the answers to Exercise I in the workbook in pains. Check the answers with the whole class. Deal with any grammatical or lexical problems that arise.

　　1. make up one's mind to do something

　　He has made up his mind to study English well.

　　2. go on with something: Let’s go on with our lesson.

　　3. regard . . . as

　　He regards his teacher as his mother.

V. Reeling aloud

　　Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Use any methods that you think suitable: repetition by the whole class, groups, pairs or individual students. Then give out some key words and phrases. Let the students retell the story.

VI. Workbook

　　Do Exercise 2. The answers are: for, grow up, into, that, made up, mind, treat, Before, treated, heal, treating, At, at, on, regarded

　　For Exercise 3. Let the students do it by themselves. Choose the best answer, then read the sentences together. Pay attention to the grammar. Let the students make up more sentences.

VII. Summary

Exercises in class

Fill in the blanks.

　　1. He made up his mind ________(study) English well.

　　2.________(treat) large animals is hard work.

　　3. Ifs hard work ________(treat) the dogs.

　　4. Please go on ________(read) the text.

　　5. He grew up with a pet dog________ (name) Don.

　　6. The dogs ________ never________(treat) when they became sick.

　　7. Everyday as he went to the farmers ________(heal) sick animals.

　　Answers: to study, Treating, to treat, reading, named, were treated, to heal

VIII. Homework

　　1. learn the phrases, make sentences with them.

　　2. Retell the story.

Lesson 59教学设计示例

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Objectives:

　　1. Understand the dialogues

　　2. Learn the grammar

Language focus: the Infinitive

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

　　Check homework, ask two or three students to retell the story about Lesson 58.

III. Leading in

　　Give the students a topic, let them make up a dialogue. For example:Why did you become a doctor for animals?

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