1.　　　 Cultivate the students’ reading comprehension.

2.　　　 Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

It is fun and interesting to write a poem in English. The teacher tries to write a poem and presents it to the class. Let the students correct it if they have any good ideas. Some students are interested in English, and they are also interested in poems. So give them more chances to create their minds.

Lesson 3: Say It in Three

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: direction, form, poet, simply, a set number of, middle, clearly, dark, sleepy, unexpected, frog, feeling

Oral words and expressions: petal, cherry, grebe, Matsuo Basho, Haiku, particular, pattern, set, syllable, interruption, plop, splash, limerick, adverb

Teaching Aims:

1.　　　 Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2.　　　 What can you do to describe about something?

Step6: Activities.

Work in groups.

Write a poem about the two pictures. Finish a poem. Then each student in the group correct it before reading it to the class.

Step7: Come to “LET’S DO IT!”

The task is similar to the step6. Finish it in class. Try to write a poem about one of the seasons. The teacher shows some pictures about the seasons to the students.

Step8: Homework

1.　　　 What are your ideas for a nature poem?

2.　　　 Ask some students to tell the main idea of this text.

Step4: Do with the language points.

Make sentences with the new words we learn in this text.

Ask if someone can tell a story with the words we learn today. Encourage them to stand in front of the class and tell his story to us.

Step5: Reading task

Encourage the students to ask questions about this text.

Finish the task in groups. Let the students design questions and exchange them in groups. They can ask questions like this:

1.　　　 Let the students guess the meanings of the new words.

Most of the new words are related nature. So present some pictures to the students to help them understand the new words.

3.　　　 Before you start writing your poetry, think about your _______.

Step3: Read the text and find the new words.

2.　　　 You can write a poem about _______, too.

1.　　　 Does the poem make you think of _______?