1. Teaching objectives:

(1)Knowledge objectives：

Students can master some new words about nature, such as mountain, lake, river, forest and hill, and understand the sentence pattern: Is there a ... in the park? Yes, there is.

(2)Ability objectives:

Students’ ability of listening and speaking will be improved, and they can know some nature things and use them into daily life.

(3)Emotional objectives:

Students can foster the interest and desire of learning English, and their awareness of protecting nature will be improved.

2. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Warm-up&Lead-in

Before class, greet to the students. After that, show some pictures of nature, such as forest, hill, and park. And then ask them to discuss what they are.

（设计意图）：通过学生自由讨论的方法，能够自然地导入今日的课程，并且激发他们的已有知识。

Step 2 Presentation

①Show some pictures, and draw some stick figures to teach the new words, such as: hill, forest, mountain, and lake.

②Help students with pronunciation and spelling of the new words or phrases.

③Students listen to the tape and answer some questions to introduce the key sentence pattern. Teacher asks and students answer by using the new words and sentences.

1. Is a river in the park? Yes,_____________.

2. Is there a forest in the park?Yes,__________________.

3. Is there a _____in the river?Yes,there is.

④Students listen to the tape again, read and imitate after the recording correctly and emotionally.

（设计意图）：通过呈现图片和画简笔画的方式教授一些重要的单词，易于学生理解。学生通过两遍的听听力，自然引入新课的句型，使学生对听力内容有了全面的了解，并且使学生的听力能力有了进一步的提高。

Step 3 Practice

① Students make a new dialogue according to the new words.

② Play a game called Hot Potato: teacher turns around and plays the music or claps his/her hands as he/she passes a pen to a student, and the student need pass it to the others. When the music stops, the student who holds a “potato” should answer a question by using the new phrases and sentences.

（设计意图）：学生通过游戏以及竞争的形式在轻松愉快的环境下操练所学内容，不仅激发了学生的学习动力，还能够很好地复习单词和句型。

Step 4 Production

Divide students into several groups and let them work with their classmates to draw their favourite nature parks. After that, have a discussion about :Is there a ___in the park? Yes, there is.

（设计意图）：通过分组的方式，让学生画出他们最喜爱的自然公园，再用今日所学知识展开讨论，这不仅可以帮助学生复习到所学的内容，激发了学生的兴趣，而且培养了学生的综合语言运用能力。

Step 5 Summary and Homework

Invite a student as an assistant to summarize what we have learned today. And then give them a homework: make a poster about the nature.

（设计意图）：学生自主总结所学内容并运用所学自己设计关于自然的海报，这样有利于巩固学生内容，提高学生的综合素质。