1. Integrated skills

2. I love dogs, because they are friendly to people

3. Are you fond of cats? Why?

4. I am afraid of tigers, because they are very fierce.

5. How cute they are! koala penguin kangaroo zebra

6. Discussion What animals are you fond of? What animals are you afraid of? Why?

7. How much do you know about them?

8. What animals have the longest noses?

9. elephant

10. What animals live only in China? panda

11. What animal has the longest neck? giraffe

12. There is a kind of animals. They can live on the desert ( 沙漠） with a little water for a long time. camel

13. This kind of animals can forecast the weather. They move their house before it rains ant

14. What animals can live for more than one hundred years? tortoise

15. What animals have bad memory? goldfish

16. Which kind of animals can use languages, make tools and create a lot of things? human beings

17. Listen to the tape and answer the questions How many bones does a giraffe have in its long neck? How old can a tortoise live up to? How many eyelids does each of a camel have? Can ants smell things as well as dogs? Seven. 150 years. Six. Yes.

18. Talking about amazing things

19. Questions How long can goldfishes remember things? How much food do we eat during our lives? Three seconds About 27000 kilos of food. That’s the weight of about six elephants.

20. The books can tell us many amazing things about the world.

21. Do you want to know any amazing things? Is there anything about…in the book?

22. Useful expressions Is there anything about… in the book? Yes, there is. It says that… That’s interesting. Is there anything about…? Yes, there is. It says that… That’s amazing.

23. Topics Wolves are amazing animals. They live in a family and they are friendly to each other. Dogs are man’s true friends. A dog in England helped a child out of danger.

24. Suzy is interested in animals now. She is writing a thank- you letter to Mr Wu. Help her finish the letter. Dear Mr Wu Thank you for your help. Now, I know more about animals. I can see that they can be very pretty and lovely. I told my friends that a _____ has seven bones in its long ____. My friends found it interesting too. I still remember your words about tortoises. I still cannot believe that a ______ can live up to ____years. It is really amazing. It is also interesting to know that each eye of a _____has ____ eyelids. I now understand why my mother always tells me to clean the table after a meal, I know ants can _____ things as well as ____can. Now, I am not afraid of animals any more. I want to learn more about them. Suzy giraffe neck tortoise 150 camel three smell dogs

25. Exercises Fill in the blanks with the given words up to as well as be afraid of learn more about happen to 1.Mr Wu was very surprised to see Simon all wet. “What______________you?” 2.Most children_________________ ghosts 3.Children want to_________________ animals in the English class. 4.It says some old people in this village can live_______140 years. 5.Daniel speaks English ___________Millie does. happened to are afraid of learn more about up to as well as

26. Translation 1. 某天或许人类能活到 150 岁. 2. 他们每个人都有自己的想法. 3.Tom 能跑得和他爸爸一样快. 4. 读这本关于鬼怪的书真的有趣. 5. 我不再是小孩了, 我不再怕狗了. 6. 昨晚他发生什么事了 ? 7. 据说我们一辈子能吃 27000 公斤的食物. 相当于 6 只大象的重量. 1.Human beings may live up to 150 years one day. 2.Each one of them has their own opinions. 3.Tom can run as fast as his father can. 4.It is interesting to read this book about ghost. 5.I am not kid any more and I am not afraid of dogs any more. 6.What happened to him yesterday evening? 7.It says that we eat about 27000 kilos of food during our lives. That's the weight of about six elephants.

27. Homework 1. 记忆本课时所学生词和词组 2. 模仿 71 页 B 部分对话, 编写一段 新对话 3. 完成相关联系