Lesson 13
About dinosaurs!
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Warm-up 2’
Talk with your teacher.
What animal is it?
Can you tell your teacher something about this animal?
Teaching notes: Lead the student to say something about dinosaurs.
01 Knowledge
Learning
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Words 5’
Learn words and then try to make sentences.
cartoon film science museum
e.g. I am watching a cartoon film in the science museum.
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Teaching notes: Lead the student to learn words and make sentences.
Words
problem disappear a pair of
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Practice
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Let’s read 7’
Read and choose words to complete the text.
Q1: Have you ever ____ dinosaurs in science museums or in scary films?
A. seeing B. seen C. sees
Q2: Dinosaurs lived on our planet many years ago. ___ now they have
disappeared.
A. But B. And C. Then
Teaching notes: Lead the students to read and choose words to complete the text. Check and explain the answers and pay attention to his/her pronunciation.
Let’s read
Read and choose words to complete the text.
People sometimes find dinosaurs’ teeth in rocks under the ground. Dinosaurs looked like
big lizards(蜥蜴)and most of them moved by running.
Dinosaurs lived in the jungle where there were lots of plants and water. But about
60,000,000 years ago, the weather on Earth suddenly got colder and drier.
Q3: Most dinosaurs that ate plants were___ and heavier than other
kinds of dinosaurs that ate meat.
A. large B. larger C. the largest
Q4: Many plants _____ dinosaurs liked to eat stopped growing, which
was a terrible problem. Soon after dinosaurs disappeared.
A. that B. what C. who
Teaching notes: Lead the students to read and choose words to complete the text. Check and explain the answers and pay attention to his/her pronunciation.
Let’s read
Answer these questions.
Q5: Where can we learn about dinosaurs?
Q6: Why did dinosaurs disappear?
Q7: Which dinosaurs were smaller? The dinosaurs that ate
meat or the dinosaurs that ate plants?
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Listen and talk 5’
Listen and tell the teacher which animals these descriptions are pointing
to. Bats or dinosaurs?
e.g. “1a” is pointing to…..
1a 2a 1b 2b 3b 4b 3a 4a
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Teaching notes: Read the transcripts. Let the student listen and talk about his/her answers. If needed, you can read the transcripts twice.
Free talk 3’
Answer the questions and talk with the teacher freely.
Q1: Can you simply describe dinosaurs by using the
expressions that we have learned in this class?
Q2: Do you think dinosaurs are interesting?
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Teaching notes: Pay attention to the student’s pronunciation and expressions. You can ask other questions according to his/her answers.
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Conclusion
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Conclusion 1’
In this lesson, you’ve learnt
dinosaur, cartoon, film, science museum,
Words pair of, problem, disappear
Dinosaurs lived in the jungle where there were lots of plants and
water. Many plants that dinosaurs liked to eat stopped growing,
Sentences which was a terrible problem.
Most dinosaurs that ate plants were heavier than other kinds of
dinosaurs that ate meat.
Grammar preposition, pronouns , comparative adjectives
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See you next class!
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