教学内容：

　　Read and guess

　　教学目标：

　　1. 知识目标：巩固there be句型

　　2. 能力目标：运用形状描述各类物体

　　3. 情感目标：培养学生仔细观察的能力

　　重点难点：

　　Using kinds of shapes to describe some things

　　教学准备：

　　radio, tape, some picture cards

　　教学过程：

　　一、Warming-up

　　1. Sing a song < Numbers>

　　2. Tell a story

　　二、Revision

　　1. Review the shapes learned in Student’s Book 3A by drawing a circle, a star, a square and a triangle on the board.

　　2. Introduce: rectangle, as an addition to the shapes students have learned.

　　三、Presentation

　　1. Ask and answer:

　　Have the students look at the picture in Ask and answer. Invite students to list shapes that they can see in it.

　　Ask and answer: How many stars （squares, triangles, rectangles, circles）？

　　Guess: How many stars?

　　2. Read and guess

　　Show some pictures on the board: ruler, bag, book, biscuit Practise: What is it? It’s a… What shape is this? It’s a…

　　Make a riddle:

　　a. It’s a rectangle. It’s blue. What is it?

　　b. It’s a circle. It’s brown. What is it?

　　c. It’s a rectangle. It’s long. What is it?

　　d. It’s big. It’s a square. What is it?

　　For more able students, encourage them to make their own riddle and let the class guess.

　　3. Listen to the tape, then repeat

　　四、Consolidation

　　1. Draw and say: Draw a Christmas tree using three triangles, one rectangle, one square and one star, they can ask other things they like in the picture.

　　2. Workbook P 18