三、教学过程

Ⅰ. Warming-up and leading in

To create an English environment, the teacher shows the class a video of animals in the zoo. And then ask some questions about animals:

　There are a lot of animals in the video .Do you like animals?

　Do you want to know more about them?

　Today, let us visit a zoo together.

Ⅱ. Learning by yourselves

1. Ask them to look up the knowledge points in relevant books and finish the learning task.

2. Have a discussion to check the answers in groups.

Ⅲ. Show time.

Let Ss explain the new knowledge points:

1. favorite (adj) 最喜欢的

　　　eg: What's your favorite color?

favorite (n) 最喜欢的人或物

　　　eg：Football is my favorite.

2. because (conj) 后接句子

eg: She doesn't go to school because she is ill.(参考名校课堂P29)

because of 后接名词、动名词等。

eg：She doesn't go to school because of her illniss.

3. Let's do sth (包括听者在内)

eg: Let's see the pandas first.

Let us do sth (不包括听者在内)

eg: Let us help you.

4. why 引导特殊疑问句，because 用来回答。

--Why do you want to see them?

--Because they are interesting.

IV. Brain storming

1. Make a guess. Review the new words about animals using some pictures.

T: Show some pictures on the screen. Let Ss guess what animal it is.