3．Moral Objects

When you are on a picnic, remember to bring litter back to keep our environment clean and tidy.

2．Ability Objects

(1) Train students' listening skill.

(2) Train students' communicative competence using the target language.

1．Knowledge Objects

(1) Key Vocabulary

belong, belong to, plate. author, toy, picnic

(2) Target Language

Whose book is this?

It must be Mary's. Wanda Wilbur is her favourite author.

1. owner　 2. alien　 3. land　 4. exercise　 5. lost

Step Ⅴ Just for Fun!

This activity provides reading and speaking practice with the target language.

Ask all the students to read the cartoon story. Ask students why it is funny. Help students to answer. The boys think they are going to land on an island. Instead, they have landed on the back of a whale.

Optional activity

Show the cartoon pictures on the screen by a projector. Ask two students to read the speech bubbles to the class. Then all the students discuss why the cartoon is funny.

　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(By Bud Blake)

　　　　　　　　　 (s’pose=suppose:假设)

Step Ⅵ Summary

Say. In this class, we’ve practiced filling in blanks and making sentences with some vocabulary words introduced in this unit. And we’ve learned several proverbs.

Step　Ⅶ Homework

　 (1) Read and remember the proverbs learned in Activity 2.

　 (2) Each student collects ten proverbs.

5. lost grass tree flower

Point out the first line. In this line, escape, chase and run are all verbs. However, the word owner is a noun. So we circle it. Now please circle the word that doesn’t belong in each line.

Get students to complete the task on their own. As they are doing this, move around

the classroom checking their progress and offering help as needed.

Check the answers by asking a student to read his or her circled words to the class.

Answers

4. creature alien exercise visitor

3. land apple ice cream chicken

2. picnic lunch dinner alien

1. escape owner chase run

9. People should not be afraid of asking for help.

Culture note

Each culture has proverbs that are unique to it. The saying, "If you want to know a people. know their proverbs" illustrates this.

Step Ⅵ Part 3

This activity focuses on the new vocabulary introduced in this unit.

Ask students to read the five lines of words in the box.