1.　　　 Improve the students’ listening and reading abilities.

2.　　　 Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Limerick is fun. It’s interesting for the students. The students may like to practice it very much. Everyone writes a limerick. The class will be full of laughter. Ask the students to begin the similar dialogue in class to practice the limerick.

　Lesson 6: Say It in Five

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: create, single, thought

Oral words and expressions: fur, stretch, hum, adjective

Teaching Aims:

3.　　　 Let different groups act the dialogue out in front of the class.

Step6: Homework

2.　　　 From Jenny’s limerick, we can see the first, second and fifth lines have rhyme.

Look in the library or search on the Internet to find some information about limericks. Show them to the class and let them find the patterns of “limerick”.

1.　　　 There are five lines in the limerick.

2.　　　 Find the new words and guess their meanings according to the text.

Step4: Do with some language points.

Either…or…, both…and…

Let some students make sentences with the help of the pictures.

S1: He eats either apples or oranges.

S2: Either he or I am good at dancing.

S3: Both his teachers and his parents love him.

S4: Susan loves both reading and listening.

Step5: Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Limerick is a kind of poem that has a pattern.

Study the “Limerick”. Get the results.

1.　　　 Let the students scan the text. Then tell the main idea of the text.

2. They choose _______ to describe the weight.

Step3: Read and get the main idea of the text.

1._______ and _______ help Jenny fill in the blanks in her limerick.

2.　　　 Let some students tell jokes. Encourage them to tell jokes in English.

Step2: Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.