Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Understand the text.
2. Learn some useful words and expressions.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showily the teaching aims
II. Revision
Check the homework. Then revise the dialogue in Lesson 57. Ask the students to act out the dialogue. Study the new words in this lesson.
III. Leading in
Ask the students this question: There is a famous animal doctor in England. He wrote many books about animals, what’s his name? Let the students read the text and answer the question.
IV. Reading
Ask the students to listen to the tape and answer the question: Which animal did Herriot like best? Then go through the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook. Make sure they can understand them. Ask them to read the story more carefully and discuss the answers to Exercise I in the workbook in pains. Check the answers with the whole class. Deal with any grammatical or lexical problems that arise.
1. make up ones mind to do something
He has made up his mind to study English well.
2. go on with something: Let’s go on with our lesson.
3. regard . . . as
He regards his teacher as his mother.
V. Reeling aloud
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Use any methods that you think suitable: repetition by the whole class, groups, pairs or individual students. Then give out some key words and phrases. Let the students retell the story.
VI. Workbook
Do Exercise 2. The answers are: for, grow up, into, that, made up, mind, treat, Before, treated, heal, treating, At, at, on, regarded
Do Exercise 3. Let the students do it by themselves. Choose the best answer, then read the sentences together. Pay attention to the grammar. Let the students make up more sentences.
VII. Summary
Exercises in class
Fill in the blanks.
1. He made up his mind ________ (study) English well.
2.________(treat) large animals is hard work.
3. Ifs hard work ________ (treat) the dogs.
4. Please go on ________ (read) the text.
5. He grew up with a pet dog________ (name) Don.
6. The dogs ________ never________ (treat) when they became sick.
7. Everyday as he went to the farmers ________ (heal) sick animals.
Answers: to study, Treating, to treat, reading, named, were treated, to heal
VIII. Homework
1. Learn the phrases, make sentences with them.
2. Retell the story.
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