Lesson 1 Do you like dancing? Date

Activity 2 Answer the questions. 5 min
Objective: to revise the material from the previous lesson
Explain that now you will ask some questions about the previous lesson. Elicit answers for the first question.
Answer key: food, water, air and sun
Then elicit answers for the second question. You can show the pictures of a forest, desert, mountain and underwater one by one to help the pupils answer the question.
Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat. 5 min Objective: to introduce the new vocabulary of the lesson
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and say what they are in their mother tongue. After they have recognised themcorrectly, you can have them listen and repeat the words (a willow, a tulip, a rose, a mulberry) after you/the DVD in chorus, rows and individually as usual.
Write on the board: [a] - bus, cut, mulberry, [ju:] - pupil, tulip.
Drill the words and sounds drawing the pupils' attention to the different sounds of the same letter.
STEP 2: Then you can ask the pupils to do "Point and say'" activity in pairs.
Activity 3b Mime and guess. 7 min Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary
Ask the pupils to come to the board in turns and mime a tree/ plant that they have learnt so far. The class will guess.
Activity 4 Look and read. Draw and write about a rose. 20 min Objectives: to give practice in reading for main ideas;
to prepare for the homework activity;
to develop the pupils' creative abilities.
Advance Preparation: Prepare a "My Plants" booklet for each pupil. To make the booklet, fold a sheet of colour paper in half. Then fold four blank sheets of paper in half and insert into the folded colour paper. Staple at the seam to hold the booklet together.
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the picture of a sunflower and read the text. After they have finished reading, draw their attention to the words "leaves" and "need". Explain that if we talk about one, we say or write "leaf". If we say, about two or more, we say or write "leaves". Ask the pupils to look at the Remember box and draw their attention to the spelling changes. Then say the meaning of the word "need" in mother tongue. Then have the pupils repeat the words after you in chorus.
STEP 2: Distribute an assembled "My Plants" booklet for each pupil. Have them write their name on the front cover. Have them turn to the first blank page and write the numbers "1" and "2" on the bottom corners.
STEP 3: Tell the pupils to draw a rose on the left page. Tell them that they can colour their pictures at home.
STEP 4: After they have finished their drawings, ask them to write some facts about it like the ones about the sunflower. Then have the pupils share their booklets with their partner. Encourage them to comment on each other's picture and text.