Let the students master the words and expressions:
family, parents, uncle, aunt, baby brother and dad.
2. Teaching aids
some word cards
Several photos,
a tape recorder,
3. Teaching steps
1)Greetings and sing a song
Say “Hello” to everybody, talk something about the weather and the date. Then sing a song named “ An apple a day makes a doctor away”.
2) New content
Hand out a photo of many members. Introduce the family members to them. And describe them in English. At the same time the teacher shows the new word cards to them and let them read one by one. Then the students read after the tape 3 times and ask the students to remember the new words at once. Then, the teacher show the picture and let them practice them.
Next let them take out their photos and practice in pairs to introduce and describe each other’s family members. At the same time the teacher write the sentence “ Come and meet my family” “This is my…” “He/She is…” “He/She has…”on the blackboard. After that , choose several students to introduce and
describe his/her family members by using the sentence