Describe the objects that you feel

Teaching Aims:

1. The sense of touching.

2. Describe the objects that you feel.

3. To have some basic information about rainforests.

Pre-task:

1. Guess the words: eyes, ears, senses.

Board writing: eyes sense of looking and seeing Ears sense of listening and hearing While-task:

1. Use your hearing in the rainforest. 1) Listen to the tropical music.

T: What comes up into your mind when you hear this piece of music? It’s a rainforest. 2) Remember Teaser.

Try to remember all the sounds you hear in the rainforest. Invite students to finish the grids on the board by a two-team competition. 3) Ask students to mime the sounds in the rainforest. 4) Now use your sight and hearing in the rainforest.

Follow the sound; you might see environments, plants and animals in the rainforest. Pair work;

--Listen,….. What can you hear? --I can hear…

--What can you see? --I can see ...

2. Treasure in the rainforest.

T: Today I’ll guide you to feel the rainforest. What do you touch and feel with?

Touch an object. Tell me ―How does it feel?‖—It is…

1) Guess: What is the treasure Rach’s going to tell you today?—Rubber Tree A: leaf

T: Touch it, is it hard? Is it soft? And it’s smooth.

Look around the classroom, find something smooth and ask Rach to touch it. S: Rach, touch it. It’s smooth. B: trunk –bark

T: Who wants to know how this feels? Try to ask: Rach, how does it feel? T: It is rough. Not smooth.

Pair work: S1: Touch it. How does it feel? S2: It’s rough. Not smooth.

3. Do a survey.

(Present four objects, ask one of each group to touch them. The rest of the group members asking the question: ―How does No. 1/2/3/4 feel?‖. The group will fill in the boxes after they have a conclusion.)

Post-task:

Do a reading about the rainforest and the rubber tree.

Write ―true or false‖ sentences to put them in the class Question Jar. Give the others to read and answer the questions.

Smooth and soft Rough and hard Rough and soft Smooth and hard Objects