T: Good afternoon, boys and girls!
Ss: Good afternoon, Miss Bai!
T: How are you?
Ss: I’m fine, Thank you, And you?
T: I’m fine, too. Sit down, please!
Step2 Warming up
1. An English song: I can see a rainbow.
T: Now, let’s sing a song: I can see a rainbow.
Ss: (Sing together and do the actions)
T: Thank you.
2. Revision.
T: Look, what colour is my dress?
Ss: It is pink.
T: Very Good.
T: (Point to Lucy’s blouse)What colour is it?
Ss: It’s blue.
T: Excellent!
T: (Point to the desk) What colour is it?
Ss: It’s yellow.
T: Great!
Step3 Activities
1. A game
T: Today, I’ll introduce a new friend to you.
T: Look! (Show a brown bear to the students) Hello!
Ss: Hello!
T: Glad to meet you!
Ss: Glad to meet you, too!
T: Listen! I am a brown bear. I am your friend. You can ask me some questions. Now, you please!
S1: What is your name?
T: My name is Bill.
S2: How old are you?
T: I’m one.
S3: what colour is it?
T: Listen! I am a brown bear.
S4: Glad to meet you, Bill.
T: Nice to meet you, Rose.
T: Now I ask questions, and you answer them. What colour am I?
Lucy: Brown.
T: Very Good, Lucy! Come here. You’re the little teacher. Read “brown”, please!
Lucy: (Point to the brown) One two begin, brown, brown
T: Thank you! Who’d like to be the little teacher? Would you like to have a try?
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2. Teacher plays the computer.
T: Let’s watch TV. Look, listen and repeat.
Ss: (Read aloud) Brown, a brown bear, a brown monkey.
T: Let’s practice in pairs.
3. Check the students through a chain game.
T, Ss: Little train “wu wu wu”. One, two, begin!
T: (Point to the brown bear) This group, one by one! What colour is it?
S1: It’s brown. (To S2) What colour is it?
S2: It’s brown. (To S3) What colour is it?
S3: It’s brown. (To S4) What colour is it?
S4: It’s brown.
T: Great! Thank you!
T, Ss: Little train “wu wu wu”, One two, begin!
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Step 4 Presentation and Practice
1. Presentation
T: Let’s watch TV. What is this?
Ss: A butterfly.
T: Yes, it’s a butterfly. Please repeat, a lovely butterfly, a little butterfly.
T: (Show a green and red butterfly) What colour is this butterfly?
Helen: It’s green and red.
T: Excellent. You will be the little teacher, come to the front.
Helen: One two, begin! It’s green and red.
Ss: (Read aloud after Helen) It’s green and red.
(Teacher sticks the green and red butterfly to the blackboard)
T: (Show a pink and blue butterfly)What colour is this one?
Bob：It’s a pink and blue butterfly.
T: Very good! Thank you. You will be the little teacher. Come here!
Bob: One two, begin! It’s a pink and blue.
Ss: (Read after Bob.) It’s a pink and blue.
(Teacher sticks the pink and blue butterfly to the blackboard. Do the same to the brown and yellow butterfly.)
2. Practice
T: Today we will learn a new song: “A butterfly”. Stand up. Read and do the actions after me!
T: OK! I say the words and you do the actions.
Ss: (Do the actions while singing.)
T: I want three students to act the butterflies. Any volunteers? Great! Come to the front. You are the lovely butterflies. All students answer my question.
T: What colour is it?
Ss: (Doing actions while singing )It’s green and red. It’s pink and blue. It’s brown and yellow blue.
T: Thank you!
Step 5 Playing a game
T: Let’s play a game. Who wants to be my partner?
Mike: Let me have a try.
T: (Throw a ball to Mike) What colour is it?
Mike: It’s pink and blue.
T: Very good! I want two other pairs of students to do the game again.
Toby: What colour is it?
Sandra: It’s orange and black.
Frank: What colour is it?
Camilla: It’s brown and yellow.
Step 6 Free talk
(Students take out their toys and make up new dialogues by themselves. At last, Teacher chooses two groups come to the front act their dialogue.)
June: Hello!
Lucy: Hello!
June: What’s your name?
Lucy: My name is Lucy. What’s your name?
June: My name is June. How old are you?
Lucy: I’m one. What colour is it?
June: It’s blue and pink. What colour is it?
Lucy: It’s brown and yellow. What day is it today?
June: Monday. OK, bye-bye!
Lucy: Bye-bye!
(Teacher asks two more pairs to act out their dialogues.)
Step 7 Magic
T: Look, what colour is it?
Ss: It’s blue.
T: Look, what colour is it?
Ss: It’s yellow.
T: (Mixing the two colours) Look, what colour is it now?
Ss: It’s green.
T: How lovely! Listen, blue and yellow is green.
Ss: Blue and yellow is green.
T: Now everybody takes out your colour oil pastel. Show me yellow.
Ss: Yellow-yellow-yellow. (Read and hands up)
T: Show me blue.
Ss: Blue-blue-blue.
T: Show me red.
Ss: Red-red-red.
T: Mix the colours and then find out what you get. Talk with your partner about the colours.
Ss: (Doing the experiment and then have conversations in their group.)
T: What do you get from what you did just now? Tell me together.
Ss: Red and blue is purple. Red and yellow is orange.
T: You’re clever.
Step 8 Everyday English
T: Let’s see what’s on TV. Blue in the face. What is the meaning?
Ss: 蓝色的脸。
T：脸变成了蓝色说明了什么？
Ss: 很生气。
T: Yes. 如果中国人很生气，脸变成什么颜色？
Ss: Red.
T: Yes, red. 可是在英语中要表示“气得脸发红”，应该怎样说呢？
Ss: Blue in the face.
T: That’s right! You should remember it.注意可不要望文生义哟！
T: Time is up. We have to say good bye!
Ss: Bye-bye! Miss Bai. Thank you!
作者：白云 来源：湖北省武汉市水果湖第一小学 白云