2. Students talk freely about the New Year’s presents and share their feelings.
II. Presentation
1. Students listen to the tape and answer the questions:
What’s the present? Who gives the present? How does she feel? (hat, dad, sad)
2. Students read the story and pay attention to the underlined words, working in groups to discuss the pronunciation rules of the vowels “e” and “a”.
3. Students share the rules of the pronunciation of the letter “e” and the letter “a” in the stressed close syllables, then students and the teacher conclude the similarities and differences of the pronunciation.
III. Practice
1. Students read the story together and pay attention to the underlined words.
2. The teacher shows more words on the PPT and students try to find out the same pronunciation of the letter “e” and the letter “a”.
3. Students in two groups practice to read the words with “e” and “a”, and the group with more words will win.
IV. Consolidation
Task: the best story-teller
The teacher creates a scene that students are story writers, and they are supposed to make a story with the letter “e” and the letter “a” in limited time.
They can work in group of 6, and five minutes later, some of the representatives will be invited to share their story with the class. Others and the teacher choose the best story-teller.
V. Summary
Students summarize the pronunciation rules of the letter “e” and “a” in the closed syllables, and apply it in learning the similar words’ pronunciation and the teacher makes supplement if necessary. The teacher reminds students that the importance of fluent and correct pronunciation in English learning.
VI. Homework
Students find more close syllables including the letter “e” and the letter “a” and try to read them correctly.