Step1

Pre-reading

1. Watch a video

2. What pets do they have?

To arouse students’ interest in the topic

2. Free talk:

(1) What pets do you have?

(2) What do they look like?

(3) What can they do?

To get the students to be familiar with the topic today

Step2

While-reading

1. Read and answer

(1) What’s the genre of this article?

(2) What’s the article about?

To help students learn more about the type

2. Read and analyze

Read the poem “My dog” together and answer the following questions.

(1)What is the dog like?

(2)How does the writer like the dog?

(3)Why does the writer use “he”, but not “it”?

(4)Why does the writer use “the cleverest animal of all” but not “a clever animal”?

3. Find out the rhyming words

4. What’s the function of the rhyming words?

5. Read the poem “My cat” together and fill in the blanks.

(1) Ask students to introduce the cat according to the chart.

(2) What does the writer think of his cat?

(3) Circle some key words to show the writer’s love.

6. Find out the rhyming words

7. Read and feel

To encourage students to understand the features of the poem.

To lead students learn more about the writers’ purposes and emotions

Step3

Post-reading

1. Transfer and innovate

(1) Have students change one of the blog posts into a poem.

2. Discuss and share

(1) Why do we need pets?

(2) What animal would you like to have as your pet? Why?

(3) What things should you think about before getting a pet?

To lead students to enjoy others’ poems

To guide students to be responsible to their pets.

Homework

Compulsory homework:

1. Read the poems aloud after the recorder.

2. Finish the exercises on the workbook.

Optional homework:

Write a poem about your pet and share it with the whole class.