Section A Grammar focus 3a—3c教案3

“一师一优课”晒课内容：

新目标英语七年级下Unit5 Section B 2b阅读课

Teaching Content: Unit 5 Section B 2b: Let’s Save the Elephants!

Teaching Methods:

Oral practice, reading and listening Teaching Aims: 1. Knowledge aims: A. To make the students master some words: save; forget; cut; kill; flag; place; water; danger; tree; over. B. To have the students master phrases: birthday food; cake; candle; noodles; blow out; make a wish; cut up; lucky; long life. 2. Ability aims:

A. To develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing; B. To train the students’ ability of working in groups. 3. Emotional aims: To enable the students to know the importance of protecting the animals; Teaching focuses: 1. To help to train the students’ abilities of expressing themselves in English; 2. To develop the students’ interest in English. Teaching Difficulties:

1. Know some new words about elephants’ current situations; 2. Master reading skills. Teaching Aids:

PPT; a video Teaching Procedures: Step1: Warm up &Lean-in What can you do in Thailand? 

visit places of interest 

eat delicious food 

buy all kinds of fresh fruits 

ride elephants Step2: Discussion 1. How much do you know about elephants? 

one of Thailand’s symbols 

the meaning of the white elephant 

a symbol of good luck 2. What can wild elephants do? 

walk for a long time 

never get lost 3. What can trained elephants do? 

play soccer 

draw pictures very well

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people can ride on them Step3: Play a video about elephant training Step 4: Group work 1. What do you think of this video? It makes me sad; angry; heart-breaking; feel sorry about the elephants. 2. What do people do to the elephants? 

kill 

train 

hit 

hurt

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tie 

force 3.Will you spend money on elephant shows when you visit Thailand?

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What can we do for the elephants?

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Say “No” to animal shows!

5. What other dangers(威胁) do elephants have? 

People cut down too many trees and elephants are losing their homes. 

People also kill elephants for their ivory. 6. What can we do?

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Don’t buy things made of ivory. 

Don’t cut down more trees, plant trees instead. Step 5: Fast-reading: Read the article and check the best title for it. •

___________ What Is an Elephant? •

___________ Come to Thailand. •

___________ Let’s Save the Elephants.

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___________ Elephants Are Good Pets.

Step 6: Careful Reading: Read and complete the mind map. 1. Importance in Thailand: the first flag had a white elephant on it 2. Abilities:

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play soccer or music;

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draw well;

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remember places with food and water 3. Facts and figures:

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people cut down many trees

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people kill them for ivory •

today there are about 3000 elephants (over 100,000 before)

4. How to save them: •

don’t cut down so many trees;

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don’t buy things made of ivory

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March 13th

is Thai Elephant Day

Step 7: Retelling time Step8: Writing time

Dear friends,

I’m glad you have this chance to go to Thailand. But I hope you can say

“No” to ____________ when you are there.

Elephants are ______animals. They can _________. They can also _________. But people train them in very cruel ways. For example, they _____________. They also _____________. These elephants are living really terrible life.

So, when you are in Thailand, please don’t __________. There is a saying, “When the buying stops, the killing can too.”

Step 9: Summary People have already taken actions to protect elephants. (人们已经在为保护大象采取行动）

As for us, what we can do is to say “No” to animal shows!

（我们能做的，就是拒绝动物表演！）