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Unit 4 . Wildlife protection

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Learning about language 教学目标：

知识目标：学习并掌握本篇课文中的重要单词和短语。

能力目标：掌握单词和短语的意思，并能熟练地运用到语境中。

训练语言表达能力和句式组织能力。

情感目标：提高大家的野生动物保护意识。倡导关爱野生动物，保护美好家园。

StepⅠ.Leading – in .

Watch a short video from the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival . Four wild animals ，rhino, whale ,sale and pelican tell their sufferings by singing a song “I dreamed a dream”. After watching ,talk about your feelings . 设计意图：黑板上画出一个梦的图案，每个人都有梦，动物是否也有自己的梦想？让我们一起来看看动物们的梦想。接着通过观看WCFF（全称

Wildlife Conservation Film Festival野生动物宝华电影节动画公益视频“梦——Dream”,引发学生对野生动物生活处境的深思，对人类酷行的谴责。提高学生的野生动物保护意识。

Step2. Discover useful words and expressions 设计意图：观看短片后学生有太多想表达的，但缺乏一些词汇来恰当表达观点和想法。希望学会今天的词汇和短语会对学生有所帮助。

先学习一些重要单词和短语，了解词性、意思和用法，再通过语境运用来检测掌握情况。

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拓展单词：

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appreciate

vt. 鉴赏；感激；意识到→____________ n.感激;感谢

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secure

adj. 安全的；可靠的→

____________ n.安全

3 . respond vi回答；响应；做出反应→

____________ n. 回答；反应；响应

4. distant adj.远的；远处的；疏远的→

_____________ n.距离；远方；疏远

5. relief

n.(痛苦或忧虑的)减轻或解除；减轻痛苦的事物

→

__________ vt.使减轻；缓解

6. succeed vi成功vt. 接替；继任

→

____________ n.成功

→

_________ adj.成功的

→

_________

adv成功地

7. employ vt. 雇用；利用(时间、精力等) →

___________ n.雇主

→

___________ n.雇员；雇工→

_________ n.雇用；就业职业；工作

8. harm n. &vt.损害；危害→

____________

adj.有害的

→

____________ adj.无害的

9. protection n.保护

→

___________

vt.保护；防卫

10. mercy n.仁慈；宽恕；怜悯→

_________

adj.仁慈的；怜悯的

语境活用：

1.Lacking proper ________ against cold, we tried to make a fire to ______us from the cold night. (protect) 2. The man is always ________

towards his neighbors, so his neighbors often keep him at a ________(distant) 3. Eating too much every day is ________ to our health; that is to say, eating too

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much every day does ________

to our health. (harm) 4. None of the students ________

to her question; that is to say, her question failed to get a _______

from any of the students.(respond) 5. He ________

his father as manager of the company. Soon their business became very _________ . Lots of people wanted to know the secret of his _______ . (succeed) 6. The ________

decided to ________ Tom as her secretary and she hoped to have a talk with her ________

before he came to work. (employ)

语段串记短语：

1. __________ 灭亡；逐渐消失

2. __________ 保护……不受……(危害) 3._____________ 注意

4.___________ 按照；根据……所说

5.__________ 和平地；和睦地；安详地

6.___________ 在危险中；垂危

①___________

our biology teacher, some people long to earn money by hunting wild animals, for their fur can be used to make clothes. As a result, many wild animals are ②____________ , so we should ③__________ wildlife ________

being harmed and live in peace with them. Fortunately, our government has ④__________ the situation and a series of laws has come into effect.

1. ____________

如释重负；松了口气

2. ____________ 突然笑起来；大声笑了出来

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3._____________ 形成；产生

4. _____________ 以至于；结果；为了

5. _____________ 毫不怜悯地

6. _____________ 对……有害

With the development of modern science and technology, the computer has ①_____________, the price of which has been going down ②_____________ many families are able to buy one. Some students are addicted to playing computer games, which not only ③_____________ their eyes but also affects their study and life.

Step 3. Finish the exercises on page 28. 设计意图：运用本课相关知识完成书本第28页三个练习题，以检测单词和短语的掌握情况。

1.Find the word or expression for each of the following meanings from the text. 1.____________ far away in space or time

2.____________ to go down to a lower level 3.____________ able to control events 4.____________ to do something to make a change 5.___________ to understand how serious a situation is 6.___________ to run after animals in order to kill or catch them 7._______________ to keep someone or something safe from harm 8.___________ to do something as a reaction to something done or said

9.___________ feeling of comfort when something worrying has ended or not

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happened

本题考查词义的掌握，由学生集体做答。有发音不准的或答错的地方及时纠正。

2. Complete the passage with the words and phrase below in their proper forms. protect …

from

wild

reserve

powerful

appreciate

hunt

relief

species Wendy Lee was a famous photographer and always photographed ______ animals in their natural habitat. One day she drove her car into the local game _______ as usual to _____ for some animals to photograph. After a while she saw some zebra with black and white lines going beneath their stomachs. “This must be a special_______ of zebra,”

thought Wendy.“I’ve never seen one like this before.”

Suddenly the zebra looked up and moved away as quickly as they could. Wendy looked around and saw a ________ lion in the grass. She

_______ the danger, so she sounded several her horn loudly until the lion turned and walked away. Wendy waited for several minutes to make sure the lion was not coming back. Then she gave a smile of ______.But soon her smile disappeared because she realized that in __________ the zebra ______ the lion she had lost her best chance of taking some amazing photographs! 本题考查语境分析和运用能力。选派一名学生上讲台，用他的思路和角度给同学们做出分析讲解。可以和其他学生互动。

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3. Find the words that are related to wildlife protection in this unit and fit them into the boxes below.

habitat

本题由小组讨论合作完成。选派三名学生在黑板上写出每一部分的相关信息。找到的信息越多越好。

Then make sentences about the endangered species using the words above. EXAMPLE: The South China tiger which has been over-hunted has nearly died out. 学生讨论，运用上面三个方框所写出的信息造一些与濒危野生动物相关的

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SituationsWildlife protection

Endangered species

die out South China tiger

句式，积极发言。考查学生的语言表达能力。其他同学配合老师纠正句子中出现的时态、语态、动词单复数等错误。

Step4. 微写作

用本课所学知识完成下列句子，并按照逻辑顺序连成短文. 1. 过度捕杀极大地影响了野生动物的数量。

Hunting too much ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ greatly. 2. 一些动物已经绝迹，也有一些动物处境危险。

Some animals ________ ________ ________；

others are ________ ________．

3. 政府已经关注这个状况，并采取了一系列措施。

Our government ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ and ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________．

4. 一系列的法律已经付诸实施。

A series of laws ________ ________ ________ ________．

5. 我们会成功地阻止状况的恶化。

We’ll _________ ________ ________

________

_________ _________

_________

________ . 组篇公式：用强调句型改写句1；加入适当的过渡词语

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 设计意图：考查学生语言运用与写作能力。并在写作中体味与野生动物保护相关的信息。

Step5. Summarize what you have learned from this lesson .

Launch of initiatives to protect wildlife . 设计意图：总结本课所学知识。提高野生动物保护意识。倡导关爱野生动物，保护美好家园。

Step6. Homework 1. Review Language points. 2. Practice writing with the words and expressions of this lesson . 设计意图：完成课后测评练习，以检测本课所学知识。

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