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HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE Module2 Unit4 Teaching material:

This reading part is about a girl—Daisy’s experiences in her dream. She met three animals--an antelope in Tibet, an elephant in Zimbabwe and a monkey in a thick forest in her dream. The writer wants to arouse students’ awareness about protecting the endangered animals after the students reading the text.

Teaching Goals:

1. To learn some useful words and expressions in the reading part 2. To talk about endangered species and improve students’ reading skills 3. To read about and understand wildlife protection Important &Difficult points: 1.

To improve the students’ reading skills such as scanning

& skimming 2.

To improve the students’ communicative skill Teaching methods: 1.

communicative approach 2.

task-based language teaching 3.

whole language teaching Teaching aid:

CAI Studying methods: The students have learnt some information about the endangered animals in the warming-up part. They have also known some reading skills. However, some of them may be too shy to express themselves, so it is important to improve their communicative strategy. Teaching Procedures: Step1. Warming Up

Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to talk about endangered species. Activity: 1.Leading-in The title of this unit is wildlife protection and we have known that there are many endangered species in the world according to what we have learnt in the last class. Now class, can you name some other endangered animals? 2.

Warming-up (Show some pictures about some endangered animals on the screen.) Now, please look at the screen and see these pictures . Do you know their names and what are they? Step2. Pre-reading Purpose: Activate Ss’ interest about wildlife protection.

Activity: 1.Q&A

Ask the students to answer the following question: Why are they in danger, class? Suggested Answer:

They are being killed and hunted by people. They have not enough food. Their habitat(栖息地) is being destroyed or changed. They are being killed by other animals. …

2.

Prediction Ask the students to look at the pictures and the title of the reading passage and predict the content. Then read it quickly to see if they were right. Suggested Answers:

How Daisy learned to help wildlife through her experiences with some animals. Step3 While-reading 1. Scanning Purpose: To get the Ss to know the main idea of the text. Activity: Ask the students to scan the whole text and find out the main idea of the text. Suggested answer: C 2. Skimming

Purpose: 1.To get the Ss to get more details about the text. 2. To train Ss’ summarizing ability.

Activity: 1. Let Ss read the text again and divide the text into three parts. Suggested Answer: The first part: paragraph 1. The second part: paragraph 2 and 3. The third part: paragraph 4 and 5. 2. Let Ss find the main idea for each part. Suggested Answer: Part 1: Why we need wildlife protection Part 2:

A good example of wildlife protection Part 3: What we can get from wildlife protection 3.

Intensive-reading Purpose: To get the students to get more detailed information about each part. Activity: 1. Ask the students to read each part and fill in the blanks. Part1: The first stop Purpose: to see some ________________

Place: ______ Animal: ______________

Situation: being hunted for the wool under its stomach

Part2: The second stop Purpose: to go to a place with wildlife _________ Place: Zimbabwe Animal: African ________ Situation: used to be hunted with numbers decreasing rapidly Result: now being protected by farmers making money from ______________ Result: numbers are _________ rapidly

Part3: The third stop Purpose: to go to a place where the WWF is involved

Place: __________

Animal: ___________________

Situation: Result:

3.

Ask the students to read each part and answer some questions. 1. How did the antelope feel?

2. Why are people hunting and killing the Tibetan antelopes?

3. What was the situation about elephant? 4. How did life improve for the farmers in Zimbabwe? 5. Why did the monkey rub itself? 6. Why is the thick rain forest important for animals?

Suggested answers: 1. The antelope felt sad. 2. In order to get the wool which is used to make sweaters. 3. Farmers used to hunt them. 4. The government helped and the farmers made a lot of money from the tourism. 5.

Because this protects it from mosquitoes. 6.

Because different kinds of animals can live together. 4. Deep-reading

Purpose: To get the students to know more detailed information about the whole passage.

Activity: 1.

Ask the students to read the whole passage again and answer some questions.

1.

Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species? 2.

Why are elephant numbers increasing in Zimbabwe? 3.

How does the government of Zimbabwe help protect wild animals? 4.

Why is it important to protect the rainforest? 5.

What must be done if wildlife protection is to succeed? Suggested answers: 1.

Its fur is being used to make sweaters. As the sweaters become popular, more and more animals are killed. So very

few antelopes are left. 2.

The farmers stopped killing the elephants, so the numbers increased. 3.

The government helps the farmers. It makes sure that the tour companies pay the farmers when tourists come to visit and hunt a few animals. 4.

Looking after the rainforest helps protect plants and animals we know nothing about. They may make it possible for us to produce medicines and drugs that we don’t yet know about. 5.

You can give various answers. 2. Ask the students to read the whole passage and fill in the blanks.

One day, Daisy _________ a strange dream. She flew in a wonderful _______ to ______with an __________ in Tibet. The antelope told her they were hunted because of their____ which can be used to make ________like hers. In three years they may all be ______. Later, she ______to Zimbabwe where she talked with an ________ and got to know the farmers there no longer______ them. Step4. Post-reading Purpose: 1.To get the students to use what they have learned in the class to express themselves 2. To improve students’ awareness about protecting the

endangered animals Activity: Discussion Divide the whole class into 8 groups and ask them to discuss: What can we do to protect wildlife? (people/government/animals/yourself) Step5. Summary and homework 1. The teacher summarizes the text. One day, Daisy dreamed a strange dream. She flew in a wonderful chair to talk with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they were hunted because of their fur, which can be used to make sweater like hers. In three years they may all be gone. Later, she flew to Zimbabwe where she talked with an elephant and got to know the farmers there no longer hunted them. That’s because the government decided to help and the farmers finally made a lot of money. At last she arrived at the thick rain forest where a monkey told her “No rain forest, no animals and no drugs.” Although finally everything was gone, she had learned so much.

2.

Homework Purpose: 1. To consolidate what the students have learnt in the class 2. Check whether the Ss achieve the teaching aims.

Writing: More and more animals are killed by humans. As a student,

what should you do to protect the wild animals? Step6. Blackboard Design HOW DASISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE Step1. Warming Up Step2. Pre-reading 1.

Q&A 2.

Prediction Step3 While-reading 1.

Scanning 2.

Skimming 3.

Intensive-reading 4.

Deep-reading Step4. Post-reading Step5.Summaryand homework

Step7. Assessment:

Self-assessment Teacher’s assessment

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Classmates’ assessment