Learning about Language第二课时 公开课

Book 2 Unit4 Wildlife Protection —Learning about language and Using language Teaching aims:

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Enable students to have a better understanding of the reading. 2.

Enable students to learn several reading skills. Emotional aims: 1. Enable students to learn about the importance of wildlife protection. 2. Develop students’ sense of responsibility. Teaching Focus: 1.

Let students predict why the dodo died out. 2.

Help students to understand the passage better. 3.

Have students learn different reading skills. 4.

Have students learn to protect wildlife. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. How to improve students’ reading ability. 2. Arouse students’ responsibility to protect wildlife.

Teaching Analysis:

The reading material is from Book 2, Unit 4 Wildlife protection. The topic of the reading is heated in recent years, especially more and more animals are endangered. Students will learn some animals which have been extinct and other animals which are endangered. Teaching Methods:

Reading, Listening, Cooperative learning. Teaching Time:40 minutes.

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Teaching procedures: Step 1:1. 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 happened 2. Complete the passage.

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 her horn loudly until the lion turned and walked away.

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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!

Step2: Lead-in(6mins) 1.Watch a short video

2.Listen to a story about an extinct animal, then do the exercises. 1. The dodo is_____. A.

fierce

B. unkind

C. friendly

D. foolish 2. He wants to believe that Man is telling the truth because _____. A. Man is friendly

B. he thinks Man is friendly C. he thinks the bears and monkeys lie

D. Man is his best friend 3. He didn’t realize who had killed many of his friends until _____.

A. Man told him the truth

B. the other birds told him C. he saw how his friend was being killed by Man

D. the monkeys told him Step 3 Pre-reading（2mins）

Task : Show the students some pictures and find out which are extinct and which are

endangered. Step 4Skimming（4mins）

Task: Read the passage quickly and the find out the main idea of each paragraph. The main idea of each paragraph Para 1

A. Possible reasons of dinosaurs’ extinction Para 2

B.Report about other species’ extinction (dodo)

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Para 3

C. Introduction of dinosaurs and its family kinds Step 5 Careful reading(10mins) Part1:

True or False

1.There were many different kinds of dinosaur and all of them have been found in China. 2.Not long ago, a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Henan Province.

Part 2:

Choose the best answers

Which is NOT the reason of dinosaurs' extinction according to the passage? A. Extremely hot climate

B. Too much dust C. Food shortage

D. A huge rock from space hitting the earth

Part 3:

Fill in the blanks Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth . ___1___ , which lived on the earth tens of

millions of years ago, long before humans came into being. The eggs of twenty-five species have been found in Xixia County, Nanyang. ____2__These dinosaurs could not only run like the others but also climb trees. ____3__Some scientists think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from the space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air. ___4___ Nobody knows for sure why and how they disappeared.__5____According to a UN report, some 844 animals and plants have disappeared in the last 500 years. A.Dinosaurs

died out suddenly about 65 million years ago. B.The most famous of these animals are dinosaurs C.Not long ago a rare new species of

bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Chaoyang County.

D.A number of dinosaurs used to live in China.

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E.We know many other wild plants,animals,insects and birds have died out more recently.

F.The dodo is one of them.G.Others hold the view that the earth get too hot for the

dinosaurs to live on any more.

Step 6: Post- reading(15mins)

Task:Make a poster. Create a day to be the Animal Day. Your poster must include : 1. the name of your day 2.the date of your day 3.the slogan of your day 4.the logo of your day

Students show their posters. Step 7 Evaluation(2mins)

Find out the best group in this class. Step 8 Homework(1min) 1. Recite the summary of this passage. 2. Write a short passage to describe your poster. 3. Write a short story about the last picture.

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