Section B第二课时教学实录

Unit3 Why do you like koalas?

Section B (2a-2c) 教学设计

河北省昌黎县泥井镇初级中学

刘淑娟

Teaching aims: 1. Knowledge goals 1) Know something about elephants in Thailand.

2) Simple present tense. 2. Ability goals Improve reading skills as well as speaking, listening and writing. 3. Emotional goals Enable Ss to save and protect animals. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warm up Free talk What animals do you like? Why? 设计意图：巩固A部分重点句型，为新课的展开做铺垫。

Step2 Lead in (Pre-reading) 1.

Introduce African elephants and Asian elephants. Say something about their differences. 设计意图：宏观介绍大象的相关知识，有利于拓展学生的知识面，引起学习兴趣。

2. Watch a video of elephants. Then tell something about elephants. 设计意图：视频是后期剪辑，配音制作完成的。文本内容涵盖了文章的重点词句。通过观看视频，一方面学生对文章有整体感知，同时也增加对大象的了解。

Step3 Presentation (While-reading) 1. Fast reading 1) Find the topic sentence of each para. 设计意图：该篇文章结构清晰，每段的中心句也比较明显，学生可以比较容易地找到。找到中心句，有利于学生更好地理解文章内容。

2) Choose the best title. 设计意图：通过提炼每段中心句的关键信息，可以较轻松地找到合适的标题。标题引领整篇文章，找到了标题，学生可以从整体感知文章。

2.

Careful reading

1)

Read para1.

A.

Answer questions. a. Who writes this passage? b. Why do they write it? 设计意图：通过回答who和why这两个问题，学生可以了解文章的作者和写作意图。

B. Find the importance of elephants in Thailand. Fill in the blanks. ◊The elephant is one of ________________. ◊The first _____ had _______________on it.

◊It’s a symbol of __________.

设计意图：通过漏词填空，学生可以了解大象在泰国的重要性。

2) Read para2.

A: Show some pictures of elephants. Guess what can they do? 设计意图：让学生猜大象可以做的事情，为细读第二段做铺垫。

B：Read para2. Find what elephants can do. Fill in blanks. ◊They can________________ and____________ . 设计意图：找出大象可以做的事情，可以更直观地了解smart这个关键词。

C: Find the sentence ‘An elephant never forgets.”

How do you know that? Fill in the chart. An elephant never forgets. They can _________ They can also _____________

设计意图：通过找两句话，更好地理解An elephant never forgets这句话的意思。

3) Watch a video. Answer questions.

a. How do you feel? b. What happens to elephants? 设计意图：通过看短片，更直观地看到大象的现状，为细读第三段做铺垫。

4) Read para3. a. Find what people do to elephants. 设计意图：通过了解人们对大象做的事情，能够直观感受大象的现状。

b. Find the number of elephants in Thailand. 设计意图：对比以前和现在大象的数量，直观感受大象数量减少的事实。

c. Find how to save elephants? __________________________________ __________________________________ 设计意图：找出如何保护大象，有利于实现情感目标。

5) Show animals in danger in the world. Mainly introduce giant pandas. 设计意图：简单介绍世界上其他濒危动物，主要介绍中国的国宝—大熊猫。大熊猫是中国标志性的动物，学生比较了解，也易接受。这也为下一写作活动做铺垫。

Step4. Writing (After reading)

If you are an elephant or a panda, what would you like to say to people? Write a letter to people. 设计意图：角色转换，学生更易体会濒临灭绝动物的处境，可以激发他们保护动物的热情，有利于情感目标的实现。

Step5. Homework Surf on the Internet to know more information about animals in danger.

设计意图：有利于学生更好地了解濒危动物的处境，激发保护动物的热情。