Learning about Language教案2

Unit 4: Wildlife Protection

Using language: Speaking & writing Step 1: Learning Aims •

Answer questions about wildlife’s living conditions after watching a video about wildlife. •

make an animal ID card by using expressions to show intention and purpose

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tell the differences between formal and informal letter, and then complete a formal letter of advice to WWF Step2：Guess the names of the wildlife watch the video and answer these questions: 1.How many animals are there in the video? who are they? ______________________________________________________________ 2.What about their living conditions now? ______________________________________________________________

Step 4: animal ID card.

Read the passage and fill dodo’s ID card

Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth.The most famous of these animals are dinosaurs.They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time.There were many different kinds of dinosaur and a number of them used to live in China.The eggs of twenty-five species have been found in Xixia,County,Nanyang, Henan Province.Not long ago a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Chaoyang County,Liaoning Province.When scientists inspeacted the bones,they were surprised to find that these dinosaurs could not only run like the others but also climb trees.They learned this from the way the bones were joined together.

Dinosaurs died out suddenly about 65 million years ago. Some scientists think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air.Others think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more.Nobody knows for sure why and how dinosaurs disappeared from the earth in such a short time.

We know many other wild plants, animals,insects and birds have died out more recently.According to a UN report,some 844 animals and plants have disappeared in the last 500 years.The dodo is one of them.It lived on the Island of Mauritius and was a very friendly animal.Please listen to a story of the dodo and how it disappeared frome the earth.

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Name: dodo Living place:________________ Species: ___________________ Abilities: ____________________ ___________________________

Step 5: An anouncement(呼吁) to people (Write on your color paper) Step 6: write a formal letter to WWF Possible reasons of disappearance: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________1.

read and think about how to write a formal letter (Dear WWF,

I am writing to you because so many wildlife animals are endangered nowadays, this is my advice to save them.

First, I suggest collecting money to provide medical care for them. Many of them are dead because of disease, so they need a medical aid to keep healthy.

Second, many people are not aware of the importance of wildlife animals. So you could acknowledge them through different media.

Last but not least, I suggest collecting fund for the most endangered species so that they can be under special care.

I am sure that under your long-term protection, more and more endangered species will survive. )

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write a letter of your own to WWF Dear WWF, _______________________________________________________________________________(writing purpose). This is some advice to save them. First,_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________(suggestion and purpose 1) Second,______________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________(suggestion and purpose 2) Last but not least, ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________(suggestion and purpose 3) ___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________（summary and hope）

Homework：

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Swap(交换) your letter with your deskmates. You must check if his/her letter is right in form. And in addition, you can also correct spelling or grammar errors.(necessary) •

Think of a slogan for wildlife protection and share it with classmates.(if possible)

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