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Unit4 Wildlife Protection Learning about Language Period2 Grammar: The Present Progressive Passive Voice 

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Teaching Aims:

Help the Ss recognize the useful words and expressions learnt in the passage. Help the Ss master the usage of the present progressive passive voice. Teaching Important Points: The present progressive passive voice. The basic usage of the present progressive passive voice in different situations. Teaching Difficult Point: How to help the Ss master the usage of the present progressive passive voice. 

Teaching Methods: Summarizing in group and practicing independently. 

Teaching Aid: A multi-media computer. 

Teaching Procedures: *Step I Review & Lead-in 1.

Greetings 2.

Review several sentences from the passage and translate them into Chinese. 3.

Read them carefully and summarize the common structure used in them. We’re being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you.

I wonder what is being done to help you. Good things are being done here to save local wildlife. *Step II Useful Structure

Ask the Ss to summarize the structure of the present progressive passive voice:

am/is/are being done 现在进行时的被动语态

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am/is/are being done 2.

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表示说话时或者现阶段正在进行的被动动作

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某人或某物正在被或现阶段正在被……

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Examples He is being interviewed by the reporter The car is being repaired. The World Cup is being held in Russia. 5.

Addition 介词+名词可以表示正在进行的被动动作

Many great paintings are on show. Your questions are under discussion. The telephone is in use.

*Step III Exercise Pandas are the mascot of WWF and ______________ (protect) both by WWF and the Chinese government. However, they are not the only animals in danger. Other endangered species _______________(discover) in China by WWF on a regular basis. One example is the porpoise (江豚) in the Yangtze River. They ________________

(now study) as their numbers decrease. Another is the tiger in Northeast China, which ______________ (observe) because it is almost extinct.

*Step V Homework 1. Do exercise 2 on page29 .

2. Group work:

*Surf the Internet and find some information about some other endangered animals.

*Choose one animal and prepare to tell your classmates in the next class what happened to this animal in the past, at present and in the future.

*Try to use passive voice in your presentation. *You can use PPT to help you present your work. Your presentation will last no more than 5 minutes. 

Teaching Reflection