Learning about Language优秀说课稿

Unit 4 Wildlife Protection

Leaning about language

Teaching

Plan

designed by Fuyunying from No.1 senior high school of Tonghai

Teaching goals: Enable the students to use the words and expressions of wildlife protection. Enable the students to develop the ability to write and speak out .

Learning ability goals : Help the students use the words and expressions of wildlife protection.

Teaching important points

: Enable the students to use the important words of this unit correctly and properly, develop the ability to write and speak out.

Teaching difficult points: How to use the words and expressions to express their ideas.

Teaching methods : practicing, speaking and discussing.

Teaching aids: The Multimedia Computer, a projector and a board. Teaching procedures & ways

Step I Revision Get the students to review some important words and expressions in this unit. wildlife

protection

loss

decrease

powerful

die out

respond

burst into laughter

in danger of

importance

contain

succeed

distant

relief

protect from

affect

pay attention to

appreciate

hunt

Step II Discovering useful words and expressions ( P 28 , Exercise 1 ) T: Now , try to find the word or expression for each of the following meanings from the text. I wil give you three minutes to prepare. After three minutes , ask some students to answer the question .

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2.

3.

4.

5.

________ far away in space or time ________

go down to a lower level ________ able to control events ________

to do something to make a change ________

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 Step III Exercise 2 Complete the passage with the words and phrase below in their proper forms.(P28 4’)

protect … from

wild

powerful

appreciate

hunt

relief

species

reserve

T: Please read through the passage and then fill in the blank with proper words, four minutes for you . After four minutes , ask the students the answer. 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 several her horn loudly until the lion turned and walked away .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!

Step IV Exercise 3

Find the words that are related to wildlife protection in this unit and fit them into the boxes below. a.

The teacher guide students to say some words or phrases about animals’ places , endangered species and situations.

Team work and discussion T: Four students for a group to make sentences about the endangered species using the words above. Try to use your imagination and try to work together. Three minutes for you to discuss. Ss:…

After three minutes ,ask the representative of each group to show their ideas. Sample:The South China tiger has been over-hunted has nearly died out.

S1: …

S2:…

S3:…

T: Well done. Now let’s watch a short video. Step V

Watch a short video by Jacky Chen T: How do you feel after watching the video ? Ss: sad , angry ,disappointed , annoyed …

T：Maybe you have all kinds of feelings. Now, write down what you might do to save them, then exchange your sentences with your partner. Step VI Speaking and Writing Ask Ss to write down some sentences about their feeling by using the useful expressions below. First write down the sentence and then exchange their ideas with partner. They will be given three minutes to finish the task.

1. habitat

2. Tibet 3. Zimbabwe

4.Indonesia 5. Wolong Nature Reserve 6. Nanhaizi Milu Park 7. rainforest 8. Natural Protection Zone

Places

Wildlife protection Situation

Endangered species

South China tiger antelope rhino Milu deer elephant monkey die out under protection threaten

decrease endangered loss

Purpose

Intention

I’m going to …

to help/save…

I intend/mean to protect … from

/plan to …

so that …

I will …

in order to…

I’d like to …

but do…

I’d rather not …

to teach them a lesson

I’m ready to …

to punish those who do

I feel like …

harm to wild life

T: Now time is up , I’d like you to show us your idea. This is my opinion , what’s your opinion ?

Nowadays, many wild animals are facing the danger of extinction, so measures should be taken to protect wild animals. I intend to plant more trees to protect animals so that they have their own home…

S1: …

S2: …

S3: …

S15:…

About 15 students will show their ideas to us .

Step VII

Homework

T: It’s everyone’s duty to protect wild animals , they are friends of human beings . So try our best to get everyone around us to cherish and protect animals. Step VIII

Learn a song

T: Finally , let’s learn a song to remember today’s lesson. Guide the students to sing a song named earth song.