Unit 4 Creatures large and small教学设计及教案分析

Unit Four Animals Large and Small

Type: listening and speaking Teaching Plan

Leaning Objectives By the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1.

obtain and summarize key information of a listening material about giraffes: size and appearance, living habits, habitats and ability 2.

learn expressions describing an animal’s size and appearance, living habits, habitats and

ability 3.

describe an animal in terms of its size and appearance, living habits, habitats and ability 4.

realize the importance of protecting animals PowerPoint, an audio clip Teaching Procedures

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(2mins)

Purpose

Listening (6mins)

Purpose

Have a quick review of how the spiders are described in the Reading part. To introduce the topic on how to describe an animal. Guide the students to listen to an audio clip introducing giraffes. Then encourage them to summarize the animal’s

main features introduced in the audio clip: size and appearance, living habits, habitats and ability.

To help the students get the key information of the listening material about giraffes: description of the giraffes’

size and appearance, living habits, habitats and ability.

Listening

Listen to the audio clip again with a focus on sentence patterns and expressions (12mins) describing giraffes’ size and appearance, living habits, habitats and ability, and finish worksheet1.

To learn sentence patterns and expressions describing an animals’ size and Purpose

appearance, living habits, habitats and ability. Speaking

Guide the students to choose one animal on the slide, describe it in pairs with (8mins) the sentence patterns just learned.

Purpose

Speaking

(12mins)

Purpose

Homework To encourage the students to use the sentence patterns to describe a given animal to each other. Guide the students to work in groups to imagine what animals will be like in the future in order to survive.

To encourage the students to describe an animal that they think will be endangered as well as to arouse their awareness of protecting animals. Write a passage on this topic: Search information about endangered animals on the internet, choose one that you are interested in, write a passage to describe it and give suggestions on how to protect it. Aids

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