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Unit 4

Wildlife protection Learning about Language ●教学目标

(1)熟记学案中所列出的单词和短语。

(2)通过学案中所给出的重点单词和重点短语的学习，让学生能够正确理解和使用这些单词和短语，能够运用这些词语造句。

(3)通过对语法的教学让学生能够理解并能够运用现在进行时的被动语态。

●教学地位

语法是学生感到比较难以掌握的东西。让学生正确理解和掌握语法知识是让学生学好英语的关键，所以应给学生创设一个语境，让学生理解该语法的应用，而不要让学生死记硬背语法条文，应从理解的基础上去运用这些语法。

●新课导入建议

通过对学生作业的检查导入本堂新课。

●教学流程设计

让学生就“课堂互动探究”(见学案第53页)进行讨论，让学生各自发表自己的见解，然后让各个讨论组派代表汇报各自讨论结果。

老师针对难点和重点词汇进行讲解，并补充学案中所遗漏的重点词汇，补充一些必要的练习。

布置作业。让学生完成课本第29页1、2、3题，预习学案Period Ⅳ(见学案第55页。

●P28习题讲解

Discovering useful words and expressions. Exercise 1: 1.

distant far away in space or time. 2.

decrease to go down to a lower level. 3.

powerful able to control events. 4.

affect to do something to make a change. 5.

appreciate to understand how serious a situation is. 6.

hunt to run after animals in order to kill or catch them. 7.

protect … from to keep someone or something safe from harm.

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respond to do something as a reaction to something done or said. 9.

relief feeling of comfort when something worring has ended or not happened. Exercise 2: 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 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! 1.

wild 2.reserve 3.hunt 4.species 5.powerful 6.appreciated 7.relief 8.protecting ...from Key phrases: 1.

the local game reserve 当地野生自然保护区

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a special species species是以复数形式出现的单复数同形

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appreciate the danger 意识到危险

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in protecting the zebra 动名词短语做介词in的宾语

Exercise 3: Habitat: reserve, natural park Wildlife protection:panda, Milu deer, Tibetan antelope Situations:pay attention to, in relief, threaten, endanger Ask Ss to make sentences,various answers are possible. The aim of these exercises is to reuse the new words so Ss become more familiar with them.

●本单元语法：

现在进行时的被动语态

UNIT 4 --GrammarThe Present Continuous Passive Voice现在进行时被动语态

active voicepassive voiceSusan is cooking dinner. Dinner is being cookedby Susan. They are designing the car.You are using our fur to make sweaters.An exciting elephant is watching her.The car is being designed.Our fur is being usedto make sweaters. She is being watched by an exciting elephant.

Ask Ss to read these sentences and try to understand the differences between the active voice and passive voice.

Grammar现在进行时的被动语态The present continuous passive voice表示“某人/事此时此刻正在被…”, 主语是动作的承受者。

现在进行时的被动语态1.肯定形式：am/is/are＋being＋过去分词The house is being painted. 房子正在被粉刷。2.否定形式:am/is/are＋not＋being＋过去分词The trees are not being watered.3.疑问形式:Am/Is/Are＋主语＋being＋过去分词？Am I being watched over?4.特殊疑问句的形式: 把特殊疑问词放在一般疑问句前面。How manybridges are being built in the village?

Ask Ss to take notes.

主动语态变被动语态“三变”:原句主语变为by短语宾语变为主语谓语由主动变为被动“三不变”:原句意思不变原句时态不变原句主谓宾以外成分不变。They are building nine parks.→Nine parks are being built by them.→How many parks are being built?

Ask Ss to take notes. Look at the pictures and read them out one by one. 现在进行时的被动语态基本用法：1.表示现在正在进行的被动动作。eg:Mary is being interviewednow.

My car is being repairednow.

2.表现阶段正在进行的被动动作。The disease is being studiedat present by scientists.

The habitat of the panda is being studiedat present .现在正在研究熊猫的生活环境。

3. 少数及物动词的进行时表示按计划、安排将要承受某个动作。An party is being held tonight.今晚将要举办一场晚会。4. 有些动词进行时的主动形式就可以表示被动的意思,常见的这些动词有:print, cook, fry, bake, burn, hang.e.g. The house is burning.The meat is cooking.

5. 在某些“介词+名词”的短语也可以表示正在进行着的被动,常见的这些介词有: on, undere.g. Many new cars are on show.= Many new cars are being showed.Your questions are under discussion.= Your questions are being discussed.

6. 有些表“状态,心理活动,情感”等的动词,常用一般现在时的被动语态表示“正在进行”。e.g. You are wantedon the phone.MP3 is becoming more and more popular. In other words, it is lovedby more and more people.

Do some exercises together. Ask Ss to give me their answers and see whether they have grasped the grammar.

Practiceis being built1. A new cinema _____________ (built) here. They hope to finish it next month. are being cut2. Rainforests _____________ (cut) and burned at near future.

请找出下列各句中的错误并改正。being1. Look! A frog is swallowed by a snake over there. being hunted2. These animals are hunting at such a speed that they will disappear soon.3. Will you go with me to see the film that is shown tonight? being

be + under / in + n.可代替进行时被动语态e.g. The city is under attackat the moment.The city is being attackedat the moment. 目前这个城市正遭到进攻。e.g. The bridge is under repair.The bridge is being repaired.桥梁正在修理中。

Discovering useful structures. 1.

Can you find the following sentences in the reading passage? Pay attention to the verb tense. Then pick out four more sentences using the present progressive passive voice from the passage. We are being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. •Answers Ex1 :(P29)We are being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs.1.Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you.2.I wonder what is being done to help you.3.Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant.4.So good things are being done here to save local wildlife.

2.Try and see if you can help fill in the following form.

•Answers Ex2 :(P29)•The rhino is being studied by Beijing University students.•The African elephant is being protected by the WWF.•The Tibetan antelope is being hunted by people who wish to take the fur from under their stomachs.

•The panda is being photographedby Daisy.•The whales are being killedby Japanese fishermen.•The mice are being attackedby the cat.•They are being kept in a reserve near Beijing.•It is being protected by the government of the countries where it lives.•It is being destroyed the poor formers who want land to grow crops.•They are being used to make drugs to protect people from mosquitoes.

Homework 1.Try to remember the key words and phrases learnt in this part. 2.Understand and grasp the grammar in this uint.