Learning about Language教学设计实例

Unit4 Wildlife protection

Learning about language Teaching Aims: 1.Knowledge aims a. Enable students recognize and consolidate the useful words and expressions learned from last class: distant, decrease, appreciate, hunt, protect...from, respond, relief, etc.

2.Ability aims Encourage the students to finish the exercise by themselves. Improve their ability to analyze and solve problems.b. Improve students’ skills of talking about sentences by forming the words and expressions wildlife protection found by themselves.

3.Emotional aims Help improve students’ awareness of protecting wildlife and taking. Teaching important points:

Get students understand the words and expressions by finishing the exercise containing a passage. Teaching difficult points: Find related words about wildlife protection and make them into sentences. Teaching aid: A multi-media computer Teaching Procedures: Step1: Revision (5Mins) 1.

Greetings 2.

Make students read aloud the words and expressions of the unit. Step2: Useful words and expressions (16mins) 1.

Finish Exercise1 on Page 28 T: Now please complete the exercises 1 on Page 28 independently. (3mins later) T: Now let’s check the answers. (Ask some students to share the answers and the rest to correct.) The suggested answers:

(1. distant

2.decrease

3.powerful

4.affect

5.appreciate

6.

hunt

7.protect...from

8.respond

9.relief) 2.

Finish Exercise 2 on Page28 and ask student to summarize the main idea of the passage.

T: Very good. Now please finish Exercise 2 by choosing the words and fill in the blanks.

(5mins later) T: Now let’s check the answers. (Ask some students to share the answers and the rest to correct.) The suggested answers: wild, reserve, hunt, species, powerful, appreciate, relief, protecting, from. T: Excellent. Now let’s try to retell the story. You’d better find some key words to form a sentence. One possible version: Wendy Lee, a famous photographer, protected a special species of zebra with black and white lines beneath its stomach. Step3: Brainstorming and discussion (18mins) Ask the students to discuss in groups of four to brainstorm the words related to wildlife protection and form sentences with these words or expressions. T: Now try to discuss in groups of four to think of the words and expressions about protecting wildlife. (Ask some students to share their ideas) One possible version:

Endangered species: south China tiger, panda, tropical rainforest wildlife, Milu deer, Tibetan antelope, African elephant.

Places: habitat, reserve protection zone, reserve animal park , nature park, safari park. Situations:die out, extinct, extinction, appreciate the importance, pay attention to, affect, wildlife protection, punish the hunters, in relief, in peace, decrease, decline, threaten, protect … from, protection, increase

loss endanger, hunted, killed, threatened, do harm to …

Step4: Homework (1 min)

Finish making sentences about the endangered species using the words in exercise 3.