Reading 1: A trip to the zoo含PPT的教学设计及点评

Unit 4 Finding your way Reading (I)

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. talk about different animals in the zoo with new words and phrases; 2. tell people where the place for each kind of animal is; 3. scan the passage to find the special information.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: everybody, straight, on, bamboo, along, road, king, remember, that, dangerous, sound, forest, funny, laugh, giraffe, quite, neck, leaf, north-east, bridge, cross, all day long, make beautiful sounds, make people laugh 2. New structures: Go straight on and you’ll find the Panda House.

Walk along the road.

Turn left, and to the west of the Lion’s Area, you’ll find the World of Birds.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. Talk about the looks and the habits of the animals. 2. Learn how to get around the zoo.

IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in Free talk T:where are the students from Class 1,Grade 7 going for their class trip? S: To the Sunshine Zoo 【设计意图：通过生活中熟悉的场景，导入到参观动物园这一主题。】

Step 2 Pre-reading 1. Road signs T: Today the tour guide is going to lead the students to Sunshine Zoo. To help the students learn more about the zoo, she is showing them some road signs now.

What does this sign mean? What about this one? What should you do when you see this sign?

【设计意图：在阅读课文前，了解路标的含义，为后面的教学做铺垫。】

2. Animals in the zoo T: Now the tour guide is showing the students some pictures of animals.

(1) What is the animal in the first picture?

What does the panda look like? Learn the new words: panda, cute/ lovely (2) What are the animals in the picture?

What do you think of lions?

Learn the new words: king, dangerous; the king of the animal world (3) Do you know what this animal is?

What is special about this animal? What do they eat?

Learn the new words: giraffe, neck, leaf, (4) What is the largest animal on land?

What do its ears look like?

Learn new words:

open fan 【设计意图：结合图片，让学生初步了解课文涉及的动物，并学习部分新词。】

Step 3 While-reading 1. Fast reading

T: Read the passage on page 44 quickly and answer the following questions. (1) How many kinds of animals are mentioned in the article? (2) What are they?

【设计意图：通过快速阅读，让学生大致了解课文内容。】

2. Intensive reading

(1) Pandas

T: Watch the video and answer the following questions. Where will the students start their trip? Mark it on the map.

What animals are they going to see first?

Where do pandas live? Point out where the Panda House is on the map.

What do you know about pandas? Do people like pandas?

(2) Lions

What are the students going to see next?

How should they get there?

Where are the lions? T: Read this paragraph together and try to get more details.

Lions are dangerous. We should never go near them

(3) Birds What animals will they see next? Where are the birds? Point out where they are on the map. How can we get there? Can you say more about birds? Complete the table.

(4) Monkeys What can the students see if they walk on?

Where do Monkeys live?

Where is it?

What do you thinks of monkeys? Fill in the blanks.

(5) Giraffes and elephants Are there any other animals to see? What are they? Listen to the tour guide’s introduction and find the answers.

Read the paragraph and mark where these two animals are on the map. What do giraffes and elephants look like? Fill in the blanks.

【设计意图：通过听、读等形式，将文章中所涉及的各个动物的地理位置、样貌特点等梳理清楚，让学生基本了解文章的主要内容。】

Step 4 Post-reading 1. True or false questions

T: Read the whole passage again and tell if the statements about the zoo are right or not. 2. Complete the conversation

T: Millie is telling Wendy about Sunshine Zoo. Complete their conversation. Ask students to read the dialogue in roles. 3.Group work Make a similar dialogue with your partner. A: excuse me , we’d like to see __________, where are they? B: They are____________. A : Anything fun about them? B:__________________. Ask students to work in pairs and talk about all the animals in the zoo.

Ask some students to act it out. 【设计意图：通过模拟现实场景，让学生在现实生活中运用所学知识。通过小组合作形式积分，促进学生的互动和积极性。】

Step 5 Conclusion

Make a conclusion about all the animals in the zoo, and make a summary about how to read signs and give directions. Step 6 Finish the exercise

Finish the exercise and check the answers

Read the passage together V. Homework

Recite the whole passage. 【设计意图：课后巩固本节课所学的阅读策略】