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Unit 4 Wildlife Protection

Reading

How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife

Teacher:Yang Hongqin

Teaching Aims:

1. Let the students know some basic information about the endangered animals and wildlife situation and protection. 2. Encourage Ss to think and express their attitude towards the wildlife and the wildlife protection.

3. Help Ss understand the importance of the wildlife protection and make them be more active in the helping wildlife.

Teaching Key Points:

1. To train the reading comprehension to the whole passage 2. To improve Ss’ ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. Enhance the students reading skills in the passage.

Teaching aids:

Blackboard, books, and other normal teaching tools. Teaching methods：

1.Co-operative learning

2.Activity-based teaching (individual work; group work; class work)

3.Students-centered approach & Task-based teaching and learning

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1: Lead-in

Task 1: Group Work

Give some familiar pictures about wildlife in oder to draw the students’ attentions, and then bring the question: Do you think what wildlife are? Encourage Ss to discuss the question with each other and then solve the question together. (through this way,it can enliven the atmosphere of the class

Task 2: Class Work

In oder to help Ss get as much background knowledge about wildlife as possible,I willset up some related questions to make the whole class conclude what on earth mainly cause these wild animals in danger of disappearing. After discussing, Ss should mention the following reasons: Food shortage, pollution, destruction of habitats, and over-hunting. Meanwhile, teacher brings up the conception of “wildlife protection” in time.

Step 2: Listening Task

To strengthen students' listening ability and the ability of catching some sensitive information.Play the tape of the reading passage, and ask Ss to finish the following questions, and tick all the mentioned words out while listening:

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1. What places did Daisy go?

A. Tibet China

B. rain forest

C. WWF

D. Zimbabwe

2. How many animals did she meet?

What are they?

A. antelope

B. elephant

C. monkey

D. mosquitoes

3. What helps Daisy meet the wildlife?

A. By a flying chair

B. By a flying broom

C. By a flying carpet

Step 3:Fast Reading （阅读）

Task 1:

Read the passage quickly and silently. try to find out the main idea. Then answer the following question:

The passage is mainly about ______. A. some protection of wildlife B. a journey of a flying carpet C. Daisy’s wonderful experience with some animals Task 2:

Read the passage again and fill in the table within given time.

First visit

Second visit

Third visit

Purpose: To train Ss to go through the passage quickly to get some special information neglect other information. Step 4: Careful Reading

Task 1: Read the passage and draw lines under phrases or sentences which you don’t understand.

Task 2: Finish the true( T ) or false ( F ) questions, and try to correct the false.

1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.

2. Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.

3. The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.

4. The farmers in Zimbabwe get much money from the elephants and rhinos now. 2

Animal she met

Places she went

5. This is a real story in Daisy’s life.

Suggested answers:

F F F T F

Task 3: Answer the following questions on the screen.

1. Antelope in Tibet become endangered because:

A. they are killed by other animals for food.

B. The environment is badly polluted.

C. People kill them to use their fur.

D. their food chain(食物链) is cut off.

2. The farmers hunted the Zimbabwe elephants without mercy because

A. they wanted to sell the elephants for money

B. their families were attacked with no compensations received.

C. the number of elephants was so large that they eat too much food.

D. Their farm were destroyed but they didn’t get any money from tourists.

3. It can be learned from the text that

A. the Zimbabwe government did a good job in saving the elephants.

B. the rainforest produces drugs that are good for millipede insects

C. the farmers also got some money from tourists after the WWF helped.

D. mosquitos help protect moneys from millipede insects.

4. It can be inferred from the text that next Daisy would

A. go and buy a flying carpet

B. work with WWF to help wildlife

C. laugh over what she had experienced

D. cry because she could not make her new drug.

Suggested answers:

C D A B

Purpose: To train Ss the ability of combining the skimming with scanning together.

Step 6: Homework Assignment .

In this class, we have learned the great urgency of the wildlife protection. As a student, what should we do to protect the wild animals? List your own opinions and organize your words to write a short passage about your solutions.

Purpose: To cultivate Ss to write down their own opinions and help train their writing abilities.

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