Listening and vocabulary教学设计第二课时

Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World Period 1 Vocabulary and Listening, Pronunciation, Everyday English

Teaching Goals:

1. To enable Ss to know some skills of listening. 2. To study some daily expressions. 3. To learn the intonation in exclamations. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Check the answers to the Reading exercises in the Workbook. Step 2. Vocabulary study

Purpose: To get Ss to learn some new words. 1. Group work

Ask Ss to match the words with their definitions.

(1) dinosaur (a) A bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano or geyser

(2) carnivore

(b) a large extinct reptile living on earth ever.

(3) meteorite

(c) a stony or metallic mass that has fallen to the earth's surface

from outer space

(4) mammal (d) the act or process of radiating

(5) radiation (e) A flesh-eating animal

(6) galaxy

(7) crater

(f) a warm-blooded milk-producing animal like human being (g) A sudden, often violent outburst

(8) eruption

(h) numerous stars, gas, and dust containing large amount of solar masses Suggested Answers: (1) b (2) e

(3) c

(4) f

(5) d 2. Individual work

Let Ss do Activity 1 on page 55 and check the answers.

Suggested Answers: (1) climate

(2) extinct

(3) disappear (4) survive

(5) adapt

(6)

(6) h

(7) a

(8) g

evolve

Step 3. Listening Purpose:

● To get the main information in the listening part;

● To develop Ss’ listening ability.

1. Pre-listening

Let Ss do Activity 2 on page 56 to know something about dinosaurs. 2. While-listening

(1) Ask Ss to listen to the tape and check the answers to Activity 2 on page 56 Suggested Answers: ① c ② c

③ c

④ a (2) Ask Ss to listen again and fill the missing words in the listening passage Good afternoon, and welcome to this week’s

①

of Mysteries of Nature. Today’s topic is a

②

one--- it’s

③

, those strange creatures which

④

the earth for no less than two hundred million years, some of them were

⑤

eaters, others were like the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex, carnivores who lived off meat and who

⑥

the more peaceful plant

⑦

dinosaurs. Not all dinosaurs were big --- some were the

⑧

of chickens, and in fact the

⑨

things to dinosaurs living today are actually birds. But the

⑩

we are going to talk about today is why the dinosaurs suddenly __(11)__ exactly 66 million year ago, and to __(12)__ light on the subject we’ve invited one of the world’s foremost __(13)__ on the subject, from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, Dr Roger Binfield. Suggested Answers: ⑴ edition ⑵ big

⑶ dinosaurs

⑷ ruled

⑸ plant

⑹ attacked

⑺ eating

⑻ size

⑼ closest

⑽ mystery

⑾ disappeared

⑿ throw

⒀ experts (3) Listen to the second part and do Activity 4 and 5 on page 56.

Suggested Answers to Activity 4: ①

A meteorite hit the earth.

② They stopped evolving. ③

They killed each other

④ A volcanic eruption

⑤ Cancer caused by radiation

Suggested Answers to Activity 5:

(4) Listen to the second part again and do Activity 6 on page 56. Suggested Answers: ① F ② T

3. Post-listening Ask Ss to work in pairs and discuss which theory they think is most likely and why. Step 4. Pronunciation —

Consonants disappearing Purpose: To enable Ss to know the words which consonants disappear. 1. Pair work Show the sentences in the Pronunciation Activity 1 on the screen and ask Ss to read them out.

(1) I’ll come straight to the point.

(2) The most widely accepted theory.

(3) I think it’s the most likely explanation.

2. Individual work Ask Ss to listen to the tape. Let them pay attention to the elides. Give them the right pronunciation. Suggested Answers: (1) straight to = /

/

(2) most widely=/

/

(3) most likely=/

/

3. Pair work Ask Ss to listen to the sentences in Activity 2 and repeat the elides. Then ask them to practise more. Suggested Answers: (1) went to= /

/

(2) most fantastic= /

/

(3) didn’t take= /

/ Step 5. Everyday English Ask Ss to choose the correct answers to Everyday English

exercises and try to grasp the meaning of these expressions on page 58. Suggested Answers: (1) a

(2) b (3) a

(4) a

(5) b

(6) a

(7) b ③ F ④ F ⑤T ⑥ F ⑦ F

⑧ T

Step 6. Homework 1. Ask Ss to finish Vocabulary exercises in the Workbook on pages 98~99. 2. Ask Ss to preview Grammar and Function.