Using LanguageⅡppt课件教学实录

Animal

Extinction Teaching

plan

By

zhang Yanqiong

Teaching goals

1. Target language

a. Words and expressions come into being

dinosaurs

inspect

incident

dust

according to

fierce

b. sentence

They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time. 2.

Ability goal

Enable the students to read and get more information about the dinosaurs. Enable the students to talk about the possible reasons for the disappearance of dinosaurs. Teaching important points

Read the passages about dinosaurs and find out information requested. To learn more words and useful expressions from this passage. Teaching methods

Ask-and-answer activity to check the students’ understanding of the text.

Individual, pair or group work to finish the task. Teaching aids

The Multimedia Computer, a projector and a board. Teaching procedures & ways

Step 1 Greetings and lead in Greet the whole class as usual. Then show them some pictures in order to get all of them involved in the teaching and learning process. Step 2

Fast Reading Read the passage ANIMAL EXTINCTION on page 30. Answer the questions. Q1 .When did dinosaurs live on the the earth?

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Q2. When did dinosaurs die out? Step 3. Detailed Reading Go through the reading passage together. Then fill in the blanks

You may discuss it with your partner. After a while,teacher check them together. Step4. Discussing Get the students to discuss the possible reasons for the disappearance of dinosaurs. Question:

When and why did the dinosaur die out?

Dinosaur died out suddenly about 65 million years age. Some scientists think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air. Others think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live any more. Nobody knows for sure why and how dinosaurs disappeared from the earth in such a short time. What’s your opinion? Which one do you prefer? 1. Some scientists think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air.

2. Others think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live any more. 3. The structure of Earth has changed where continents had moved, major ridge expansion took place, and land has sunken under sea or risen above water. 4. The birth rate fails to keep up with the death rate. 5. Volcanoes were active during this period of time and could have also killed the dinosaurs.

Step 5 Homework

Step6 Conclusion Conclude what we have learned in this period, then finish the exercises by yourselves and read them aloud.

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