unit 4 wild animals reading i. unit 4 the second period reading on p60--62,
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Unit 4
Wild Animals Reading I
同德中学八年级英语组
单元 Unit 4
课时 The Second Period
学习内容 Reading on P60--62
课型从技能培养目
标来划分阅读课
从教学过程来划分
新授课
教学重点与具体要
求
初步理解课文 , 了解大熊猫的成长过程、面临的困难、应采取的保护措施。
• 知识目标:单词四会: outside bamboo shoot leaf sadly hunter ki
ll
farmer forest nowhere thick following danger action protect encourage land continue writer
二会: survive reserve
能够流利地朗读课文 , 并理解文章大意。
• 技能目标 :能够说出大熊猫的成长过程及保护大熊猫的措施。成长过程:be born: weigh 100 gramsten days old: look like a white mouseat four months: weigh about ten kilograms; go outside her homesix months old: eat bamboo shoots and leaveseight months later: grow into a healthy young giant panda; weigh
35 kilogramstwenty months old: have to look after herself保护措施:make reserves biggerbuild more reservesencourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves
教学内容提示 Reading• at four months• for the first time• grow into• at the very beginning• up to 14 hours a day• bamboo shoots and leaves• survive in the wild• kill it for fur• cut down trees and forests• have nowhere to live• on their own= alone• take the following actions• build reserves• encourage sb. to do sth.
教学方法提示 (8A Unit 4)
Reading 第一课时: 从熊猫的知识背景入手,导入本课新单词。Pre-reading :Activity: Brain-storming (class work)
Ss are encouraged to think of as many words as possible to describe the pictures about the giant pandas.
While-reading : This is a report on giant pandas on the Internet. Try to put these pictures into right order. Activity 1 Skimming(class work)
•Who is Xi Wang?
•How old was Xi Wang when the writer first saw her?
•What did Xi Wang look like?
•What does “Xi Wang” mean in English?
Activity 2 Scanning (group work)
1 What do we learn about Xi Wang?
2 Choose one topic to say something to your members and report to the class
The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang
Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang
Problems and Problems and actionsactions
教学方法提示 (8A Unit 4)
Post-reading
Encourage one student of each group to present his/her report on their topic to the whole class, offer some phrases and pictures for help if necessary.
Do you have friends? Do you know that we have special friends on the earth? What are they?
Can you name these wild animals in the world?
dolphin lion bear
kangaroogiraffe whale
• I am very fat.
• My fur is black and white.
• I look like a bear but I am not a bear.
• I like eating bamboo shoots and leaves.
• I am the national animal in China.
Who am I?
giant panda
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Today we’re going to learn something about giant pandas. Giant panda is a kind of wild animals that only lives in China, we Chinese people and people from all over the world love them very much. Do you love them? Introduce the background knowledge of giant pandas
New words and phrases
weigh 100 grams
重达 100 克grow into
长成bamboo shoots and l
eaves 竹笋、竹叶
hunters kill for fur
猎人为皮毛捕杀have nowhere to liv
e
无处生活
survive in the wild
在野外生存
take following actions to protect
做出以下行动来保护
encourage… to
鼓励……build more reserves
建立更多保护区
Please put the following pictures into the right order according to the growth of pandas.
2 3
4 5
1
2→3→1→5→4
Pre-reading Activity: Brain-storming (class work)
While-reading Activity 1 Skimming (class work)
• Who is Xi Wang?
• How old was Xi Wang when the writer first saw her?
• What did Xi Wang look like?
• What does “Xi Wang” mean in English?
A baby panda.
10 days old.
A white mouse.
‘Hope’.
Work in groupsWork in groups
What do we learn about Xi Wang?
The growth of Xi Wang
Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang
Problems and Problems and actionsactions
While-reading Activity 2 Scanning (group work)
Complete the form The growth of Xi Wang (Para 1 – Para 3)
Age Weight Food
1 day 1. 5.
10 days 2.
4 months 3.
8 months 4. 6.
12 months /
20 months /
100glike a little mouse
10kg35kg
her mother’s milk
bamboo shoots and leaves
• When XiWang was born, she was only 10 days old, like a _____. She weighed __________ and drank____________ for _____________ a day. At 4 months old, she weighed ___________. At 6 months old she started to eat _______________________. 8 months later, she is not a baby __________, weighed ___________.
mouse100 grams mother’s milk
up to 14 hours 10 kilo grams
bamboo shoots and leaves any more
35 kilo grams
Time Activity
1 day /
4 months start to
6 months /
12 months grow into
20 months have to
a healthy young giant panda
go outside her home for the first time
look after herself
• At 4 months, Xi Wang started to _________ for ____________, 8 months later, she _________ a healthy young giant panda. When she was 20 months old, she had to _________ herself because her mother ________________.
go outside the first time
look after
grew into
had another baby
Complete the form(Para 4 – the end )
Having some of the problems
Taking the following actions
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
If hunters catch a giant panda, they will kill it for its fur.If farmers cut down trees and forests, giant pandas will have nowhere to live.If people find baby pandas, they will often take them away.
Make giant pandas reserves bigger.
Build more new reserves.
Encourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.
• If hunters catch a giant panda, they will ____________. If farmers ________ trees and _______, giant pandas will have ________ to live. If people find baby pandas, they will often ______ them _____. So we have to build more ________ and make these reserves ______ , also we should ________ farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.
kill it for its fur cut downnowhereforests
take away reserves
encouragebigger
The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang
Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang
Problems and actionsProblems and actions
Report to the classReport to the class
Choose one topic to say something to your members and report to the class.
While-reading Activity 3 Report (class work)
The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang
like a mouse, 100 grams, up to 14 hours a day,10 kilograms, bamboo shoots and leaves,35 kilograms
Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang
for the first time, grow into, look after
Problems and actionsProblems and actions
kill for fur, nowhere to live, survive, take…away
make …bigger, more reserves, encourage
Review• at four months• for the first time• grow into• at the very beginning• up to 14 hours a day• bamboo shoots and
leaves• survive in the wild
• 在四个月时• 开始做某事• 长成…• 在刚开始的时候• 一天达到 14 小时• 竹笋 , 竹叶• 在野外生存
• kill it for fur
• cut down trees and forests
• have nowhere to live
• on their own= alone
• take the following actions
• build reserves
• encourage sb. to do sth.
• 为皮毛杀它• 砍伐树木和森林
• 无处生存• 独自• 采取下列的行动• 建立保护区• 鼓励某人做某事
Not only pandas, but also many other animals are in danger. Can you tell me what they are?
Let’s do everything we can to help these
animals!
Homework
1. Read the passages again and again.
2. As a middle school student, think of some good ideas to protect pandas,
and write them down.