Saving the antelopes
Teaching goals:
1. Language knowledge goals:
1)Key words: endanger, antelope, poacher, freezing, confiscate, altitude
2)Key phrases: give one’s life to, thanks to, in danger, be\get tough with sb
3)Key sentence patterns:
Although surprised, the poachers had an advantage-there were more of them.
Often working at night, the poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time, leaving only the babies,whose wool is not worth so much.
2. Language skill goals:
a.To know sth about the endangered antelopes.
b.To improve the students’reading ability.
c.Enable the students talk about how to protect animals.
3.Emotional attitude goals:
a.Cultivate the students’awareness of loving animals and the nature as well as protecting the environment. Also encourage the students to take an active part in social practice and exploration.
b.Guide the students to learn how to cooperate with others.
c.Help the students further enhance the ability of self-study.
4. Learning Strategy goals:
Train students’cognition strategy, regulation strategy, communication strategy, resource strategy, self-learning strategy, and cooperative learning strategies through cooperative discussions, games, contests, and other forms of activities.
Teaching important points:
a. key sentence patterns: Although surprised(V-ed as adverbial), leaving only the babies(V-ing as adverbial of result)
b.key topics: How to protect animals in danger
Teaching difficult points:
a.Improve the students’reading ability ,simultaneously train the students to capture the key sentence and seize the key information.
b. Get students to talk about how we can protect the animals through group cooperation.
Teaching methods:
Task-based teaching methods, reading, pair or group work, discussion.
Teaching aids:
A multi-media computer& a tape recorder& a blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step1.Presentation
I.Four students in a group to list the animals which are rare in our country.
II.Show some pictures of giant panda, siberian tiger,the Tibetan antelopes,and the struggles between the protectors and poachers.Then play a film part named 可可西里.
III.Students talk about the reasons why many kinds of wild animals are in danger.(group work)
IV. Students work in pairs to make an interview (In this pair-work activity, students will use an interview format to practise talking about animals and animal protection.)
Questions:1. Have you ever read or heard of the Tibetan antelopes?
2. How much do you know about it?
Purpose:Arouse students’interest and introduce the new lesson.
Step2.New Words
Teacher shows the English definitions of new words and then asks them to guess the Chinese meanings of the words.
Purpose:Let students remember the new words and improve students’ ability of guessing words.
Step3. Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the question. Books closed.
Is the number of the Tibetan antelope increasing or decreasing? Why?
Purpose:Improve students’listening ability.
Step4. Fast reading
I. Decide if these sentences are true (T) of false (F).
II.Summarize the main idea for each paragraph.(pair work)
Purpose:Improve students’ability of obtaining information as quickly as possible.
Step5.Careful reading
I. Choose the best answer for each question.
II. Find out the difficult sentences and language points by themselves, then put forward any questions if they have and solve them together.
III. Ask students to make sentences and do some translation exercises using the sentences patterns or language points which they just dealt with.
IV. Retell the text according to the numbers below.
50,000 $ 5,000 1975 138 2% 3000 1997
Purpose:let students understand the text and sentence structure throughly
Step 6. Consolidation
Fill in the blanks according to the text.
Purpose:Improve students’ability of summarizing the text.
Step7.Discussion
Discuss in groups to say what we students can do to help the animals.
Ask one student from each group to present their ideas.
Purpose:Strengthen students’sense of protecting the wildlife and do their best to do it.
Step8.Homework
Read the description of the Siberian tiger.Write a similar description of African Elephant according to the tips(150 words).
The Siberian tiger is the largest member of the cat family.It can be found in forest in parts of Siberia(Russia)and Northeast China. It feeds mainly on medium sized mammals such as deer or wild pigs,but is also known to eat fish. The Siberian tiger used to be hunted for its body parts,which wre used in traditional medicine. Today the species is on the brink of extinction.only about 1,000 survive, most of them in Siberia. There are about 500 in China, some of which are in the Hunchun Reserve in Jilin Province.
Animal: African Elephant Description:world’s biggest land animal(5 tons) Habitat:forest,river valleys,semidesert south of Sahara Desert,Africa Food:grass,leaves,fruit Why in danger:hunted for ivory Numbers left:400,000(1,3 million in 1980)
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