山东省莱芜市钢城新兴路学校高中英语 Module6 TheSixth Period Integrating Skills教案

The Sixth Period Integrating Skills

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

attack, hurt, scientific, Komodo dragon, mirror, drown,

b. 重点句子 P101

Why do you think people kill so many animals?

What have you learnt from the conversation?

Without these, it would have been impossible to lift the very large animals like elephants.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn to write a report and a postcard according to their lists or notes.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Enable the students to learn how to make a list or make some notes before they write something.

Teaching imporant & difficult points教学重难点

Get the students to learn to make lists or notes before they write something. Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape-ecorder.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Listening, discussion and writing.

Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Revision

Check the students’ homework.

T: Have you finished the homework?

Ss: Yes.

T: Good! Present yours to the other students please. Who’d like to tell us something that can be good about zoos?

S1: Let me have a try. As most of the zoos are located in the centre of the cities, it is very convenient for people to visit them. And it is also a good place to children love and understand the importance of animals and nature.

S2: The animals in zoos are taken good care of. They don’t have to worry about their food. When they fall ill, they can get timely treatment. The animals are relatively safe there and some endangered animals can get artificial breeding. S3: Some animals are on the list of endangered species. The ir number is decreasing day by day. If they are kept in the zoos, which can help them avoid being killed. Besides, the environment in which they live is becoming worse; they can be guarded in the zoos.

T: Very good! Who can tell us something that is bad about zoos?

S4: The animals in the zoos are used to being fed, so they will lose t heir ability to live in the wild. Some of their enemies will not compete with them for food, so they will lose their vigour.

S5: Most zoos are too small for the animals to run f reely and they have no chance to hunt anything or do other things as in the wild, so their living ability in the wild has decreased, especially their resisting ability against diseases is dropping day by day.

S6: As most of the zoos are located in the center of the cities, they easily cause traffic jam or accidents. And maybe the animals in zoos can cause air pollution. Animals’ attacking on visitors or the workers there is also a problem.

T: A great job!

Step II Listening

Get the students to do the listening (Activities 4, 5 and 6) in vocabulary and listening.

T: Today we are going to do some listening practice. Now turn to page 56 and do Activity 4. In the Activity a volunteer may talk about many different kinds of animals. But it is the elephant that they are most likely to talk about. Do you know the reason? Ss: Because the elephant is the most famous and useful animal in South Africa. T: You’re quite right. Now listen to the tape and find out what William Norris’job is. And you should catch the main idea of the passage.

Then check the answers.

T: Now we will listen to the tape once again and finish Activities 5 and 6. Then check the answers.

Step III Listening and speaking (WORKBOOK P100-101)

Get the students to do the activities in Listening and speaking.

T: Now turn to page 100. I’ll play the tape for you to listen and do Activities 10, 11 and 12, but you should go through the a ctivities first.

Then play the tape and after a while check the answers.

T: Look at Activity 13. Now write a report using the list you made in your homework. Have you finished your report?

Ss: Yes.

A sample version:

Zoos have some advantages and some disadvantages. As most of the zoos are located in the centre of the cities, it is very convenient for people to visit them. And it is also a good place to cultivate the children’s love for life and promote their understanding of animals and nature. The animals in zoos are taken good care of. They don’t have to worry about their food and they can get enough nutrients. When they fall ill, they can get timely treatment. The animals are relatively safe there and some endangered animals can get artificial breeding. Besides, some endangered animals are kept in zoos, which can help them avoid being killed. But on the other hand, zoos’ locating in the center of cities can cause traffic jam or accidents. Owing to the lack of friends, some animals feel lonely. Some can’t get used to the climate there in zoos. Most zoos are too small for the animals to run freely and they have no chance to hunt anything or do other things as in the wild, so their living ability in the wild has decreased especially their hunting ability and their resisting ability are dropping from generation to generation. Besides, animals in zoos may cause air pollution.

Step IV Speaking and writing (WORKBOOK P101-102)

Get the students to do the exercises in Speaking and writing.

T: Now go through the headings in Activity 14 and then read the passage to match them with the paragraphs.

A few minutes later.

T: OK. Now do Activity 15. Who’d like to tell us your answers?

S1: An elephant called Kadir.

S2: It was difficult to save the animals.

S3: One of the seals, Gaston, swam 120 kilometers.

S4: Four hundred animals were saved.

T: Good! Now do Activity 16 and make your notes. Then write a post card to a friend at home about what happened according to your notes in Activity 16.

A sample version:

When the terrible flood struck Prague Zoo, I happened to be standing at a platform watching some lovely monkeys jumping and playing on some pil low trees. Suddenly the cages of some animals were swept open by the rough water and the animals were washed away before they knew what had happened. I could hear the crying and roaring from some animals and see some reptiles struggling in the water. Some luck birds were also singing anxiously on trees. At the moment I sa w a pillow tree before me was falling down, on which a few monkeys were hanging, so I tried to support it with my back. A couple of people saw this and they joined me. At last the tree didn’t fall over and the monkeys were saved.

Step V Homework

1. Exchange your postcard with the other students.

2. Preview the new words and expressions in the next unit.