1、Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world Period 4 (Section B 1a-2e) 一、教学目标： 知识目标：掌握本节课重点单词和句型：weigh，birth，adult, at birth，up to, An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. 能力目标：通过学习本课，学生能够描述动物的特征。 情感目标：通过本课学习，培养学生保护动物的意识。 学习策略：综合培养学生交际能力。 文化意识：培养学生保护动物的意识。 二、教学重难点 重点：复习最高级的用法。 难点
2、：能用流利英语描述动物的特征。 三、教学过程 Step 1 New words 1. weigh v. 称重 2. adult n. 成人 adj. 成年的 3. bamboo n. 竹子 4. endangered adj. 濒危的 5. research n.&v. 调查；研究 6. keeper n. 饲养员 7. awake adj. 醒着 8. excitement n. 激动 9. illness n. 疾病 10. artwork n. 插图 11. wild adj. 野生的 12. government n. 政府 Step 2 Discussion 1. Compare f
3、acts about these two animals. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences. e.g. This elephant weighs many times more than this panda. (200 cm taller/shorter, weigh much more/less, eat much more/less, eat many times more) 2. Discuss in pairs. Compare the panda and the elephant. 3. Do 1a.Ma
4、ke more sentences using the information in 1a. Step 3 Listening 1. 1b Listen and check() the numbers you hear. 1c Listen again and complete the sentences. 2. Practice. Take turns telling your classmates about pandas. A: A baby panda can not see. B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby p
5、anda. Step 4 Discussion Here are some facts about koala, use the information above to make sentences. Koala is 75 cm tall weighs 10 kilos eats leaves sleeps 20 hours a day Step 5 Reading 1. Pre-reading Talk about panda in your class. Use these words to help you. big, bamboo, zoo, popular, cute, blac
6、k and white, Sichuan, famous, endangered, beautiful, forest, protect, 2. Reading guidance: scanning This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information. 3. Reading tasks 1. 2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2000 2. 2c Scan the article ag
7、ain and write short answers to the questions. 1. What is Lin Weis job? 2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? 3. What do adult pandas eat? 4. Why are pandas endangered? 5. What is one way of saving pandas? Key: 1. A panda keeper. 2. Milk. 3. Bamboos. 4. Less forest for pandas to live. 5. Teac
8、hing children. 3. 2d Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage. 1. The panda _ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very early in the morning to _ breakfast for the baby pandas. 2. Adult pandas do not have babies very _, and some of the babies only live for a short time becau
9、se of _. 3. Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down _ so pandas have fewer places to live. 4. A special program in Chengdu teaches _ about why pandas are _ and how to save them. 5. The _ is also helping to save the pandas. Its _ more trees to make more homes for
10、the pandas. Keys: keepers, prepare, often, illnesses, trees, children, endangered, Chinese government, necessary to plant 2e Discuss what other ways you think children can help to save the pandas. Step 6 Language points 1. At birth, a baby panda is about birth v. 出生 at birth 出生时 e.g. Mans nature at
11、birth is good. 人之初，性本善。 give birth to 生（孩子）；产生 e.g. My aunt gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday. 昨天我婶婶生下一个漂亮的小女孩。 2. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years. up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于 e.g. In some area of Africa, children get educated up to 12 years old. 在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教育到 12 岁。 3. they run over w
12、ith excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over! run over 跑上前去 over adv.穿越；从的一边到另一边 e.g. She ran over to say hello, but I didnt recognize her. 她跑过来打招呼，但我没有认出她来。 walk into （走路时意外）撞上 e.g. As he was thinking too deeply and not playing attention to where he was going, he walke
13、d straight into a tree. 由于他陷入深思，没有注意看路，径直撞到了一棵树上。 fall over 摔倒；倒下 e.g. Dont run too fast, or you might fall over. 别跑的太快，要不你会摔跤的。 fall over something 被某物绊倒 e.g. Tommy fell over the dog and broke his front teeth. Tommy 被那只狗绊了一跤，磕断了门牙。 4. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in t
14、he remaining forests. living in the remaining forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰 pandas。 e.g. the girls singing under the tree 树下唱歌的女孩们 the women washing clothes by the rive 河边洗衣服的女人们 Step 7 Summary 1. cm taller/shorter 2. much /even/a little/less +比较级 3. times more than . 4. Talk about how to protect pandas. Step 8 Homework Make a list about how to save pandas. Homework 教学反思：
