1、 Unit 4 Wildlife protection (必修 2 ) 学习目标和要求 (一) 语言知识 Items Studying aims and demands Words 名 词: wildlife, protection, enemy, loss, reserve, area, zone, peace, fur, stomach, mosquito 动 词:hunt, apply, suggest, rub, contain, affect, bite, intend 形容词:wild, thick, powerful, fierce, unkind, lazy 副 词:recen
2、tly Expression as a result (of), die out, in peace, in danger, protect from, pay attention to, come into being Functional items 1. 谈论意图和目的(Intentions & purposes) Im going to I feel like doing I would rather not I intend/ mean/ plan to Id like to do I will do Im ready to do 2. 表示道歉 (Apologies) Im so
3、sorry that Im afraid that Thank you very much but Its a shame that It was very nice of you but Grammar 现在进行时的被动语态 Animals are being hunted and killed. The environment is being destroyed. Topic Wildlife protection: the importance of wildlife protection, ways to protect wild plants and animals (二)语言技能
4、 学习用英语谈论“意愿和目的” 、表示“道歉”的方法,以“野生动物保护”为话题发 表意见,进行交流。在了解野生动物面临濒危的基础上,引导学生通读 How Daisy learn to help wildlife 这篇短文,并进行全面整体理解,引发思考,达到强化学生语言意识,积累语 言经验的目的。同时学习用英语书信来表达自己的意见,逐步熟悉书信的格式和写作要点。 (三)学习策略 : 通过对现在进行时被动语态的学习培养学生的认知策略;引导学生对自己的学习过程、 学习困难等进行分析,以培养学生的调控策略;鼓励学生用英语对“野生动物保护的重要性 及保护措施”这个话题发表的不同观点和看法,以培养交际策略
5、。 (四)情感态度和文化意识 正确理解“野生动物保护”的重要性,树立保护动物保护环境的意识,学会如何制约 自己的行为从而与动物及自然和谐地相处,并学会如何正确表达自己的意愿与思想情感。了 解互相合作对野生动物保护的重要意义和价值。 教学安排 课时 教学内容 1 Warming-up & reading( ) 2 Reading() & Comprehending 3 Learning about language (the passive voice using the present continuous tense) 4 Using language: Reading & listenin
6、g 5 Using language: Speaking & writing 6 Summing up &Assessment Teaching Design (教学设计) Period 1: Warming-up & reading() Learning Aims To talk about endangered species To read about wildlife protection Learning Procedures I. Warming up I believe we have made many friends now. And today we will go on
7、to get some information about another friend of us. That is animals. Do you like animals? Which animal do you like best? Why? But nowadays some animals need our help. Why? What happened to them? (endangered: food, habitat, environment, human) Can you give some example? Lets look at some pictures. (P
8、anda, Milu deer, South China tiger.) Why are they endangered? Whats the situation now? (Then show the report on P25) . Reading How about other wildlife? How about their situations? Lets go with Daisy to visit some of them and learn how to protect wildlife. 1.Fast-reading Look through the passage on
9、P26 with the following two questions: 1.What is the passage mainly about? Its about Daisys wonderful experience with some animals in her dream. 2.What happened to the following animals? 2. Careful- reading Read with the tape for detailed information. Part 1. the situation for antelopes Antelopes The
10、y are likely to disappear altogether Elephants and rhinos They are being protected by the local government. The monkey It is unhappy with the way humans are dealing with environment problems. What did Daisy want to see first? Why? (pictures) (Antelopes. She would like to see the animals that gave fu
11、r to make her sweater.) What happened to them? How many left? (They are killed for fur and the wood and may be all gone. 7200 of them left.) Part 2. a change of the situation for elephants and rhinos Whats the situation in the past? (They used to be hunted by farmers and became endangered in Zimbabw
12、e.) Whats the situation now? (They are protected.) How does the change happen? (The governments great help.) Part 3. learning to help wildlife Why did the monkey rub itself? (He found a millipede insect and rubbed it over his body to protect from mosquitoes.) How did Daisy want to help? (She wanted
13、to tell WWF and began producing this new drug.) 3. Summary (Fill in blanks and read together.) One day, Daisy dreams a strange dream. She flew in a wonderful chair to talk with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they were hunted because of their fur which can be used to make sweaters like h
14、ers. In three years they may all be gone. Later, she flew to Zimbabwe where she talked with an elephant and got to know the farmers there no longer hunted them. Thats because the government decided to help and the farmers finally make a lot of money. At last she arrived at the thick rain forest wher
15、e a monkey told her “No rain forest, no animals and no drugs . ”Although finally everything was gone, she had learned so much! . Group work 1. What does WWF stand for? (World Wildlife Fund) After Daisy told her experience, what would WWF do to protect the animals? (After discussion, show students id
16、eas) 2. The endangered animals must be very happy to hear our ideas. Now you are going to visit one kind of animal and tell them the good news. Discuss in a group and begin your dialogue with the appearance of a chair and the scene you saw. . Homework Make up the text- based dialogue. Find out the u
17、seful expressions as well as the difficult points. Period 2: Reading() & Comprehending Learning Aims To retell Daisys experience with a dialogue To learn about the important words and expressions Learning Procedures I. Warming up by acting a text play Good morning class. To begin with we shall put o
18、ur text HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE on stage, that is, to act out our story. Now the class act out your text plays of HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE! (Ask some groups to act out dialogues.) Example text play: Daisy: (waking) Who are you? Why are you here in my bedroom? Chair: Excuse me. I
19、 am the famous Flying Chair. Daisy: What are you here for? Chair: I am here to take you on a trip. Where would you go? Daisy: Id like to see animals that gave furs to make this sweater of mine. Chair: During the history of the earth there have lived on the earth many, many kinds of animals. But many
20、 have disappeared because of various reasons. Daisy: Yes, you are right. I learned from books that tens of millions of years ago, a rare new species of dinosaur, a bird-like dinosaur, came into being. It could climb trees and was very lovely. Then it died out because something hit the earth suddenly
21、, putting much dust into the air. So the earth got too hot for the animal to live on. Chair: But no one knows for sure what caused all those ancient animals to die out, disappearing from the earth for ever. Daisy: I shall get dressed and put on my jeans and sweater soon. Then lets fly away to Tibet
22、China to see the antelopes. Chair: Here we are in Tibet! Turn around. There is a antelope there with a sad face. Antelope: Hello, friends. Welcome to my home. You two look so friendly, unlike those who came to kill us to use our furs make sweaters. Daisy: Sweaters like the one I am wearing? Oh, I am
23、 terribly sorry. Antelope: The bad men came in groups to kill my family members for the wool. They took it from under our stomach. Chair: I shall take a picture of you and the antelope, to be shown to all the world people. Daisy: Come Antelope! Lets have a picture taken together. We shall be off to
24、Zimbabwe too see elephants there. Chair: Here we are. This is a national park for animals. People came to see them and help with them. Daisy: Look, there comes an excited elephant. Hello, dear Elephant! Why are you so excited? Elephant: We are all excited because things have changed a lot here. Chai
25、r: Why? What happened? Elephant: We became endangered years ago. People came to destroy the farm and kill us for trunks. They are actually our long teeth. Daisy: I have heard of that. They take your teeth and make them into art work. Chair: Man is really selfish and disgusting. But Daisy is a nice g
26、irl. Now lets have a picture taken together. Elephant: Those bad men used to come and kill us. But now are well protected by the government and the good people. We are happy now. Daisy: Good- bye, Elephant! Chair: Take care, Daisy. We shall hurry to our last stop, the thick rain forest in South Amer
27、ica. Daisy: Wow! Look to the right. A lovely mother monkey is there. She seems to be rubbing herself. Hi, Monkey Mother! What are you doing? Monkey: I am rubbing a millipede insect over my body to protect myself from the mosquitoes. Daisy: How intelligent you are! Monkey: It contains a powerful drug
28、 which affects mosquitoes. There are lots of plants and little animals in the rain forest here which can be helpful to man. Daisy: Is that so? I am going to take photos of all those useful plants and animals. I will show the photos to my classmates so that they understand you lovely animals and the
29、forest better. I will apply to be allowed to work here to help you get a better living in the forest. Monkey: Thank you so much! Some unfriendly people came to catch us, to put us in the zoo in the city. We monkeys prefer living in the forest. Daisy: Good- bye, Monkey! I will report what I learned o
30、n this trip to WWF. I will invite all my schoolmates to join us in the protecting project. The future is to be bright for both you the animals and us the human beings. See you! Wonderful, thank you! If WWF can really do what we have thought of, then it can achieve its goals. What on earth has it don
31、e and what are the goals? Turn to P64, finish the passage about WWF. (Then check the answers and read together.) . Comprehending Here, we have come across many words and expressions from the passage. Turn back to the passage. Can you find some other useful expressions? (After asking the students, th
32、e teacher can show his own: wake up, a flying chair, get dressed, put on ones jeans, fly away to, turn around, with a sad face, useto make, killfor, takefrom under, take ones picture, take photos, apply to, huntfor, make money for, as a result, protectfrom, rubover, pay attention to) Useful expressi
33、ons: 1.as a result (of) : because of 由于的结果 Some of our classmates have succeeded in the vocabulary contest as a result of hard work. They were both punished as a result of smoking. with the result that:结果 I was late, with the result that I missed Miss Yus lively English class. What a pity! as a resu
34、lt 结果 Our class made noise in the last evening class. As a result, we had to stay in the classroom until 10:30. 2. die out : disappear completely 灭绝 Dinosaurs / dodos have died out long before. die away: (光、声音)慢慢消失;(风)停下来 He hid behind the door until the footsteps had died away. The wind died away,
35、and the leaves became silent. die off : 一一死去;先后死去 The members of the family had all died off for no reason. be dying for / to do 极想,渴望I am dying to be admitted into the university. 3.get dressed 穿衣 get + v.-ed 迷路 get lost 受伤 get hur 洗脸 get washed 被付款 get paid 结婚 get married 换衣 get changed dress sb./
36、 oneself 帮某人穿衣/ 自己穿衣 be dressed in +颜色 eg.: be dressed in red have on: 穿着= wear 4. from under our stomachs. from +Prep. eg. When I get home, my little niece often jumps out from behind the door. what a naughty(调皮) girl! One day, I saw my uncle come out from under his bed. He said he fought with my a
37、unt. As a result he hid under the bed to escape her attack. 5. apply to sb for sth 向提出申请 6. suggest sth/ doing sth. 提议; 建议 I only suggest the plan. You decide. I suggest taking part in the singing competition. suggest (that) sb (should) do / be(虚拟语气)他的秘书建议我们下周再来。 His secretary suggested that we (sho
38、uld) come next Monday. suggest 还可作“ 表明,说明,暗示 ”解。陈述语气 Her expression suggested that she was angry. 7. protect sb from sth/sb.保护免受 protect sb against sth 防御 In this passage, we also have some difficult points. What is difficult for you? (Explain the points raised by students and that need special atte
39、ntion) Now, lets check what we just have learned. Do exercises 1, 2 & 3 on P28 and check them. . Using words and expressions Then how to use the words and expressions by ourselves? Lets have a try. Read an example on P63- 2, and after that we are going to write down our own about wildlife protection
40、, using as many new words and expressions as possible. (After discussing and writing, show students works and show a piece of the teacher, if possible.) . Homework Review the words and expressions Find out sentences using passive voice Period 3: Learning about language (The Present Progressive Passi
41、ve Voice) Learning Aims To discover useful structures. To learn about The Present Progressive Passive Voice Learning Procedures . Learning the structure As we all know, many species are in danger, the reason for which is various. But anyway, humans play a terrible part in it. Look at pictures. What
42、do they do? e.g. Picture 1: People cut down trees. Trees are cut down. Picture 2: The villagers pollute the river. The river What are they doing? e.g. Picture 1: People are cutting down trees. The trees are being cut down. Picture 2: The small boy is polluting the river. The river Picture 3: The man
43、 is hunting an elephant. The elephant Find out sentences with the same structure from the passage. Structures: Present passive voice: is/ am/ are+ done Present progressive passive voice: is/ am/ are + being done . Practicing the structure Now try to put the following sentences into The Present Progr
44、essive Passive Voice. They are producing this new drug. Antelope is looking at her. They are killing us for the wool. They are destroying the farm. To consolidate your learning of The Present Progressive Passive Voice, turn to page 29 and do the grammar exercises 2 and 3. III. Studying Passive Voice
45、 using different tenses Now lets look at more sentences with passive voice. e.g. Fords are made in Cologne. (Present Simple) Dinner is being cooked by Susan (Present Continuous) Dubliners was written by James Joyce. (Past Simple) The house was being painted when I arrived. (Past Continuous) Over 20
46、models have been produced in the past two years. (Present Perfect) A new factory is going to be built in Portland. (Future simple with be going to) It will be finished tomorrow. (Future Simple) Make a conclusion about the past verb formation 一般现在时:am/is/are+p.p 一般过去时:was/were+p.p 现在进行时:am/is/are bei
47、ng+p.p 过去进行时:was/were being +p.p 现在完成时:have/has been+p.p 过去完成时:had been+p.p 一般将来时:will/shall be +p.p Exercise: 1)用被动语态的适当形式填空: _(plant) now. _(plant) every spring. _(plant) last spring. _(plant) next spring. A lot of trees _(plant) this time yesterday. _(plant) since ten years ago. _(plant) by the e
48、nd of 2000. Our neighbour said a lot of trees _(plant) the next spring. 2)用动词的适当形式填空: 1.Dont worry about her. She _ (meet) by her friends as soon as she arrives. 2.He_ (operate) on twice for that disease. 3.The news _(talk) about everywhere. 4.English _(teach) here in China for over a century. 5.A lot of tall buildings _(set) up, and people will move in sometime next year. IV. Closing down by playing a game To end this period, well make a dialogue about wildlife protection. Use sentences containing The Present Progressive Passive Voice and other tenses. Useful expressions: