人教版高中英语必修二Unit 4 Wildlife protection 教案

Unit 4 Wildlife Protection

I. Teaching goals

Knowledge goals: Get the students to know the present situations

and the reasons for the endangered wildlife; Learn some important words

and phrases of this unit: die out, hunt, in danger and so on.

Ability goal: Enable the students to grasp the main idea of each part

and the whole passage and to pick out the detailed information from each

part to improve their reading ability.

Moral goal: Enable the students to realize the importance of

protecting wildlife and do something actual to love nature and live with

nature in harmony.

II. Teaching important and difficult points

A. How to summarize the main idea by picking out key words and to

locate detailed information in the passage.

B. How to make students cooperate with others and how to express

their ideas in English.

III. Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based approach,

discussing and summarizing.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in. (3 mins)

Teaching aim: Enable students to observe what happened to animals by enjoying a song.

Greet students as usual.

Firstly let’s enjoy a MV (Earth Song by Michael ). Pay attention to

animals in this music video. (What happened to animals? )

T: Boys and girls, does animals live a happy life in this music video?

Ss: No!

T: Ok, now let’s look at some pictures.

Step 2 Warming-up. (3 mins)

Teaching aim: Enable students to realize that too much hunting by people

is the most important reason for animals’ dying out through some pictures

and a question.

Picture 1: This is an Tibetan antelope which is very rare. People kill

them for their fur, skin and meat.

Picture 2: South China Tiger. They are searching for food which

means they don’t have a good habitat.

Picture 3: Elephant. People kill elephants for their ivories, which are

very dear. The ivory has been traded among foreign countries.

T: Here we must think about a question: why are these animals

dying out?

Ss: Hungry, hunting......

T: More pictures......Therefore, the most important reason for their

dying out is too much hunting, by whom? Ss: By people.

T: Right. Good!

Step 3 Pre-reading. (2 mins)

Teaching aim: Import students into the passage--How Daisy Learned to

Help Wildlife quickly.

T: Then as middle students, certainly we should protect these

miserable animals. What should you do?

Ss: Plant trees; eat less animals;......

T: You are so good. Now everyone, please open your books and turn

to P.26. This class we will discuss how Daisy, a little girl, learned to help

wildlife.

Step 4 Reading. (19 mins)

Teaching aim: Enable the students to grasp the main idea of each part and

the whole passage and to pick out the detailed information from each part

to retell the passage.

1) Analyzing pictures. (2 mins)

T: How many pictures are there in this passage?

Ss: Two.

T: Picture 1 is an Tibetan antelope. Picture 2 is about elephants.

2) Listening. (4 mins)

Teaching aim: Enable students to listen to the passage based on two

questions. According to the two questions, listen to the whole passage and try

to underline these answers in the passage.

a. Is there any other animal in this passage? If there is, what is it?

b. How many places did Daisy travel? What are they?

......

T: Check answers on the blackboard. (Animals: antelope, elephant

and monkey; Places: Tibet, Zimbabwe, and rainforest) But how did Daisy

go to these places and see these animals?

Ss: A flying carpet.

T: Good, she took a flying carpet to these places. Based on these

clues, we can divide the passage into 3 parts. (para.1/para.2/para.3-4)

3) Skimming. (5 mins)

Teaching aim: Enable students to match the main idea of each part by

skimming.

T: This passage is a story, so we can’t pick out the topic sentence in

each part. Then we need to summarize the main idea of each part, but

how? Depend on what?

Ss: ......

T: Key words. Do you still remember? Look at these three sentences

in the screen and pick out key words in each sentence. (S1: antelopes;

why. S2: get a lot. S3: elephant; good example.) Now finish the task.

Three minutes for you. ......

Check answers. (Ask some student to show his or her ideas.)

Para 1: The story of antelopes tells us why we need wildlife

protection.

Para. 2: The story of elephants is a good example of wildlife

protection.

Para. 3-4: We can get a lot from wildlife protection.

T: All of you did a good job. So here we can summarize the main

idea of the whole passage. Look at the screen and fill in the blanks.

Together, ok?

Ss: In Daisy’s dream, she took a flying carpet to travel and met