Unit 4 Wild Animals Reading I. Unit 4 The Second Period Reading on P60--62,

Unit 4

Wild Animals Reading I

同德中学八年级英语组

单元 Unit 4

课时 The Second Period

学习内容 Reading on P60--62

课型从技能培养目

标来划分阅读课

从教学过程来划分

新授课

教学重点与具体要

求

初步理解课文 , 了解大熊猫的成长过程、面临的困难、应采取的保护措施。

• 知识目标：单词四会： outside  bamboo  shoot  leaf  sadly  hunter  ki

ll

  farmer  forest  nowhere thick following  danger  action  protect  encourage  land  continue writer

二会： survive reserve

能够流利地朗读课文 , 并理解文章大意。

• 技能目标 :能够说出大熊猫的成长过程及保护大熊猫的措施。成长过程：be born:            weigh 100 gramsten days old:        look like a white mouseat four months:      weigh about ten kilograms; go outside her homesix months old:      eat bamboo shoots and leaveseight months later:   grow into a healthy young giant panda; weigh

35 kilogramstwenty months old:   have to look after herself保护措施：make reserves biggerbuild more reservesencourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves

教学内容提示 Reading• at four months• for the first time• grow into• at the very beginning• up to 14 hours a day• bamboo shoots and leaves• survive in the wild• kill it for fur• cut down trees and forests• have nowhere to live• on their own= alone• take the following actions• build reserves• encourage sb. to do sth.

教学方法提示 (8A Unit 4)

Reading 第一课时： 从熊猫的知识背景入手，导入本课新单词。Pre-reading ：Activity: Brain-storming (class work)

Ss are encouraged to think of as many words as possible to describe the pictures about the giant pandas.

While-reading ： This is a report on giant pandas on the Internet. Try to put these pictures into right order. Activity 1 Skimming(class work)

•Who is Xi Wang?

•How old was Xi Wang when the writer first saw her?

•What did Xi Wang look like?

•What does “Xi Wang” mean in English?

Activity 2 Scanning (group work)

1 What do we learn about Xi Wang?

2 Choose one topic to say something to your members and report to the class

The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang

Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang

Problems and Problems and actionsactions

教学方法提示 (8A Unit 4)

Post-reading

Encourage one student of each group to present his/her report on their topic to the whole class, offer some phrases and pictures for help if necessary.

Do you have friends? Do you know that we have special friends on the earth? What are they?

Can you name these wild animals in the world?

dolphin lion bear

kangaroogiraffe whale

• I am very fat.

• My fur is black and white.

• I look like a bear but I am not a bear.

• I like eating bamboo shoots and leaves.

• I am the national animal in China.

Who am I?

giant panda

/з: /

/u: / /u: /

/ ai/

Today we’re going to learn something about giant pandas. Giant panda is a kind of wild animals that only lives in China, we Chinese people and people from all over the world love them very much. Do you love them? Introduce the background knowledge of giant pandas

New words and phrases

weigh 100 grams

重达 100 克grow into

长成bamboo shoots and l

eaves 竹笋、竹叶

hunters kill for fur

猎人为皮毛捕杀have nowhere to liv

e

无处生活

survive in the wild

在野外生存

take following actions to protect

做出以下行动来保护

encourage… to

鼓励……build more reserves

建立更多保护区

Please put the following pictures into the right order according to the growth of pandas.

2 3

4 5

1

2→3→1→5→4

Pre-reading Activity: Brain-storming (class work)

While-reading Activity 1 Skimming (class work)

• Who is Xi Wang?

• How old was Xi Wang when the writer first saw her?

• What did Xi Wang look like?

• What does “Xi Wang” mean in English?

A baby panda.

10 days old.

A white mouse.

‘Hope’.

Work in groupsWork in groups

What do we learn about Xi Wang?

The growth of Xi Wang

Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang

Problems and Problems and actionsactions

While-reading Activity 2 Scanning (group work)

Complete the form The growth of Xi Wang (Para 1 – Para 3)

Age Weight Food

1 day 1. 5.

10 days 2.

4 months 3.

8 months 4. 6.

12 months /

20 months /

100glike a little mouse

10kg35kg

her mother’s milk

bamboo shoots and leaves

• When XiWang was born, she was only 10 days old, like a _____. She weighed __________ and drank____________ for _____________ a day. At 4 months old, she weighed ___________. At 6 months old she started to eat _______________________. 8 months later, she is not a baby __________, weighed ___________.

mouse100 grams mother’s milk

up to 14 hours 10 kilo grams

bamboo shoots and leaves any more

35 kilo grams

Time Activity

1 day /

4 months start to

6 months /

12 months grow into

20 months have to

a healthy young giant panda

go outside her home for the first time

look after herself

• At 4 months, Xi Wang started to _________ for ____________, 8 months later, she _________ a healthy young giant panda. When she was 20 months old, she had to _________ herself because her mother ________________.

go outside the first time

look after

grew into

had another baby

Complete the form(Para 4 – the end )

Having some of the problems

Taking the following actions

1. 4.

2. 5.

3. 6.

If hunters catch a giant panda, they will kill it for its fur.If farmers cut down trees and forests, giant pandas will have nowhere to live.If people find baby pandas, they will often take them away.

Make giant pandas reserves bigger.

Build more new reserves.

Encourage farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.

• If hunters catch a giant panda, they will ____________. If farmers ________ trees and _______, giant pandas will have ________ to live. If people find baby pandas, they will often ______ them _____. So we have to build more ________ and make these reserves ______ , also we should ________ farmers to leave the giant panda reserves.

kill it for its fur cut downnowhereforests

take away reserves

encouragebigger

The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang

Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang

Problems and actionsProblems and actions

Report to the classReport to the class

Choose one topic to say something to your members and report to the class.

While-reading Activity 3 Report (class work)

The growth of Xi WangThe growth of Xi Wang

like a mouse, 100 grams, up to 14 hours a day,10 kilograms, bamboo shoots and leaves,35 kilograms

Activity of Xi WangActivity of Xi Wang

for the first time, grow into, look after

Problems and actionsProblems and actions

kill for fur, nowhere to live, survive, take…away

make …bigger, more reserves, encourage

Review• at four months• for the first time• grow into• at the very beginning• up to 14 hours a day• bamboo shoots and

leaves• survive in the wild

• 在四个月时• 开始做某事• 长成…• 在刚开始的时候• 一天达到 14 小时• 竹笋 , 竹叶• 在野外生存

• kill it for fur

• cut down trees and forests

• have nowhere to live

• on their own= alone

• take the following actions

• build reserves

• encourage sb. to do sth.

• 为皮毛杀它• 砍伐树木和森林

• 无处生存• 独自• 采取下列的行动• 建立保护区• 鼓励某人做某事

Not only pandas, but also many other animals are in danger. Can you tell me what they are?

Let’s do everything we can to help these

animals!

Homework

1. Read the passages again and again.

2. As a middle school student, think of some good ideas to protect pandas,

and write them down.