八年级英语上册 Unit 5 Wild animals Integrated skills教案 (新版)牛津版

Wild animals
教学目标To identify specific characteristics, appearance, abilities, eating habits and danger in the context of animals
To develop stud ents’ ability to infer meaning from context and key words
To learn more about the endangered animals
教学重难点To listen and develop the ability to extract information in order to complete two fact sheets
课前准备完成前置性学习指导
教师活动内容、方式学生活动旁注Step 1 Lead-in
As we have learned a lot about animals in the unit, in this part we can directly come to the two animals we are going to talk about. Show the pictures of tigers and wolves one by one and encourage the students to speak out what they know about them.
Step 2 Listening and completing
Appearance: the largest living cat (look like a cat), big and
strong, bright eyes, yellow fur with black stripes.
Ability: can run fast, good at hunting other animals for food,
Character: usually they live alone, (if they have babies) live as a family
until baby tigers are 2-3 years old.
Food: hunt other animal for food
Dangers: Hunters hunt them for their fur (to make clothes etc.) and bones
(to make medicine)
Appearance: dog-like, not very big, gray fur (about 5-6 cm long)
Ability: very good eyesight, hearing and smell Character: be friendly toward/ to each other, work as a team to hunt,
never attack people, do not kill for fun Food: animal, insects, snails, vegetables Speak out what they know about tigers and wolves.
listen and complete the fact sheets
教师活动内容、方式学生活动旁注
Danger: loss of living areas, no home (have nowhere to live) , no food(have nothing to eat) Step3Explaining the bold-faced words and
expression
Explain the bold-faced words and expressions above to the students. Pay special attention to: ‘yellow fur with black stripes’, ‘live alone’ ‘hunt…for…’ and ‘loss of the living areas’. It is important because students may need these to write or talk about tigers, wolves as well as other animals.
Step 4Talking about the two animals
Get the students to talk about the two animals looking at the two facts sheets. Encourage them students to start like this.
Tigers are the largest living cat in the world….. Wolves are dog-like animals. They are not very big…..
Step 5Completing the letter in Part A2
Get the students to complete the letter in Part A2.
First, let the students complete the passage by themselves.
Then, get the students to check the answers in pairs.
Afterwards, check the answers in class. The teacher can get two students to read out the facts about tigers and wolves, while the others correcting their answers.
Finally, get the students to read the passage aloud.
Step 6Underlining the important phrases
Invite the students to underline the important phrases by themselves. Explain some of the most important ones, like ’write to sb. about doing sth.’ and ‘made sth from sth.’.
Show the students some pictures of the animals we have leaned. Encourage them to talk about the animals. They can talk about their appearance, ability, character, food and danger. Encourage them to ask more people to help protect the animals.
Step7Doing some translation work
Step8Homework talk about the two animals
complete the letter in Part A2.
talk about
their appearance, ability, character, food and danger.
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