人教新课标高中英语必修二Unit 4 Wildlife protection教案(2)

必修二Unit 4 Wildlife Protection公开课教案
Period 1. Listening and Speaking
Teaching aims 教学目标：
1. Knowledge aims 知识目标：
a. To learn some important words and expressions as well as some sentence types .
b. To learn something about wildlife and the protection of it.
2. Ability aims能力目标:
a. Enable the Ss to talk about wildlife protection.
b. Enable the Ss to understand the listening text and answer some questions about it.
c. Enable the Ss to talk about the topic of wildlife protection.
3. Emotional aims 情感态度与价值观目标:
a. Enable the Ss to learn how to talk about wildlife protection.
b. Enable the Ss to understand the importance of wildlife protection.
Teaching important points教学重点：
a.How to talk about endangered species of wildlife and environmental protection
b.How to express refusing and give reasons.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点：
a.To express their own opinions using new words and expressions.
b.To express their opinions on wildlife protection.
Teaching methods 教学方法：
Elicitation, discussion, pair work, group work, ask-and-answer activity.
Teaching aids教学辅助：
The Multimedia Computer, a projector, a board and a tape recorder.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方法：
Step 1. Lead-in
Get the students to talk about some endangered animals to lead them to this unit’s topic. T: Morning, everyone! Look at the screen, please. I will show you pictures of some
animals.
Show them the pictures of some endangered animals.
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T: Talk about them in your own words.
The students may refer to the following aspects:
1. what the animal is;
2. Its appearance;
3. reasons why it becomes less and less;
4. what has been done to protect it;
5. other things you know about it: where it lives; what it feeds on…
S: The first one is G olden Monkey. It’s very beautiful and s mart It is also known as Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (仰鼻猴)or Sichuan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. It is endemic to China. It is threatened by habitat loss.
S: The second lovely animal is Giant Panda. It can only be found in China. It feed mostly on bamboo, a tall woody plant full of fiber. It lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. It’s our national treasure. We should try our best to protect it.
S: The third one may be a deer.
S: No! It’s Tibetan Antelope. Tibetan antelopes coming from the family of Bovidae are mainly distributed over Qinghai Province, Tibetan Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China. It is in danger now because many of them have been killed.
T: Wonderful! Thank you. You know so much about wildlife. How about the fourth one?
S: I am sure it is a kind of leopard, but I don’t know what kind of leopard it is exactly. T: Well, it is called Clouded Leopard (云豹), which are one of the first class protected animals. It is found in southern China, the eastern Himalayas, north-east India and
south-east Asia. How about the fifth one?
S: Tiger!
T: What kind of tiger is it? … It’s South China Tiger. We’ll learn it today. OK, let’s go on.
S: In Picture 6, there are two Giant Salamanders (娃娃鱼), which can swim against the current and cry like babies.
T: Excellent work! Well, can you find anything common among them? What is it?
S: They are all in danger.
T: Well done! They are all endangered animals. If you want to know more about them, let’s come to Unit 4 Wildlife Protection.
Step 2. Warming up
Get the students to do Warming up.
Scanning
T: Next, read through the words in Warming up part, and then find out: Why did so many wild animals die out?
Get the students to look through this part. Later ask someone to give the answer.
T: Who’d like to s ay something about this question?
S: If their habitat is threatened or they cannot find enough food, their numbers may decrease. As a result these endangered animals may even die out.
T: That’s it!
Discussing
Get students to talk about the report in Warming up in pair.
T: Today, more and more people realize the importance of protecting endangered wildlife. Here is a report on some endangered wildlife in China. Next, read the report. Then discuss with your partner about these animals. You may refer to the following aspects: 1. What the endangered animals are; 2. What the problem is; 3. List one of their habitat in China; 4. How the animal is after concern
Four minutes for free talk, then ask some students to share their opinions with the whole class. And then show them a sample conversation and sample answer.
S1: What endangered animal do you know?
S2: Our National Treasure—Pandas.
S1: What’s the problem?
S2: They are in danger for lack of bamboo, but recently their number is increasing because more bamboo has been grown.
S1: It’s said that although China was the only home for Milu Deer, we brought them from England.
S2: Yes. They disappeared in China because of too much hunting. What a pity!
S1: So do South China Tiger. They are said to be fierce but some hunters are fiercer!
S2: I cannot agree with you any more.
T: Well done! Do you know any other endangered wildlife in China that is being protected? Think about that and then make a list.
Sample answer:
Crested Ibis/Brown Eared Pheasant/Red-crowned Crane/Wild Yak /Chinese Alligator Step 3. Listening
Get the students to do LISTENING on page 62. Help them learn more about wildlife problems.
T: You know so much about wildlife. You must be very care about them. In fact, people around the world care about these endangered animals. They write to some experts and tell about their worry about the wildlife around them. Aunty Gladys is such a writer who usually answers these letters. Now, come to LISTENING on page 62. And find out what the problems people worry about.
First, get the students to look though the questions in Listening. Play the tape for the students and ask them to listen to the tape carefully. While listening, the students should grasp the key words and get the main idea. Then play the tape once more. After that, let the students answer the questions and check the answers together. Sum up the useful expressions in the material (about environmental protection). Later, play the tape a third
time for them to write down the main idea of the passage. At last, check the answers with the whole class.
Step 4 . Talking
Get students to do TALKING on page 62. Help them discuss what people can do to help the endangered animals.
T: Next, let’s come to TALKING on page 62. In pairs discuss what advice you might give to one of these worried letter writers. You can write notes of your ideas in the boxes below.
Show the useful expressions on the screen. You can give a model. It’s up to the E nglish level of your students.
Step 5. Discussing
Help the students discuss what they have learned today and encourage them to talk about the importance of wildlife protection.
T: What did we learn today?
S: Endangered wildlife.
S: What their problems are.
S: What have been done to them…
T: Animals are our friends. We live depend on each other. We should protect them. How do you think about this?
S: Animals are our friends. It’s a shame that man killed wildlife for their fur. We don’t have the right to kill them.
S: I’ll talk with people around me seriously. I’ll tell them that I’m so sorry that so many animals are in danger now. The problem is that if man doesn’t realize the dangerous situation, many of the animals will die out soon. We should try to protect endangered animals. I’ll collect some information about wildlife protection and shows the information to people around us.
Step 6. Homework
1. Collect information of endangered wildlife, especially Tibetan Antelope, about why they are in danger of disappearing;
2. Preview the next part—Reading on page 26.。