Unit 4 wildlife Protection
Reading-How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife
Part1 Teaching Material Analysis:
This unit is to introduce to us the importance of wildlife protection. The reading passage is the center of this unit. It is made up of 3 parts, that is, why we need wildlife protection, a good example of wildlife protection and what we can get from wildlife p rotection. The text is the most important teaching material in this lesson, which extend s the main topic “wildlife protection” and contains most of the vocabulary and gramm ar points that students should learn in this unit.
Part2Students Analysis:
Although the students have the basic abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, they still need many opportunities to practice what they have learned, to expr ess their ideas, feelings, and experience and to develop their autonomous learning abil ity and cooperative learning ability.
Part3 Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aims:
a. HelpSs to understand the words and expressions
b. Let the students know some basic information about the endangered animals
and wildlife situation and protection.
Ability aims:
a. Encourage Ss to think and express their attitude towards the wildlife and the
wildlife protection.
b. Enhance Ss’reading ability to understand the main idea, to scan for needed
information and to grasp the details.
Emotional aims:
a. Help Ss understand the importance of the wildlife protection and make them
be more active in the helping wildlife.
b. Develop Ss’ sense of cooperative learning.
Part4Teaching Key Points:
a. To train the reading comprehension to the whole passage
b. To improve Ss’ ability of speaking, reading and writing.
c. To understand the importance of wildlife protection and then do something for
wildlife
Part5 Teaching Difficult Points:
a. Enhance the students reading skills in the passage.
b. The students use their own words to express their own ideas.
Part6 Teaching Tools:
Blackboard, books and the multimedia
Part7 Teaching methods:
Communicative Language Teaching
Task-based Language Teaching (individual work; group work; class work)
Computer Assisted Language Teaching
Part8 Learning Methods:
Task-based, self-dependent and cooperative learning
Part9 Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Lead-in
Task 1: Pair work
Show them some beautiful pictures of wild animals, such as lions, Tibet antelopes , monkeys and so on. Ask them what they know about those animals and what problems do them have. Encourage Ss to discuss the question with each other and then solve the question together.
Task 2: Group work
Then, I will ask my students to work in groups to conclude what on earth mainly cause these wild animals in danger of disappearing. After discussing, Ss should mention the following reasons: Food shortage, pollution, destruction of habitats, and over-hunting. Meanwhile, teacher brings up the conception of “wildlife protection” in time.
Step 2: Fast reading
Task1: Making prediction
Ask my students to glance at the title and the pictures of the passage, and then guess what they will read in the text.
Task 2: Skimming to find out the main idea
Ask my students to skim whole text and get the main idea to finish the exercise. Exercise:
Read the passage quickly and silently. Try to find out the main idea. Then answer the following question:
The passage is mainly about ______.
A. some protection of wildlife
B. a journey of a flying carpet
C. Daisy’s wonderful experience with some animals
Task 2: Scanning to find the specific information Read the passage again and fill in the table within given time.
Animal she met
Places she went
First visit
Second visit
Third visit
Step 3: Careful Reading
Task 1: Finish the true (T) or false (F) questions, and try to correct the false.
1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.
2. Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.
3. The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.
4. The farmers in Zimbabwe get much money from the elephants and rhinos now.
5. This is a real story in Daisy’s life. Task2: Finish the blank
Para Main idea Supporting details
1 Why we need wildlife protection 1 Animal: Tibetan Antelope
2 Situation :being hunted for the fur under its
stomach
3 Result: numbers are decreasing rapidly
2
a good example of wildlife protection 1 Animal: elephants in Zimbabwe 2 Situation : previously hunted with numbers
decreasing rapidly
3 Result: protection by farmers who make money from tourism. 3 and
4 What can we get from wildlife protection 1 Animal: a monkey and a millipede from
tropical rainforest
2 Situation : produces a drug naturally which
can protect us from mosquitoes
3 Result: Daisy plans to tell WWF about the drug.
Task 3: Answer the following questions on the screen.
1. Antelope in Tibet become endangered because:
A. they are killed by other animals for food.
B. The environment is badly polluted.
C. People kill them to use their fur.
D. their food chain(食物链) is cut off.
2. The farmers hunted the Zimbabwe elephants without mercy because
A. they wanted to sell the elephants for money
B. their families were attacked with no compensations received.
C. the number of elephants was so large that they eat too much food.
D. Their farm were destroyed but they d idn’t get any money from tourists.
3. It can be learned from the text that
A. the Zimbabwe government did a good job in saving the elephants.
B. the rainforest produces drugs that are good for millipede insects
C. the farmers also got some money from tourists after the WWF helped.
D. mosquitoes help protect moneys from millipede insects.
4. It can be inferred from the text that next Daisy would
A. go and buy a flying carpet
B. work with WWF to help wildlife
C. laugh over what she had experienced
D. cry because she could not make her new drug.
Step4: Consolidation
Task1: Retelling
One day Daisy went to see the animals that gave fur to make her _______ in a flying chair. It flew away to _____ in China first, where she saw an ________. The antelope told her that they were killed for the ____ that was taken from their ________. Every year over ______ of them were killed. Now there are only _____ left.
Then the chair flew away to __________, where Daisy saw an excited ________. The elephant said they were endangered in Zimbabwe. _______ used to hunt them and the _______.
The farmers didn’t want to _______ them even if ______ love to see them because they were considered to have destroyed the farms. Daisy took a _____ of the elephant quickly. Then the flying chair rose again and almost at once they were in thick rain _____.
A _______ was rubbing a millipede _____ which contains a powerful ____ over his body because it could protect him from __________. So Daisy decided to produce this new drug with the help of _____. The chair rose and flew home.
Task2: Discussion
1. Why is it important to protect wildlife?
2. What must be done if wildlife protection is to succeed?
Step 5: Homework Assignment (作业).
In this class, we have learned the great urgency of the wildlife protection. As a student, what should we do to protect the wild animals? List your own opinions and organize your words to write a short passage about your solutions.
Part10 Blackboard design
Unit 2 Wildlife Protection
Problems main idea of each paragraph
Para.1
Para.2
Reasons Para.3&4
Reflection After Class: (课后反思)