Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all
【教学目标】
? Knowledge objective
Key vocabulary—research, baby, situation, scientist, produce, feed, government, nature, develop, symbol Key structures—nature park ? Moral objective
1. To help students know the importance of protecting animals and our environment.
2. Improve their sense of duty to love and protect animals. 【教学重点】
1. To get information from the reading material about pandas. 2. To learn some new words. 【教学难点】
To understand the main idea of each paragraph of the article. 【教学方法】
PWP method, task-based method 【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures 【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead-in
1. Look at the pictures and guess what the animal is.
2. Look at the pictures and answer the questions about the panda. Step 2 Consolidate new words
Look and say. The teachers shows the pictures of new words and let the students to say as quickly as possible. Step 3 Say what you know about pandas
Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and say something about pandas.
Step 4 Listen and answer the questions
1. How many pandas are there in the wild today? 2. What’s the symbol of the WWF?
Step 5 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs. Step 6 Read the passage and answer the questions
Step 7 Read the passage and complete the sentences
1. Scientists do a lot of research _______________________________________. 2. The government is setting up nature parks ____________________. 3. The WWF chose the panda _________________. 4. The WWF is working hard __________________. Step 8 Complete the sentences with the words in the box
Read the passage carefully and get the main idea and choose the words from the box, then use the correct form to fill in the blanks. Step 9 Language points
1. Scientists are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies… do a lot of research表示“做大量研究”。 research是不可数名词。 produce表示“生育，繁殖”。 e.g. produce more babies
2. Each pandas needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. every 和 each的区别。
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every “每”“各”，指三者或三者以上的整体，含有全体之意。
e.g. Every boy is here. 所有男孩都在这儿。
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each “每一”“每个”，指两个或两个以上的每一个，着重于个别，如团体中一个
的人或物。
e.g. He spoke to each member of the team. 他和队里的每个队员都说了话。
3. In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks …
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set up 创建，创办
e.g. He wants to set up a school for the poor children. 他想为贫困地区的孩子创办一所学校。 ?
In order (not) to do sth. 为了（不）做……
e.g. In order to be a doctor, you have to study for five years in a college. 要当一
名医生，你需要在大学学习五年。
They need to raise 5,000,000 US dollars in order to pay for the repairs. 为了支付修理费用，他们需要筹集500万美元。
Step 10 Choose an animals in danger and answer the questions
Step 11 Write a passage about an animal in danger. Use your answers in Activity 5 and the following example to help you
Pandas live the southwest of China. They are in danger and the situation is getting very difficult. First, pandas don’t have many babies and baby pandas often die. Second, pandas eat bamboo and the bamboo forests are getting smaller. But the government is creating nature parks with a lot of bamboo to help protect pandas. Step 12 Summary
Let Ss talk about what they have learnt in class. Step 13 Exercises
Let the students practice the main points in Unit 2.