牛津英语8A Unit 4 第八课时

【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流牛津英语8A Unit 4 第八课时.精品文档.8A Unit Four Wild Animals第八课时 Main Task 备课人：袁丽娟一、教学目标：1. To learn to organize and present factual information in a report2. To learn to express ones own opinion about animals in danger3. To do something for the animals in danger二、教学设想：Main Task 部分要求学生综合利用本单元提及的野生动物的有关信息，并根据提纲和范文，为写作作此准备。此部分鼓励学生创造性地使用具体事实写出报告， 对处于危险中的野生动物发表自己的观点。三、教学难点和重点：at a time look like little white micekeep taking the land have nowhere to livemove around in the daytime walk uprightBaby giant pandas spend a lot of time drinking their mums milk.The number is getting smaller and smaller. What action can the club take?四、教学步骤Step1: Warming-up1. Introduce our friends-animals. Get 2-3 students to introduce the animals we have already learned.2. Encourage the students to use the first person to talk about the animals. Tell them to talk about the five aspects: appearance, ability, character, food and danger. Step2: Revision1. Describing the animals. Show more pictures of different kinds of animals and invite the students to describe them 2. Mainly about appearance, encourage the students to include as much information as possible.dolphinstigerskangaroosgiraffescamelselephantszebraspolar bearsSTEP 3 Presentation1. Show a picture of a giant panda. Get students to describe it. Get the students to talk about baby giant pandas, too. Ask the students two questions:1) How many babies do mother giant pandas have at a time? 2)How many giant pandas are there in the world now?2. Get the students to guess and at the same time write their guesses on the board. 3. Play the tape for the students to find the answers to the two questions. Check the answers. Praise the students who get the closer answer. STEP4 Practice1. -Pandas are in danger. Lets get to know more about them and try to help. Invite the students to read the report on Page 71 and try to complete the following table. PANDAS ARE IN DANGER!Appearancebeautiful black and white;look like a bear/a white mouse(be born)Characterquiet and peacefulLifestyleeat bamboo shoots and leaves; never eat meat/drink mums milk; have one or two babies at a timeDangersFarmers keep taking their land; have nowhere to live;hunters hunt them for their furActionswrite to newspapers and magazines;let more people know about the problems;ask people to do something to help2. There are some wonderful sentences patterns in the passage. Direct the students attention to them.1. Baby giant pandas spend a lot of time drinking their mums milk - up to 14 hours a day. 2. Mother giant pandas have only one or two babies at a time. 3. If farmers keep taking the land, giant pandas will have nowhere to live. 3. Get the students to talk about giant pandas, looking at the table above. 4. It is very clear that the table also shows how to write about the animal. The students may try to imitate.STEP 5 Presentation1. Get the students to describe it, before they open their books to read about it. Encourage the students to talk as much as possible about it (appearance, ability, character, food and danger).2. Show the students the following table. And ask them to complete it by reading the table on Page 72. BEARS ARE IN DAGERAppearancebig and strong; small eyes/black or brown, fur/sharp pawsCharacterlike to move around in the daytime; seldom hurt peopleAbilitycan walk upright; good at swimming and climbing treesDangerhunters hunt them for their fur and paws; no bears in the world3. Invite the students to complete the report about the bears. Then get the students to check the answers in pairs. Then check it in class. Get the students to read aloud the passage. STEP 6 Conclusion1. Divide the students into groups of 4-5. Get the students to figure out the way of writing such an article. First, get the students to work out the notes. Then, get the students to report orally in class. Remind the students to think of more ways to help the animals in danger. 2. Making a summary. Tell the students that wild animals are our friends. We must do something to protect them. 五、板书设计：第八课时 Main Task at a time look like little white micekeep taking the land have nowhere to livemove around in the daytime walk uprightBaby giant pandas spend a lot of time drinking their mums milk.The number is getting smaller and smaller. What action can the club take?六、布置作业:a. Write about a kind of endangered animals. b. Finish off the exercise in the exercise paper. c. Read the passage and remember the words and phrases.教学后记