英语人教版八年级下册Unit7 SwctionB.docx

Section B 1 (2a-2e)教学目标：1语言目标：掌握本单元重点词汇及能用比较级和最高级谈论各之最。2 技能目标：能听懂和谈论有关地理和自然的话题。3 情感目标：培养学生热爱大自然，保护环境的意识。教学重点： 短语: many times more than ,live up to, prepare for., be awake, be special to sb., spend some time doing sth., in the remaining forest, endangered animals, in the future教学难点：形容词和副词的比较级和最高级变化规则和用法。 物体之间的对比。教学过程：Step 1 Revision1. Compare facts about these two animals.e.g. This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.(200 cm taller/shorter, weigh much more/less, eat much more/less, eat many times more)Step 2 New words1. weigh v. 称重 2. adult n. 成人 adj. 成年的 3. bamboo n. 竹子4. endangered adj. 濒危的 5. research n.&v. 调查；研究6. keeper n. 饲养员 7. awake adj. 醒着 8. excitement n. 激动9. illness n. 疾病 10. wild adj. 野生的 11. government n. 政府Step 3 Reading 1. Pre-readingTalk about panda in your class. Use these words to help you.big, bamboo, zoo, popular, cute, black and white,Sichuan, famous, endangered, beautiful, forest, protect,2. Reading guidance: scanningThis means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.3. Reading tasks 1. 2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 20002. 2c Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions. 1. What is Lin Weis job? 2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? 3. What do adult pandas eat? 4. Why are pandas endangered? 5. What is one way of saving pandas? Key: 1. A panda keeper. 2. Milk. 3. Bamboos. 4. Less forest for pandas to live. 5. Teaching children.Step 4 Language points1. At birth, a baby panda is aboutbirth n. 出生 at birth 出生时e.g. Mans natureat birthis good. 人之初，性本善。give birth to 生（孩子）；产生e.g. My auntgave birth toa beautiful baby girl yesterday. 昨天我婶婶生下一个漂亮的小女孩。2. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years.up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于e.g. In some area of Africa, children get educated up to 12 years old. 在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教育到12岁。3. they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!run over 跑上前去 over adv.穿越；从的一边到另一边e.g. She ran over to say hello, but I didnt recognize her.她跑过来打招呼，但我没有认出她来。walk into （走路时意外）撞上e.g. As he was thinking too deeply and not paying attention to where he was going, he walked straight into a tree.由于他陷入深思，没有注意看路，径直撞到了一棵树上。fall over 摔倒；倒下e.g. Dont run too fast, or you might fall over. 别跑的太快，要不你会摔跤的。fall over something 被某物绊倒e.g. Tommy fell over the dog and broke his front teeth.Tommy被那只狗绊了一跤，磕断了门牙。4. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests.living in the forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰pandas。e.g. the girls singing under the tree 树下唱歌的女孩们 the women washing clothes by the rive 河边洗衣服的女人们Step 5 Summary1. cm taller/shorter th