初中英语人教版七年级下册Unit 5 Section B 2a-2c.doc

Unit 5 Why do you like pandas? Section B (2a-2c) 一、Teaching Key Points(教学重点)：1. Vocabularies: flag, symbol, water, kill, ivory, cut, save, Thailand, be in great danger, cut down, get lost, one of, be made of.2. Reading skills.3. Learn about the animals in great danger and arouse students attention to caring and love animals.二、Teaching Difficult Points（教学难点）：1. Using the target language to describe animals.2. How to sum up the main ideas of each paragraph.三、Teaching Aids:(教具)： Multi-Media; PPT四、Teaching Methods(教学设计)：Greetings Good afternoon, class! Sit down, please!Today, we will learn Unit 5 Why do you like pandas? Section BStep1 Warm-upShow the students some pictures about the animals. Ask: Do you like animals? What animals do you like? Why? Ask the students individually.Some of the animals are in great danger, let students check them. Step2 Lead-in & Presentation1. Do you want to know what animals I like? Then give the students some information about the animals. Guide them to guess it (elephants). At the same time, draw the stick figure of the elephant. Say: I like elephants very much because they are very smart. Ask: Why do people think elephants are smart? What can they do? Show some pictures to teach some useful sentences.2. Elephants are not only smart but also very important in many countries. Lets look at the big screen. Then show some pictures of buildings in Thailand. Guide students to guess which country it is (Thailand). Introduce some culture about elephants in ThailandThere was a white elephant on the first flag of Thailand. Whats more, the elephant is one of Thailands symbols. And March 13th is Thai Elephant Day.（Practice the new words.）Step3 Reading1. Fast readingT: Now we know something about elephants, next we will learn an article to know more about the elephants. Open your books and turn to Page 29. Look at Activity 2b, read the article quickly and find the answer to this question:What is the best title for the article? _What Is an Elephant?_ Come to Thailand._Lets Save the Elephants._Elephants Are Good Pets.Step4. Careful readingRead again, answer the questions1. Where are the students from?2 .Are elephants smart animals?.3. Why are elephants in great danger?4. When is Thai Elephant Day?Step5. Read againLets read the article one paragraph after another carefully and find out the topic sentence which can tell us the main idea of each paragraph. After that, tell them the reading strategy.Para 1-Elephants are very important in Thailand.Para 2-Elephants are smart animals.Para 3-Elephants are in great danger.Step 6. 2c1. Tell students to look at the mind map in 2c. There are four boxes around the word Elephant. The first box is about the importance of the elephants in Thailand. The second box is about the abilities of the elephants. The third box is about the facts and figures of the elephants. The last box is about how to save the elephants. Lets read the article again and fill in the blanks.2. Check the answers with the class.Step 7. Do some exercisesStep8 . ThinkingAs we all know, elephants are in great danger. So we must protect them. Animals are our friends.No buying, no killing.Step9. Su