高三英语 Unit14 Zoology教案 大纲人教版

用心 爱心 专心1 Unit14Unit14 ZoologyZoology Teaching aims 1 Goals Talk about animal and animal behavior Practise debating Integrative language practice Write an argumentative essay 2 Special focus Improve reading skills and Enlarge vocabulary a Direct Ss to read the 3 passages on the text book b Guide Ss to learn to use the following words and expressions adequate apparent assume clarify dots obtain tell apart transparent get hold of surrounding assumption come to light precise session primitive etc c Improve the abilities of using language by integrative language practice Period 1 Reading The Language of Honey Bees P120 122 Step 1 Warming up Task 1 Enable the students to discuss the questions on p120 Step 2 Scanning Task 2 Get the students to comprehend the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help them to form a good habit of reading Try to find out the main clue of the story Step 3 While reading True or False 1 Von Frisch and his co workers counted hoe many times the bees repeated the wagging dance during one hour 2 They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was the faster the dance was 3 The number of wagging dances per minute told the direction to the feeding place 4 Then Professor Von Frisch did his third experiment which was to discover whether the wagging dance showed direction 5 He found that the straight part of the dance was the same in the morning from what it had been in the afternoon 6 If the feeding place was toward the sun the dance headed straight onward during the straight part of the wagging dance 7 The experiment of Professor Karl Von Frisch tells us that bees can and do communicate with each other by their dances which may be called a kind of language Suggested Answers FFFTFFT Step 4 Post reading 用心 爱心 专心2 Finish all the Ex On p122 Step 5 Further Reading Task 3 Read the passage once again and try to divide the text into some big parts And make a summary of each part Part 1 Para 1 Some basic knowledge about bees Part 2 Paras 2 8 Professor Von Frisch s experiment Part 3 the last Para The late life of Professor Von Frisch Step 6 Homework Finish all the exercises on Language Practice on p123 124 Period 2 Integrating Reading Skills Primates P124 125 Step 1 Revision 1 Check the Ss how further they understand the text 2 Check the homework Review the Model Verbs Step 2 Scan the passage and complete the chart below Types Characteristics and examples Primate1 hands and feet can grasp and often have opposable thumbs and toes 2 have a better sense of touch and the primate brain is larger Other animals1 not good at holding moving and using objects 2 have a weak sense of touch and small brain Higher primatesLarge size of brain such as human beings and apes Lower primatesSmall size of brain MonkeysHave tails small and walk less upright Apesnot tail larger and walk more upright use sight more than smell developed brain Now world primates Bigger and spend more time on the ground such as monkeys apes and humans Step 3 Careful reading Ask the students to read the passage carefully and answer questions 2 on Page 126 Period 3 Integrating Reading and Writing Skills 2 Passages on p 252 254 Step 1 Warmming up Do the oral pratice on p119 120 and enable the students to practise debating Step 2 Reading Task 1 Read t he 2 passages and finish the exercises If possible guide 用心 爱心 专心3 the students to analyze some long and complex sentences Step 3 Guided Writing Give Ss 20 minutes to finish the writing assignment on p117 Then ask Ss to score their work according to the following chart 3 pluses 1 wish Name Title Date Note How to use this chart effectively Ask the student to read his her deskmate s writing carefully and then find 3 valuable things s tructure passage arrangement sentence diction etc and give 1 suggestion And then feed the message back Next ask the Ss to correct their work according to the chart Period 4 Step 1 Analyze some long sentences Deal with some language points and difficult points if necessary If possible guide the students to analyze some long and complex sentences The following sentences in this Unitare very important Among the different kinds of bees it is the honey bee that has interested scientists most because of the language they use to communicate with each other In order to tell the bees apart he painted some bees with little dots of colour For his lifetime s work in studying the communication of animals including honey bees Pr ofessor Karl von Frisch was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1973 which he shared with two other scientists They trooped behind the first dancer copying its movement After designing more experiments they were able to clarify the procedure by which bees communicate information