英语人教版七年级下册Unit 5 Section B (2a-2c).docx

Unit5 Why do you like pandas?Section B (2a-2c)一Teaching Aims1. Knowledge Aims (1) The students can master the following words and language chunks.save, symbol, flag, forget, place, water, danger, cut, down, tree, kill, ivory, over, one of, a symbol of, forget to do/doing sth., for a long time, get lost, places with food and water, help sb. (to) do sth., be in (great) danger, cut down, lose ones homes, kill for, things made of ivory (2) Students practice reading and understand the passage.2. Ability Aims (1)Students practice reading and understand the passage. (2)Students can retell the passage according to the mind map and write with the language chunks.3. Moral Aims Educate students to care about the animals and help to save the animals in danger.二Teaching Key Points 1. Be able to understand the article about animals. 2. Learn to talk about animals and write about animals.Teaching Difficult Points 1. New words and language chunks. 2. Learn how to get information from the passage and train students reading and writing skills.三Teaching Methods The activity teaching method, the cooperative learning method, and the task-based language teaching method.四Teaching ProceduresStep1 Warming-up 1. Ask the students to talk about the animals . 2. Watch a video about some animals are in great danger.Step2 Before reading 1. Learn the new words and phrases. 2. Check () the animals you think are in great danger then share your ideas in class. 3. Predict (Show the picture in 2b) Whats the article about? Step3 While reading 1. Fast reading 1) Ask the students to scan the passage and check () the best title for it. _What Is an Elephant? _Come to Thailand _Lets Save the Elephants _Elephants Are Good Pets 2) Read the article quickly and match the main ideas with the paragraphs. 2. Careful reading 1) Read Para.1 to answer the two questions Where are the students from? What do they want to do? Why is the elephant important in Thailand? Read Para.1to fill in the blanks then try to retell Para.1. 2) Read Para.2 to answer the fallowing questions Are elephants smart animals? What can they do? Why do people say that “an elephant never forgets”? Read Para.2to fill in the blanks then try to retell Para.2. 3) Read Para 3 to answer the fallowing questions Are elephants in great danger? Why? How many elephants are there today and how many before? How can they save elephants?4) Read the article again and complete the mind map. Importance in Thailand first flag had _ _ symbol of _ Abilities can play _ can also _ well can _ places with food and water Facts and figures people _ many trees people kill them for _ today there are _ (over _before) How to save them must save the_ dont _ things made of ivory. _ is Thai Elephant Day. Step4 After reading 1. Ask the students to retell the story according to the mind map.