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). Teaching goals: Knowledge goals: Master new words and phrases-especially: symbol, flag, kill, get lost, be in danger, cut down,（be）made of, save, forget, place, tree, ivory, over.教育网版Ability goals: 1. Continue to learn to describe animals; 2. Continue to learn to express preferences;3. Learn to develop the reading and writing skills.Emotional goals: Learn to save the endangered animals and get on well with all the animals, make friends with them. Key and difficult points:1. Learn to describe animals, express preferences and develop the reading and writing skiils. 2. Learn to save the animals in danger and get on well with them. . Teaching aids: Multi-media, tape recorder. Teaching steps:Step 1 Review The teacher ask the Ss: What animals do you like? And why do you like them?Find several students to answer the question.Step 2 Warm up Let students look at the pictures and guess what the teachers favorite animal is. The teacher answers: “ I like elephants best because they are very smart” lead to the new lesson.Step 3 Presentation 1. Play a short video “ elephant culture in Thailand ”, let student learn something about elephants: The elephant is the symbol of Thailand. The first flag had a white elephant on it. The white elephant is a symbol of good luck.At the same time, learn the new words and phrase: symbol, flag, a symbol of good luck.2. Play a short video about elephants abilities, let the Ss find out what elephants can do.Present the sentences: They can dance. They can play soccer and basketball. They can also draw well. Later, show some pictures again, let students find out what else elephants can do. And then present another sentence: They can work for people, too. 3. Play a short video about the endangered animals. Tell students that the elephants are in great danger. Like them, many other animals are in great danger, too. And present the reasons why elephants are in great danger: People cut down many trees so they are losing their homes. People kill elephants for ivory. Many things are made of ivory. Teach some main words and expressions later will be met in the passage: be in great danger, cut down, tree, kill, ivory, be made ofStep 4 Reading 1.Fast reading. 1) Read the passage quickly and look at the picture, choose the best title for the passage in 2b. What Is an Elephant Come to Thailand Lets Save the Elephants Elephants Are Good Pets2) Find the topic sentences(中心句) in each paragraph. Before reading, lead the Ss to pay attention to the reading tip 1:“You can often find the topic sentence from the first sentence or the last sentence of the paragraph or sometimes in the middle.”2. Careful reading. 1) Read Para. 1 and answer the questions. Where are the students from? Theyre from Thailand.What is on the first flag of Thailand? A white elephant.The elephant is one of Thailands symbols. Why ? Because it is a symbol of good luck.2) Read Para. 2 and fill in the blanks. Before reading, lead the Ss to pay attention to the reading tip 2: “Use key words(关键词) to scan(浏览) the passage. It can help us find the answer quickly. (运用关键词浏览文章, 会帮我们快速找到答案。)” They can _ soccer or music. Elephants are smart._ places with food and water They can _ very well. Never _ lost. An elephant never _. can _ for a long time3) Read Para.3 and fill in the blanks.Elephants are _ _ _.Reasons(理由)facts and figures事实和数据Solutions (解决办法)how to save themReason 1 People_ _many trees. So they are _ their homes.We must_ the trees. = Dont cut down _ _ _.Reason 2People _ elephants for their_ . only_ nowover_ before Dont _ things made of ivory. _ is Thai Elephant Day.4) Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the intonation and pronunciation. And pay attention to the key phrases. Step 5 Group work After reading the passage, work in groups to make an interview like this:A: Hello, welcome to China. Where are you from?B、C、D、E、F: Were fromA: Whats your favorite animal?B: My favorite animal is an elephant. Its Thailands Our first flag had Its a symbol ofA: What can elephants do?C: They canA: Are there many elephants in the world now?D: No, there are about 3000 now. They are in great A: Why is that?E: Because people and they are losing Also people elephants ivory.A: How terrible! What must we do?F: We must andA: Mmm, those must be good for elephants.Step 6 Find some groups to show the interview.Step7 Have a discussion.Discuss our national treasure: pandaStep8 Writing: write a passage about our national treasure. My favorite animal is _. They are one of Chinas _. _ _.Pandas are in great _._ _ _ _. We should _them.Step 9 Play a short video : an advertisement about protecting wild animals. Tell the Ss “No buying, no killing.”Step 10 Homework.1.Write an article about an animal in danger according to the information you searched (搜索) on the internet.2.Design a poster (海报) to save animals. 课后反思：本节课是人教版英语七年级下册Unit 5Why do you like pandas?Section B(2a-2c)部分，是第五单元的阅读课。英语课程标准指出：“中学英语教学目的是对中学生进行听，说，读，写的基本训练，培养学生口头上和书面上初步运用英语的能力，侧重培养阅读能力。”从某种意义上来说，阅读能力的提高是听，说，写能力提高的关键。因此，提高阅读技能是初中英语教学关键。本节阅读课根据课标要求设计旨在培养培养学生快速阅读抓关键信息，仔细阅读抓细节信息以及归纳语篇的能力，同时渗透构建思维导图的阅读策略培养，帮助学生将零碎的信息分类整理成与主体密切相关又相对独立的块状知识，这不仅能帮助学生深入理解语篇，抓住重要信息，而且能增强学生的思维能力。在本节课快速阅读之前，通过几段小视频和一些图片，我向学生呈现了本节课要出现的重点单词和句子，图文并茂不仅激发了学生学习的兴趣，而且对重点词汇及句子进行了巧妙处理，同时也为下面的阅读做了铺垫。读的过程中，我以贯彻阅读获取信息为主线，通过快速通读全文选取题目、找中心句，细读段落获得细节信息，问题设计通过思维导图的方法，培养锻炼学生的阅读能力与思维能力。读后设计的采访活动，让学生能够学以致用，将所学内容转化为自己的语言，实现了输出。与此同时，阅读之后，让同学们通过思维导图，讨论我们的国宝大熊猫，然后用自己的语言描写，是对所学内容的又一层面的输出。最后，通过观看保护野生动物公益广告的视频，告诉学生“没