英语人教版七年级下册Unit5 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 ad