Unit 6 Bird watching
Integrated skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. master some listening skills;
2. know some useful expressions;
3. ask for advice on an activity.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: cover, clearly, cover an area of
2. New structures: The reserve covers an area of over 4,530 square kilometers.
You’d better take a pair of binoculars.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Learn to use some listening skills.
Learn how to use some useful expressions.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Yancheng Nature Reserve
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Can you guess where Yancheng Nature Reserve is?
S: It is in Jiangsu Province in East China.
T: Can you imagine what it looks like?
S: Perhaps there are trees, flowers, grass, rivers, animals and so on.
【设计意图】引导学生联想本单元所学知识，在脑海中对盐城自然保护区有一个初步认识。并激发学生了解事实的兴趣。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Finish a quiz
Yancheng Nature Reserve is in _____ Province in ______ China.
a Heilongjiang, North-east
b Hainan, South
c Jiangsu, East
Yancheng Nature Reserve is a perfect place to _____.
a buy the birds
b hunt the birds
c watch the birds
The reserve covers an area of over ______ square kilometers.
a 453
b 4,530
c 45,300
Yancheng is the ______ home to red-crowned cranes in China.
a largest
b second largest
c third largest
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About ____ red-crowned cranes fly to Yancheng Nature Reserve every year to spend the winter.
a 100 to 300
b 300 to 1,000
c 1,000 to 3,000
In _____, Yancheng Nature Reserve became one of the world’s most important wetlands.
a 1997
b 2002
c 1992
2. Offer some tips before listening
Guessing before listening can help us understand better.
Before listening, finding the differences between the choices is necessary.
3. Listen and finish the exercise
(1) Listen to the first part of the radio programme and check the answers in the quiz
(2) Listen to the whole radio programme and complete the report on P76
4. Offer some tips while listening
While listening, paying attention to some key words can help us find the answers quickly.
While listening, we can write in shorthand. Then after listening, we can write down the complete forms of the words. (E.g. red-crowned cranes—rc cranes)
5. Listen again and check
(1) Listen the whole radio programme again and check the answers.
(2) Listen to some difficult sentences and repeat them.
There are many wetlands in China. One of them is Yancheng National Rare Birds Nature Reserve.
It covers an area of more than 4,530 square kilometers.
(3) Offer some tips for listening comprehension
When the first word ends in –r or –re and the next word begins with a vowel sound, the speaker joins them together with a /r/ sound between them.
The speaker usually links a consonant sound with a vowel sound.
When two consonant sounds of two words meet, the speaker sometimes does not pronounce the first consonant sound.
than重读[ðæn], 一般轻读作[ðən]。then 读作[ðen]。
6. Explain some useful expressions
7. Show some pictures of the Yanchegn Nature Reserve
T: Do you know what the real Yancheng Nature Reserve looks like? Look at some pictures.
【设计意图】指导学生有意识地关注听力练习中的关键词和短语，是学生进行听力测试时必备的技巧。展示现实中盐城自然保护区的风光景色与学生刚开始上课时的想象进行比较，前后呼应。）
B Speak-up: What should we take with us?
Step 1 Presentation
1. Explain the new word “binocular”
2. Listen to the conversation and answer this question
What advice does Sandy give to Daniel? (She advises Daniel to take a pair of binoculars, some water and a notebook.)
【设计意图】首先解释可能给学生带来难度的生词，听后回答问题，检测学生听力理解的效果。
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Step 2 Practice
Make up dialogues
A: What should we take with us when we go on a school trip/go to…?
B: You’d better take a camera/…You can take some beautiful pictures/…
A: Ok. What else should we take?
B: You should… It’s a long walk/… You may…
A: All right. Anything else?
B: Take a mobile phone with you/… You may need help if you get lost/…
A: That’s good idea. Thank you very much.
【设计意图】根据课本上的对话进行仿造，提高学生的口语能力。
V. Homework
Write a letter to your friend to ask for information before going birdwatching.
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