Module 6 Animals in danger
【教材分析】
本模块以“Animals in danger”为话题，以学习动词不定式的用法为主线，介绍了当前濒临灭绝,需要人类保护的动物的情况, 并重点介绍了大熊猫的保护情况。在此基础上，学生可以根据自己的建议制定更合理的动物保护措施。
Unit 1 It allows people to get closer to them.
【教学目标】
l Knowledge objective
To master the useful words and sentences.
Words: snake, thin, danger, interested, allows, wild, protect, grow, enough, dirty, peace, earth, raise
Expressions: in danger, at last, be interested in, think of, take away, in peace, on earth, in order to, look after
l Ability objective
1. To help students to improve their ability of listening and speaking.
2. Enable students to understand conversations about animals in danger.
l Moral objective
1. To help students know the importance of protecting animals and our environment.
2. Improve their sense of duty to love and protect animals.
【教学重点】
New words and expressions.
To learn the grammar knowledge of infinitive.
【教学难点】
Cultivating the ability of expressing opinions.
【教学方法】
PWP method, task-based method and interactive approach
【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Ss look the pictures and guess what the animal is.
Step 2 Consolidate new words
Look and say. The teachers shows the pictures of new words and let the students to say the new words as quickly as possible.
Step 3 Say the meaning of the phrases.
Work in pairs. Let Ss say the meaning of the phrases as quickly as possible.
Step 4 Listening
Listen and answer the questions.
1. What’s this week’s Animal World about?
2. Which animals are in danger?
Step 5 Listen to Activity 3 and answer the following questions.
1. Is Betty more interested in Wolong Panda Reserve?
2. Do many animals have a safe place to live?
Step 6 Find out the sentence of infinitive.
Work in pairs. Let Ss find out the sentences of infinitive as many as possible. Give the prize to the first group.
Step 7 Read Activity 3 and answer the questions.
1. Did Betty see the pandas at the zoo?
2. Is Betty interested in the pandas?
3. What does Lingling think of the pandas and other animals in danger?
4. Why do many animals not have a safe place to live?
Step 8 Now complete the table.
Why animals are in danger
What we can do to help
Step 9 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in the box.
Let Ss read the passage first and choose the words and expressions from the box.
Step 10 Everyday English
…at least!
Help!
What can we do?
Step 11 Language points
1. But I am more interested to see the pandas in the Wolong Panda Reserve.
be interested to do sth. 对做……感兴趣
be interested in sth. 对……感兴趣
be more interested in 对……更感兴趣
e.g. The boy is interested in the film.
2. …because it allows people to get closer to them.
to get closer to them在句中作宾语补足语，类似的结构有很多，例如：
ask sb. to do sth. 请求某人做某事
need sb. to do sth. 需要某人做某事
want sb. to do sth. 想要某人做某事
allow sb. to do sth. 允许某人去做某事
e.g. His father doesn’t allow him to play before finishing his homework.
3. It’s sad to think of pandas and other animals in danger.
think of 想到，想出
e.g. What do you think of the zoo?
in danger 处于险境，处于危险之中
e.g. The girl is very ill and her life is in danger. 女孩病的很重，生命垂危。
4. … have a safe place to live 表示“有安全的居住地”。to live放在名词place的后面做定语。
5. …because villages and farms are growing bigger and are taking away their land and forest. ......因为村庄和农场越来越大，侵占了它们的土地和森林。
take away 表示“夺去，拿走”。代词要放在中间。
e.g. Please take away your things.
Step 12 Listen and mark when the speaker pauses
1. It allows people to get closer to the pandas.
2. We want to save the panda, and we need you to help us.
3. We can give money to protect the animals.
Listen again and repeat.
Step 13 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
1. Why do you visit the zoo?
2. Where do most animals live?
3. Do you think animals are happy in the zoo?
4. What can we do to help the animals?
Step 14 Talk with your partner about what we can do to protect animals in danger and share your ideas with the rest of the class
-To protect …we should…
-We need to … to protect…
Step 15 Grammar
动词不定式的功能
Step 16 Summary
重点短语
in danger at last be interested in
think of take away in peace
in order to look after
动词不定式的功能
Step 17 Exercises
Do some exercises about the main points.
Step 18 中考链接
Do the exercises in the entrance exam to senior high schools.
Step 19 Homework
编写一个关于保护濒危动物滇金丝猴的对话。
【课后反思】
Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all.
【教学目标】
l Knowledge objective
Key vocabulary—research, baby, situation, scientist, produce, feed,
government, nature, develop, symbol
Key structures—nature park
l Moral objective
1. To help students know the importance of protecting animals and our environment.
2. Improve their sense of duty to love and protect animals.
【教学重点】
1. To get information from the reading material about pandas.
2. To learn some new words.
【教学难点】
To understand the main idea of each paragraph of the article.
【教学方法】
PWP method, task-based method
【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Look at the pictures and guess what the animal is.
2. Look at the pictures and answer the questions about the panda.
Step 2 Consolidate new words
Look and say. The teachers shows the pictures of new words and let the students to say as quickly as possible.
Step 3 Say what you know about pandas
Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and say something about pandas.
Step 4 Listen and answer the questions
1. How many pandas are there in the wild today?
2. What’s the symbol of the WWF?
Step 5 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs
Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
Step 6 Read the passage and answer the questions
1. What are scientists studying?
2. Are there many of pandas left?
3. What is the government doing to protect pandas in the wild?
4. Is the panda the symbol of all animals in danger?
Step 7 Read the passage and complete the sentences
1. Scientists do a lot of research _______________________________________.
2. The government is setting up nature parks ____________________.
3. The WWF chose the panda _________________.
4. The WWF is working hard __________________.
Step 8 Complete the sentences with the words in the box
Read the passage carefully and get the main idea and choose the words from the box, then use the correct form to fill in the blanks.
Step 9 Language points
1. Scientists are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies…
do a lot of research表示“做大量研究”。
research是不可数名词。
produce表示“生育，繁殖”。
e.g. produce more babies
2. Each pandas needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day.
every 和 each的区别。
• every “每”“各”，指三者或三者以上的整体，含有全体之意。
e.g. Every boy is here. 所有男孩都在这儿。
• each “每一”“每个”，指两个或两个以上的每一个，着重于个别，如团体中一个的人或物。
e.g. He spoke to each member of the team.
他和队里的每个队员都说了话。
3. In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks …
• set up 创建，创办
e.g. He wants to set up a school for the poor children. 他想为贫困地区的孩子创办一所学校。
• In order (not) to do sth. 为了（不）做……
e.g. In order to be a doctor, you have to study for five years in a college. 要当一
名医生，你需要在大学学习五年。
They need to raise 5,000,000 US dollars in order to pay for the repairs. 为了支付修理费用，他们需要筹集500万美元。
Step 10 Choose an animals in danger and answer the questions
1. What is the animal?
2. Where does it live?
3. What does it feed on?
4. Why is it in danger?
5. How difficult is the situation?
6. How could we save it?
Step 11 Write a passage about an animal in danger. Use your answers in Activity 5 and the following example to help you
Pandas live the southwest of China. They are in danger and the situation is getting very difficult. First, pandas don’t have many babies and baby pandas often die. Second, pandas eat bamboo and the bamboo forests are getting smaller. But the government is creating nature parks with a lot of bamboo to help protect pandas.
Step 12 Summary
Let Ss talk about what they have learnt in class.
Step 13 Exercises
Let the students practice the main points in Unit 2.
Step 14 中考链接
Do some exercises from the entrance exam to senior high schools.
Step 15 Homework
Make a poster about protecting animals in danger.
【课后反思】
Unit 3 Language in use
【教学目标】
To summarise and consolidate .
【教学重点】
To be able to write a passage to help the animals in danger.
【教学难点】
Through listening, speaking and writing, let students practice the key structure: infinitive.
【教学方法】
PWP method, Formal and interactive practice
【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Language practice
To master the infinitive by filling the blanks.
Step 2 Choose another part for the following sentences from the box
Choose the right infinitive for the five sentences to practice the use of the infinitive.
Step 3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box
Do as the example do, choose the right verb to fill in the blanks.
Step 4 Complete the sentences. How many different sentences can you make?
Work in pairs. Make as many sentences as possible.
Step 5 Complete the conversation with the correct expression from the box
1. Read the expressions in the box.
2. Read the dialogue carefully, then choose the correct one.
Step 6 Act out the conversation in Activity 4
1. Read the words in the box.
2. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs from the box.
3. Act out the conversation.
Step 7 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box
1. Read the phrases in the box.
2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the phrases from the box.
Step 8 Complete the sentences with the expressions in the box
Read the sentences and fill in the right expressions.
Step 9 Listen and complete the poster
1. Read the words and guess what’s missing.
2. Listen and complete the poster.
Step 10 Read the email and choose the correct answer
1. Read the email and get the main idea.
2. Choose the correct answer to the three sentences.
Step 11 Around the world
Know about the animals in danger.
Step 12 Discuss what you want people to know about the wildlife club
Work in groups. Discuss the following questions:
1. what animals you’re going to help.
2. when you’re going to meet.
3. what you’re going to do.
4. where you’re going to meet.
Step 13 Make a poster about your wildlife club
Work in pairs. Let Ss make a poster together and choose the best one to show to the class.
Step 14 Find out about the animals you want to help and add information to the poster to make it more interesting
Work in pairs. Let Ss choose the animas freely and choose the best one to show.
Step 15 Exercises
Do some exercises and draw the answers from the Ss.
Step 16 中考链接
Do some exercises from the entrance exam to senior high schools.
Step 17 Summary
1.动词不定式的语法功能。
2.重点短语.
Step 19 Homework
你如何看待动物？哪些动物是濒危动物？你认为如何保护濒危动物？结合所学知识阐述一下你的观点，写一篇50词左右的短文.
【课后反思】
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