【英语】高中英语新课标必修三_Unit_1优秀教案

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篇1：【英语】高中英语新课标必修三_Unit_1优秀教案

普通高中课程标准实验教科书（人教版）

英语必修Ⅲ

Unit1 Festivals around the world(Reading)

Festivals and Celebrations

学生姓名：赵倩倩

Unit 1 Festivals around the world

Ⅰ.Analysis of teaching material

At the beginning of the class, the teacher can lead in the topic of the unit by having a free talk with students about their winter holidays and the Spring Festival.The Warming Up is intended to have students start thinking about the variety of events and festivals that are celebrated in China, and connect them with seasons of the year and reasons for the celebrations.The teacher can use this part to introduce information that Chinese students should have about their country’s cultural events.The Pre-reading is a continuation of the Warming Up and it moves the discussion to a more personal level.It is intended to help students enter imaginatively into a discussion of festivals and their importance to the society.It also directs their attention to the variety of events and activities those festivals include.The teacher should let students discuss the questions and predict what kind of information will be introduced in the Reading.The reading passage titled FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS briefly describes the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, and then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world.Encourage students to look at the pictures and the heading of each section to guess what the text might be about.Then let them skim for the general idea for each section, and scan for further understanding.Because this passage introduces a lot of useful new words and expressions which are only used for festivals, in order not to let students feel much difficult, the teacher should deal with any language problems while they are reading.After reading, students are required to do the four exercises in the Comprehending to see how much they have understood the reading passage.The teacher can first let them work in pairs or in groups to find the answers cooperatively, and then check their answers with the whole class.To consolidate the contents of the reading passage, students should be required to talk about festivals in their own words at the end of the class.In order to arouse students’ interest, the teacher can hold a competition between groups.Ⅱ.Teaching aims

1.Knowledge aims

1).Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, agriculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with 2).Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.2.Ability aims 1).Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2).Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.3.Emotional aims 1).Stimulate students’ love for their own national culture and customs.2).Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.Ⅲ.Teaching methods: 1.Explanation to get the students to have a clear idea.2.Discussion to get the students to understand the text easier.Ⅳ.Teaching Aids:

A computer and a tape recorder

Ⅴ.Teaching important and difficult points 1.Important points 1).Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.2).Get students to learn different reading skills.2.Difficult points 1).Develop students’ reading ability.2).Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.Ⅵ.Teaching procedure →Step 1 Leading-in Have a free talk with students.Ask them the following questions: Did you have a good time in your winter holidays? When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?(At the Spring Festival.Because it’s the most important festival in our country...)→Step 2 Warming up

1.Let students brainstorm the other Chinese festivals.(Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year’s Day, Chung Yeung Festival...)

2.Let students read the information about Chinese festivals below and discuss another three Chinese festivals: When does the festival come? What do people celebrate? What do people do? Festivals Date Festivals Date New Year January 1st Teachers’ Day September 10th International March 8th National Day October 1st Women’s Day Arbor Day March 12th The Spring Festival Lunar New Year International Labor May 1st Dragon Boat the fifth day of the fifth Day Festival lunar month International Children’s Day Army Day June 1st August 1st Mid-Autumn Festival

Lantern Festival Pure Day Chinese Youth Day May 4th

the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

the 15th day of the 1st lunar month

Brightness April the fifth

3.Ask students to fill in the following form and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class.The first one is given as an example.Festivals Time of year/date What it celebrates What people do Mid-Autumn autumn/fall the beauty of the give/eat moon Festival full moon, harvest, cakes and watch

time with family the full moon with and friends family and friends

4.Talk about some foreign festivals with students.(Christmas, April Fools’ Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving Day,...)→Step 3 Pre-reading 1.Let students discuss the following questions: What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best—the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit? 2.Ask students to look at the pictures and title of the passage in Reading.Discuss in pairs what kind of information will be introduced in the passage.→Step 4 Reading

1.Fast reading Ask students to skim the reading passage and then fill in the following chart.Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries Festivals

Festivals

Harvest

Spring

(Let students look through the chart and then read the text silently.Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class.Show the suggested answers on the screen.)2.Intensive reading Allow students to read carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details, and then finish the following: 1)Choose the best answer to each question or to finish each sentence according to the text.(1)Why do Japanese people light lamps during the Festival of the Dead? A.Because they want to make the festival colorful.B.Because they want to light up their rooms.C.Because they want to light up their way.D.Because they want to lead their ancestors to return to earth.(2)Which of the following was not mentioned as a famous person in the text? A.Mohandas Gandi.B.Christopher Columbus.C.Abraham Lincoln.D.Qu Yuan.(3)The place where people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruits is ______________.A.India B.America C.Europe D.China(4)Easter is held in memory of the return of Jesus for Christians and also celebrates ______________.A.the coming of spring B.the autumn harvest C.the Lunar New Year D.the end of a year Suggested answers:(1)D(2)C(3)C(4)A 2)Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following questions.(1)What are festivals of the dead usually for?(2)What makes autumn festivals happy events?(3)What do people usually do at spring festivals?(4)What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?(5)Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China.What things are similar? What things are different? 3.Reading and discussion Read the text a third time and then work in pairs to do the following.1)Based on the reading passage, what do most festivals seem to have in common? Why do you think these things might be important to people everywhere? Talk with your partner and fill in the chart below.Three common things Reasons why they are important to people everywhere 1.2.3.2)Discuss in pairs which festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun.Then fill in the chart with your ideas.Type of festival Example of festival Reasons for your

choice Most important

Most fun

(Let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions and charts with their partners.Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences.)4.Explanation Help students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meanings of some new words.Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context.Discuss the following important sentences and phrases in the passage.1)Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.2)In memory of 3)India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain.4)People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over.5)The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.6)The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.Suggested explanations: 1)The sentence contains a non-restrictive attributive clause who might return either to help or to do harm.It means people hold some festivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.2)In memory of: serving to recall sb., to keep him fresh in people’s minds He wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of: showing great respect or high public regard 3)The leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain: a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive 4)two clauses for reason 5)energy n.→ energetic adj.: full of or done with energy look forward to: “to” is a preposition here.I’m looking forward to hearing from you.be devoted to;be/get used to;get down to;stick to...6)covered with cherry tree flowers: a past participle phrase equal to “which is covered with cherry tree flowers” as though: as if He talks as though he knew all about it.He looks as if he had seen a ghost.5.Reading aloud and underlining Ask students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence.Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework.→Step 5 Consolidation

Ask students to talk about festivals in their own words according to the text.Then let them complete the following passage with proper words or phrases.There are all kinds of festivals and ______________ around the world, which are held for different ______________.The ancient festivals were mainly held at three times a year—the end of the cold ______________, planting in spring and ______________ in autumn.Some festivals are held to ______________ the dead or ______________ the ancestors, who might return either to help or ______________, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or to the ______________, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Columbus Day, and so on.Harvest and ______________ festivals are happy events because their food is ______________ for the winter and the ______________ work is over, to which Mid Autumn Festival belongs.And the most ______________ and important festivals are the ones that ______________ the end of winter and to the coming of ______________ such as the Lunar New Year, at which people have a very ______________.Suggested answers: celebrations;reasons;weather;harvest;honor;to satisfy;to do harm;gods;Thanksgiving;gathered;agricultural;energetic;look forward to;spring;good time →Step 6 Homework

1）Preview the next part about reading to get the main idea.2)Translate these sentences into English:（People usually do at the Spring Festival）1 大扫除迎新年的到来。（do some cleaning）2 除夕夜放鞭炮。(set off firecrackers)3孩子们穿上新衣服。(dress up)4互相拜访亲戚或朋友。(visit relatives)5 北方人喜欢吃饺子。(dumpling)6家长给孩子们压岁钱。(lucky money in red packets)3)Write a passage:

My favourite festival-the Spring Festival 参考写作内容:

春节是中国最重要的节日, 它不仅是庆祝农历新年的到来, 也是家人团聚的时候。除夕之夜，人们穿着漂亮的新衣服，与家人团聚并一起在家里吃丰盛的年饭。午夜，人们会放鞭炮迎接新年的到来。在春节期间，人们互相拜访亲戚或朋友。大人习惯上要给孩子们压岁钱，祝福孩子们新年好运。在许多地方，人们放炮竹。但是在一些城市，放炮竹已经被禁止了。孩子们非常盼望过新年，因为他们可以吃美味的东西，穿上新衣服，开心地玩耍。更重要的是，他们可以得到父母、亲戚的压岁钱。→Step 8.Reflection

Ⅶ.Blackboard design

Unit 1 Festivals around the world

Festivals and Celebrations Kinds of Festivals Festivals Festivals Harvest Spring

Names of Festivals

Countries

篇2：【英语】高中英语新课标必修三_Unit_1优秀教案

-----------胡文娟

一、教学设计意图

在《高中英语新课程标准》中讲到“高中英语课程要有利于学生优化英语学习方式，使他们通过观察、体验、探究等积极主动的学习方法，充分发挥自己的学习潜能，形成有效的学习策略，提高自主学习的能力；要有利于学生学会运用多种媒体和信息源，拓宽学习渠道并形成具有个性的学习方法和风格。”把信息技术作为英语教学的认知工具和知识载体，围绕英语学科知识进行整合实验，不仅可以扩大英语阅读的“面”和“量”，而且也培养了学生诸如“信息的获取、信息的重组和加工以及信息的交流”等多种信息素养。网络学习是一种学习过程交互化的学习模式。学生带着问题借助网络查询信息，进行信息交流，由此“任务驱动、自主探究、协作交流”等学习策略在这里得到了更充分的体现。使教师把信息技术和网络作为自己真正的工具，把信息技术融入学科教学中来。

二、教学目标设计：

知识与技能：①掌握快速阅读的方法，熟悉“发表看法，提出建议”的口语技能。②充分利用网络资源，强化学生自主学习的意识，培养学生组织语言、运用语言的能力。

过程与方法：①培养学生筛选局部和整体信息的能力和独立阅读能力，通过自主学习和协作学习，获取信息和处理信息的能力。②培养学生质疑意识，分析问题、解决问题、综合问题的能力和创造性思维能力。

情感价值观：通过本节课的学习，培养学生的人文和信息素养。

三、教材内容及重点、难点分析： 教材内容：本课教学内容是新课标《高中英语必修3 Unit 5》，Canada---The True North 与以往接触过的介绍国家的文章相比，本课的内容没有整体介绍加拿大的地理概况和风土人情，而是透过一个旅人的眼睛来看加拿大。相比较而言，这样的课文难度更大。

教学重点：①对课文内容的整体把握。②学生组织语言、运用语言的能力。【重点突破】任务驱动，层层深入。利用“任务驱动”方法，使学生利用资源自主探究、解决一系列层层深入的问题。在教学中，教师作为问题的精心设计者和疑难问题的点拨者，培养学生组织语言的能力。

教学难点：①对课文内容中细节的理解。②对网上各种信息源的比较筛选，及学生易受无关因素的干扰而导致的学习效率问题。【难点突破】 设置情境，循序渐进，层层递进。设置富有情趣的情境，激发他们的阅读欲望，积极主动地进行自主探究。循序渐进的设计问题 , 激发学生的创造思维，层层深入地引导学生进行自主和协作学习。

四、教学策略及教法设计： 【教学策略①本节课的教学以建构主义学习理论为指导，以学生为中心，以问题为出发点，使课堂教学过程成为学生自主地进行信息加工、知识意义构建、创新能力发展的过程。教师在教学过程中则适时介入，引导、启发、组织、帮助、促进。②设计创造性思维问题。所谓创造性思维问题即是指有利于学生创造性思维发展的问题。创造性思维问题的设计应遵循这样几个原则：题型具有开放性、解题富有挑战性。】：

【教法】：①演示法：把制作的课件、动画等显示给学生看，便于学生对微观知识的把握，并从旧知中获得启迪，从而解决问题。②评价阅读法：将学生通过对材料的收集、整理和内化而形成的学习成果，在全班学生中展示，使学生获得成功的喜悦，从而激发学生的后续学习热情。③任务驱动教学法：将所要学习的新知识隐含在一个或几个问题之中，学生通过对所提的任务进行分析、讨论，并在老师的指导、帮助下找出解决问题的方法，最后通过任务的完成而实现对所学知识的意义建构。

五、教学过程设计：

第一步：热身活动：猜单词。在这个步骤中，我给出两组前一节课学过的词，分别让两组同学上来猜。所采用的方式类似于《幸运52》：单词是出现在屏幕上的，其中一个同学背对着屏幕，他是猜者；另一个同学则是解释者，他要用英语或辅以动作将单词的意思表现出来。两组同学之间展开竞争，看谁猜得又快又多。这个活动不仅可以复习上节课的内容，更重要的是活跃了课堂气氛，令同学们很快融入课堂氛围。

第二步：读前活动

（一）：自由展示。在上这一课之前，我给学生布置的预习任务是介绍你最想去的地方。Which country or place would you like to visit most? Why?学生们自由组成小组，上网查找相关资料，然后对所搜集的信息进行整理，最后形成自己的powerpoint展示文件。在课堂上，由本小组的发言代表上来进行展示和介绍。这一环节是这节课的重头戏。

第三步：读前活动

（二）：自由交谈。给学生提出这样一个问题：如果你有机会去加拿大，你最想看什么？If you have a chance to visit Canada, what would you expect to see there? 先要求他们在小组内讨论，然后再在全班同学面前发言。

第四步：读前活动

（三）：小组讨论。经过了前面的大量的有关加拿大的信息的冲击，你愿意用哪三个词语来描述加拿大？What three words would you use to describe Canada? Why? 请小组代表发言。

第五步：加拿大概况综述。这一步骤是对上几个步骤的总结，同时也是教师整合并优化了有关加拿大的各种信息所进行的展示。目的是进一步加深同学们对加拿大的了解，对他们所获取的知识进行 梳理，也为下一个步骤展开铺垫。

第六步：略读课文。（first reading）在这个步骤中，我给出了8个问题，让同学们带着这8个问题来阅读课文。读完后回答问题。

1.Why are the cousins not flying direct to the Atlantic coast? 2.What is the continent they are crossing?

3.What is “The True North”?

4.Why do many people want to live in Vancouver? 5.What happens at the Calgary Stampede? 6.Where does wheat grow in Canada?

7.Why would ship be able to reach the centre of Canada? 8.Name two natural resources that Canada has.第七步：精读课文。(second reading)在这个步骤中，我给出了5个跟课文内容有关的句子，让同学们判断正误。如果该句是错的，请给出正确答案。

1.The girls went to Canada to see their relatives in Montreal.2.Danny Lin was going to drive them to Vancouver.3.You can cross Canada in less than five days by bicycle.4.The girls looked out the windows and saw Native Indians and cowboys.5.Thunder Bay is a port city in the south of Canada, near Toronto.第八步：复述课文(retelling)给出课文中的关键词汇，让同学们用自己的话来复述课文。

Helpful words and expressions great scenery second largest go eastward

mountains/lakes/forests/rivers 5,500/from west to east here in Vancouver surrounded by ski/sail

第九步：口头作文(oral practice)设定一个情境，给出一些关键词汇，让同学们模仿课文来编一段对话或一篇短文。

Suppose two of your cyber pals in Canada come to visit Shenzhen and you are meeting them at the airport.While you are driving them home, you are telling them something about China and Shenzhen, just as what Danny Lin said in the text.Work in groups.You are required to present either a short passage or a short dialogue.Helpful words and expressions great scenery third largest go northward

mountains/lakes/forests/rivers from south to north

here in Shenzhen along the coast theme parks

第十步：作业布置。要求学生将第九步中的口头作文写出来，变成书面作文。

Write down the short passage or the short dialogue that you’ve just worked out.六、教学反思 本节课是新课标《高中英语必修3 Unit 5》，我将本节课设计为竞赛、导入、个人探究、互动交流、协作探究和讨论及口头作文等九个步骤。我充分发挥自制网络课件的优势，使本节课的内容更加充实，容量更多。既贯通了所要学的知识，又拓展了课外知识，使得本节课学生在学习过程中兴趣更加浓厚 , 积极地自主探究，讨论问题热烈，课堂气氛活跃！现将课堂教学反思总结如下：

（一）信息技术与英语学科整合方面

1、信息技术与英语学科内容的整合。网络是信息的海洋、包罗万象的课本 , 把信息技术作为英语教学的认知工具和知识载体，围绕英语学科知识进行整合实验，不仅可以扩大英语阅读的“面”和“量”，而且也培养了学生诸如“信息的获取、信息的重组和加工以及信息的交流”等多种信息素养。

2、信息技术与英语学习模式的整合。网络学习是一种学习过程交互化的学习模式。学生带着问题借助网络查询信息，进行信息交流，由此“任务驱动、自主探究、协作交流”等学习策略在这里得到了更充分的体现。

（二）英语课堂教学方面

本节课英语教学中以问题为线索，采用“任务驱动”方法，让学生自主探究和协作探究为主，培养学生的自主学习能力。故本人在这节课中通过安排学生的个人探索、协作学习、讨论等各种形式来激发学生学习兴趣，主动阅读，有创造性的完成任务。让学生在教师的指导下，通过感知、体验、实践，参与和合作等方式，实现任务的目标，感受成功：在学习过程中进行情感和策略调整，以形成积极的学习态度，促进语言实际运用能力的提高。采用师生交流方式导入自然亲切，拉近了师生之间的情感距离，营造出宽松的学习气氛，同时让学生了解有关加拿大的相关内容。根据教师提出的一系列问题，学生自主搜索与加拿大相关的信息资料，然后以个人探究和协作学习相结合，并以各种的形式展示交流成果。本人这节课安排探究和讨论过程中的观点汇总等形式鼓励学生借助小组活动的形式来合作，来表达，来思考。能使学生在活动中互相学习、互相帮助，互相鼓励，体验集体荣誉感和成就感，发展合作精神。

（三）存在问题：

1、在口头作文这个环节里，学生们都非常积极踊跃，但由于时间关系，没能让任何一对同学展示他们的对话或短文。这是这堂课的一个缺陷。

篇3：【英语】高中英语新课标必修三_Unit_1优秀教案

Reading

一、教学内容分析

（一）知识背景及新课标、新教材

1、本单元围绕友谊这一话题开展听、说、读、写多种教学活动在本单元中涉及到的话题有：人们为什么要交朋友，如何交朋友，怎样处理朋友的关系，生活在二战时期的安妮是如何渴望朋友，如何与朋友相处的等。

2、Reading部分承载着整个单元中最重要的语言和文化信息，也是教师在整个教学过程中需要重点处理的部分。本文讲述了犹太女孩安妮为躲避纳粹的迫害而藏身于小阁楼中，并把日记当作自己的朋友，通过写日记来表达自己孤独和郁闷的心情。通过阅读这篇课文，学生不仅要进行阅读技能的训练，学习一些新的词汇和短语的表达方法，还要去阅读过程中学习并欣赏英语语音的美感，感受主人公乐观自信的人生太度，纯洁美丽的心灵。

（二）教学目标

1、知识技能 ①学习一些重要的新单词，短语和句式，如go in rough make+o+n作宾补

1、wonder whether/if一句式等 ②学会用英语谈论友谊

2、能力目标

提高学生的阅读能力并学会用一些阅读技能，如guessing key sentences ,skinning ,scanning and so on

3、情感目标

使学生意识到友谊的重要性，并通过阅读这篇短文学会珍惜友谊

（三）教学重点

1、培养学生的阅读技能，学会欣赏文学作品

2、让学生在语境中学习并掌握文章中的词汇和短语

3、提高学生的阅读技能

（四）教学难点

1、怎样提高阅读技能

2、掌握make+o+oc

二、教学方法

1、任务型教学

2、合作学习

3、讨论

三、具体教学步骤

（一）导入（Lead-in）

这一步骤的重点在于激发学生的兴趣 活动方式：师生互动

教师提问：What is important in your Life ? 学生的答案会有money study time hip etc 再问：DO you want to know he what important in my life?

Listen to a song《朋友》

导入的同时引出一句谚语：A friend in need is a friend indeed(拓展学生的知识)最后指出今天新学内容是Friendship(二)pre-reading 问答形式：

1、Why do you need friends?

2、What do you think a good friend should be like?

3、Does a friend always have to be a person?

4、Have you ever considered making friends with animals, plants or even an object? 看阅读文章的标题猜猜安妮的朋友是谁 介绍这篇文章的写作背景，二十世纪四十年代纳粹德国统治欧洲大部分地区。德国纳粹政策之一是对犹太人残酷迫害包括杀害：送到集中营强迫劳动，驱逐出欧洲等。

--指出当时的历史北京，学生就能自然而然地习得语言。能从时代背景出发思考安妮 面临困境，就不难理解安妮当时的心境和为什么将日记视为自己的朋友，从而深刻地领悟安妮日记的内涵。

（三）Reading

1、Skimming 让学生快速浏览课文，把握中心内容

2、细读课文，抓住文中的关键信息和段落大意

3、带着问题看课文，即完成“理解”部分的练习1

4、读安妮日记，并进行复述

（四）听力与巩固

1、Anne made her diary her best friend because she was afraid her friends would laugh at her

2、Anne and her family had been in hiding place for two years

3、Anne thought nature is one thing that really must be experienced(五)知识点（language points）

1、go through

2、Make her diary her best friend

3、I wonder if /whether

4、do with/deal with

5、it was the first time that(六)讨论

如果你必须像安妮一样和家人躲个狭小的空间里生活，你会怎么做？

--通过讨论更能感受到安妮对自由生活的向往，对大自然的热爱。对友情的渴望，通过反思自身的生存状态，他们会懂得珍惜生命，珍惜生活中美好的点点滴滴，并保持乐观向上的生活态度。

篇4：【英语】高中英语新课标必修三_Unit_1优秀教案

Period 1: Warming up and reading

Aims

To talk about endangered species and enable the students to say something about wildlife protection and environmental protection.

To read about wildlife protection and help the students to get to know “how to help wildlife and how to protect the environment” by reading and guessing.

Procedures

I. Warming up by learning about animals

Look at the photos below and listen to me telling you about the animals, the endangered animals.

The Giant Panda is a mammal now usually classified in the bear family, Ursidae, that is native to central China.

The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions, like Sichuan and Tibet. The Giant Panda is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a conservation organization. Toward the latter half of the 20th century, the panda also became somewhat of a national emblem for China, and is now used in Chinese gold coins.

Giant Pandas are an endangered species, threatened by continued loss of habitat and by a very low birthrate, both in the wild and in captivity. About 1,600 are believed to survive in the wild.

Milu deer is a Chinese deer. It has a long tail, wide hooves, and branched antlers. Another Chinese name for it is “four unlikes,.” because the animals were seen as having the horns of a stag, the neck of a camel, the foot of a cow, and the tail of an ass.

These animals were first made known to Western science in the 19th century, by Father Arm and David, a French missionary working in China. At the time, the only surviving herd was in a preserve belonging to the Chinese emperor. The last herd of Milu deers that remained in China were eaten by Western and Japanese troops that were present at the time of the Boxer Rebellion.

These deer are now found in zoos around the world, and a herd of Milu deer was reintroduced to Dafeng Reserve, China in the late 1980s. They are classified as “critically endangered.” in the wild, but do not appear to have suffered from a genetic bottleneck because of small population size.

A tiger is a large cat famous for its beautiful fur of orange striped with black. Tigers live in Asia and are becoming very rare. This is due to people hunting them for their fur and destroying the forests they live in.

II. Pre-reading

1. Defining wildlife

What does the world wildlife mean?

The term wildlife refers to living organisms that are not in any way artificial or domesticated and which exist in natural habitats. Wildlife can refer to flora (plants) but more commonly refers to fauna (animals). Needless to say, wildlife is a very general term for life in various ecosystems. Deserts, rainforests, plains, and other areas-including the most built-up urban sites-all have distinct forms of wildlife.

Humankind has historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways; besides the obvious difference in vocabulary, there are differing expectations in the legal, social, and moral sense. This has been reason for debate throughout recorded history. Religions have often declared certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the environment has provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment.

2. Reading to the recording

Now turn to page 26, listening and reading to the recording of the text. Try to keep pace with the native reader, making your reading resemble that of the reader, in speed, in intonation and in pronunciation.

3. Reading and transforming

Now you are to read the text for information to fill in the form.

What did Daisy see where she was?

In Tibet in China Zimbabwe In thick rain forest

4. Reading and underlining

Next you are to read the text and underline all the collocations at the same time.

HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE

not long ago, wake up, find…by one’s side, a flying chair, get dressed, put on one’s jeans, fly away to…, turn around, with a sad face, use…to make…, kill…for…, take…from under…, take one’s picture, become endangered, destroy the farm, take photos, apply to, hunt…for…, make money for…, as a result, in thick rain forest, protect…from…, rub…over…, a powerful drug, pay attention to…, take…home

III. Closing up by matching animals to five risk categories

Different endangered species appear on different endangered species lists. And people who are trying to protecting animal use the following five risk categories to group the unlucky animal.

Now in groups of four try to group all the unlucky animals found in China.

List of Unlucky animals found in China

中国不幸动物分类名录

EXTINCT(灭绝动物)-A species formerly indigenous to Canada that no longer exists anywhere.

EXTIRPATED(根绝动物)-A species no longer existing in the wild in Canada but occurring elsewhere.

ENDANGERED(濒危动物)-A species threatened with imminent extinction or extirpation throughout all or a significant portion of its Canadian range.

THREATENED(危急动物)-A species likely to become endangered in Canada if the factors affecting its vulnerability are not reversed.

VULNERABLE(弱势动物)-A species particularly at risk because of low or declining numbers, small range or for some other reason, but not a threatened species.

Period 2: Learning about Language

(The Present Progressive Passive Voice)

Aims

To learn about The Present Progressive Passive Voice

To discover useful words and expressions

To discover useful structures.

Procedures

I. Warming up by acting a text play

Good morning class. To begin with we shall put our text HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE on stage, that is, to act out our story. Now the class acting team with their text play of HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE!

II. Discovering useful words and expressions

1. Doing vocabulary exercises

Turn to page 28 and do the vocabulary exercises 1, 2 and 3. You can simply write your answers in the blanks on the very page of 28.

2. Playing a game

Let’s go on to play the game described on the top of the page 29. The following sentences are to be passed on.

▲ Plant native plants in your backyard.

▲ Do not dump weeds in the bush.

▲ Build a frog pond in your backyard.

▲ Put your rubbish in the bin.

▲ Leave your pets at home.

▲ Do not take anything out of the park.

▲ Encourage your friends to keep patches of bush as wildlife habitats.

▲ Join a community group and offer to do voluntary work.

▲ Find out about conservation activities happening in your local area.

▲ Participate in local clean-up, tree planting and weed control activities.

▲ Learn About Threatened Species

▲ Look out for wildlife

▲ Refuse to buy any rare or endangered plant or animal product.

▲ Be alert and drive slowly at dawn and dusk in rural areas where wildlife may be active.

III. Studying The Present progressive Passive Voice

1. Passive Voice

The passive voice is used when focusing on the person or thing affected by an action.

The Passive is formed: Passive Subject + To Be + Past Participle

It is often used in business and in other areas where the object of the action is more important than those who perform the action. For Example: We have produced over 20 different models in the past two years. Changes to: Over 20 different models have been produced in the past two years.

If the agent (the performer of the action) is important, use “by.” For Example:

Tim Wilson wrote The Flight to Brunnswick in 1987.

The Flight to Brunnswick was written in 1987 by Tim Wilson.

Only verbs that take an object can be used in the passive.

The following chart includes sentences changed from the active to the passive in the principal tenses.

Active Passive Time Reference

They make Fords in Cologne. Fords are made in Cologne. Present Simple

Susan is cooking dinner. Dinner is being cooked by Susan Present Continuous

James Joyce wrote Dubliners. Dubliners was written by James Joyces. Past Simple

They were painting the house when I arrived. The house was being painted when I arrived. Past Continuous

They have produced over 20 models in the past two years. Over 20 models have been produced in the past two years. Present Perfect

They are going to build a new factory in Portland. A new factory is going to be built in Portland. Future Intention with Going to

I will finish it tomorrow. It will be finished tomorrow. Future Simple

2. Passive Verb Formation

The passive forms of a verb are created by combining a form of the “to be verb.” with the past participle of the main verb. Other helping verbs are also sometimes present: “The measure could have been killed in committee.” The passive can be used, also, in various tenses. Let’s take a look at the passive forms of “design.”

Tense Subject Auxiliary Past Participle

Singular Plural

Present The car/cars is are designed.

Present perfect The car/cars has been have been designed.

Past The car/cars was were designed.

Past perfect The car/cars had been had been designed.

Future The car/cars will be will be designed.

Future perfect The car/cars will have been will have been designed.

Present progressive The car/cars is being are being designed.

Past progressive The car/cars was being were being designed.

IV. Reading and identifying

Since you are clear about Passive Verb Formation, go back to page 26 and scan the text for all the examples of The Present Progressive Passive Voice.

Our fur is being used to make sweaters like yours.

She was being watched by an excited elephant.

…

Now try to put the following sentences into The Present Progressive Passive Voice.

▲ They are producing this new drug.

▲ Antelope is looking at her.

▲ They are killing us for the wool.

▲ They are destroying the farm.

V. Discovering useful structures

To consolidate your learning of The Present Progressive Passive Voice, turn to page 29 and do the grammar exercises 1, 2 and 3, also on the very page of 29.

VI. Closing down by playing a game

To end this period go to page 29 and play the game called “Tell me what is happening?” Ask questions containing The Present Progressive Passive Voice.

Period 3: Using Language

(ABOUT DINOSAURS)

Aims

To read and listen about dinosaurs

To speak about helping the dodo

To write to the dodo

Procedures

I. Warming up by reading to the tape

Let’s warm up by reading aloud to the recording of the text

ABOUT DINOSAURS on page 30.

II. Listening about DINOSAURS

Now I’d like to tell you something about DINOSAURS

■In formation about Dinosaur

Dinosaur means terrible lizard in Latin. They were called that because people used to think dinosaurs were lizards, but they were not. Dinosaurs first appeared about 200 million years ago. 65 million years ago, many kinds of dinosaurs became extinct. Birds are a special type of dinosaur and they were the only kind to live until today.

There were many kinds of dinosaurs. Some ate plants and some ate meat. The largest dinosaurs were plant-eaters like apatosaurus and brachiosaurus. They were the largest animals to ever walk on dry land.

Other plant-eaters had special weapons to help them fight off the meat-eaters. For example, triceratops had three horns on its face, ankylosaurus was covered in boney plates, and stegosaurus had spikes on its tail.

The meat-eaters all ran around on their back legs like people do. Some were very large, like tyrannosaurus, and some were small, like compsognathus. It was the smaller sized meat-eaters that evolved into birds. One of the first birds was archaeopteryx, but it looked half like a dinosaur.

There were large flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs called pterosaurs, but they were not closely related to dinosaurs. There were also many kinds of large reptiles that could swim, like ichthyosaurs and pleisiosaurs, but they weren’t closely related to dinosaurs either.

III. Reading and copying

Next we shall go back to the text ABOUT DINOSAURS on page 30 again to read it and copy down all the expressions into your notebook.

Useful phrases from ABOUT DINOSAURS

During the history of the earth, live on the earth, tens of millions of years ago, came into being, eggs of five species, a rare new species, a bird-like dinosaur, climb tree, tell…from…, die out, hit the earth, put…into the air, get hot, live on, know for sure, in the same way, listen to the story about…, disappear from…

IV. Reading to answer questions

Read the questions in the table below and scan the text to answer them.

When did dinosaurs live on earth?

When did dinosaurs die out?

How did dinosaurs die out?

V. Listening about the dodo

Have you ever heard of the dodo, an animal that has also disappeared from the earth?

The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo, was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.

Next we are going to listen to the tape and do exercises 1 and 2 on page 30 on dodo.

VI. Speaking in pairs about helping the dodo

Zhao Yannan: The Dodo was driven to extinction by sailors when they discovered the island of Maritius in the 17th century. It is one of the first documented human induced extinctions.

Zhao Yanfei: What a pity that we can not find any dodo now. Imagine we are with the dodo, Yannan, what could we do to help it?

Zhao Yannan: Then I would intend to hide it in a cave, so that sailors could not find it.

Zhao Yanfei: If I were there, I would try to trap them as they were catching and killing the dodo. Putting man who is harmful to the dodo in a cage and attacking him is the best way to protect and save the dodo.

Zhao Yannan: I’d like to and I’m ready to, teach man how to be friends with animals, including the dodo. The man and the dodo can be living side by side on the earth. They can be happy together.

ZhaoYanfei: I would rather not tell you what I think of man. He is selfish and cruel. He cares only for himself and that is why so many animals have disappeared from this earth. Putting the bad men in a cage is the only way out, I am sure.

VII. Closing down by writing to the dodo

All right now, boys and girls, to end this period next you are to write a letter or an email to the dodo telling him what you are going to do to save him.

By 1681, the last dodo died, and the species became extinct. After hundreds of years, no one recalled what a dodo bird was, and it was regarded as a myth invented by imaginative sailors. It wasn’t until the 1900’s when the bones were found that the dodo was believed to be real.