Teaching Plan
8B Unit 5 Reading: The giant panda
Analysis of the learning material:
This is a reading passage from the compulsory textbook for Grade 8 students, aiming at developing their core competences of English, namely language ability, thinking quality, learning ability and cultural awareness.
Based on the topic of Saving the endangered animals: the Giant panda, the passage is a fact file of giant panda. It is an expository writing mainly introducing five interesting facts of panda. Students are encouraged to learn about these national treasure and are inspired to protect wild animals.
Analysis of the learners:
The learners are Grade 8 students who have the basic ability to understand the main idea and the detailed information of the passage. With the increasing pollution and over-exploitation of the planet, massive wild animals are in danger. It’s a good time for students to learn about them and learn about the importance of saving them. In this lesson, they will not only obtain language skills and reading strategies, but also learn about our national treasure and other wild animals.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this lesson, students are expected to:
Language ability: Understand the main idea and detailed information of the five facts about giant panda.
Learning strategy: Find out the main ideas quickly with the help of locating words, such as sub-headings, numbers, nouns, etc. and check the understanding of the detailed information by scanning.
Thinking quality: Be able to form mind maps of a passage.
Cultural awareness: Realize the importance of protecting the wild animals and learn to appreciate the grandness of mother nature.
Learning key points:
Skim to get the general idea of an article and use key words and useful expressions to talk about fact file of animals.
V. Learning difficult points:
Read beyond the lines to think critically about the facts of the giant animals.
Teaching procedures
Theme Unit 5 The giant panda Type Reading Time 1 period
Teaching Aims Ss can develop their reading abilities of skimming and scanning. Ss can make use of important sentence patterns to learn the facts of giant panda.
Teaching procedures Teaching contents Student activities Teacher activities Purpose
Warming up Step one: Have a guess 1. Watch a video of a cub and guess what animal it is. 1. Lead in the topic. To arouse Ss’ interest and lead them into the topic.
Lead-in Step two: Some quick facts 2. Try the short quiz of the facts of giant panda 2. Show the quiz to Ss and lead them know some quick facts. To let Ss learn more about the topic.
While-reading Step three: Skimming 3. Learn how to find out the main idea of the article by the help of sub-headings and complete the facts. 3. Lead Ss to get the main idea from the title, the introduction, the sub-headings and the pictures of the article. To develop Ss’s reading abilities of skimming and scanning.
Step three: Scanning 4. Read the parts of the introduction and fill in the blanks of the table. 5. Read the parts of the home, behavior, food, and life consecutively and fill in the blanks of the table. 6. Read the part of the future and brainstorm why the giant pandas are in danger. 4. Add more details to lean Ss to read beyond lines. 5. Show the tables and add more details to lean Ss to read beyond lines. 6. Lean Ss to think about why the giant pandas are in danger. .
Post-reading Step four: Consolidate the scanning strategy 7. Read more to know the possible natural causes of panda's endangered situation and fill in the mind map. 8. Watch a video about the Australian blaze and talk about recent disasters. 7. Show the article and lead Ss to fill in the mind map. 8. Show a video about Australian blaze and lean the talk. To let Ss realize the the reason why giant pandas are in danger and think critically about them.
Step five: Discussion 9. Watch another video about mother nature and discuss what we should do for them. 9. Ask the questions and set examples to explain them.
Homework Design a fact file for an endangered animal and call on people to protect it. Some tips for the fact file: Have different sections with sub-headings; Design some logos or images to make the file attractive. Make it into a video or speech and upload to the Internet.(共23张PPT)
Unit 5 Save the endangered animals
Reading：The giant panda
Have a guess.
Sub-headings
Skimming
While- reading
Get the main ideas quickly
Find certain information in a text
Scanning Strategy
Move your eyes quickly over the text to find the information you need.
Use sub-headings to locate the answer.
as much as 30 kgs
Complete the facts about pandas by using scanning strategy
The locating word
black
white
Appearance: It has______________around its eyes. Its ears, shoulders and legs are_______while the rest is _______.
Read the following part and answer the questions
1,600
100-150
similar to an apple
An adult panda weighs twice as heavy as that of an adult human.
black patches
The first sub-heading Home
Home: Pandas live high up in the mountains of_________________ _______________.
Central and Western China
National treasure (国宝)
The third sub-heading Behaviour
Solitary animals
Find other interesting facts while you are reading.
Excellent tree-climbers
Strong enough
12 hours
The second sub-heading Food & the fourth sub-heading Life
contrast the differences between pandas in the zoo and in the wild in the zoo in the wild
Food Their menu includes___________. They usually eat_________.
Life span They live for up to___________. They live for about______.
Raising a panda in the zoo is much more expensive than in the wild.
bamboo
20 years
35 years
bamboo, apples and carrots
Why do we keep pandas in the zoo？
Why are giant pandas endangered
people are cutting down forests.
people are killing them for their fur.
people are destorying their habitats.
The fifth sub-heading The future
They are endangered because...
man-made causes
natural causes
....
Let's read more to know the possible natural causes of panda's endangered situation.
Read the fact file in 1 minute.
Using scanning strategy to fill in the mind map
Use scanning strategy to fill in the mind map according to fact file ( 2 minutes)
Eating behaviour
Bamboo instead of meat: Pandas used to eat meat. But during the ice age, many animals died out so pandas changed to eat bamboos which can be fund all year round in their habitats. In this way, panda becomes one of the few animals survived through the ice age.
12 hours a day for eating: Panda's stomach is born for meat, so it is very difficult for panda to get the nutrients from bamboos. To get enough energy for its giant body, pandas have to keep on eating for half of the day and use the rest to sleep.
Productive behaviour
Few are lucky enough to grow up: Panda is very tiny at its birth. It weighs the same as a baby mouse, only 0.1% to its mother's weight. Cubs' body are not well-developed, so many cubs die. And their mother pandas sometimes may accidentally sit on their babies.
Social behaviour
Make friends No: Actually, panda prefers to live all by itself. It is a type of solitary animal. Only when it needs to have new babies, will it go outside to mate with other pandas.
Read the fact file in 1 minute.
Using scanning strategy to fill in the mind map
Use scanning strategy to fill in the mind map according to fact file ( 2 minutes)
behaviour
productive behaviour
eating behaviour
It used to eat________. After ice age, it eats________.
Difficult to get____________and ________from bamboo so it has to keep on eating 12 hours.
It is difficult to grow up becuase 1. __________
2.____________________________________.
social behaviour
Pandas are ____________animals. They only make friends when they need to ____________.
Locating words
meat
Read the fact file in 1 minute.
Using scanning strategy to fill in the mind map
Use scanning strategy to fill in the mind map according to fact file ( 2 minutes)
Eating behaviour
Bamboo instead of meat: Pandas used to eat meat. But during the ice age, many animals died out so pandas changed to eat bamboos which can be fund all year round in their habitats. In this way, panda becomes one of the few animals survived through the ice age.
12 hours a day for eating: Panda's stomach is born for meat, so it is very difficult for panda to get the nutrients from bamboos. To get enough energy for its giant body, pandas have to keep on eating for half of the day and use the rest to sleep.
Productive behaviour
Few are lucky enough to grow up: Panda is very tiny at its birth. It weighs the same as a baby mouse, only 0.1% to its mother's weight. Cubs' body are not well-developed, so many cubs die. And their mother pandas sometimes may accidentally sit on their babies.
Social behaviour
Make friends No: Actually, panda prefers to live all by itself. It is a type of solitary animal. Only when it needs to have new babies, will it go outside to mate with other pandas.
Read the fact file in 1 minute.
Using scanning strategy to fill in the mind map
Use scanning strategy to fill in the mind map according to fact file ( 2 minutes)
behaviour
productive behaviour
eating behaviour
It used to eat________. After ice age, it eats________.
Difficult to get____________and ________from bamboo so it has to keep on eating 12 hours.
It is difficult to grow up becuase 1. __________
2.____________________________________
social behaviour
Pandas are ____________animals. They only make friends when they need to____________.
meat
bamboo
nutrients
energy
it's too tiny
its mother may accidentally sit on the cubs
solitary
have babies
Another type of lovely animal and national treasure (国宝) in the world is also facing the endangered situation.
After the Australian blaze burning for 4 months...
The disasters at the beginning of 2020...
the biggest locust disaster in 15 years
the highest temperature in Antarctica
big volcano eruption in Philippines
the global outbreak of COVID-19
heavy snowstorms in Canada
......
Are these just coincidence(巧合)
Nature doesn’t need people.
But people need nature.
Homework: every effort counts
Design a fact file for an endangered animal and call on people to protect it.
Some tips for the fact file:
Have different sections with sub-headings;
Design some logos or images to make the file attractive.
You can make it into a video or speech and upload to the Internet.
Thanks for your listening!
