(共20张PPT)
Unit 2
ICONIC ATTRACTIONS
Using Language
Teaching Objectives
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. learn some amazing animals of Australia.
2. learn how to describe an iconic animal.
3. learn to use rhetorical devices to arouse readers' interest in their writing.
4. write a description of an iconic animal in China.
Teaching Procedures
1. Lead in
2. While-reading
3. Post-reading
4. Summary
5. Homework.
kangaroos
koala
Tasmanian devil
duck-billed platypus
Lead in
While-reading
Activity 1 Reading for the general information
Read the title, the questions and the first sentences of each part, and then answer the following questions.
1. What is the type of this text
A. Narration B. Exposition
C. Practical writing D. Argumentation
2. What’s the main idea of this text
The text mainly talks about _____________________ in Australia, such as ________________________________________________________________
some iconic animals
kangaroos, koalas, Tasmanian devil, duck-billed platypus
While-reading
Activity 1 Reading for the general information
Read the title, the questions and the first sentences of each part, and then answer the following questions.
3. Fill in the blanks
Kangaroos:
a symbol of
the country
koala:
cute but _____________
Tasmanian devil:
__________________________
duck-billed
platypus: __________in a nest
well-known
few people know
sensitive
not so cute
lay eggs
While-reading
Activity 2 Reading for the detailed information
1 When do baby kangaroos begin to spend less time with their mothers
2 Why shouldn’t you try to pet a wild kangaroo
While-reading
Activity 2 Reading for the detailed information
3 What do koalas spend most of their time doing
4 Why has the government made it against the law to handle koalas
While-reading
Activity 2 Reading for the detailed information
5 What two things about Tasmanian devils can bother people most
6 What do Tasmanian devils like to eat
While-reading
Activity 2 Reading for the detailed information
7 What makes the way duck-billed platypuses give birth so different from other mammals
8 What is the unique way used by duck-billed platypuses to find food
While-reading
Activity 3 Reading for language features
Read the text again. How does the writer describe these animals Find at least three rhytorical devices the writer uses to arouse the reader’s interest.
1. Simile 明喻
He drove as if possessed by the evil. 他着魔似的驾车狂奔。
2. Metaphor 隐喻/暗喻
He has a heart of stone. 他铁石心肠。
3. Personification 拟人
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
4. Overstatement 夸张
The old man lived a year in a minute. 老人度日如年。
5. Pun 双关
I'm only friends with 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know Y.
我只认识25个字母，不知为什么。
While-reading
Activity 3 Reading for language features
Read the text again. How does the writer describe these animals Find at least three rhytorical devices the writer uses to arouse the reader’s interest.
1. It’s a tough animal that has to survive in a difficult environment.
Personification
2. ...koalas are very sensitive creatures who can easily panic because of even small changes in their environment.
Personification
While-reading
3. They are about the size of small dogs and look like rather large black rats.
Simile
4. Its nose looks like a duck’s bill, and it has feet like a duck’s so it can dive under the water, but it’s covered in hair.
Simile
5. If you want to hold a koala, you have to go to certain licensed zoos where animal experts make sure that the koalas selected for each session are in a good state for human contact and that they are handled for only a limited time and on a limited frequency of occasions.
Repetition
6. The noise they make could wake the dead.
Overstatement
Writing
Write a description of an iconic animal in China.
1 In groups, brainstorm a list of four iconic animals.
giant panda; Tibetan antelope; snub-nosed monkey; Chinese sturgeon（中华鲟）, etc.
2 Do some research and make notes. For example:
where they live
what they eat
what they look like
how they are different from other animals
how they interact with people
any other unusual or interesting facts about them
Writing
Write a description of an iconic animal in China.
3 Using your notes, write a description of one of these animals. Remember to use some
rhetorical devices to make your writing vivid and interesting.
Writing
Write a description of an iconic animal in China.
The giant panda
Of all the animals, I like giant pandas best. The giant panda, whose home is in Sichuan Province, is known as the national treasure of China. Pandas live in the beauty of nature where they can enjoy their lives happily.
Giant pandas are very beautiful animals with black and white fur like big cats. They usually eat bamboo shoots and leaves and live in bamboo forests, where they can climb trees and play games. I like giant pandas because they are so lovely!
But giant pandas are still an endangered species. I think giant pandas need our help and protection. We should take action to protect giant pandas and let them live in the wild happily.
Homework
Take your draft back and revise it using your partner comments. And present your new description to the rest of your class.
Thank you！
Unit 2
