Lesson 47 Connected to Nature
保定师范附属学校 八年级英语组 翟姗姗
Title
Connected to Nature
Period
one
Teaching
aims
Knowledge
To learn some words and phrases to describe how everything is connected to nature such as start out, die off, spend on, species, respect.
Ability
To talk about how everything is connected to nature.
Emotion
To arise students’ awareness of protecting the species.
Important
points
Vocabulary: species, respect
Phrases: start ou, die off, spend on
Difficult
points
To talk about how everything is connected to nature.
Teaching
method
Task based teaching learning in doing
Teaching
aids
Text book
Multi-media
Teaching procedure
Stage
Procedure
Interaction
pattern
Aims
Warming-up
T: Look at the these pictures, What can you see from them?
All the pictures are related to the spring. But the three pictures show us the spring is not good any more because our many species are destroyed.
In fact, everything is connected to each other. If one has something wrong, some bad fact will also happen to another. Do you want to know more about how everything is connected?
Today let’s learn about in Lesson 47.
T-S
S-S
Motivate the Ss and lead in the new concept.
Presentation and
Practice
1. Listening
Listen and put the sentences in the correct order.
All living things are connected.
We should protect the environment.
Living things live in the world.
All living things need water and food to grow.
2. Reading
1) All the living things ________ weak and small and slowly _____ strong and big.
2) What happened to the birds if they eat the sick or dead fish?
3) Why should we protect the earth and all the living things on it?
4) Nature is a balance between all the living things on the planet.
3. Read again and fill in the blanks
live off depend on start out be filled with die off species connect respect
The natural world ______________ living things. Living things __________ weak and small and slowly grow strong and big. All living things need food and water to grow.
We are different in some ways, but all living things are __________. We all live on the same planet, and we _________ each other. Some birds _________ fish. If the birds eat the sick or dead fish, they may _______. We should ________ the earth and all the ________ on it.
Whole class
T-S
individual work and pair work
For the Ss to get some basic information about the topic.
They are helpful for them to learn the main concept.
respect connect die dead follow
1). His mother has been ________ for ten years.
2) People should ________ and understand each other.
3). Don't always ________ others. You should have your own ideas.
4). We are ____________ by the Internet.
5). The trees _________ out, and this place became a desert.
Production Progress
Read then passage and fill in the blanks with the sentences below.
Many years ago, there were more animal species than there are now. There were many forests. The rivers were clean. The sky was blue. Birds sang from morning until night. ________
But later, people cut down the trees in the forests, kille the animals and built factories and buildings. __________ People's houses were buried by soil in floods. Some animals lost their homes, and they attacked people. Some factories polluted the air, water and people's food. The earth is getting warmer. Some scientists say the sea level will rise by at least 1 metre in the next 100 years. ___________
People are now living in a worse and worse environment. ___ We need to reduce pollution and protect our environment.
A. Some houses beside the sea will disappear.
B. People lived together with many kinds of animals.
C. We should do something to save our world.
D. They changed the earth.
Group work
S-T
Give the Ss chances to use the language they learnt in class and do something they like.
Expansion
Now there are three tasks for you to choose.
Task 1
Make a poster about "protect our environment" to call on people to protect our nature.
Task 2
Give more suggestions about how to protect the environment and then make a report.
Task 3
Give an introduction about how all living things are connected to each other.
Group works
Let the Ss to know how to talk about everything is connected.
Homework
1. You can choose one the tasks and then finish it.
2. Finish the Learn English.
3. Read Lesson 47 for three times.
课件11张PPT。Lesson 47Connected to Nature 保定师范附属学校 翟姗姗 ListeningListen and put the sentences in the correct order.
All living things are connected.
We should protect the environment.
Living things live in the world.
All living things need water and food to grow.
Reading1. All the living things ________ weak and small and slowly _____ strong and big.
2. What happened to the birds if they eat the sick or dead fish?
3. Why should we protect the earth and all the living things on it?
4. Nature is a balance between all the living things on the planet.
start outgrowThey may die off.Because all living things are connected. 自然是地球上所有生物和谐的整体。start out=startdie off=die Read again and fill in the blanks The natural world ______________ living things. Living things __________ weak and small and slowly grow strong and big. All living things need food and water to grow.
We are different in some ways, but all living things are __________. We all live on the same planet, and we _________ each other. Some birds _________ fish. If the birds eat the sick or dead fish, they may _______. We should ________ the earth and all the ________ on it. live off depend on start out be filled with die off species connect respectis filled withstart outconnecteddepend onlive offdie offrespectspeciesPracticerespect connect die dead follow1. His mother has been ________ for ten years.
2. People should ________ and understand each other.
3. Don't always ________ others. You should have your own ideas.
4. We are ____________ by the Internet.
5. The trees _________ out, and this place became a desert.deadrespectfollowconnecteddiedRead then passage and fill in the blanks with the sentences below.Many years ago, there were more animal species than there are now. There were many forests. The rivers were clean. The sky was blue. Birds sang from morning until night. ________
But later, people cut down the trees in the forests, kille the animals and built factories and buildings. __________ People's houses were buried by soil in floods. Some animals lost their homes, and they attacked people. Some factories polluted the air, water and people's food. The earth is getting warmer. Some scientists say the sea level will rise by at least 1 metre in the next 100 years. ___________
People are now living in a worse and worse environment. ___ We need to reduce pollution and protect our environment.A. Some houses beside the sea will disappear.
B. People lived together with many kinds of animals.
C. We should do something to save our world.
D. They changed the earth.Group works Task 1
Make a poster
about "protect
our environment"
to call on people
to protect our
nature. Task 2
Give more suggestions about how to protect the environment and then make a report. Task 3
Give an introduction about how all living things are connected to each other.Homework1. You can choose one the tasks and then finish it.
2. Finish the Learn English.
3. Read Lesson 47 for three times.Homework
