Unit 5 Revealing nature
Understanding ideas教学设计
科目:英语 课题:Understanding ideas 课时:1课时
教学目标与核心素养:
知识目标:Students can learn some new words, phrases and sentences.
能力目标:Students can have a further understanding of the passage.
情感目标:Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.
教学重难点:
教学重点:How to learn the new words and sentences.
教学难点:How to make students have a better understanding of the passage.
课前准备:多媒体,黑板,粉笔
教学过程:
一、Greeting
二、Leading-in
学生活动:
Look at the page from a science magazine and answer the questions.
What do you know about these animals What makes them special
What other similar animals do you know about
Share your knowledge with the class.
Watch the video and answer the questions.
How can seeds travel How can this benefit plants
Can you think of another example of seeds travelling Share it with the class.
(Suggested answers: Seeds are usually carried by the wind, water, and animals. Plants can have a better chance at life.)
三、Pre-reading
1. Activity 1. Look at the evolutionary tree and answer the questions.
What species do you recognise in the picture
What factors can cause the process of evolution
(Suggested answer: 1. Paramecium, earthworm, snail, crab, fish, tortoise, bird, horse, human, frog, algae, moss, fern... 2. Students' own answers.)
四、While-reading
学生活动:阅读文章,完成练习。
1. Read the passage and talk about your understanding of the title.
2. Read the passage quickly and finish the following exercises.
(1) Match the parts with the main ideas.
Part 1 (Paras.1~2) _________________________
Part 2 (Paras.3~5) _________________________
Part 3 (Para.6) _____________________________
④ Part 4 (Para.7) _____________________________
A. The remark about On the Origin of Species
B. Darwin's new theory about evolution
C. The new discoveries during the journey.
D. Darwin answered the call and began his journey
(Suggested answers: D C B A)
(2) Choose the best answers.
①Why didn't the captain of the Beagle think Darwin was the best choice
A. Because Darwin wasn't admitted to a university.
B. Because Darwin was dismissed from medical school.
C. Because Darwin brought shame to himself and his family.
D. Because Darwin had not enough interest in visiting distant countries.
②What did people think about the species at that time
A. All species evolved from the same species.
B. All species came into being in the meantime.
C. Some species appeared earlier than the others
D. Some species improved a lot since its appearance.
③What was Darwin's new theory then
Environment played an important role.
B. Species evolved with the changing environment.
C. Different species lived in different environment.
D. The more complicated the species were, the more time it took.
④How did people feel Darwin's theory
A. Astonished.
B. Excited.
C. Satisfied.
D. Interested.
(Suggested answers: B B B A)
3. Language points.
Master the words and phrases:
distant, disgrace, evolve, suspect, evolution, generate, answer the call, be a disgrace, date back to, of all time, be fascinated by, be crowded with, come to exist, be similar to, adapt to, a variety of, according to, evolve into, be regarded as
4. Read the passage again and retell it.
五、Post-reading
学生活动:
1. Do Activity 3 on Page 68.
Choose the main idea of the passage and give your reasons.
①Darwin's interest in various living things made him a great naturalist.
②Darwin's journey on the Beagle inspired his Theory of Evolution.
③Darwin went on a journey to confirm his theory that humans had evolved over time.
(Suggested answers: ②)
2. Do Activity 4 on Page 69.
Number the puzzle pieces in order. Organise information from the passage and complete them.
(Suggested answers:
ON HIS JOURNEY
various living things in their natural environments and samples of the plants and animals he had collected;
② GENERATE IDEAS
come to exist;
Maybe animals evolved as they adapted to their changing environments
③ BLOOK FORMORE EVIDENCE
that there was a difference between the finches on each of the islands;
had evolved according to what food was available on that particular island
ADEVELOPIDEAS
had evolved from a common ancestor, which had arrived on the islands a long time before; slowly evolved into many new species
PROPOSE A THEORYR
had evolved from lower forms of life)
Divide students into small groups and ask them to discuss why Darwin did not publish his Theory of Evolution until 1859, about twenty years after his discovery.
六、Summary
1. 总结本节课的重点单词 distant、disgrace、evolve、suspect、evolution、 generate、answer the call、be a disgrace、date back to、of all time、be fascinated by、be crowded with、come to exist、be similar to、adapt to、a variety of、according to、evolve into、be regarded as和型重点句型。
2. 让学生用简短的英语简述达尔文的发现之旅,进一步锻炼学生概括、归纳的能力。
3. 通过对达尔文发现生物进化论的了解,学习他细致入微的观察、专心致志的思考、孜孜不倦追求真理的精神。
七、Homework
1. Sum up what you learnt in class and take notes
2. Preview the next period.
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