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Unit 6 Earth first
Sharks: Dangerous or Endangered
(Understanding ideas)
目 录
CONTENTS
Teaching material analysis
1
Students analysis
2
Important and difficult points
4
Teaching objectives
3
Teaching procedures
5
Blackboard design
6
Teaching Reflection
7
Teaching material analysis
1
A reading article about sharks
This article introduces dangerous sharks, endangered sharks, and sharks needing to be protected.
Key words are mainly related to sharks and protection, such as shark, scare, due to, fin, dive, target, fortunately, extinction, attitude, etc. Grammar mainly involves -ing and -ed as complement.
The value orientation of this article lies in the students' understanding of dangerous sharks, endangered sharks, sharks needing to be protected, as well as showing respect for sharks and raising awareness of protecting sharks and marine animals through the study of this article.
Students analysis
2
A good English foundation, study hard and have high enthusiasm for learning English.
Have the ability to obtain details in reading, and some students can express their views confidently in English.
Lack the ability to understand and integrate knowledge, logical reasoning and analytical argumentation, as well as critical evaluation.
Do not have a comprehensive understanding of showing respect for sharks and raising awareness of protecting sharks and marine animals.
Teaching Objectives
3
Students will be able to:
identify new words, phrases, and sentences in dialogues and understand correctly their meaning.
get information about the change of people’s attitudes to sharks.
get the main information, conclude the key points, and further improve reading abilities, such as skimming, scanning, careful reading, etc.
respect sharks and raise awareness of protecting sharks and marine animals.
Important and difficult points
4
Important points
Difficult
points
Students will be able to identify new words, phrases, and sentences in dialogues and understand correctly their meaning. They can get the main information and conclude key points.
Students will be able to improve reading abilities, such as skimming, scanning, careful reading, etc. They can respect sharks and raise awareness of protecting sharks and marine animals by using new words and phrases they have learned.
Look at these pictures and answer the question.
Use some words to describe what you see
Dangerous or Endangered
Tip 1: Use some adjectives.
Aims: To introduce the topic(Sharks is dangerous or endangered ) and make students put the enthusiasm for the class.
Stage I Lead-in (3 mins)
Read the passage and answer the following questions.
Sharks:
Dangerous or Endangered
Para. ____:
sharks are ________.
Para. ____:
sharks are _________.
Para. ___: sharks need to __________.
1. Read the passage quickly and analyze the structure of it
1-2
3-4
dangerous
endangered
5
be protected
Tip 2: Skimming the passage, you can find the topic sentence of each paragraph. It will be in the beginning or end of each paragraph.
(5 mins) Stage II
Pre-reading
Think carefully.
2. What’s the genre(体裁) of this passage
A. Narration.
B. Argumentation.
C. Exposition.
D. Features.
(A description of events.)
(Logical arguments used to support a theory, an idea, etc.)
(A full explanation of a theory, plan, etc.)
(“people stories” and typically longer than standard news stories.)
Aims: To make students get the general ideas of this passage, find the key words and then summarize the main ideas.
Read Para. 1 and answer the questions.
The opening scene
Opinion 1: Dangerous.
Source
Achievement
Influence
Stage III
While-reading(Detailed reading) Step 1 (3 mins)
Read Para. 1 and answer the questions.
The opening scene
Opinion 1: Dangerous.
Source
Achievement
Influence
People have a normal fear of sharks.
Aims: To get the contents of certain things that the film Jaws provides and improve their ability of summary.
People are more frightened of sharks.
Read Para. 2 and finish the mind map.
believe that sharks were bad animals that ate humans.
stopped swimming in the sea
started fishing for sharks, killing as many as they could.
Many people
Some people
Other people
NOBADY cared if sharks were killed, or how many were killed.
People JUST wanted them KILLED.
Sharp drop in shark numbers
Result
Opinion 1: Dangerous.
Stage III
While-reading(Detailed reading) Step 2 (4 mins)
1. Why did the number of large sharks fell around the world
2. Finish the chart according to Paras. 3-4.
3. What change has happened in people’s attitudes to sharks
Finning’s effect Adj. Supportive evidence
On sharks
On Peter Benchley
Read Paras. 3-5 and answer the questions.
Opinion 2: Endangered.
Due to fear of sharks and finning.
Stage III
While-reading(Detailed reading) Step 3 (7 mins)
Finning’s effect Adj. Supportive evidence
On sharks
Read Para. 3-5 and answer the questions.
2. Finish the chart according to Para. 3-4.
Opinion 2: Endangered.
awful
and
cruel
A bowl of shark fin soup
A life of a shark
On Peter Benchley
Read Para. 3-5 and answer the questions.
2. Finish the chart according to Para. 3-4.
Opinion 2: Endangered.
unexpected
Dangerous
Being killed
A deep change
People: a danger to shark
protect
His book was wrong.
People come to understand sharks and want to protect them.
3. What change has happened in people’s attitudes to sharks
Why do we need to protect sharks
Aims: To grasp the harm people did to shraks, understand the change of Peter’ s attitude towards sharks, be aware of the endangered sharks needing to be protected, and improve their ability of summary.
Think carefully.
1. Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
A. To criticise Peter Benchley’s misleading description of sharks in his book and advocate the protection of sharks.
B. To explain people’s misunderstanding of sharks and raise awareness of shark protection.
C. To inform people about sharks and recommend the film and the book to them.
Aims: To encourage students to figure out the author’s purpose in writing this passage.
Stage IV
Post-reading Step 1 (1 min)
Think carefully.
2. Group work: read another passage quickly with your group numbers.
1. What are the similarities between the two passages we’ve learned.
2. How do you feel about this passage
3. What should people do to save sharks or wild animals.
Requirements:
A documentary about dolphins hunting.
Tip 3: You can write down your thoughts from three aspects—The government, the society, and people or yourself.
Aims: Group cooperation not only trains the students' spirit of collective cooperation, but also makes the practice more fully and in place, so that students can master the requirements of the course to the level of proficiency and automation, and lay a good foundation for practical application. This activity can also broaden students’ horizons through reading the article The Cove on the similar topic.
Stage IV Post-reading Step 2 (19 mins)
Boycott shark or wild animals products.
to become the one who can give a voice to some wild animals that cannot speak.
Summary.
1
2
3
Prevent water pollution.
Promoting the care of sharks or wild animals.
Study hard
4
Stage IV Post-reading Step 3 (3 mins)
Homework.
Write a passage, using what we have learned this class.
(2022全国甲卷)你校将以六月八日世界海洋日为主题,举办英语征文比赛。请你写一篇短文投稿,内容包括:
1. 海洋的重要性;2. 保护海洋的倡议。
注意:1. 词数100左右;2. 短文的题目和首句已为你写好。
Our Oceans, Our Responsibility
June 8th was officially named by the UN in 2009 as World Oceans Day. _________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Aims: To consolidate what students have learned today, combined with College Entrance Examination.
Stage IV Post-reading Step 4
Blackboard design
6
1975
1980
Today
Attitudes has changed.
Scared/Film Jaws
Endangered + protection
unfamiliar words:
progressive
visibility
Dangerous
Teaching reflection
7
Achieved:
Get the main information of dangerous and endangered sharks.
Analyse the passage through progressive paragraphs.
Read new material on the similar topic to broaden students’ horizons
How to protect marine animals and raise awareness of protection.
Problems:
Shortage of students’ involvement.
Difficulty in understanding, transferring, and creating.
Limited time
Solutions:
have more time to fully discuss
provide more oral and thinking practice in daily learning.
give more encouragements and evaluations in the class.