Unit 2 Our animal friends
教案
1教学目标
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: 1. understand new words, such as grub, beehive etc. in the context.
2. Understand the context about animals by using different reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, jigsaw reading, inferring etc.
3. Summarize the context and develop their critical thinking.
2学情分析
学生对于“动物”这一阅读材料很感兴趣。其中大部分字词对于我班学生而言易于掌握。学生在此课前已经具备部分阅读技巧,但是是零散的,根据文本特点,本课重点训练学生猜词能力,逻辑思维与归纳总结的能力。逻辑思维和归纳对于7年级的学生而言,要求比较高,所以需要教师为学生搭建脚手架。总体而言,我班大部分学生对英语感兴趣,能够积极参与到英语学习中,进行书面和口语练习,也喜欢阅读英语相关材料。
3重点难点
Focus:
To develop students’ reading skills and logical thinking
Difficulty:
To summarize the context and give the best title
4教学过程
活动1【导入】Watch a video
Watch a video: Try everything (the song from the movie Zoo topia)
活动2【活动】Skim
Skim the text and find out in which paragraph the animals are.
活动3【活动】Scan
Scan the text and find the specific information about animals in the context.
1) Scan Para.1 and answer the questions about trained animals. 2) Guessing the meaning of new words in Para 2 in the context. 3) Read Para.2 again and fill in the graph about the honey guide bird. 4) Do a jigsaw reading and understand how fishermen and dolphins work as a team. 5) Read Para.3 again and fill in the table 6) Make a dialogue about how the animals and people work together.
活动4【活动】
Read the whole passage aloud
活动5【活动】Make a summary
Present an oral summary about what the animals can do for people.
活动6【活动】Post－reading
Have a group discussion: What is the best title? by finding the topic sentences of the three paragraphs.
活动7【作业】Assignment
1. Read and retell the article with the help of a mind-map.
2. Write an article on the topic: Our workmates---animals in at least 70 words.
课件14张PPT。Unit 2 Our animal friends1123Read Para.1 and answer the questionsDo people only work with trained animals?Look and learnthe honeyguide bird the beehive the grubshoneyguide[?h?ni][ga?d][?bi:ha?v][gr?b]Fill in the grapheatpeople/
humanshoneya beehivegrubsThe honeyguide
birdeattakefly tofollowopenPut the sentences in the correct order 624513 The ocean isn’t very clean, so the fishermen can’t see the fish. However, dolphins can find them easily by using sounds. When the dolphins find a large group of fish, they make a noise to tell the fishermen. Then the dolphins push the fish toward the beach. The fishermen wait in the water near the beach and catch a lot of fish in their nets. The fishermen’s nets make it easier for the dolphins to catch fish too.Read and underlineRead and fill in the tablesee the fishuse soundshearmake a noisewaitpush the fish towardcatchcatch fish more easilyMake a dialogueMake a dialogueFishermen: My dear children, dolphins and we usually work as a team.
Children: It must be very interesting.
How can we work together?
Fishermen: ……
Children: It’s interesting. I look forward to working with them. Fishermen: My dear children, …….
Children: …….
How can we work together?
Fishermen: ……
Children: It’s …….. Fishermen: …….
Children: …….
Fishermen: ……
Children: …….. Supposing that you are the fishermen, try to teach your children to work with dolphins.Group WorkSupposing that you are one of the animals, who try to teach your babies to work with the humans.What’s the best title?Some animals can be trained to help humans. Para.1Para.2Para.3In the wild, …there are a few interesting examples where they can work together. Fishermen and dolphins work as a team.Our —animalshelpers/workmatesAssignmentRead and retell the article with the help of a mind-map.
Write an article on the topic: Our helpers---animals in at least 60 words.Thank you !
