Module 6 Animals in danger
Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all.
教材分析
本课为Module 6的第二单元，课文着重介绍了我国现有大熊猫的数量、生存现状、生活习性以及政府为保护大熊猫采取的行动，号召人们多多关爱地球上的濒危动物，保护环境，保护地球。
教学目标
Knowledge objective
Key vocabulary—research, baby, situation, scientist, produce, feed, government, nature, develop, symbol
Key structures—nature park
Moral objective
1. To help students know the importance of protecting animals and our environment.
2. Improve their sense of duty to love and protect animals.
教学重难点
教学重点：1. To get information from the reading material about pandas.
2. To learn some new words.
教学难点： To understand the main idea of each paragraph of the article.
课前准备
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
教学过程
Step 1 Lead-in
Look at the pictures and guess what the animal is.
Look at the pictures and answer the questions about the panda.
Step 2 Say what you know about pandas.
Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and say something about pandas.
Elicit their ideas and put them under the headings on the board. Then use the facts they come up with to pre-teach the key vocabulary.
【设计意图】
本活动是热身活动，旨在导入主题，引起学生兴趣。
Step3 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
Ss look at the picture of the panda and ask if they have seen many pandas in the zoo or in a nature reserve.
Ask them to read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs individually.
Elicit answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动旨在培养学生对文章段落大意的获取能力。
Step 4 Read the passage and complete the sentences.
1. Scientists do a lot of research _______________________________________.
2. The government is setting up nature parks ____________________.
3. The WWF chose the panda _________________.
4. The WWF is working hard __________________.
【设计意图】
本活动的目的在于帮助学生加深对课文中带有动词不定式的句子的理解，从而更加深入地理解课文，掌握新的语言结构。
Step 5 Complete the passage with the words in the box.
Read the passage carefully and get the main idea and choose the words from the box, then use the correct form to fill in the blanks.
Elicit full sentences with the correct answers from the whole class.
Nominate a few students to read the whole passage.
【设计意图】
本活动主要检测学生对课文的理解，并考查其对文中所出现的关键词的理解和应用能力。
Step6 Choose an animals in danger and answer the questions.
1. What is the animal?
2. Where does it live?
3. What does it feed on?
4. Why is it in danger?
5. How difficult is the situation?
6. How could we save it?
【设计意图】
本活动是对下一个活动的铺垫。学生选择自己感兴趣的动物，并尝试回答问题。
Step7 Write a passage about an animal in danger. Use your answers in Activity 5 and the following example to help you.
Pandas live the southwest of China. They are in danger and the situation is getting very difficult. First, pandas don’t have many babies and baby pandas often die. Second, pandas eat bamboo and the bamboo forests are getting smaller. But the government is creating nature parks with a lot of bamboo to help protect pandas.
Ask Ss to write their answers to the questions in Activity5 in full sentences individually.
Ask them to exchange and read their passages, and correct any errors.
【设计意图】
本活动为语言输出活动，旨在考查学生就相关话题进行写作的能力。
Step 9 Homework
Discuss with your partners how to protect the animals around you.
教学反思
在本单元教学活动中，为增加学生对大熊猫生活习性以及环境保护的认识，教师可以安排学生参观野生动物园、自然保护区等，为后续的写作任务积累更多的素材。
课件38张PPT。6Animals in dangerModuleUnit 2
The WWF is working hard to save them all.1. Have you ever been to the zoo?
2. What animals do you like best?
Do you like pandas? What do
they eat?
Do you know they are in danger
now?
5. What can we do for them?Free talk TigerElephantpandarhinored-crowned crane 丹顶鹤(仙鹤)Milu deerwhaleGolden Monkeydolphin 中华白海豚, 是世界濒危动物Polar bearbald ibis 秃鹮CrocodileGiraffeKoalaZebraPenguin Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
-George Eliot 动物是如此怡人的朋友，他们不问任何问题，也不提出批评。 What’s the problem of
these Animals commonly
facing?1. Look at the pictures. Say what you know about pandas. Say what you know about pandas. live in the Wolong Panda Reserve like to eat bamboo like to climb like to have a walkSometimes you can learn new words through translation. For example, when you learn “government”, you can take a card and write the English word on one side and the Chinese on the other. Practice saying the English words and check that you remember the meaning.Learning to learna) Nature parks for pandas
b) WWF and animas in danger
c) The panda’s home
d) An animal in danger
2 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs. 1__________
Pandas are in danger. There are only about 1,600 pandas in the wild today. Zoos and research centers are looking after about 340 pandas. Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is getting very difficult. Scientists are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.d2_________
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. Each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The bamboo forests are getting smaller, so pandas are losing their
home. And there are not many pandas left.
3_________
In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans. The nature parks will be big and there will be more bamboo to feedcathe pandas. Pandas born in zoos may go back to live in the nature parks.
4_______
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) wants to protect all animals. And it chose the panda to be its symbol. We do not want to lose tigers, elephants or any other animals, so the
WWF is working hard to save them all. bRead paragraph 1 and answer the following questions: How many pandas are living in the wild today?About 1,600.To help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.2. What do scientists do a lot of research?Read paragraph 2 and complete the sentences:Pandas mainly live on ________.
___________________________________________,
so pandas are losing their home.bambooThe bamboo forests are getting smallerRead paragraph 3 and answer the questions:What is our government doing?Our government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans. Read paragraph 4 and check the sentences: The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world.
2. Elephants have become the symbol of all animals in danger.
3. We have a long way to go to save the animals in danger.TFTMatch the beginnings with the endings to make sentences.1. Pandas eat bamboo…
2. The government has made a new plan…
3. They will make bigger reserves…
4. The Chinese government is working hard…a. …to save pandas and other animals.
b. … to live.
c. … to protect pandas better.
d. … to make bigger forests and plant more bamboo.Answer the questions.Because people are using the land.They need to eat bamboo.1. Why do pandas have less and less land to live on?2. What do pandas need to eat?The government has made a new plan to help pandas. They are making bigger reserves and helping pandas go back to live in the nature.3. How is the government trying to save the panda?Because pandas don’t have many babies and baby pandas often die, etc.4. Why do you think there is a long
way to go to help the panda?3 Complete the sentences. Pandas eat bamboo to live
1 Scientists do a lot of research_____________
_______________________________________
2 The government is setting up nature parks
_____________________________________
3 The WWF chose the panda_______________
3 The WWF is working hard
______________________________________ to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.to protect pandas in the wild.to save all the animals.to be its symbol.4 Complete the passage with the words
in the box.baby government nature produce
save scientists situation symbol Zoos and research centres protect animals.
(1)_________do a lot of research to help pandas
(2) ________more babies. Very few (3)________
Scientistsproducebabypandas are born outside zoos. Many people are worried about the panda’s (4)__________ . Luckily, the (5) __________is developing plans to (6) __________pandas, and is setting up
(7) _________parks to protect them.
People all over the world love pandas, and the panda has become a (8) ________of China.situationgovernmentsavenaturesymbol Writing
5 Pair work Choose an animal in
danger and answer the questions.1 What is the animal?
2 Where does it live?
3 What does it feed on?
4 Why is it in danger?
5 How difficult is the situation?
6 What can we do to save it?6 Write a passage about an animal in
danger. Use your answers in Activity 5
and the following example to help you. Pandas live in the southwest of China. They are in danger and the situation is getting very difficult. First, pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die. Second, pandas eat bamboo, but the bamboo forests are getting smaller. So the government is setting up nature parks with a lot of bamboo to help protect pandas.一、根据句意及所给首字母提示, 写出相应的单词。
1. In the picture the tree is the s______ of life.
2. The new g__________ does not have
popular support(广泛的支持).
3. The beautiful city is in the s_________ of China and many tourists come here in summer. ymbolouthwest overnment4.The s_______ of the company wasn’t very good so many workers left.
5. — What does your uncle do?
— He is a scientist and is busy with r_______ work every day.
6. We grew up in the beauties of n______.
7. Have you f____ the cat?
8. In less than ten years it d_______ from a seed (种子) into a big tree.ituationesearcheveolpsature ed二、按照汉语提示完成句子。
1.我正在为一篇关于学生生活的文章(article)做一些研究。
I’m _____ ____ ________ for an article about student life.
2. 别担心，明天我会照顾好孩子的。
Don’t worry. I’ll ____ ____ the kids tomorrow.doing some researchlook after3. 他们想创办自己的公司。
They want to ___ __ their own business.
4. 大多数人必须工作以维持生活。
Most people have to work __ _____ ___ _____.set up to livein order1. 我忘记还你的书了。
I ______________ your books.
2. 乔治希望有天能来中国。
George wish _______ to China one day.forget to returnto come三、完成句子。3. 她来中国是来学习汉语的吗？
Does she come here ______________?
4. 他们的教材越来越难.
The texts in their textbooks are
______________ difficult.to learn English more and more四、写同义句。
1. To answer the question is easy.
____ easy ___ answer the question.
2. To study hard is necessary.
__ __ necessary __ study hard.
3. It’s good to do sports.
__ ___ sports is good.It’stoItistoTodoHomeworkDiscuss with your partners how to protect the animals around you.
