Module 2 Unit 5 Encyclopaedias Reading：Dinosau
Teaching objectives
By the end of the lesson, the students are expected to …
1. activate the knowledge to help the students understand the text.
2. help students understand the text quickly by using different reading skills , such as getting main idea and details, find facts etc.
3. learn to write the synopsis by paragraph. 4. try to express their ideas in English fluently.
Teaching focus
1. To get a general idea of the reading passage about finding and understanding information, especially from encyclopaedias.
2. To stimulate the students to pay close attention to the endangered animals.
Procedures
Steps
Learning activities
Teaching purposes
Warm-up
Ask the Ss to help me solve the problem: To pick a book which can tell my son a lot of information about sharks. (Express the reason)
? To arouse the students’ interest
? To elicit the topic of this lesson
Pre-reading
1. What is an encyclopaedia?
2. Look and predict
Show the Ss a picture and ask them to predict what the article mainly about?
3. Invite the students to say something about dinosaurs
To drill the Ss to make intelligent guesses about what might be in the article.
While-reading
1. Read and judge
Ask the Ss to skim the whole text and judge
2. Read and complete
(1) Ask the Ss to read the first and second
paragraphs and complete the table.
(2) Summarize in which aspects editor introduce dinosaurs.
3. Pair work
Based on the table, talk about dinosaurs in pairs.
4. Look and learn
(1) Ask the Ss to read the last paragraph and
answer: How do people know about the lives of dinosaurs?
(2) Teach the new words with the pictures.
5. Read and think
(1) Ask the Ss to read the whole passage.
(2) Ask them to think about:
What do the words in the bracket at the end of the passage stand for？
?To let the Ss get the general idea of the passage.
? To practice the reading skill: finding facts
? To teach the new words
? To help the Ss understand the information from encyclopaedias.
After-reading
1. More to know about animals extinct animals endangered animals
2. Group discussion
(1) Why do animals die out so quickly in the
modern world?
(2) What should humans do to prevent animals from disappearing?
To enlarge vocabulary
Assignments
1. Read and remember the text on P75.
2. Surf the Internet to find more information about “endangered animals”. Write a
passage to introduce one of them.
课件17张PPT。8A – Unit 5Encyclopaedias
Period 1
Warm upABCDbooks about sharksAbout encyclopaediaencyclopaedia /?n?sa?kl?'pi:d??/An encyclopaedia is a book that gives you information about a lot of different things.Look and predictdinosaur/'da?n?s?:(r)/ Read and judgeDinosaurs lived on the Earth around six thousand years ago.
2. Dinosaurs lived everywhere on the Earth .
3. All dinosaurs were big and fierce.
4. Scientists think dinosaurs died of disease.
×××√Read and complete: about dinosaursTime to existPlace to liveSizessixty millioneverywhere as small as chickensas big asfiercermeatharmlessas gentle asplantsTypesLook and learn/'skel?tn/skeletonfootprinteggfossil/ 'f?s(?)l /Read Dinosaurs lived on the Earth over sixty million years ago. This was a long time before people existed. Dinosaurs lived everywhere. Some were as small as chickens. Others were as big as ten elephants. Some dinosaurs even had wings and could fly.DINOSAURSMany dinosaurs were harmless. They were as gentle as sheep and ate plants.Others were harmful. They were fiercer than tigers and ate meat.Dinosaurs all died out suddenly. Nobody knows why.We know about the lives of dinosaurs from the skeletons, eggs and footprints they left behind.
(See Earth History)More to know: encyclopaediasabout all kinds of subjects
in alphabetical orderon one subjectdie outextinct animalTibetan antelopeendangered animalMore to know： animalspandaSouth China tiger white flag dolphin golden monkey1.Why do animals die out so quickly in the modern world?
2. What should humans do to prevent animals from
disappearing?
Group discussionScientists said: In the past 100 years, 23 kinds of animals have died out.
In the next 100 years, over 100 kinds of animals might disappear forever.★ Read and remember the text on P75.
★ ★ Surf the Internet to find more information about “endangered animals”. Write a passage to introduce one of them.
Suggested websites: http://www.cnwildlife.com/ 野生动物
http://www.cwca.org.cn/中国野生动物保护协会网
https://wikipedia.org/维基百科Homework
