Unit 6 The Unexplained
Lesson 16 Natural Abilities
教材分析
The topic is animal instinct. This lesson focuses on two interviews. The first interview was lost during a trip to Tom’s dog. It walked 150 kilometers through its instinct and went back to its owner. In the second interview, the animals’ abnormal behavior successfully predicted the imminent earthquake. These two little stories are dramatic and exciting, which also reflects the deep emotions between animals and people.
教学目标
【知识目标】
natural, sense, smell, taste, touch, amazing, relax, disappear, search, yard, fence, strangely, noise, wake
【能力目标】
At the end of this lesson, students can:
Read the basic information about the time, place and character of the event.
Analyze the four questions of the interviewer and return the question to the correct position of the article.
According to the information obtained, complete the interview draft and verbally describe two small stories.
【情感目标】
Understand the importance of communication and understand the animal’s instinct, respect and love animals.
教学重难点
【教学重点】
How to analyze the four questions of the interviewer and return the question to the correct position of the article.
【教学难点】
Through reading, how to train their ability.
课前准备
Multimedia.
教学过程
Step 1. Warm up
1. Look at the photos and match them with the unexplained things below.
Owl swallow rabbit Wolf
(1) Which animal can hear the best?
(2) Which animal can find the way by smelling?
(3) Which animal can see clearly at night?
(4) Which animal can first know the rain is coming?
2. Look at the Key Words. Then make sentences about these things.
cheese air water sun
You can see, smell, taste and feel cheese but you can’t hear it!
3. Read the title of the interviews and the pictures, and guess what happened to the animals.
Maybe the interviews will talk about what made the animals amazing.
Step 2. 1st-reading
Read the two interviews. Write the correct questions in each blank.
1. What did you do?
2. What was happening on the farm?
3. What happened then?
4. What were you doing when it happened?
Step 3. Interview 1
What happened?
When did it happen? Their dog disappeared.
When Tom and his family were returning from a trip.
What was the result? The dog was back.
Main idea:
Last summer, when Tom and his family were returning from a trip, their dog disappeared. Five weeks later, the dog was back home.
Step 4. Interview 2
What happened?
When did it happen? The animals became noisy.
What was the result?
When his aunt and uncle were working in the yard. There was an earthquake an hour later.
Main idea:
When Pam’s aunt and uncle were working in the yard, the animals became noisy. About an hour later, there was an earthquake.
Step 5. 2nd-reading
1. What were you doing when it happened?
2. What did you do?
3. What was happening on the farm?
4. What happened then?
5. What were you doing when it happened?
6. What did you do?
7. What was happening on the farm?
8. What happened then?
Step 6. 3rd-reading
Listen to the interviews and pay attention to your pronunciation.
Step 7. Deep Thinking
1. How did the dog find his way back home?
2. Why did the horses and dog act strangely?
They have natural abilities.
Student A: You are a journalist who hear of the story. Ask Tom and his family some questions.
Students B, C and D: You are Tom and his Mom and Dad. Answer the journalist’s questions.
A: What were you doing when the dog disappeared?
Tom: When the dog disappeared, we were returning from a trip.
A: Why did it lose?
Dad: …
A: What happened then?
Mom: …
3. Suppose you are the reporter. After the interviews, you can choose one story to write a report for your newspaper.
Animals are really ________. As we know, they have different __________ abilities. Here is one story about it. Probably, we can’t explain why these animals have these natural abilities. But definitely we know that they are our friends.
4. Retell the stories.
5. Finish writing your report.
小组讨论。
小组代表展示组内观点。
Retell the passage and try to write it down.
The second period
Step 1. Review
1. Which animal can hear the best?
2. Which animal can find the way by smelling?
3. Which animal can see clearly at night?
4. Which animal can first know the rain is coming?
Step 2. Warm up
Last summer, Tom and his family _____________________when their dog ___________. We___________ at a coffee shop because my mum and dad ___________. I _____________________when he saw a rabbit. He ran after it and disappeared. We ______________ for hours. Finally, we gave up. Five weeks later, we_______________ when we ______a dog outside. He was back.
Pam was at her aunt and uncle’s home in the countryside when some animals started to ____________. My aunt and uncle ___________ ___________when their dog became really noisy. Their two horses _____________ around, too. They tried to break the fence and ran away. The animals kept acting strangely. It was an earthquake.
Step 3. Grammar
一般疑问句
答句
Were they doing their homework when I went shopping?
Was he waiting when you arrived at the shop?
Yes, they ________.
No, he __________.
Step 4. Homework
1. Retell the interviews.
2. 完成过去进行时态的相关练习题。
课件38张PPT。Look at the photos and match them
with the unexplained things below. Bigfoot the Loch Ness Monster UFOsThe first periodowlrabbitswallowWhich animal can hear the best?
Which animal can find the way by smelling?
Which animal can see clearly at night?
Which animal can first know the rain is coming?wolfWhat animals do you think are amazing?Owls are amazing because they can see clearly at night.What makes them amazing?Their natural abilities.● cheese ● air ● water ● sunLook at the Key Words. Then make sentences about these things.Example You can see, smell, taste and feel cheese but you can’t hear it!Read the title of the interviews and the pictures, and guess what happened to the animals. Read the two interviews. Write the correct questions in each blank.What did you do?
What was happening on the farm?
What happened then?
What were you doing when it happened?1st-reading What were you doing when it happened?What did you do?What was happening on the farm?What happened then? Interview 1 When did it happen?What was the result? What happened? Last summer, when Tom and his family were returning from a trip, their dog disappeared. Five weeks later, the dog was back home.Main
idea: When Tom and his family were returning from a trip.Their dog disappeared.The dog was back. Interview 2 When did it happen?What was the result? What happened? When Pam’s aunt and uncle were working in the yard, the animals became noisy. About an hour later, there was an earthquake.Main
idea: When his aunt and uncle were working in the yard.The animals became noisy.There was an earthquake an hour later.2nd-reading Answer the interview questions using your own words.What were you doing when it happened?
What did you do?
What was happening on the farm?
What happened then?
What were you doing when it happened?
What did you do?
We were resting at a coffee shop near the road and I was taking Paddy for a walk.We looked for him for hours. Finally we gave up and went home.What was happening on the farm?
What happened then?
My aunt and uncle were working in the yard.
Then their horses and dog became noisy. They were running around.Then their animals were running around.
The animals kept acting strangely. Then an earthquake happened.Listen to the interviews and pay attention to your pronunciation. 3rd-reading 1. How did the dog find his way back home?
2. Why did the horses and dog act strangely?
Maybe by smelling and seeing.Because they knew the danger by their feeling.Deep ThinkingStudent A: You are a journalist who hear of the story. Ask Tom and his family some questions.
Students B,C and D: You are Tom and his Mom and Dad. Answer the journalist’s questions.Work in groups of four. Choose one story and act it out.A: What were you doing when the dog disappeared?
Tom: When the dog disappeared, we were returning
from a trip.
A: Why did it lose?
Dad: ….
A: What happened then?
Mom: ……Example Suppose you are the reporter. After the interviews, you can choose one story to write a report for your newspaper.
Animals are really ________. As we know , they have different __________ abilities . Here is one story about it.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Probably, we can't explain why these animals have these natural abilities. But definitely we know that they are our friends. Amazing but TrueRetell the stories.
Finish writing your report.HomeworkowlrabbitswallowwolfWhich animal can hear the best?
Which animal can find the way by smelling?
Which animal can see clearly at night?
Which animal can first know the rain is coming?Warm upThe second periodDo you remember what they were doing? Last summer , Tom and his family _____________________when their dog ___________. We___________ at a coffee shop because my mum and dad ___________. I _____________________when he saw a rabbit. He ran after it and disappeared. We ______________ for hours. Finally, we gave up. Five weeks later, we_______________ when we ______a dog outside. He was back.were returning from a trip disappeared were relaxingwere relaxingwas taking Paddy for a walksearched for himwere having lunchheardWarm up Pam was at her aunt and uncle’s home in the countryside when some animals started to ____________. My aunt and uncle ___________ ___________when their dog became really noisy. Their two horses _____________ around, too. They tried to break the fence and ran away. The animals kept acting strangely. It was an earthquake.were runningin the yardact strangelywere workingWarm upObserve the phrases and find out the commons.Were returning from a trip
Were relaxing
weren’t feeling very well
was taking Paddy for a walk
were having lunch
were working in the yard
were running around
was /weredoing过去进行时态表示过去某个时刻或过去一段时间正在进行
的动作。主语 + was/were + doing sth. + 时间状语at 5:00 yesterday afternoon, at that time, then 等，或者when/while引导的句子。Grammar 用法：1）表示在过去某一时间或时刻内正在进行或发生的动作，通常和表示时间点的时间状语（从句）连用。
What were you doing at eight last night?
He was reading in the library when the rainstorm came. 2）表示过去某一段时间内正在进行或持续进行的动作。
David was writing a letter to his friend last night.
大卫昨晚一直在给他的朋友写信。(信不一定写完。)Grammar Complete the table with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.was sleeping wokeopenedGrammar werewasn’tdoinghappenedGrammar Practice What were your families doing when you got home?1. My father was…
2. My mother was…
3. My brother was…
4. My sister was…
5. My grandparents were…
6. My cousins were…a. I got home
b. I opened the door
c. I arrived at my house
d. I did my homework
e. I brushed my teeth
f. I went to bed.
…whenPractice Guess and write sentences about what your partner was doing at these times1. He was relaxing
2. He was doing his homework
3. He was having his breakfast
4. He was getting ready for the dictation
5. He was singing an English song.
6. He was reading Chinese yesterday afternoon
one hour before he/ she had dinner last night
at 8 pm last night
at 7 am this morning
before English class startedWork in pairs. Check your guesses in Exercise 6.Pair WorkA: What were you doing yesterday afternoon?
B: I was studying at school.
A: What were you doing one hour before you had dinner last night?
B: I was reading physics books.
Group workOne group, one place
Discuss in groups (3 mins)
Describe the students were doing at the moment (when)
Each group chooses one person to give a report. Give a report!Group workVocabulary Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions or adverbs in the box.after away for(×2） from upWe searched ______ our cat for hours.
They just returned ______ a trip to Yunnan.
I usually take my dog _____ a walk after dinner.
She ran _____ her balloon but she didn’t catch it.
We tried to climb to the top of the mountain but we gave _____.
They ran _____ from the angry, barking dog. for from for after upawaySometimes, we add an extra [r] sound between two words. It helps join the words together.PronunciationExample PronunciationListen to the sentences. Which have an extra [r] sound? Put a or in the box. Can you make a rule?1. Were they working?
2. Were Ann and James working?
3. Her English is very good.
4. Her Spanish is very good.
5. My father is a teacher.
6. My father was a teacher.×√×√√×Retell the interviews.
完成过去进行时态的相关练习题。Homework谢 谢
