Unit 4 Wildlife Protection
Reading How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife
By Li Jing
Step 1: Revision
Review the useful words and expressions.
Step 2: Lead-in
a. Enjoy a video and answer questions.
How many animals What are they What happened to them
b. Listen to the content again, and then read it.
Hi, I’m Jackie Chan. I find out some of the terrible things are happening to the wildlife. The tiger is killed for its bone, the rhino is killed for horn (角), the elephant is killed for ivory, the turtle is killed for its shell, the bear is killed for its gall bladder (胆). So please help me who helps animals. Never buy endangered species products. Remember when the buying stops, the killing can too.
Step 3: Fast Reading
①. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. some protection of wildlife
B. a journey of a flying carpet
C. Daisy’s wonderful experience with some animals
②. How many animals did Daisy meet What and where？
Step four: Careful Reading
Paragraph one：
1. What helps Daisy meet the wildlife
A. By a flying chair
B. By a flying broom(扫把)
C. By a flying carpet
2. Why has the antelope become an endangered species
A. They have no food.
B. They are suffering from diseases.
C. They are being killed because of their fur.
Paragraph two:
1. The farmers hunted the Zimbabwe elephants without mercy because
A. they wanted to sell the elephants for money
B. Their farm were destroyed but they didn’t get any money from tourists.
C. the number of elephants was so large that they eat too much food.
2. Complete the dialogue between Daisy and the elephant.
Daisy: Hello, elephant. Nice to meet you!
Elephant: Nice to meet you, too.
Daisy: Are you an endangered species like the antelope
Elephant: We used to be an endangered species .
Farmers hunted us without mercy.
Daisy: Why did they hunt you
Elephant: Because they said we destroyed their farms.
Daisy: What happened next
Elephant: The government decided to help.
Daisy: How did the government help you
Elephant: They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals.
Daisy: What’s the situation now
Elephant: The farmers are happy and our numbers are increasing.
Paragraph three and four:
1. Why did the monkey rub a millipede insect over its body
2. Why is it important to protect the rainforest
Step five: Exercises
1. Read the passage carefully and put these sentences in the right order.
A. Daisy found her being watched by an elephant.
B. Daisy woke up and found a flying carpet.
C. As Daisy landed, things began to disappear including the monkey.
D. Daisy and her flying carpet were in a thick rainforest.
E. Daisy looked at an antelope which was looking sad.
2. True or False
1). Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.
2). Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.
3). The antelopes are now endangered animals.
4). The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.
5). In Zimbabwe, tourists love to take the elephants’ photos.
Step six: Homework
1. Make a plan to protect an endangered animal.
2. Choose one part to retell. You can add your own ideas.Unit 4 Wildlife Protection
Reading
How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife
By Li Jing
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aims:
a. help Ss to understand and master the words and expressions in reading.
b. Let the students know some basic information about the endangered animals and wildlife situation and protection.
Ability aims:
a. Train Ss to catch the key words or phrases in the reading.
b. Encourage Ss to think and express their attitude towards the wildlife and the wildlife protection.
c. Enhance Ss’ reading ability and develop Ss’ ability and skills of guessing words and reading comprehension.
Emotional aims:
a. Help Ss understand the importance of the wildlife protection and make them be more active in the helping wildlife.
b. Develop Ss’ sense of cooperative learning.
Teaching Key Points:
a. To train the reading comprehension to the whole passage
b. To improve Ss’ ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. How to lead the students to organize their words and express them.
Teaching Difficult Points:
a. Enhance the students reading skills in the passage.
b. How to use the reading skills to make the passage better to understand…
Teaching methods：
Co-operative learning
Activity-based teaching (individual work; group work; class work)
Students-centered approach & Task-based teaching and learning
Teaching Aids:
Blackboard, multi-media and other normal teaching tools.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Revision
Review the useful words and expressions.
Step 2: Lead-in
a. Enjoy a video and answer questions.
How many animals
What are they
What happened to them
b. Listen to the content again, and then fill in the blanks.
Hi, I’m Jackie Chan. I find out some of the terrible things are happening to the wildlife. The tiger is killed for its bone, the rhino is killed for horn (角), the elephant is killed for ivory, the turtle is killed for its shell, the bear is killed for its gall bladder (胆). So please help me who helps animals. Never buy endangered species products. Remember when the buying stops, the killing can too.
Step 3: Fast Reading
Read the passage quickly and silently. try to find out the main idea. Then do the following exercises:
①. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. some protection of wildlife
B. a journey of a flying carpet
C. Daisy’s wonderful experience with some animals
Suggested answer: C
②. Read the passage again and fill in the table within given time.
Animal she met Places she went
First visit
Second visit
Third visit
Suggested answers：antelope，Tibet ； elephant，Zimbabwe ；monkey，Rainforest 。
Step four: Careful Reading
1. Read paragraph one and answer the questions.
①. What helps Daisy meet the wildlife
A. By a flying chair
B. By a flying broom(扫把)
C. By a flying carpet
②. Why has the antelope become an endangered species
A. They have no food.
B. They are suffering from diseases.
C. They are being killed because of their fur.
Suggested answer: C C
2. Go through paragraph two and choose the right answer.
①. The farmers hunted the Zimbabwe elephants without mercy because
A. they wanted to sell the elephants for money
B. Their farm were destroyed but they didn’t get any money from tourists.
C. the number of elephants was so large that they eat too much food.
Suggested answer:B
②. Complete the dialogue between Daisy and the elephant.
Daisy: Hello, elephant. Nice to meet you!
Elephant: Nice to meet you, too.
Daisy: Are you an endangered species like the antelope
Elephant: We used to be an endangered species .
Farmers hunted us without mercy.
Daisy: Why did they hunt you
Elephant: Because they said we destroyed their farms.
Daisy: What happened next
Elephant: The government decided to help.
Daisy: How did the government help you
Elephant: They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals
Daisy: What’s the situation now
Elephant: The farmers are happy and our numbers are increasing.
Read paragraph three and four, then answer the two questions.
①. Why did the monkey rub a millipede insect over its body
It contains a powerful drug which affects mosquitoes.
②.Why is it important to protect the rainforest
Because no rainforest, no animals, no drugs.
Step five: Exercises
1. Read the passage carefully and put these sentences in the right order.
A. Daisy found her being watched by an elephant.
B. Daisy woke up and found a flying carpet.
C. As Daisy landed, things began to disappear including the monkey.
D. Daisy and her flying carpet were in a thick rainforest.
E. Daisy looked at an antelope which was looking sad.
Suggested answer: 31542
2. True or False
1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.
2. Daisy’s sweater was made of sheep wool.
3 The antelopes are now endangered animals.
4. The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.
5. In Zimbabwe, tourists love to take the elephants’ photos.
Suggested answer: FFTFT
Step six: Homework
1. Make a plan to protect an endangered animal.
2. Choose one part to retell. You can add your own ideas.
Reflection After Class:(共27张PPT)
Unit 4
Wildlife protection
New words and expressions
carpet
respond
distant
fur
relief
mercy
certain
n. 地毯
vi. 回答；做出反应
adj. 远的；远处的
n. 毛皮；毛；软毛
n. （痛苦或忧虑的）减轻
或解除；减轻痛苦的事物
n. 仁慈；宽恕；怜悯
adj. 确定的；某一；一定
New words and expressions
如释重负；松了口气
突然笑起来；大声笑
出来
保护……不受……
（危害）
注意
in relief
burst into laughter
protect …from
pay attention to
New words and expressions
n.重要（性）
vt.擦；摩擦
contain
vt.包含；容纳；容忍
vt.影响；感动；侵袭
n.注意；关注；注意力
vt.鉴赏；感激；意识到
importance
rub
affect
attention
appreciate
a public-interest advertisement
Enjoy
公益广告
How many animals are talked
about
2. What are they
3. What happened to them
What wild animals are talked about
tiger
antelope
elephant
3
1
2
turtle
bear
rhino
4
5
6
Hi, I’m Jackie Chan. I find out some of the terrible things are happening to the wildlife. The tiger is killed for its bone, the rhino is killed for horn (角), the elephant is killed for ivory, the turtle is killed for its shell, the bear is killed for its gall bladder (胆).So please help me who helps animals. Never buy endangered species products.
Remember when the buying
stops, the killing can too.
fur
horn
ivory
They need our
HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE
Choose the right answer
The passage is mainly about _.
A. some protection of wildlife
B. a journey of a flying carpet
C. Daisy’s wonderful
experience with
some animals
How many animals did Daisy meet
3
What
Where
Tibet
Zimbabwe
rainforest
A. By a flying broom(扫把)
B. By a flying chair
C. By a flying carpet
What helps Daisy meet the wildlife
Why has the antelope become
an endangered species
A. They have no food.
B. They are suffering
from diseases.
C. They are being killed
because of their fur.
The farmers hunted the elephants
without mercy because _________.
A. They wanted to sell the
elephants for money.
B. Their farm were destroyed but
they didn’t get
any money from tourists.
C. The number of elephants
was so large that they
eat too much food.
Complete the dialogue between Daisy and the elephant
Daisy: Hello, elephant. Nice to meet you!
Daisy: Why did they hunt you
Daisy: Are you an endangered species like
the antelope
Elephant: ____________________.
Elephant: We used to _____________________.
Farmers _______________________.
Elephant: Because they said ________________
______.
Nice to meet you, too
be an endangered species
hunted us without mercy
we destroyed their
farms
Daisy: What happened next
Elephant: ______________ decided to help.
Daisy: How did the government help
you
Elephant: They allowed tourists to ____
___________________________ .
Daisy: What’s the situation now
Elephant: The farmers are _______ and our
numbers are _________.
The government
only a certain number of animals
hunt
happy
increasing
Why did the monkey rub a millipede
insect over its body
It contains a powerful drug
which affects mosquitoes.
Because no rainforest,
no animals,
no drugs.
Why should we pay more
attention to the rainforest
Put these sentences in the right order.
A.Daisy found her being watched by an elephant.
B.Daisy woke up and found a flying carpet.
C.As Daisy landed, things began to disappear including the monkey.
D.Daisy and her flying carpet were in a thick rainforest.
E.Daisy looked at an antelope which was looking sad.
1
2
3
4
5
True or False
1.Daisy saw many antelopes
in Tibet.
2.Daisy’s sweater was made
of sheep wool.
3 The antelopes are now
endangered animals.
antelope
only one
4.The elephant used to be
well protected in Zimbabwe.
5.In Zimbabwe, tourists love
to take the elephants’ photos.
used not
1. Make a plan to protect an
endangered animal.
2. Choose one part to retell.
You can add your own
ideas.
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