1、Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world? Teaching and learning goals Learn the new words of Unit7 in one class. Students learn to spell words in this unit. Students try to learn how to read and remember the words and phrases. They can learn to make a story with the new words and try to memori
2、ze this story.Teaching and learning stepsStep 1 Lead in 1. Show the pictures of Qomolangma, the Nile, the Caspian Sea and the Sahara to the students. 2. Students talk about them1) Where are they ? 2) What else do you know about them ?Step 2 Learn to read the new words on page 1211. Ask the students
3、to try to read the new words in this unit according to the phonetics given by themselves and underline the difficulties they meet. The difficult words: population achievementgovernment protection) 2. Encourage the students to read the difficult words with partners. 3. Ask individual students to read
4、 the new words to the class, the others listen carefully. If necessary, the teacher should correct the mistakes. 4. Follow the tape and imitate the pronunciation.Step 3 Learn to remember these words and language chunks 1. Look at the pictures, introduce language chunks about these natural objects. Q
5、omolangma is 8,844.43 meters high. The Himalayas run along the southeast. Thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard. Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storm. Many climbers want to reach the top of it. Because they want to challenge themselves.
6、On May 29,1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary succeed in climbing to the top of it. They achieved their dream. Their achievement shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature. The Caspian is 1,025 meters deep. The Nile is 6671 meters long. The Pacific Ocean is the biggest
7、 ocean in the world.The Sahara is about 9,600,00 square kilometers in size. Its the biggest dessert in the world. China is the biggest country in Asia. It has the biggest population in the world. Its famous for the Great Wall. The Great Wall is quiet tall and wide. It is the longest wall in the worl
8、d. Ancient emperors build it to protect their part of the country. It is so amazing that many tourists come to visit it every year. If you come to visit it , you will have a pleasant tour ! A panda is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs). It weighs 100 kilos. At birth, a baby panda is about 0.1 to 0.2
9、 kilos. An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. They like eating bamboos.They are endangered animals. Now there are fewer 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.Some babies often die of illness.To protect them, we build the Chengdu Research Base for them. Now, it is 9:00 a.m.
10、, the baby pandas are awake, they run over to the keepers with excitement, because they want to drink milk. An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. The Chinese g
11、overnment is also planting more bamboo tress for them. Whales live in the sea. They are very huge. Humans catch them for meat, fat an oil. To protect them , we must make rules on whale protection. 2. Read the story and translate it into Chinese. 3. Read the story and underline the new words.4. Remem
12、ber the phrases by matching themselves with their meanings.feel free 面对(问题，困难等)as far as I know 走路时撞着take in 即使，虽然in the face of 大约even though (even if ) 吸入，吞入(人体)at birth 到达(某数量、程度等)，至多有，不多于up to 可以， 随便walk into 绊倒fall over 就我所知or so 出生时Step 4 Consolidation of words 1. Give students a few minutes t
13、o memorize the words first.2. Get students to read the words by Chinese, then look at Chinese and say English.3. Get students to spell and write down the words with Chinese. Underline the words they havent grasped. 4. Check.5. Spell the words . Lets see which group can remember the most words.Group
14、A Group B Group C Group D平方，正方形 人口，人口数量 古代的，古老的 旅行者，观光者保护，防护 沙漠 米，公尺 宽阔的成就，成绩 西南的，西南方向的 厚的，浓的 包括，包含条件，状况 实现目标，成功 力，力量 达到，完成，成功大海，海洋 出生，诞生 成年的，成人的 竹子 Step 5 End -of -class test1 Write the right words according to the first given letter or Chinese1. China has the biggest p_in the world.2. There are ma
15、ny _(竹子) forest in China.3. He used the house as a _(基地) for his painting business.4. At b_, a baby panda is about 10 cm long.5. Many t_go to visit The Great Wall every year.2 Choose the proper words or phrases to finish the sentences awake, deep, excitement, adult, desert, 1. The _panda weighs many
16、 times more than a cat.2. He jumped up and down with_.3. The Caspian Sea is 1,025 meters _.4. The biggest _in the world is Sahara.Step 6 Homework1. Ask the students to review the words and phrases, especially the words and phrases theyhavent grasped on their notebook.2. Ask the students to make sentences with the following phrases verbs.feel free, as far as I know, take in, in the face of, at birth3. Retell the story with the help of the pictures.4. Preview Section A
