1、Unit Four Wildlife protectionThe First Period(Warming up, Pre-reading and Reading)Teaching Aims:1. Train the Ss reading and speaking ability.2. Enable the Ss to know something about the endangered animals and wildlife situation and protection.3. Help the Ss to realize the importance of wildlife prot
2、ection and to protect the nature.Teaching Important Points:1. Enable the Ss to know something about the endangered animals and wildlifesituation and protection.2. Help the Ss to realize the importance of wildlife protection and to protect the nature.3. How to help students improve their reading skil
3、ls and understand the passage fully.Teaching Difficult Points:1. Help the Ss to realize the importance of wildlife protection and to protect the nature.2. How to help students improve their reading skills and understand the passage fully.Teaching Procedures:Step1: Warming up1. Introduce the topic of
4、 wildlife protection.wildlife: animals or plants which live or grow in natural conditions2. Show the pictures of some endangered animals and let the Ss name them in English.3. Introduce these endangered animals situation.Step2: Pre-reading1. Ask the Ss to talk about the following questions:(1) Do yo
5、u know what endangered animals are dying out in China?(2) Why are they disappearing? What problems are the wild animals facing?killed by the enemies in the nature not enough foodnot enough place to live in the living environment is worse and worsehunted by human beings aten by people(3) What do you
6、think we should do to protect wildlife?We should a. stop man from killing them.b. build the protection zone.c. have them fed by man.2. Get the Ss to express their opinions using the form in Warming Up.3. Introduce the organization of World Wildlife Fund (世界野生生物基金会).Worlds largest privately financed
7、conservation organizationProtect endangered species and their habitatsWorks in more than 100 countries with nearly 5 million membersStep3: Fast readingAnswer the following questions.1. Where did Daisy go? Who took her there?Tibet, Zimbabwe and rain forest. A flying chair.2. What kind of animal did s
8、he meet in each place?An antelope, an elephant and a monkey.Task: 1. Read the passage silently again, and the try to finish the True or False exercises that are showed on the screen.(1) Daisy saw an antelope as well as mountains and people in Tibet. (T)(2) The antelope felt very sad and happy when h
9、e saw Daisy. (T) (3) Antelopes were killed for the skin that is taken from under their stomachs. (F)(4) The elephants and rhinos in Zimbabwe used to be protected well by the farmers in the past. (F)(5) Mosquitoes protect the monkey from a millipede insect. (F)2. Put the following sentences in the ri
10、ght order:(1) In the dream, she flew in a wonderful chair to talk with an antelope in Tibet. (2)(2) Later, she flew to Zimbabwe and talked with an elephant and knew the farmers no longer hunted them. (4)(3) Although finally everything was gone, she had learned so much about the wildlife! (7)(4) The
11、antelope told her they were hunted because their fur could be used to make sweaters. (3)(5) At last she arrived at the thick rain forest (6)(6) One day, Daisy dreamed a strange dream. (1) (7) Thats because the government decided to help and the farmers made a lot of money at last. (5)Step4: Detail r
12、eadingParagraph 11. How did the antelope feel? Sad.2. Who is hunting and killing the Tibetan antelope? People.3. Why are humans part of this Problem?People who buy sweaters made with Tibetan wool are encouraging more people to go out and kill them.4. What will happen to Tibetan antelopes in three ye
13、ars? They may all be gone.Paragraph 2&31. How did the elephant feel? The elephant felt excited.2. How did life improve for the animals?Past: Farmers used to hunt them for destroying their farms.The animals were no longer killed by the farmers for destroying the crops.3. How did life improve for the
14、farmers in Zimbabwe? Farmers got money because the tour companies had to pay them for visiting and hunting the animals.Paragraph 41. In what ways does looking after the rain forest help with wildlife protection?Looking after the rain forest helps wildlife protection because it is where wildlife live
15、s. It also contains many medicine and drugs that we do not know. These drugs may save lives.Step5: Post reading (Oral Task)1. Do the exercise of Part2 on Page27.2. Why do you think the animals have to speak for themselves?They have no human to speak up for them.They can put their case more effective
16、ly.They can win more sympathy.3. What must happen if wildlife protection is to succeed?People must not kill animals but try to live in harmony with them.People must stop destroying the habitat of animals.People must stop using animals to make luxury.4. What things had Daisy learned?(1) She had learn
17、ed that the wild animals were being killed or hunted. And they are dying out.(2) She knows how the animals in the rain forest live together. (3) She also learned it necessary to protect the wild animals.Step6: Homework1. Read the text and underline the useful words and expressions and difficult sentences.2. Surf the Internet to know more about the wildlife protection.
