Unexplaied Mysteries of the Natural World教案4.docVIP

Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World Listening, Pronunciation, Everyday English Teaching Goals: 1. To enable Ss to know some skills of listening. 2. To study some daily expressions. 3. To learn the intonation in exclamations. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Check the answers to the Reading exercises in the Workbook. Step 2. Vocabulary study Purpose: To get Ss to learn some new words. 1. Group work Ask Ss to match the words with their definitions. (1) dinosaur (a) A bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano or geyser (2) carnivore (b) a large extinct reptile living on earth ever. (3) meteorite (c) a stony or metallic mass that has fallen to the earths surface from outer space (4) mammal (d) the act or process of radiating (5) radiation (e) A flesh-eating animal (6) galaxy (f) a warm-blooded milk-producing animal like human being (7) crater (g) A sudden, often violent outburst (8) eruption (h) numerous stars, gas, and dust containing large amount of solar masses Suggested Answers: (1) b (2) e　 (3) c　　(4) f (5) d (6) h (7) a (8) g 2. Individual work Let Ss do Activity 1 on page 55 and check the answers. Suggested Answers: (1) climate (2) extinct (3) disappear (4) survive (5) adapt (6) evolve Step 3. Listening Purpose: ● To get the main information in the listening part; ● To develop Ss’ listening ability. 1. Pre-listening Let Ss do Activity 2 on page 56 to know something about dinosaurs. 2. While-listening (1) Ask Ss to listen to the tape and check the answers to Activity 2 on page 56 Suggested Answers: ① c ② c ③ c ④ a (2) Ask Ss to listen again and fill the missing words in the listening passage Good afternoon, and welcome to this week’s ① of Mysteries of Nature. Today’s topic is a ② one it’s ③ , those strange creatures which ④ the earth for no less than two hundred million years, some of them were ⑤ eaters, others were like the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex, carnivo