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Unit 4 Wildlife protection Reading How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife Teaching aims: 1. Knowledge objectives: Let the students know some basic information about the endangered animals and wildlife situation and protection. 2. Ability objectives: 1) Encourage the students to think and express their attitude towards the wildlife and know the importance of wildlife protection. 2) Improve students’ reading ability and develop the skills of guessing words. 3. Emotion objectives: 1) Help the students to learn about the importance of the wildlife protection and learn what we should do to protect the wildlife from dying out. 2) Develop the students’ 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. Teaching Difficult Points: Enhance the students reading skills in the passage. 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 Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Lead-in Introduction of wildlife protection. A report on some endangered wildlife in China.（page25） Questions: 1) what other endangered animals do you know of ? 2) Why are they in danger of disappearing? 3) Looking at the pictures and the title of the reading passage and predict the content. Step 2 Reading-comprehension 1. Skimming Task (1)Questions (group work): why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species? a. Why are elephant numbers increasing in Zimbabwe? (Because the government of Zimbabwe helped protect wild animals.) b. How does the government of Zimbabwe help protect wild animals? (government allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers.) c. Why is it important to protect the rain forest(because it’s the source of many animals and drugs) d.