牛津英语8A Unit 4 第八课时.doc

8A Unit Four Wild Animals 第八课时 Main Task 备课人：袁丽娟 一、教学目 To learn to organize and present factual information in a report 2. To learn to express one’s own opinion about animals in danger 3. To do something for the animals in danger 二、教学设想 Main Task 部分要求学生综合利用本单元提及的野生动物的有关信息，并根据提纲和范文，为写作作此准备。此部分鼓励学生创造性地使用具体事实写出报告， 对处于危险中的野生动物发表自己的观点。 三、教学难点和重点： at a time look like little white mice keep taking the land have nowhere to live move around in the daytime walk upright Baby giant pandas spend a lot of time drinking their mums’ milk. The number is getting smaller and smaller. What action can the club take? 四、教学步骤 Step1: Warming-up 1. Introduce our friendsanimals. Get 2-3 students to introduce the animals we have already learned. 2. Encourage the students to use the first person to talk about the animals. Tell them to talk about the five aspects: appearance, ability, character, food and danger. Step2: Revision Describing the animals. Show more pictures of different kinds of animals and invite the students to describe them 2. Mainly about appearance, encourage the students to include as much information as possible. STEP 3 Presentation 1. Show a picture of a giant panda. Get students to describe it. Get the students to talk about baby giant pandas, too. Ask the students two questions: 1) How many babies do mother giant pandas have at a time? 2)How many giant pandas are there in the world now? 2. Get the students to guess and at the same time write their guesses on the board. 3. Play the tape for the students to find the answers to the two questions. Check the answers. Praise the students who get the closer answer. STEP4 Practice 1. Pandas are in danger. Let’s get to know more about them and try to help.’ Invite the students to read the report on Page 71 and try to complete the following table. PANDAS ARE IN DANGER! Appearance beautiful black and white; look like a bear/a white mouse(be born) Character quiet and peaceful Lifesty