牛津译林版英语-八上U5 Reading （I） 教案.docVIP

《英语》（八年级上册） Unit 5 Wild animals Reading (I) I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. grasp the main idea of the whole text and each paragraph; 2. understand the structure of the text; 3. get specific information by using the indicating words; 4. understand the importance of protecting wild animals. II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: mean, be born, beginning, in the beginning, sadly, face serious, live on, mainly, however, result, as a result, danger, in danger, action, take action, right away, reserve, law, none, at birth 2. New structures: At four months old, she weighed about eight kilograms and started to go outside for the first time. When she was six months old, she began to eat bamboo. When she was 20 months old, she learnt to look after herself. As a result, pandas may not have a place to live or food to eat. If we do nothing, soon there may be none left! III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty Learn how to use skimming or scanning to get the main ideas or the specific information. Find out the indicating words while scanning. IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in T: As we all know, it is very difficult for pandas to survive in the wild. They need our help, right? In fact, there are a lot of things that we can do to care about the pandas. We can join the WWF. We can design a leaflet to ask people to help the pandas. So, let’s think about how to design a leaflet. I am sure that you will know how to design it after learning this report on the baby panda Xiwang. 【设计意图】通过邀请学生加入WWF，告知学生今天要设计一份宣传单号召人们关注大熊猫。通过学习关于“希望”的报告，可以设计出具有说服力的传单，增加学生学习课文的兴趣。 Step 2 Presentation 1. Learn the new expressions (1) Brainstorm T: What do you know about giant pandas? (2) Present the new expressions T: Most of you know that the giant pandas live mainly on bamboo. And you also know that the number of giant pandas is very small because they