Teaching Plan Unit 2 Wildlife Protection Reading How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife Teaching Aims: (教学目标) Knowledge aims: （知识目标）a. help Ss to understand and master the words and expressions b. Let the students know some basic information about the endangered animals and wildlife situation and protection.Ability aims: （能力目标 ）a. Encourage Ss to think and express their attitude towards the wildlife and the wildlife protection. b. Enhance Ss reading ability and develop Ss ability and skills of guessing words and reading comprehension.Emotional aims: （情感目标 ）a. Help Ss understand the importance of the wildlife protection and make them be more active in the helping wildlife.b. Develop Ss sense of cooperative learning. Teaching Key Points: （教学重点）a. To train the reading comprehension to the whole passageb. To improve Ss ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Teaching Difficult Points: （教学难点）a. Enhance the students reading skills in the passage. Teaching Materials: （教学材料） Blackboard, books, and other normal teaching tools. Teaching methods：（教学方法） Co-operative learningActivity-based teaching (individual work; group work; class work)Students-centered approach & Task-based teaching and learning Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Lead-in Task 1: Group Work Give some familiar pictures about wildlife in oder to draw the students attentions, and then bring the question: Do you think what wildlife are? Encourage Ss to discuss the question with each other and then solve the question together. (through this way,it can enliven the atmosphere of the class Task 2: Class Work In oder to help Ss get as much background knowledge about wildlife as possible,I willset up some related questions to make the whole class conclude what on earth mainly cause these wild animals in danger of disappearing. After discussing, Ss should mention the following reasons: Food shortage, pollution, destruction of habitats, and over-hunting. Meanwhile, teacher brings up the conception of “wildlife protection” in time. Step 2: Listening Task To strengthen students listening ability and the ability of catching some sensitive information.Play the tape of the reading passage, and ask Ss to finish the following questions, and tick all the mentioned words out while listening: 1. What places did Daisy go?A. Tibet China B. rain forestC. WWF D. Zimbabwe2. How many animals did she meet? What are they? A. antelope B. elephantC. monkey D. mosquitoes3. What helps Daisy meet the wildlife?A. By a flying chair B. By a flying broomC. By a flying carpetStep 3:Fast Reading （阅读）Task 1:Read the passage quickly and silently. try to find out the main idea. Then answer the following question: The passage is mainly about _.A. some protection of wildlifeB. a journey of a flying carpetC. Daisys wonderful experience with some animalsTask 2: Read the passage again and fill in the table within given time. Animal she metPlaces she went First visitSecond visitThird visitPurpose: To train Ss to go through the passage quickly to get some special information neglect other information.Step 4: Careful Reading Task 1: Read the passage and draw lines under phrases or sentences which you dont understand. Task 2: Finish the true( T ) or false ( F ) questions, and try to correct the false.1. Daisy saw many antelopes in Tibet.2. Daisys sweater was made of sheep wool.3. The elephant used to be well protected in Zimbabwe.4. The farmers in Zimbabwe get much money from the elephants and rhinos now.5. This is a real story in Daisys life. Suggested answers: F F F T F Task 3: Answer the following questions on the screen.1. Antelope in Tibet become endangered because:A. they are killed by other animals for food. B. The environment is badly polluted. C. People kill them to use their fur.D. their food chain(食物链) is cut off. 2. The farmers hunted the Zimbabwe elephants without mercy because A. they wanted to sell the elephants for money B. their families were attacked with no compensations received. C. the number of elephants was so large that they eat too much food. D. Their farm were destroyed but they didnt get any money from tourists.3. It can be learned from the text that A. the Zimbabwe government did a good job in saving the elephants. B. the rainforest produces drugs that are good for millipede insects C. the farmers also got some money from tourists after the WWF helped. D. mosquitos help protect moneys from millipede insects. 4. It can be inferred from the text that next Daisy would A. go and buy a flying carpet B. work with WWF to help wildlifeC. laugh over what she had experiencedD. cry because she could not make her new drug. Suggested answers