《牛津初中英语》8A Unit 4 Wild animals Vocabulary
一、 教学目标
1. To learn about some wild animals’ names.
2. To learn about these wild animals’ appearance , food and living areas.
3. To be able to make short dialogues about wild animals with their partners.
4. To know the importance of protecting wild animals.
二、 教学重点难点
1. Some wild animals’ names, food and living areas.
2. How to describe the wild animals about their appearances and abilities.
3. According to what they learnt in the class, make short dialogues and introduce the wild animals.
三、 教学过程Teaching procedures:
Step One : Leading-in
Warm-up 1.Leading-in by the theme song of animal world.
2. T: When hearing the music, what do you think of? S. Wild animals.
T: Today we’ll go into the world of wild animals.
Step Two: Revision
Revise the wild animals they have learnt in this unit by a guessing game. (Teach the word: stripe.)
Step Three: Learning the names of some wild animals.
1. T: In the forest , there will be a big party. Many wild animals are coming. Do you know them?
Show the pictures of the wild animals and teach the students how to read them.
2. Ask the students try to remember the places of the pictures and the names of the wild animals. Then play another guessing games about these.
3. T: You know the names of these wild animals. Can you say anything special about them?
Teacher describe one wild animal as an example. Help the students try to describe these wild animals’ special abilities and appearances. (Teach: turtle shell, smell, hearing, foxy, hump, eyelid)
Step Four : Learning about food and living areas of these wild animals.
1. T: Do you want to learn more about these wild animals? Do you know their food and living areas? For example, what do foxes eat?
Show some pictures of insects and teach insect.
2. Books open. Make students talk about part B animals’ food in page63 in pairs. Then check the answers in pairs in this way: Ask: What do camels feed on? Answer: Camels feed on grass and tree leaves.
3. Show some pictures about wild animals’ living areas. (Teach: desert, wetland, grassland, North Pole)
Step Five : Task 1
1. Tell the students the wild animals are having the party and some reporter are coming, too. Ask them to make a dialogue between the reporter and the wild animals. Ask them to use the information and words teacher taught. Make the students work in pairs, in three and in four. ( Give them headgears of three animals: a tortoise, a zebra and a wolf)
2. Several minutes later, ask four groups to act out the dialogues.
Step Seven : Task 2
1. T: Audience like the programs very much. They want to learn more about the wild animals. Can you introduce the other wild animals like Zhao Zhongxiang? Then teacher should introduce one animal as an example.
Ask the students to begin it like this: Hello, everyone. This is Animal World. I’m … Today I’ll introduce you a wild animal---…
2. Give the students several minutes. And ask them to come to the front and talk about the last five wild animals.
Step Eight : Ending the class.
1. T: After watching the program, more people are interested in wild animals.
Show some pictures of some ferocity animals: a tiger, a lion, a bear and a crocodile..
T: How do you feel when you see these pictures? Look at their sharp teeth and paws. ( Teach: dangerous, endangered, in danger)
2. Show some pictures about people killing wild animals. Make the students think about two questions after class:
1) What problems do wild animals have?
2) How can we protect wild animals?