总课题

8A Unit 5 Birdwatchers

总课时

10

第7 课时

课题

Integrated Skills

课 型

新 授

教学目标

知识目标

To listen to tape for details in order to extract factual information.

能力目标

To do a quiz before listening may help the students to focus on the information they are trying to get.

情感目标

To understand the information obtained from listening and know how to response to it bywriting a report.

教学重点

与难点

To listen to tape for details in order to extract factual information.

To understand the information obtained from listening and know how to response to it by writing a report.

教学资源

Small blackboards .pictures

课前预习

内容

Preview the new words and phrases

时间

5minutes

方法

听录音，自学单词，跟录音复述短文

要求

会读单词，能掌握短文大致信息

教 学 过 程

教 师 活 动

学 生 活 动

Step 1.Pre-checking

根据汉语意思写出正确的单词。

1. Fujian is in ____________(东南部) China.

2. The bushes in the wetlands _______(提供) shelter for the birds.

3. Hongshan Zoo is the home of a lot of plants and animals, _________ (包括) a

wide variety of birds.

4. We will go ___________ (观鸟) this summer holiday.

5. We must do something to __________ (防止) the weather getting hotter and

hotter.

6．There is going to be a _____________ (暴风雪) tonight.

Step 2 Presentation

1.Revise the uses of adjectives and adverbs

2.Warming up

Say ‘Yesterday, I watched a TV program about endangered birds. They are facing a lot of problems.’

3.Say ‘ Luckily, there are some big nature reserves . One of them is Zhalong. Guess how big it is. Teach the new word ‘hectare’.

3.Talk about Zhalong Nature Reserve

4. Go through the facts about Zhalong on Page86, and then listen to the tape and tick out the facts mentioned in the tape.

5.Check the answers and then do a class survey to see how many students get all the answers right and how many of them got 4 right answers. Praise them.

Step 3 Practice

1. Put the information into the sentences and get the students to read the sentences loudly.(P art A on Page86)

2. Listen and repeat.

3. Complete Sandy’s report on Zhalong.

First get them check the answers in pairs. Then get several students to read out the passage loudly and check the answers together. And then go through the passage to locate some important sentence patterns that we can use in our writings.

e.g. 1. It has/ covers an area of more than 210,000 hectares.

2. Zhalong is a good place to go birdwatching.

3. It’s a home of a lot of animals, including different kinds of birds.

4. Wetlands provide food and shelter for endangered birds.

5. They are important also because they prevent flood.

Step4 Production

1．Finish the following exercises. Encourage the students to find the answers in the passage.(见练习)

2．Retell the report on Zhalong according to some keywords on the blackboard.

3.Have a dictation of some sentences about Zhalong.

Step 5. Sum up

We know the know facts about Zhalong and develop the ability of listening .speaking. reading and writing

Step 6 Exercises & homework

1. Finish off the relative exercises.

2.Recite the useful words and expressions.

3.Write a conservation if you want to invite your friends to go birdwatching.

4.Retell the report on Zhalong.

Do exercises

Think and discuss.

Listen and repeat

Know the language points