1、Module 9
Unit 2 Is it an African elephant?
Type of Lesson: Reading and writing
Teaching period: One
Teaching aims and demands:
To get information² about animals from the reading material
To learn to find specific² information in the reading
To learn to look after the animals²
Important p
2、oints:
Key vocabulary: African, America, American, Oceania, Oceanian, India, desert, forest, grass, grassland, jungle,
Key structures: Where does the monkey live?
It lives in the jungle.
Does the monkey live in the desert?
No, it doesn’t.
Is the Kangaroo from Australian?
Yes, it is.
Difficul
3、t points: To get information about animals
Teaching Strategies: Task-based & communicative approach
Teaching aids: Multi-media
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warming-up
Sing a song – Two Little Black Birds
Step 2 Pre-reading
1) Present pictures to learn new words and new structures
2) Play a gu
4、essing game
3) Match the words
4) Pair-work
Talk about the habitats with the continents
Step3 While-reading pair-work
1) Find answers for the questions about the passage
2) Group-work
Read it again and fill in the table, do a report
3) Find out the language points
Step4 Post-reading Task 1
5、pair-work
Read the table and write about the animal students like.
Step5 Post-reading Task 2 Group-work
Make a survey about students’ favourite animals and how to keep them.
Step6 Sum-up
Key Words: Africa—African America—American Oceania—Oceanian Asia—Asian
Australia—Australian India—Indian
desert, forest, grass, jungle, grassland
Key Grammar: 一般现在时里,一些动词的第三人称变化:
do—does live—lives come—comes
eat—eats have—has
get—gets speak—speaks
Step7 Assignment
Write something about your favourite animals