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Period 4 Listening
The General Idea of This Period：
This period aims at training students’ two skills—understanding general idea and
getting detailed information by getting familiar with tones and intonation in spoken
English and writing an well-organized letter about how to solve a specific
problem.Students can improve these skills by listening，writing and finishing the relative
exercises.Also in this period students can meet the theme of this unit again.
Teaching Aims：
1.Make sure the students know the usage of tones and intonation in spoken English
and grasp the methods of getting the general idea and detailed information.
2.Help the Ss learn how to organize a letter to save the endangered animal dodo.
Teaching Important Points：
1.Make sure the students know the importance of tones in spoken English.
2.Enable the students to organize a letter in the proper and efficient way.
Teaching Difficult Point：
How to write a letter in the correct way.
Teaching Methods：
1.Listening-and-answer activity to make the students know the importance of tones in
spoken English.
2.Practice to improve the students’ writing ability.
Teaching Aid：
A tape recorder and a projector.
Teaching Procedures：
Step 1 Revision
T：Good morning，boys and girls!Last class I asked you to prepare the description of
dinosaurs and Milu deer and dodos，so now I will ask some of you to have a try.Any
volunteers?
S ：Dinosaurs lived on the earth long before humans came into being.There were
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many different species of them，of which a rare new one was able to run as well as
climb.The reasons for their dying out are not sure.Maybe because of a large rock or due
to the hot weather.
S ： Dodos lived on the earth long long ago.They lived on an island called
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Mauritius.They were curious and kindhearted and quite different from most of the
animals there.They were birds，but they were large and only had small wings.Their
favorite activity was to wander along the beach and wait till the insects were ready to be
eaten.
S：Milu deer used to be common in China.They lived together and lived on grass.But
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as a result of hunting，they disappeared from China later.Luckily，some were taken to
Britain before that.So Chinese government can bring back some.Now there are more and
more Milu deer in China.
T：Everyone has done a very good job!
1Step 2 Brainstorming about tones in spoken English
（Teacher asks two students to answer two easy questions，then express gratitude using
different tones.One is ”Thank you↘”.The other is “Thank you↗.” ）
T：Well，just now I said “Thank you”，do you find some differences?
Ss：You use different tones.
T：Good.In the first one，the falling tone shows that I am very grateful.But in the
second one，the rising tone means that is what the S should do and I was not really
grateful.
T：In spoken English，tones are used to express different feelings.To understand how
the speaker is feeling，listen for four main things：
the volume of the language
a rising or falling tone
stress on certain words
pauses in the sentences
Step 3 Listening for general idea
T：OK，now we are going to listen to the story about another animal named dodo.
Please have a look at the picture on P31.What does it look like?
Ss：It looks like a duck.It’s very large.
T：What about its wings?Are they very large too?
Ss：No，its wings are very small.
T：Can it fly high in the sky easily?
S：I don’t think it can easily fly high in the sky.
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T：Do you agree with her?
Ss：Yes.
T：So what might be its problem?
S：It can only walk on land.And when there is an animal attacking it，it can’t escape.
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T：You might be right.Let’s listen and see.As for the first time，you don’t have to
understand every word.You can ignore what you don’t understand and concentrate on what
you can understand.Now please open your books and turn to Page 30 to go through the
Ex.2 and try to predict what might happen to dodo.
（Two minutes later）
T：What happened to dodo?
Ss：It disappeared.
T：Right.
Check the answers to Ex.2 and get some Ss to tell the mistakes in the other choices.
Step 4 Listen for detailed information
Get the Ss to listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks.
Once upon a time I lived on the earth too.I was called “dodo”.My home was an
2______ called Mauritius.I was ______ and ______ and quite ______from most of the
animals there.I liked to make friends with the other animals and never ______.I have no
enemies.
We were birds too， but we were large and only had small ______.My favorite
activity was to ______ along the beach and wait till the insects were ready to be eaten.
Get the Ss to discuss the answers in pairs and then check the answers to blanks
（Suggested answers：island，curious，kind-hearted，different，quarreled，wings，wander）and
Ex.1 （CDBC）.Get them to tell the reasons for their choices.
Step 5 Further Practice
T：After we learn the story about the dodo，we shall again know the importance of
protecting our environment.In fact to protect our earth is to protect ourselves.
Next we shall listen to one more story about human beings and their
environment.Please turn to P62.Listen for the first time and get the general idea.
（After listening for the first time）
T：What is the main idea of the story，do you think?
S ：It’s about how a farmer improved his empty land and made his farm more
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beautiful.
T：Good job.
Get the Ss to listen for the second time and try to finish Ex.1 on P62.
（After the Ss’ listening for the second time）
Get them to discuss the answers in groups of four and then check the answers
together.
At last listen to the tape for the last time to check the answers.
Listen for the third time and finish Ex.1.
Step 6 Summary and Homework
T：In this class，we have learned the importance of tones in spoken English，how to
find out the general idea and the detailed information.After class，you should go on
listening to more materials and try all efforts to make your ears sharp.That’s all for this
class.Class is over.
Homework：Surf the internet to find more information about the endangered animals
in China and think of some ways to protect them.
Step 7 The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 4 Wildlife protection
Period 4
Listen for the general idea
Listen for detailed information
tones，intonation，stress etc.
dodo （large body，small wings）
Step 8 Record after Teaching
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