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Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Section B（1a-1d）
1.语言能力：正确使用比较级、最高级来描述事物，熟练掌握倍数的表达。
Teaching 2.文化意识：了解国宝大熊猫的相关知识，树立保护动物的意识。
Aims 3.思维品质：通过对比，来了解不同动物的相关知识。
4.学习能力：有意识地运用知识迁移策略比较动物。
Teaching 正确使用比较级、最高级来描述事物，熟练掌握倍数的表达。
Difficulties
Teaching
Aids multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Lead in
Ask the Ss to watch a video about panda on PPT P5-P6.
Free Talk
Do you like wild animals?
What's your favorite wild animal?
Do you know any basic facts about them?
How can we describe wild animals when talking about them?
Food/ place/ height(高度)/ weight(重量)/ behavior(习性).
Lead in
Show the pictures of elephants and pandas. try to describe these
animals with the Ss.
elephants
It's the biggest animal on land.
It is 350 cm tall.
It weighs 5,000 kilos.
It eats 150 kilos of food a day.
It always eats vegetables, plants, and some fruits.
pandas
1It's one of the oldest species in the world.
It is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs)
At birth, it is only about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos, but an adult one weighs 100
kilos.
It eats 10 kilos of food a day.
It always eats bamboos.
It is a symbol of our country.
Ask the Ss to describe the tigers and giraffes.
Step 2 Presentation & Practice
Pre-listening
1a
Ask the Ss to compare facts about these two animals. Use the
language in the box to help you make sentences.
Example sentence:
Compared on weight.
This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.
(200 cm taller / shorter, weigh much more / less, eat much more / less, eat
many times more)
Now ask the Ss to make more sentences.
On height / weight / food / other facts you know:
—————————————————————————————
2—————————————————————————————
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Answers:This panda is 200 cm shorter than this elephant.
This elephant eats much more than this panda.
Ask the Ss to read the following number.
0.1 zero point one
0.2 zero point two
16 sixteen
20 twenty
50 fifty
100 one hundred
120 one hundred and twenty
150 one hundred and fifty
While-listening
1b
Ask the Ss to listen and check (√) the numbers you hear.
1c
Listen again and complete the sentences.
1.At birth, a baby panda is about ______ to ______ kilos.
2.At birth, a baby panda is about ______ cm long.
3.A baby panda is not black. It is ______ and it has no ______.
34.A panda can live up to ______ to ______ years.
Answers:1.0.1 0.2 2.15 3.pink teeth 4.20 30
Listen and read.
Teacher：Do you have any questions about baby pandas?
Boy 1：Are they much smaller than an adult panda?
Teacher：Yes. When they’re born, they only weigh about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos.
Boy 1：Wow, that’s small! I know an adult panda weighs many times
more than a baby.
Teacher：That’s right. And the adult pandas weigh around 100 kilos.
Boy 2：What about the size of a baby panda? How small is it?
Teacher：At birth, it’s only around 15 cm long, but an adult panda is
around 150 cm long.
Girl 1：Is a baby panda also black and white?
Teacher ： No, you would never guess! A baby panda is pink and it
cannot see. It also doesn’t have any teeth.
Girl 1：How long can pandas live?
Teacher：They can live up to 20 to 30 years.
Ask the Ss to fill in the blanks according to the information in
1b&1c.
A baby panda is lovely. When it is born, it is much ________than an adult
panda. It _______ about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos, but an adult panda weighs about
100 kilos. At ______, it’s only around
______ long, but an adult panda is around 150 cm long. A baby panda is
pink and it _____ see. It also doesn’t have any ______. A baby panda can
_____ ____ to 20 to 30 years.
Answers:smaller weighs birth 15 cm can’t teeth
4live up
Post-listening
1d
Ask the Ss to take turns telling your classmates about pandas.
A: A baby panda cannot see.
B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda.
True of False?
An adult panda is ten times longer than a baby panda.
True. At birth, a panda is only around 15 cm long, but an adult panda is
around 150 cm long.
Ask the video to watch the first 100 days of a panda.
Step 3 Language points learning
1. This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.
① weigh 此处作不及物动词，意为“重量是......”。
How much do you weigh?
At birth, most babies weigh between 3 and 4 kilograms.
② weigh 还可作及物动词，意为“称......的重量”。
She weighed the stone in her hand.
【拓展延伸】weight 作名词，意为“重量；分量”。put on / gain
weight 表示“增加体重”；lose weight 表示“减重”。
倍数 + 比较级 + than
该结构意为“比......（大 / 长 / 重......）多少倍”，表示倍数。
This table is three times longer than that one.
【拓展延伸】
① “倍数 + as + 形容词/副词原级 + as”也表示倍数，意为“是......
的几倍”。
This table is three times as long as that one.
② “倍数 + the size / length / height + of …”意为“.....是......的几倍大
/ 长 / 高”。
5This table is three times the length of that one.
Step 4 Summary & Homework
Summary
Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P26-28.
Homework
Preview the passage in Section B 2b.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
Teaching In this period, it may be difficult for the students to know how to
Reflection describe the animals.T can show some videos to give them some tips.
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