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Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Section B（2a-2e）
1.语言能力：能读懂有关大熊猫的相关文章，了解大熊猫的现状。
2.文化意识：进一步了解大熊猫，增强保护濒危动物的意识。引导学生形成保
Teaching 护自然和动物的责任意识, 并关爱动物，热爱大自然。
Aims
3.思维品质：能提取、整理、概括稍长语篇的关键信息、主要内容、思想和观
点，判断各种信息的异同和关联。
4.学习能力：能整理、归纳所学内容，把握重点和难点。
Teaching 能够谈论保护大熊猫的方式。
Difficulties
Teaching multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Aids
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Ask the Ss the following question:What do you know about pandas?
Answers may vary.
Brainstorm
Ask the Ss to talk about the pandas.you can talk about them as
following:
ability/food/numbers/weight/height/appearance/habit/life span
The panda is known as the national treasure of China.
Pandas are a symbol of China.
Lead in
Try to answer these questions below.
1.Which province (省) are most of the pandas from?
A. Shandong. B. Guizhou. C. Sichuan.
2.What color are the adult pandas?
3.What color are the baby pandas?
4.Where do they live?
A.In the air. B. In the forest. C.In the sea.
15.What do they eat?
6.Are they endangered? Why or why not?
Answers:1.C 2.Black and white. 3.Pink.
4.B 5.They eat bamboos. 6.Yes, they are. Because ...
Discussion
Ask the Ss to have a discussion. Then answer the following
questions:
1.Why are pandas endangered?
2.What can we do to protect them?
Step 2 Presentation & Reading
Pre-reading
2a
Ask the Ss to talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to
help you.
big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white
Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect
Work in groups of 4. Take turns to add a sentence to your group to make a
story about pandas.
Sample
S1: There are several pandas living in a forest.
S2: The adult panda is black and white.
S3: The baby panda is pink and very cute.
S4: The pandas eat a lot of bamboos every day.
S1: …
Introduce the reading strategy to the Ss.
While-reading
2b
Ask the Ss to read the article to find out what these numbers mean:
10, 12, 300, 2,000.
210
Adult pandas eat 10 kilos of bamboo a day.
12
Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating.
300
About 300 pandas live in zoos or research centers in China or other
countries.
2,000
Scientists say there are fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forest.
Listen and read the passage.Then ask explain the key words and
phrases.
Ask the Ss to finish the tasks.
Task 1 Skimming and matching
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Task 2 Skimming and reordering
Task 3 Scanning for details
Read para. 1&2 carefully and fill in the blanks.
The Schedule of Panda Keepers
Task 4 Scanning and answering
Ask the Ss to read para.1&2 carefully and answer the questions.
How do the pandas react to the keepers?
3When the baby pandas see the keepers, they run over to them with
excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over.
What is the relationship like between keepers and the pandas?
The dearest families & the closest friends.
Task 5 Scanning for details
Ask the Ss to read para.3 carefully and find the meaning of these
numbers.
10
12
300
2,000
What do these numbers mean?
10 kilos of bamboo a day.
more than 12 hours eating.
300 pandas in zoos or research centers.
2,000 in the forest.
They are endangered. Ask the Ss to ask the question:
Why are the pandas endangered?
Answers:Less food/ Smaller forest/ Serious illness/ Human killing/
Fewer babies.
Task 6 Scanning for details
Ask the Ss to read para.4 carefully and answer the questions.
1.Who saves pandas?
2.What do they do?
The education program--------teach children
The Chinese government--------try hard to help
Scientists--------do research
remember
Love animals.
Love the environment.
Love the world.
No trading, no killing！
2c
Ask the Ss to read the article again and write short answers to the
questions.
1. What is Lin Wei’s job?
2. What do the baby pandas have for breakfast?
3. Why are pandas endangered?
4. What does the education program in Chengdu do?
5. Why are scientists doing research?
4(T can give the Ss some tips.)
Answers:1.Lin Wei is a panda keeper.
2.Baby pandas drink milk for breakfast.
3.Pandas are endangered because they do not have many babies, and the
babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. As the forests get
smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot
find enough bamboo to eat and they are having fewer babies.
4.They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of
saving pandas and other endangered wild animals.
5.Scientist are doing research because they hope to better understand the
habits of pandas.
2d
Ask the Ss to complete the sentences using words from the passage.
1. The panda ___________ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake early
in the morning to __________ breakfast for the baby pandas.
2. In _________, pandas have become so __________ that they are now a
symbol of China.
3. Adult pandas do not have babies very ________, and some of the babies
only live for a short time because of ___________.
4. A special program in Chengdu teaches _________ about why pandas
are ____________________.
5. The Chinese government is helping to __________ the pandas.
Scientists also want to better ____________ the habits of pandas.
Answers:1.keepers prepare
2. fact popular
3.often illnesses
4.child endangered (animals)
5.save understand
2e
What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas?
Work in groups of 4. Think of ways to save pandas with funds and without
funds. Then write ideas down and report to class.
Group Work
5Step 3 Language points learning
1. At 9: 00 a. m., they find that most of the babies are already awake
and hungry.
awake作形容词，常位于系动词之后作表语，不可位于名词前作定
语, 可以作定语的是waking。
She was awake all night.
Most of their waking hours are spent eating.
【拓展延伸】表示睡觉整个过程的相关词汇参考：
sleepy (adj. 打瞌睡的) → go to bed/go to sleep (v. 去睡觉)
→ sleep (v. 睡觉) → fall asleep (v. 入睡) → asleep (adj. 睡着的)
→ wake (up)(v. 醒来；唤醒) → awake (adj. 醒着的)
→ get up (v. 起床)
2. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long.
【易混辨析】die from与die of
die from 侧重指外部原因造成的死亡， 表示死于疾病时，二
如负伤、事故、折磨等。 者可以互换。
die of 侧重指内部原因造成的死亡，
如饥饿、衰老或悲伤等。
He died from overwork.
The famous writer died of/from cancer last year.
Step 4 Summary & Homework
Summary
Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P43-45.
Homework
Read and recite the new words and phrases.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
6In this period，the most important thing is reading.It is a good time to
train the students' ability of reading quickly and efficiently.Usually we do
some work to deal with new words and phrases before reading.While
reading，students should learn to catch the main and the most important
ideas as quickly as they can.They must learn some new words and new
Teaching
language items.They are supposed to be able to use dictionaries to look up
Reflection
the new words.They need to have reading strategies and the teacher should
teach them these.After reading, we can talk about the reading passage and
discuss some questions to check how well the students learn from the
passage.In addition, we should encoursge the Ss to talk about the
ways to help to save the pandas.
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