教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 1 Section A (1a-2c) 802 课 时 Period 1 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: and phrases: the earth, in Asia, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Nile, in Africa, the Caspian Sea, Qomolangma, desert, the Sahara, square kilometers 2. Expressions: What’s the highest mountain / the longest river / the deepest salt lake / the biggest desert in the world? To express the big numbers using: thousand, million,billion, kilometer long / deep / high Ability aims: 1. The students can use the questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities. 2. To train the students’ cooperation with their partners. Emotional aims: To train the students to care about the world’s environment through talking about the world’s tops. ※教学重难点※ Teaching important points: 1. The comparative and superlative of adj. 2. Note its grammar meaning and use “what” questions to ask about the world’s tops. Teaching difficult points: The students can ask questions to get information to improve their listening and speaking abilities. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: CAI , a recorder ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Grammar preview Review the superlative of adj. Step 2 Presentation & talk 1. Show on the screen some pictures and learn the new words. 2. Practice the conversations like this: A: What is the longest river in the world? B: The Nile. A: How long is it? B: It is 6,671 kilometers long. Step3 Activity 1a 1. Get the students to read through the pictures in Activity 1a and match the statements with the right picture. 2. Talking: The Yangtze River is about 6,300 kilometers long. Step 4 Listening (1b) 1. Get the students to listen and complete the sentences. 2. Listen again and repeat after the tape. Step 5 Pair work (1c) 1. Get the students to have a pairwork, talking about the places in the picture. 2. Practice the conversations with the partners. Step 6 Listening 1. Listen and number the facts in the order you hear them. (2a) 2. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the right numbers. (2b) 3. Check tha answers. Step 7 Activity 2c 1. Get the students to have a dialogue like the one in 2c using the information in 2a. 2. Ask some pairs to practice their dialogues. Step 8 Homework 1. Recite the 5 sentences in 1b. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 1 Section A (1a-2c) A: What’s the highest mountain in the world? kilomerters long / deep / big B: Qomolangma. one of the oldest countuies in the world the second longest river in the world ※教学反思※ 教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 2 Section A (2d-3c) 802 课 时 Period 2 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: and phrases: mountain climbing, the Himalayas, challenge themselves, freezing weather conditions, heavy storms, very hard to take in air as you get near the top, stronger than theforces of nature, more serious difficulties 2. Structure: It’s hard to …. Ability aims: 1. The students can use the comparative and superlative of the adj. to retell the passage in 3a. 2. Try to find necessary information through fast reading. Emotional aims: People want to challenge themselves in the face of difficulties, we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams. ※教学重难点※ 1. The comparative and superlative of the adj. 2. Get the students to learn basic sentence patterns by listening and drilling. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: CAI , a recorder ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Review 1. Show the tops of the world. 2. Ask Ss to describe them using the structures: … is the smallest / biggest ocean in the world. Step 2. Presentation 1. Show the pictures of the tops of the world and China. 2. Ask Ss to introduce the world’s tops including what, where and how long / deep. Step 3 Reading Show some information about the Ming Great Wall. 1. Read the conversation in 2d and answer the question. What’s the conversation abut? 2. Read for the second time and answer: How long is the Ming Great Wall? What does the guide say about the wall? 3. Ask students to role-play the conversation. Step 4 Fast reading 1. Play a short video about the Himalayas. Students watch and think. 1) Where are the Himalayas? 2) How high is Qomolangma? 3) Was it serious? 2. Get Ss to read the passage quickly and match the main idea of each paragraph. Step 5 Careful reading 1. Read the passage carefully and find out the answer. Why do people risk their lives to climb the highest mountain? 2. Get the students to have a careful reading. Underline some useful expression in the page. 3. Explain some language points. 4. Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat. Step 6 Work on 3b, 3c 1. Read the article again and complete the chart in 3b. 2. Answer the questions using the information from the passage. Read through the passage and fill in the blanks with the right information from the article. Step 10 homework Retell the article in 3a. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 2 Section A (2d-3c) Mountain climbing the Himalayas challenge themselves freezing weather conditions heavy storms very hard ot take in air as you get near the top stronger than theforces of nature more serious difficulties People want ot challenge thimselves in the face of difficulties. We should never give up trying to achieve our dreams. Humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature. ※教学反思※ 教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 3 Section A (Grammar-4c) 802 课 时 Period 3 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: 1. Words and phrases: ocean, the Pacific Ocean 2. Summarize the grammar and practice them. Ability aims: 1. Grasp the use of the comparative and superlative. 2. Enable the students to do things using the target language and the grammar. Emotional aims: Practice makes perfect. ※教学重难点※ Teaching important points: 1. The comparative and superlative of the adj. 2. Master the grammar focus. Teaching difficult points: Learn to describe the tops using the comparative and superlative of the adj. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: PPT, a recorder ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Revision Ask Ss to retell the story in 3a. Step 2 Grammar focus 1. Get the students to read through the sentences in Grammar focus. 2. Students read and rewrite the comparative and superlative of the adj. Step 3 Work on 4a 1. Get Ss to fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. 2. Check the answers. Step 4 Work on 4b 1. Get the students to write two comparisons about two topics. . Two rivers: the Yangtze River and the Amazon River The Yangtze River is almost as long as the Amazon River. The Amazon is longer than the Yangtze, but the Yangtze River is the longest river in China. 2. Students write and read their sentences. Step 5 Activity 4c 1. Get the students to write five questions using comparisons. 2. Students ask and answer their questions in groups. Step 6 Homework 1. Finish off the exercise for this period. 2. Write more sentences using comparisons. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 3 Section A (Grammar-4c) ocean the Pacific Ocean The Yangtze River is almost as long as the Amazon River. The Amazon is longer than the Yangtze, but the Yangtze River is the longest river in China. ※教学反思※ 教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 4 Section B (1a-1d) 802 课 时 Period 4 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: Words and phrases: weigh, at birth, live up to, more than Ability aims: 1. Be able to improve students’ listening ability. 2. Students can say something about panda. Emotional aims: Encourage the students to care for animals and foster the consciousness of protecting animals. ※教学重难点※ Teaching important points: Listening to the numbers. Teaching difficult points: Complete the sentences through listening. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: CAI , a recorder. ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Revision Revise the animals’ names by showing some pictures. Step 2 Presentation 1. Present some pictures and some information about the animals. 2. Students use the comparative degree to compare the animals. 3. (1a) Compare facts about Elephant and Panda. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences. Example sentences: 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.) 4. Ask Ss to say their sentences. Step 3 Listening 1. (1b) Get the students to listen to Listening Cassette 1b and check the numbers. 2. (1c) Listen again and complete the sentences. 3. Check the answers. Step 4 Practice 1. Get the students to retell the information about the baby pandas according to 1c. A: A babypanada cannot see. B: An adult panada weighs many times more times a baby panda. Step 5 Homework Make more sentences to compare facts about Elephant and Panda. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 4 Section B (1a-1d) weigh The elephant weighs 5,000 kilos. at birth At birth, a baby panda is about ... live up to A panda can live up to ... more than This elephant weighs many times more than this panda. ※教学反思※ 教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 5 Section B (2a-2e) 802 课 时 Period 5 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: and phrases: in the remaining foressts, research centers, deeper, feed, endangered, illness,bamboo, government 2. Phrases: prepare … for, because of, for a short time, cut down, the importance of saving the pandas Ability aims: 1. The students can tell their partners about the information about the pandas. 2. Students can get the information through scanning the passage. Emotional aims: Encourage the students to care for animals and foster the consciousness of protecting animals. ※教学重难点※ Teaching important points: How to find out the key words according the context. Teaching difficult points: Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: CAI , a recorder. ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Lead-in Check the homework. Ask students to read their sentences comparing facts about Elephant and Panda. Step 2 Discussion Here are some facts about koala, use the information below to make sentences. Koala — is 75 cm tall — weighs 10 kilos — eats leaves — sleeps 20 hours a day Step 3 Reading 1. Pre-reading Talk about panda in class. Use these words to help you. big, bamboo, zoo, popular, cute, black and white, Sichuan,famous, endangered, beautiful, forest, protect 2. Reading guidance: scanning This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information. 3. Fast-reading 1) (2b) Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2000 2) (2c) Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions. What is Lin Wei’s job? (A panda keeper) What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? (Milk) What do adult pandas eat? (Bamboos) Why are pandas endangered? (Less forest for pandas to live) What is one way of saving pandas? (Teaching children) 4. Careful–reading (2d) Read tha passage carefully and complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage. 5. After-reading (2e) Discuss what other ways you think children can help to save the pandas. Step 4 Intensive reading 1. Get the Ss to read the passage after the tape and pay attention to some difficult points. 2. Ss read after the tape and make some notes about the difficult points. Step 5 Language points 1. … they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over! a. run over 跑上前去 over adv. 穿越；从……的一边到另一边 . She ran over to say hello, but I didn’t recognize her. b. walk into（走路时意外）撞上 . As he was thinking too deeply and not playing attention to where he was going, he walked straight into a tree. c. fall over 摔倒；倒下 . Don’t run too fast, or you might fall over. 别跑的太快，要不你会摔跤的。 d. fall over something 被某物绊倒 . Tommy fell over the dog and broke his front teeth. 2. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. living in the remaining forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰pandas。 . the girls singing under the tree. the women washing clothes by the river. Step 6 Homework Make a list about how to save pandas. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 5 Section B (2b-2e) bamboo for a short time the importance of saving the pandas endangered in the remaining foressts cut down government because of research centers ※教学反思※ 教学内容 班 级 Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 6 SectionB (3a-Self Check) 802 课 时 Period 6 设计时间 备课人 ※教学目标※ Knowledge aims: Words and phrases: huge, whale, jump high out of the water, stop putting rubbish into the sea Ability aims: 1. Write a passage about the whales. 2. Know more about the endangered animals. Emotional aims: Help students to form a right attitude towards the endangered animals. ※教学重难点※ Teaching important points: Can put the phrases in the proper preposition. Teaching difficult points: How to put the phrases in the proper preposition. ※教学准备※ Teaching aids: PPT ※教学过程设计※ Step 1 Revision Ask Ss to retell the information about the pandas. Step 2 Activity 3a 1. Present some pictures of whales. 2. Get the students to read and put the phrases in the correct place in the chart. 3. Check the answers. Step 3 Activity 3b 1. Get the students to write a paragraph about the whale and why they need to be protected. 2. Make a poster using the information in 3a. 3. Ask some students to read their posters. Step 4 Self-check 1. Read these words then find the rules. clever-cleverer-cleverest nice-nicer-nicest easy-easier-easiest fat-fatter-fattest thin-thinner-thinnest beautiful-more beautiful-the most beautiful careful-more careful-the most careful good / well-better-best bad-worse-worst many / much-more-most Ask Ss to complete the chart. 2. Match verbs and objects. Then add one more object to each list. 3. Circle the correct word and /or fill in the blank with the correct form of the word in brackets for each sentence. 4. Check the answers. Step 5 Homework Write a paragraph about how to protect endangered animals, use the useful sentences in 3b. ※板书设计※ Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Period 6 Section B (3a-Self Check) jump high out of the water stop putting the rubbish into the sea. huge live in the sea. in danger=endangered. ※教学反思※
