英语Unit 2 Wildlife protection学案

2019新人教高中英语必修二

Unit 2 Reading and Thinking公开课学案

学习目标:

1.Read quickly to get the main ideas and the purpose of going to Tibetan; read carefully to understand what the author see and think.

2.Understand the sentences of the present continuous passive voice such as “Much is being done to protect wildlife.” and the inverted sentence “Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.”

3.Enhance the awareness of protecting wildlife.

4.Use different reading methods according to different materials.

重难点:

1.Read quickly to get the main ideas and the purpose of going to Tibetan; read carefully to understand what the author see and think.

2.Understand the sentences of the present continuous passive voice such as “Much is being done to protect wildlife.” and the inverted sentence “Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.”

3.Use different reading methods according to different materials.

学习过程：

Part Ⅰ Warming up and prediction

1.Let’s look at some animals, and discuss what they have in common?

2.Guessing game: what kind of animal is it?

It is__________________.

3.Watch a video about antelopes and talk about the feelings about the video.

Part Ⅱ Skimming for main ideas

Activity 1　Skim the text and answer the following questions.

1.What’s the text mainly about?

___________________________________________

2.What’s the purpose of the article?

___________________________________________

Activity 2　Read the text again and summarize the main idea of each paragraph.

Paragraph 1:___________________________________

Paragraph 2:___________________________________

Paragraph 3:____________________________________

Paragraph 4:____________________________________

Paragraph 5:____________________________________

Paragraph 6:____________________________________

Paragraph 7:____________________________________

Part Ⅲ Scanning for details

Activity 1　Read the text and answer the following questions.

1.Why did the writer visit Tibet?

_______________________________________________

2.What does “national protection” mean?

_______________________________________________

3.How does the writer feel about modern life?How do you know?

_______________________________________________

Activity 2　Read the text again and fill in the form.

Activity 3　Read the text once more and try to finish the mind map.

Activity 4　Read the sentences below,and decide if each idea is the literal meaning (L) of the text or only implied (I) by the text.

　　The Tibetan antelope lives high above sea level. 

　　When they first saw the antelopes,they were very far away. 

　　We should not buy goods made from endangered animals. 

　　Human activities are threatening animals and plants. 

　　The Tibetan antelope is not an endangered species now. 

Part Ⅳ Discussion

Discuss the questions in pairs.

The writer says that we must change our way of life and learn to live in harmony with nature in order to save our planet.Do you agree? What do you think we should do or change?

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

1.Retell the passage in your own words.

2.Do some research on other endangered animals by surfing the Internet and make a report.

参考答案:

Part Ⅰ

1.They are endangered animals.

They are being hunted by some illegal hunters for money.

They should be well protected now.

They are cute and beautiful……..

2.It is an antelope.

3.Feel sorry and sad. They shouldn’t be hunted and instead should be well protected.

Part Ⅱ

Activity 1

1.The Tibetan antelope was an endangered animal,but because of human action to protect it,its population has recovered and it was removed from the endangered species list.

2.The author intends to tell us that although the Tibetan antelope has been removed from the endangered species list,the threats to it have not yet disappeared.We must change our way of life and learn to exist in harmony with nature.

Activity 2

Paragraph 1:The writer visited Changtang in order to observe Tibetan antelopes.

Paragraph 2:Tibetan antelopes are in danger.

Paragraph 3:The author’s guide thinks that the land is sacred and protecting the wildlife is a way of life.

Paragraph 4:Bad times for the Tibetan antelope.

Paragraph 5:The Chinese government and volunteers took effective measures to protect Tibetan antelopes.

Paragraph 6:The effective measures have helped the population of Tibetan antelopes recover.

Paragraph 7:Human beings must change the way of life in order to save the planet.

Part Ⅲ

Activity 1

1.He wanted to observe Tibetan antelopes.

2.“National protection” means something is protected across the whole country,and it is illegal to harm it.

3.The writer thinks our modern life goes against nature,because he says we must change the way we live if we really want to protect wildlife and the planet.

Activity 2

Activity 3

What:Tibetan antelopes are graceful animals.(Para.1)

They live on the plains of Tibet,Xinjiang,and Qinghai.(Para.2)

They have valuable fur.(Para.2)

Why:Hunters were shooting them to make profits.(Para.4)

Their habitats were getting smaller.(Para.4)

How:The Chinese government placed it under national protection.(Para.5)

Bridges and gates were added to let them move easily and safely.(Para.5)

Volunteers watched over them day and night.(Para.5)

Results:The antelope population has recovered.(Para.6)

The Tibetan antelope was removed from the endangered species list in 2015.(Para.6)

More to do:Change our way of life.(Para.7)

Exist in harmony with nature.(Para.7)

Activity 4

　I　 Implied by “The air is thin”.(Para.1) 

　I　 Implied by “we can just make out a herd of graceful animals”.(Para.1) 

　I　 Implied by “They were being hunted,illegally,for their valuable fur (Para.2)” and “Hunters were shooting antelopes to make profits (Para.4)”. 

　I　 Implied by “The reserve is a shelter for the animals and plants (Para.3)” and “the threats to the Tibetan antelope have not yet disappeared (Para.6)”. 

　L　 The same meaning as “in June 2015,the Tibetan antelope was removed from the endangered species list (Para.6)”. 

Part Ⅳ

I agree that we must change our way of life and learn to live in harmony with nature in order to save our planet.I think what we must do is to realize that we are part of nature and should not separate from it.We can’t survive without it and so when we damage it,we literally damage ourselves.