初中英语人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级下册Section B教案设计

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?

Section B (1a~2e)

教学目标

【知识与技能】

1. 掌握重点单词和短语：weigh, birth, adult, at birth, live up to…

2. 重点句式： An elephant is 350cm tall and weighs 5,000 kilos…

【情感、态度与价值观】

学会谈论动物，学会倍数的表达来谈论两个事物，将两个事物进行比较。

教学重难点

【教学重点】

掌握并熟练使用本单元生词和句式

【教学难点】

巩固含有数字的事实描述，扩展学习更多表示比较级的句式，用比较句型将两种动物进行比较。

教学准备

图片、视频、多媒体等

教学过程

Step 1 New words

1. weigh  v. 称重     2. adult  n. 成人 adj. 成年的      3. bamboo  n. 竹子

4. endangered  adj. 濒危的 5. research  n.&v. 调查；研究

6. keeper  n. 饲养员     7. awake   adj. 醒着    8. excitement  n. 激动

9. illness  n. 疾病      10. artwork  n. 插图     11. wild  adj. 野生的

12. government  n. 政府

Step 2 Discussion

1. Compare facts about these two animals. Use the language in the box to help you make sentences.

e.g.   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)

2. Discuss in pairs. Compare the panda and the elephant.

3. Do 1a.Make more sentences using the information in 1a.

Step 3 Listening

1. 1b Listen and check (√) the numbers you hear.

  1c Listen again and complete the sentences.

2. Practice. Take turns telling your classmates about pandas.

  A: A baby panda can not see.

B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda.

Step 4 Reading

1. Pre-reading

Talk about panda in your class. Use these words to help you.

big,     bamboo,    zoo,    popular,    cute,    black and white,

Sichuan, famous,   endangered,   beautiful,   forest,   protect,

2. Reading tasks

  2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean:

     10, 12, 300, 2000

2c Read the article again and write short answers to the questions.

   1. What is Lin Wei’s job? 

   2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?

   3. Why are pandas endangered?  

   4. What does the education program in Chengdu do?

   5. Why are scientists doing research?

3. Post-reading

   2d Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.

 1. The panda _______ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very 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.

以下是一只熊猫宝宝的自述，请根据课文内容填空，每空不超过三个词。

      Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Chengdu Research Base. I’m a baby panda. My name is Lingling. It’s 9:00 a.m. now and most of the babies including me are awake and hungry. Look, the keepers are coming with our breakfast — (1) ______. How excited we are!

Lin Wei is one of our keepers and she takes good care of us. Unluckily, we pandas are in great danger now. Mother pandas maybe have one baby (2) _____________. And we baby pandas often die from illnesses. Also, we don’t have enough food because humans (3) ________________. But I know many people have realized it. An education program in Chengdu teaches children about us and other endangered wild animals. And the Chinese government is trying hard to help (4) ______ us. Scientists are doing research to better understand our (5) _______.

I believe, with your help, my family will become larger and larger.

2e Discuss what other ways you think children can help to save the pandas.

Step 5 Language points

1. At birth, a baby panda is about…

birth  v.  出生  at birth  出生时

e.g. Man’s nature at birth is good. 人之初，性本善。

give birth to… 生（孩子）；产生

e.g. My aunt gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday. 昨天我婶婶生下一个漂亮的小女孩。

2. A panda can live up to 20 to 30 years.

up to 到达（数量，程度等）；不多于

e.g. In some area of Africa, children get educated up to 12 years old. 在非洲的一些地区，孩子最多受教育到12岁。

3. Panda keepers are preparing milk for the baby panda’s breakfast.

    prepare sth. for sb. 意为“为某人准备某物”，相当于prepare sb. sth.。如：

    We’re preparing a surprise party for Mike.  =We’re preparing Mike a surprise party.

【运用】汉译英

 妈妈刚刚给我们准备好了晚饭。

____________________________________________________________________

Mom prepared dinner for us just now. / Mom prepared us dinner just now. 

4. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry.

  英语中，awake常用于be, stay, keep, lie之后，作表语；但也可与shake等动词搭配，表示“某人摇醒他人”等。

  e.g. You should have to shake her awake.

注意，awake不用于名词前，因此用作定语时要后置。

  e.g. She was the last person awake.

另外，awake不与very搭配使用，表示“完全醒来；十分清醒”用fully awake, wide

awake。

e.g. He was wide awake by the time we reached my flat.等我们到达我的住所时，他已经完全醒过来了。

5. …they run over to them with excitement and some of the young pandas even walk into their friends and fall over!

run over  跑上前去   over  adv.穿越；从……的一边到另一边

e.g. She ran over to say hello, but I didn’t recognize her.她跑过来打招呼，但我没有认出她来。

walk into  （走路时意外）撞上

e.g. As he was thinking too deeply and not playing attention to where he was going, he walked straight into a tree.由于他陷入深思，没有注意看路，径直撞到了一棵树上。

fall over  摔倒；倒下

e.g. Don’t run too fast, or you might fall over. 别跑的太快，要不你会摔跤的。

fall over something   被某物绊倒

e.g. Tommy fell over the dog and broke his front teeth. Tommy被那只狗绊了一跤，磕断了门牙。

6. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in forests.

living in the forests 是一个现在分词短语，用做定语，修饰pandas。

e.g. the girls singing under the tree   树下唱歌的女孩们

     the women washing clothes by the rive  河边洗衣服的女人们

Step 6 Exercises

课堂作业

Make a list about how to save pandas.

教学反思