2020-2021学年Unit 2 Wildlife protection教案

Unit 2 Wildlife Protection
Period 2 Reading and Thinking

A Day in the Clouds教学设计

The listening and speaking part aims at how to protect and help endangered animals by listening, speaking and talking about the facts and reasons. This lesson analyzes the decreasing clause of Tibetan antelope population and the measures of protecting Tibetan antelopes. So students can be guided to learn to analyse the title and use different reading skills or strategies, like scanning, skimming and careful reading.

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. Cultivate the reading methods according to different materials.

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. Cultivate the reading methods according to different materials.

Step 1 Leading-in

Watch a video about elephants and whales and then ask:
   Why are they endangered ?
    They are killed/hunted

Step 2 Before reading--- use visual reading
   Look at the pictures. What do you think the text is about ?
    It is about Tibetan antelopes.

Step 3: Analyze the title

             A Day in the Clouds

Step 3: Scanning the whole text and getting the basic information

1. Answer the following questions.
   Q1：Is it easy for the writer to go on the short hike? Why ?
       No, it’s difficult. Because the air is thin and we have to rest several times. Then it’s cold because there are snow-covered mountains disappear into clouds that seem almost close enough to touch.

   Q2: Why did the writer visit Tibet ?

       To observe Tibetan antelopes.

   Q3: Where do the Tibetan antelopes live ?

       They live on the plains of Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai.

   Q4: What happened to the Tibetan antelope in the 1980s and 1990s ?

       They population dropped by more than 50 percent. Hunters were shooting them to make profits. Their habitats were becoming smaller as new roads and railways were built.

   Q5: How to protect them ?

       The government placed them under national protection.

       Volunteers watched over them day and night to keep them safe.

       Bridges and gates were added to let them move easily and keep them safe from cars and trains.

   Q6: Why did the Chinese government stop the protection program after the population has recovered ?

       Because the threats have not yet disappeared.

2. Find the topic sentences of each paragraph

  Paragraph 1: This is why we’re here-- to observe Tibetan antelopes.       The purpose

  Paragraph 2: I am stuck by their beauty, but also reminded of the danger they are in.     The danger

  Paragraph 3: My guide is Zhaxi.      Introduce the guide and his opinion.

  Paragraph 4: The 1980s and 1990s were bad times for the Tibetan antelope.     The dangerous period of Tibetan antelopes

  Paragraph 5: Save this species from extinction.      Protection

  Paragraph 6: The measures are effective.      The result
Paragraph 7: When we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.      The thought of the writer

Step 4: Travel Journal
What the writer saw:
  1.the snow-covered mountains disappear into clouds.
  2. the antelopes move slowly across the green grass.
  3. the stars in the evening.

    What the writer felt:
1. The air is thin
2. The clouds seem almost close enough to touch.
3. He was stuck by the beauty of antelopes.

    What the writer hear:
The words was said by Zhaxi  

    What the writer know:
1. The history about Tibetan antelopes
2. The measures Chinese government and common people took to protect them.
3.The present situation about Tibetan antelopes.

    What the writer thought:
We must change our way of life.

      We should learn to exist in harmony with nature

Step 5 Summary
The thinking mode of the article: the subject/topic      reason      problem      solution

               result      reflection

Step 6 Homework

     Understand these sentences carefully and find the sentences in the article .

1. The Tibetan antelope lives high above sea level.
2. When they first saw the antelopes, they were very far away.
3. We should not buy goods made from endangered animals.
4. Human activities are threatening animals and plants.
5. The Tibetan antelope is not an endangered species now.