八年级下册Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?Section B教案

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

Section B 1 (1a-2e)
Step 1 Revision

Show four pictures about comparisons
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 guidance: scanning
This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.
3. Reading tasks
  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.
      1. What is Lin Wei’s job?  
      2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast? 
      3. What do adult pandas eat?   
      4. Why are pandas endangered?   
      5. What is one way of saving pandas?   
  Key: 1. A panda keeper.
      2. Milk.
      3. Bamboos.
      4. Less forest for pandas to live.
      5. Teaching children.
   3. 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. Adult pandas do not have babies very ____, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of _______.
     3. Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down ______ so pandas have fewer places to live.
     4. A special program in Chengdu teaches _______ about why pandas are __________ and how to save them.
     5. The __________ is also helping to save the pandas. It’s __________ more trees to make more homes for the pandas.
  Keys: keepers, prepare, often, illnesses, trees, children, endangered, 
       Chinese government, necessary to plant 
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. …they run over with excitement and some of them 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。
Step 6 Summary
1. …cm taller/shorter  
2. much /even/a little/less +比较级
3. …times more than ….
4. Talk about how to protect pandas.
Step 7 Homework
Make a list about how to save pandas.