Reading

Are We Endangered?

I. Teaching aims:

1. the words and expressions: environmental expert, act, species, take measures, resources, adapt to, etc.

2. To get the main idea of the passage and get to know the purpose of the author

II. difficult and important points

1. Collect information as much as possible according to the questions in pre-reading.

2. Learn how to use these new words and expressions as well as difficult sentences.

III. Teaching procedures:

lead –in (2)

T: Good afternoon, boys and girls,

S: Good afternoon , teacher.

T: Sit down please

Last period, we have talked about some endangered animals. As is known to all, there are not only some endangered animals but also some endangered plants . Altogether there are about 5000 different kinds of animals and some 10,000 kinds of plants being endangered. We know animals and plants are the friends of our human beings. We depend on each other to survive in the world.

Now, think over a question:

What will happen to our human being if this is still going on?

Are we also endangered?

Today, we’ll read an article to see if we are really endangered.

First let’s look at the teaching aims of this period:

Show teaching aims:

1.Guess the meaning of the words and phrases:

species take measures habitat original adapt to

2.Understand the passage and get the general idea of it

3.. Make a list of the things to protect the environment in the daily life

T: open your books at P66. Task 1 ( 5) Skimming (大意)

(read for general idea)

Read the passage quickly. Get a general idea and then answer my questions:

1) Who is Steve Jones ? (an environmental expert who tries to keep animals and plants from becoming endangered)

2) What is the article probably about?(It’s about why a species becomes endangered and what we can do to protect plants & animals from becoming endangered.)

T: Good, you did a very good job. The text mainly talks about the reason

for endangered species and the measures we should take to protect them.(寫板書

Task 2 Scanning (查讀) (5)

T: What is the reasons? Next，Read the second paragraph ,try to find the reason and then fill in the form.

Main reasons for endangered species 1

2

3

(show the students some pictures)

T: 1)2) : There are what animals and plants crying to us

3)

4)The number of the northeast tigers is smaller and smaller

5) What a beautiful she is! But many of them are killed .

All these remind us to do something to protect endangered plants and animals.

Task 3 (5)

T: What should we do then? .The expert gives us some advice in the text. Read the last par. And try to find out:

What are the things that you can do to help the animals and plants according to the expert? (板書)

1. Learn more about animals, plants and environment

2. Create more space for animals and plants

3. Stop polluting the environment

Task 4 (5)

T: Right, if we find out more about what we should do , we can help Steve keep animals and plants from being endangered. Look! The whales are smiling. Ok, now, have you understand the passage? Let’s sum up the main idea of each pars

Par 1: Reasons to protect the environment

Par 2: reasons for species becoming endangered

Par 3: Measures to be taken

Task 5 listening (6)

T: ok, good, nest let’s listen to the tape , while listening ,read after the tape. Understand the text again. Then we’ll do more exercises.

Task 6:True or false (3)

Read it again and say “True” or “False” to the following statements according to the passage.

1). That “We are not alone in the world.” means that humans always have friends to talk with. (F)

2). We often take good care of ourselves and planet according to what Steve Jones said.(F)

3). According to Steve Jones we often talk about how important it is to take care of our planet . (T)

4) If we introduce a new species to a place ,all of the species there will become endangered. (F)

5) There are few things we can do to help . (F)

6) Steve Jones is confident for the future of human beings (T)

Discussion (10)

Now think over the question again: “are we endangered?” Is the author quite sue about it?

If we have realize the situations of the endangered species and try our best to protect, we will not be endangered; if not, we will. Do you think so ?

So everybody should try to protect our environment so that we can live a better life and have a bright future. There are many things we can do to make our world better. Even small things can make a big difference. For example, we can pick up rubbish from the ground, we ‘ll not use plastic bags ,recycle batteries and tell our friends to protect the environment. Next please discuss : what you will do to protect environment every day ,. Make a list of it .

Summary

Today we have read a passage about plants, animals and human beings. We know it’s very important for us to keep animals and plants from being endangered. We should do all we can to protect our environment. We have made a list of things that we can do in our daily life . I hope you can remember to do them from now on. Let’s remember:

Protecting the animals and plants is protecting ourselves!

Homework:

1. make a poster

2.Write a short article about how to protect the environment