Teaching contents: Reading and Vocabulary of Module 6

Teaching goals:

1. Learn some new words about animals in danger.

2. Train the skills of reading for information and have a rough idea of text.

3. Develop the sense of protecting the endangered animals.

Teaching keys:

1. New words and their use.

2. The rough idea of the passage.

Teaching difficulties:

1. Training of the reading skills.

2. Cultivation of the sense of protecting the endangered animals.

Teaching methods:

1. Cooperative learning.

2. Task-based learning.

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Lead-in (4’)

● Ask Ss to say the animals in danger as many as possible.

● Give some pictures of some endangered animals Ss may not know, and teach the new words by the way.

● Question: Do you know any other words related to endangered animals?

Step2. Presentation Ⅰ---WORDS (5’)

● Read the words together on P51, Textbook.

● Do the exercise: Match the meanings with the words.

● Group work：Fill the following blanks with the words.

1. The Chinese government has created the _______ to help save the Siberian tiger’s ________.

2. Many _________ _________ are becoming less and less, and some are even _______.

3. We need to do something to help the endangered animals in their _______for _______.

Step3. Presentation Ⅱ--- READING (29’)

● Pre-reading: (5’)

1. Show a video and the picture of ANTELOPE, and give some basic information about it.

2. Have a look at the picture on P52, and lead the Ss to make a prediction about what the passage is about. The questions can be:

◆ What can you see in the picture?

◆ What are these people?

◆ Where is the story happening?

◆ What’s going to talk about in this text? (A story about antelopes? Why people kill them? Does the government take any measures？)

● While-reading: (5’+5’+7’+5’)

1. Fast reading: to find out the main idea of each paragraph, underline the words you don’t know, and then read the main idea together.

Paragraph1. Jieshang Suonandajie gave his life to save the Tibetan antelope.

Paragraph2. A large number of antelopes have been killed for their wool.

Paragraph3. The business of antelope wool is illegal but it is not easy to be stopped.

Paragraph4. The Chinese government began to take active part in protecting the antelopes.

Paragraph5. Progress has been made in protecting the antelopes.

2. Listen and follow to read, correcting your pronunciation.

3. Group work: Detailed-reading and find out the following numbers, and then discuss.

◆ The number of antelopes left by the 1990s.

◆ The price of a shawl made from ‘shatoosh’.

◆ The year when the trade ban on ‘shatoosh’ shawls were started.

◆ The number of ‘shatoosh’ shawls found in a London shop.

◆ The percentage of the antelope population those shawls represented.

◆ The number of poachers caught in ten years.

◆ The height of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

◆ The year when the antelope population started to grow again.

4. Read again and do activity 2 on P52.

● Post-reading: (2’)

1. Question: What can we do to help antelopes, or other endangered animals?

Step4. Homework (1’)

● Read the passage by yourself.

● Do part 4 on P53, textbook.