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Integrated Skills: Calling for the protection of animals教学设计

Content theme：Human and Nature-animal protection

Material type：news report

Time duration: 40 minutes

Content Analysis:

本堂课以“保护环境”创设情境，展开包含看、说、读、写的活动。教师首先引导学生阅读一篇关于保护动物的新闻报道，了解问题现状、背后的原因与具体的影响；再要求学生看一个相关话题的视频，获取相关信息；然后让学生两两一组进行讨论；最后要求学生就呼吁同学们保护动物的主题为校报写一篇文章。读、看、说前三个环节为最后的写做准备，活动之间互有关联，共同构成一个语言技能整合的活动。

Student Analysis:

The targeted students are those in Senior 1. After a semester’s learning ,they are supposed to be familiar with the basic integrated skills, such as reading the assigned material and summarize the main ideas in their own words. However, they may still find it difficult to express their own thoughts in English, especially in the written form. It requires teachers to provide certain kind of language database for them, listing useful expressions.

Learning aims:

By the end of this section, students will be able to:

1. Summarize the main idea of the news report;

2. watch a video and take notes about animal protection;

3. Write an article to appeal to students to protect animals;

4. Cultivate a sense of responsibility in animal protection.

Teaching focus and difficulty:

How to write an article to appeal to students to protect animals by incorporating the language learned and the information processed.

Teaching method and learning method:

Task-based teaching approach; cooperative method.

Teaching resources:

Textbooks, multi-media, learning sheets, blackboard and chalks.

Teaching procedures:

Steps

Activities

Intentions

Time & mode

Lead in

Step 1

T asks Ss to share their personal opinions towards the following question:

Do you think we should protect animals? Why or why not?

Activate Ss’ background knowledge.

2’CW

Reading

Step 2

Ss read the news report and fill in the table with the topic sentence of reach paragraph:

Paragraph	Topic sentence
Para. 1	Human activities have brought many animals close to extinction.
Para. 2	Hunting and fishing have directly influenced the world’s animal populations.
Para. 3	Human activities that have indirect effects on animals can be just as harmful.

Grasp the main ideas of the news report.

3’ IW

Step 3

Ss read the article again and answer the questions in part A and exchange their answers in pairs.

Identify detailed information and prepare for following tasks.

3’IW PW

Listening

Step 4

Ss watch the video and answer the questions in part B1 and B2 about the importance and measures to protect animals.

Summarize more detailed information and prepare for following tasks.

10’ CW

Talking

Step 5

In pairs, Ss discuss the questions in part C:

1. Why should we protect animals?

2. How are animals harmed by human activities?

3. What action should be taken to protect animals?

Review the key information in the reading and listening part.

3’ PW

Step 6

Ss share their opinions on the following question:

As a student, what can we do to help protect animals?

Provide more suggestions for Ss and make transitions into the next task

3’ CW

Writing

Step 7

Ss write an article for the school newspaper calling for everyone to protect animals.

Review the things learned and talked before, forming personal ideas about animal protection.

10’ IW

Step 8

Ss exchange their article in pairs and evaluate each other’s work. T chooses 2-3 Ss to show their work to the rest of class and grade them by using the following criteria:

Correct structure

1’

Complete content

(including problem analysis and providing practical solutions)

3’ + 3’

Fluent language

(no major grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes)

3’

Deepen understanding of the content and the structure of an news article by evaluating each other’s work.

5’ PW

Homework:

1. Polish up your own writing by correcting grammatical and spelling mistakes and transcribe it on another sheet;

2. In groups of 4, complete a poster by using member's writing and adding relevant photos or pictures.

1’

备注：

Ss: Students T: Teacher IW: Individual work PW: Pair work CW: Class work

Blackboard Design

Integrated Skills: Calling for the protection of animals

唐玉婷

单丽娟

翟林一

高春萍

高馨

高英

胡思霞

刘佳佳

陆赟

钱佳

史俊杰

王珏

徐禄

徐婷燕

张怡

张正良

integrated skills: calling for the protection of animals教学设计