Unit14Zoology教学设计

1、今泰学院推荐文档Unit14Zoology 教学设计Teaching design of Unit14 zoology编订：J inTai Cof leee第1页共9页今泰学院推荐文档Unit14Zoology 教学设计前言：小泰温馨提醒,英语作为在许多国际组织或者会议上都是必需语言,几乎所有学校 选择英语作为其主要或唯一的外语必修课.英语教学涉及多种专业理论知识,包括语言学、 第二语言习得、词汇学、句法学、文体学、语料库理论、认知心理学等内容.本教案根据 英语课程标准的要求和针对教学对象是高中生群体的特点,将教学诸要素有序安排,确定 适宜的教学方案的设想和方案、并以启迪开展学生智力为根本目的

2、.便于学习和使用,本 文下载后内容可随意修改调整及打印.unit 14 zoologyteaching aims:l.goals:talk about animal and animal behaviorpractise debatingintegrative language practicewrite an argumentative essay2.special focus:improve reading skills and enlarge vocabulary.a. direct ss to read the 3 passages on the textbook;b. guide s

3、s to learn to use the following words andexpressions: adequate, apparent, assume, clarify, dots,obtain, tell -apart, transparent, get hold of,surrounding, assumption, come to light, precise, session,第2页共9页今泰学院推荐文档primitive, etc.c. improve the abilities of using language by integrative language pract

4、ice.period 1 readingthe language of honey-bees (p120-122 )step1 .warming uptask1 .enable the students to discuss the questions on p120.step2.scanningtask2 .get the students to comprehend the passage quickly and accurately, and meanwhile help them to form a good habit of reading. try to find out the

5、main clue of the story.step3 .while-reading:true or false:()1 .von frisch and his co-workers counted hoe many times the bees repeated the wagging dance during one hour.第3页共9页今泰学院推荐文档()2 .they discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the faster the dance was.()3 .the number of waggin

6、g dances per minute told the direction to the feeding place.()4 .then professor von frisch did his third experiment, which was to discover whether the wagging dance showed direction.()5 .he found that the straight part of the dance was the same in the morning from what it had been in the afternoon.(

7、)6 .if the feeding place was toward the sun, the dance headed straight onward during the straight part of the wagging dance.()7.the experiment of professor karl von frisch tells us that bees can and do communicate with each other by their dances, which may be called a kind ofa language第4页共9页今泰学院推荐文档

8、suggested answers: ffftfftstep4.post-readingfinish all the ex. on p122step5.further readingtask 3: read the passage once again and try to divide the text into some big parts. and make a summary of each part:part 1: (para1) some basic knowledge about bees.part 2: (paras 2-8 ) professor von frisch 

9、9; sexperiment.part 3: (the last para ) the late life of professorvon frisch.step6.homeworkfinish all the exercises on language practice on p123-124.period 2.integrating reading skillsprimates (p124-125)step 1.revision第5页共9页今泰学院推荐文档1 .check the ss how further they understand the text.2 .check the ho

10、mework.review the model verbsstep 2.scan the passage and complete the chart below:types characteristics and examplesprimate 1.hands and feet can grasp and often have opposable thumbs and toes;3 .have a better sense of touch and the primate brainis larger.4 ther animals 1.not good at holding, moving,

11、 and using objects;5 .have a weak sense of touch and small brain.higher primates large size of brain, such as human beings and apes.lower primates small size of brain.monkeys have tails, small and walk less upright.apes not tail, larger and walk more upright, use sight more than smell, developed bra

12、in.now world primates bigger and spend more time on the ground, such as monkeys, apes and humansstep 3.careful reading:ask the students to read the passage carefully and第6页共9页今泰学院推荐文档answer questions 2 on page 126.period 3.integratingreading and writing skills6 passages on p 252-254step 1.warmming-u

13、pdo the oral pratice on p119-120, and enable the students to practise debating.step 2.readingtask 1: read the 2 passages and finish the exercises. if possible, guide the students to analyze some long and complex sentences.step 3.guided writinggive ss 20 minutes to finish the writing assignmenton p11

14、7,then ask ss to score their work according to the following chart.7 pluses & 1 wishname title date第7页共9页今泰学院推荐文档note: how to use this chart effectively?ask the student to read his/her deskmate ' s writing carefully, and then find 3 valuable things(structure,passage arrangement, sentence, di

15、ction, etc ) and give 1 suggestion. and then feed the message back. next, ask the ss to correct their work according to the chart.step.analyze some long sentences:deal with some language points and difficult points if necessary. if possible, guide the students to analyze some long and complex senten

16、ces. the following sentences in this unit are very important:among the different kinds of bees, it is the honey-beethat has interested scientists most because of thea language " they use to communicate with each other.in order to tell the bees apart, he painted somebees with little dots of colo

17、ur.第8页共9页今泰学院推荐文档for his lifetime ' s work in studying the communication of animals, including honey-bees, professor karl von frisch was awarded a nobel prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists.they trooped behind the first dancer, copying its movement.after designing more experiments, they were able to clarify the procedure by which bees communicate information that the