人教版英語七年級下冊Unit 5 Section B 2a-2c教案

Lessonplan

Unit5Whydoyoulikepandas?SectionB(2a-2c)

Analysisoftheteachingcontent

ThislessonisfromUnit5ofPEPEnglishGoforit,thesecondsemesterofGrade7.Thislessonisthereadingpartofthisunit.ThetopicofthisunitisAnimalsinazoo.Thereadingmaterialofthislessonisawebsitearticle.ThetitleofthearticleisLet’ssavetheelephants.ItintroducestheelephantsinThailandandtheculturebehindit.Hence,itservesaspracticeanddevelopmentofreadingskills,suchasclassifyingandgroupinginformationandotherreadingstrategies,likeusingkeywordstosearchfortargetinformation.

Analysisofthestudents

ThestudentsofGrade7arefamiliarwithandinterestedinthetopic.Whencomingtothereadingpartofthisunit,thestudentswillhavealreadymasteredthevocabularyrequiredtounderstandthetext.Soitwon’tbeabigchallengeforthemtolearnthislesson.Andmostofthestudentshavethesympathyfortheendangeredanimals,buttheymaystilllackofsomereasoningabilitiesinanalyzingtheproblem.

Teachingobjectives

Figureouttheproblemselephantsfaceandthesolutions.

Usethereadingstrategies:skimmingandscanningtofindthetargetinformation.

Raisetheawarenesstoloveandprotectwildanimals.

Reflectonwhatpeoplefromallwalksoflifecandotohelpprotectwildanimals.

Importantanddifficultpoints

Thestructureofthetextandthelogicwithinandamongparagraphs.

Useeffective

readingstrategies

and

to

process

theinformationforbetterunderstanding.

Cultivatestudents’awarenesstoprotectwildanimals.

Teachingmethod

Task-basedlanguageteaching,studentcenteredandprocessorientedmethods.

Teachingaids

Multi-mediacomputerandhand-madeteachingmaterials.

Teachingprocedures

Step

Activity

Purposeofdesigning

Leading-in

Predictfromthepicture:

Wheredotheseelephantslive?

Freetalkaboutelephants:

Whatdoyouknowaboutelephants?

Predictingfromthepicturehelpsfromstudents’readingexpectation,whichcangetstudentsreadyforthereadingprocess.

Generalreading

Choosethetitleofthetextfromthefouroptionsin20seconds.

Howdidyougetthecorrectanswerinsuchashorttime?

Findthetopicsentenceofeachparagraph.

Seethemainideaofeachparagraph.

Introducethereadingstrategy:

Readthefirstsentenceofeachparagraph.

Topicsentencetellsthemainideaofaparagraph.

ImportanceinThailand

Para1:

Thinkaboutthequestions:

AreelephantsimportantinThailand?

Whichsentencesupportsyouridea?

Theinquiryintoweatherelephantsareimportantisagoodexampleofevidence-basedtask.

Bylookingforevidencestudents’thinkingabilitywillbeimproved.

Theabilitiesofelephants

Para2:

Classifythefactsofelephantsintotwocategories:generalfactsandspecificdetails.

Fillthemissinginformationintheblanks.

Findthesupportingdetailsofthefactsaboutelephants.

Classifyingtheinformationcanhelpstudentshaveaclearideaabouttheinformationinthetext.

Byfillinginblanks,studentscanunderstandwhatisspecialabouttheelephants.

Problems

&solutions

Para3:

Readthetextandanswerthesequestions:

Whatproblemsareelephantsfacing?

Whyaretheyfacingtheseproblems?

Howtosolvetheseproblems?

(thesolutions)

2.Drawamind-mapofthisparagraph.

1.Questionsareprovidedasscaffoldingtohelpstudentsseethelogic:“cause-effect-solution”

2.Themindmapservesasaverygoodtooltohelpstudentsunderstandthelogicintheparagraph.

Further-thinking

Groupdiscussion:

Whatcanwedotoprotectelephants?

Encouragestudentstothinkfromdifferentperspectives:tourists,government...

Toapplywhatthestudentshavelearned

Enhancestudents’abilitytoexpressthemselvesbetter.

Post-reading

Pair-work:

Workinpairs,makeaninterview.

InterviewthestudentsfromThailand,whatquestionsdoyouwanttoaskthem?...

Thispartisdesignedforstudentstogooverwhattheyhavelearned.AndalsoletstudentstoexperiencetheloveandresponsibilityfromtheThailandstudents.

Homework

LevelA:

D