8A Unit 4 Wild animals教學設計英文
why did you want to have more time? 5. i watched the animals carefully because i wanted to get enough information for my report. why did you watch the animal carefully? step 4 completing the exercises ‘questions about beijing zoo’tell the students that daniel is asking amy some questions about her visit to beijing zoo, too. ask the students to complete the exercises ‘questions about beijing zoo’. do chain work and check the answers to the questions. step 5 analyzing sentencessay ‘i planned to go to the zoo, too. but i didn’t because it rained heavily.’ write the following sentences on the board. i didn’t go to the zoo because the rain was very heavy.i didn’t go to the zoo because of the heavy rain.get the students to analyze the two sentences and find out he differences between the use of ‘because+ clause’ and ‘because of+ a noun, pronoun or a noun phrase’. step 6 reading out the sample sentencesget the students to read out the sample sentences. then get the student to finish the exercises in part c, page 67. check the answers. step 7 saying the answers in another wayget the students to say the answers in another way using ‘because’. 1. all the people cheered because of the wonderful show. all the people cheered because they enjoyed the wonderful show.2. lots of people knew about the show because of the advertisement on tv. lots of people knew about the show because they watched the advertisement on tv.3. the dolphins were really tired because of the long performance. the dolphins were really tired because they performed for a long time.4. some students couldn’t go to the show because of the exam next week. some students couldn’t go to the show because they would have an exam next week.step 8 doing some more practiceusing ‘because’ or ‘because of’ to complete the following sentences.i didn’t go to the zoo because of the hot weather. many animals live in rainforests because there is lots of food. amy run the other way because she saw a snake. birds can fly very high because of their wings. snakes sleep for a long time in winter because it is cold. i can’t go to the cinema with you because i have a lot of homework to do. the ground is all wet because of the flood.there was a flood because of the heavy rain.there are trees on the road because of the strong wind.the people are so sad because they have lost their farmsstep 9 completing the following passageget the students to complete the following passage. get them back to the topic of the unit and keep thinking about how to help the animals.