Unit 4 Wild Animals

unit 4 wild animals
warm-up activities
1 create an interest in the issue of sharing the limited natural resources. depending on the general interest of the class, choose one of the following situations:
* a group of students are stranded on an island. there is not enough food available for everyone to survive.
* astronauts are stranded in space. they do not have enough oxygen for everyone to survive.
2 make a list of people involved in the situation, a list of the resources available (e.g., food, oxygen, water, etc.) and a list of how long everyone is able to survive. ss have to decide whether they stay alive together sharing what they have or they are going to occupy all the resources for their own survival.
3 ss study the pictures and read the conversation first on their own, then in pairs. ask two more able students to role-play the conversation.
presentation
1 ss complete part a. encourage them to do the task without any pre-teaching of keywords. check answers orally with the whole class.
2 divide ss into pairs and ask them to do the survey in part b1
3 encourage them to discuss in pairs why they like or do not like the animals. ask them to write down their ideas.
language points
look delicious, if  you eat my food, i won’t talk to you., no one, in danger, a report on giant pandas    
homework
1 learn the language points by heart.
2 一課三練 p.43
3 preview the reading part.
 
revision
review key vocabulary according to the general ability of the class. presentation (reading a)
1 on the bb, write the following list of sentences on the bb:
* xi wang is the name of a baby giant panda.
* baby giant panda s are very small when they were born.
* they grow very quickly.
* xi wang has to find her own food when she is 20 months old.
* hunters kill giant pandas and sell their fur.
2 divide the class into three groups and allocate one part  to each group. while students skim the text on their own, ask them to underline the words they do not know. then go through the words students have underlined. ask students to explain briefly how they know that the sentences on the bb are true by identifying and listing key facts in the text.
presentation (reading b& c)
1 ask ss to draw a parallel between the growth of the baby giant panda and a human baby. ask if they know what happens to people while they grow up. write the following words/phrases on the bb.
  adult  old person  teenager  baby   middle-aged person
  young adult   child   toddler