Animals in danger教案

t: when we read a passage, we often first find its topic sentence in each paragraph. all of the topic sentences work for the main idea of the passage in a reasonable order to form a nice passage. usually the topic sentence in a paragraph is the first or the last sentence. sometimes, it is in the middle. and rarely, we need to summarize it by ourselves. for example: in this passage, the first three paragraphs’ topic sentences are the first sentences of each paragraph. and in the last paragraph, we can find the topic sentence by reading its main idea and summarize.
find the clues:
 1. the panda is one of the animals most in danger. (an animal in danger.)
 2. pandas live in the forests and mountains of southwest china. (the panda’s home.)
 3. our government is working hard to save pandas. (help for pandas.)
 4. the wwf works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger.
post-reading
ask students to read the passage and try to answer the questions in activity 4 on p75.
sample answers:
1. because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons.
2. bamboo.
3. the government has made a new plan to help pandas. the nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better.
4. because the area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. and pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. the situation is serious.
then ask students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph again and explain some of the grammar points in it.
1. one of …
eg: he is one of my good friends.
   sally is one of the girls who study hard.
2. there be …doing…
eg: there is a boy crying in the corner.
   there are many people playing on the beach.
3. less and less
eg: students have less and less time for playing.
   people have less and less time to relax themselves.
4. need to do sth.
eg: we need to do exercises.
   bob needs to walk home.
go through the passage by yourself and try to digest the passage, then do activity 3 on p75 and then after checking the answer, read the sentences together.
word study
ask students to do activity 5on p75 and then ask them to read the short passage repeatedly.

step iii writing (6: p75)
ask students to read the short passage about panda first and then choose another animal in danger and answer the questions in activity 6 and write a passage about it.