Module6 Animal in Danger（Reading and vocabulary）

questions:1. have you ever read or heard of the tibetan antelopes?
2. how much do you know about it?
step2.new words
teacher shows the english definitions of new words and then asks them to guess the chinese meanings of the words.
step3. listening
listen to the tape and answer the questions. books closed.
1.who is jiesang suonandajie?
2.why do the poachers kill the antelope?
3.what have made the things worse since the 1990s?
4.what do you think the future of the antelope will be?
step4. fast reading
i. decide if these sentences are true (t) of false (f).
1.a large number of antelopes have been killed for their meat.
2.the business of antelope wool is illegal but it is easy to be stopped.
3.the chinese government began to take an active part in protecting the antelopes.
4.little progress has been made in protecting the antelopes.
ii. do activity2 on p52.choose the best answer for each question.
step5.careful reading
i.summarize the main idea for each paragraph.(pair work)
ii. find out the difficult sentences and language points by themselves, then put forward any questions if they have and solve them together.
iii. ask students to make sentences and do some translation exercises using the sentences patterns or language points which they just dealt with..
iv. retell the text according to the numbers below.
50,000  $ 5,000  1975   138  2%  3000    1997
step 6. consolidation: fill in the blanks.
there used to be millions of antelopes on the qinghai-tibetan __________. but unfortunately many ________ killed them and skinned them on the spot for their wool, which is the ______ material for a coat. now the government begin to take an active part in _________ the antelopes. many poachers were caught and 300 vehicles _____________. police are getting _______ with the dealers. as a result, the antelope population has slowly begun to grow again.the writer tells us the facts about the ___________ antelope to make us realize the importance of protecting animals.
step7.discussion
discuss in groups to say what we students can do to help the animals.
ask one student from each group to present their ideas.
1. what do you feel after you read the passage?
2. what should we do to protect these animals?
3. would you like to be a volunteer to protect the antelopes if possible?
step8.homework
write a passage
write about one kind of animals in danger.
1. where it lives
2. what the problem is
3. what you or government can do to protect it