Module 3 The natural elements Unit 4 Forests and land
module 3 the natural elements unit 4 forests and land
teaching plan
topic:牛津英語7a m3u4 forests and land ( p54-55)
period: 2nd period
school: jiu feng experimental school
name: cheng xiaoyan（程曉彥）
teaching aims:
to help the students to consolidate “if” clauses and “must do / mustn’t do”
to develop the students’ abilities in describing pictures, taking notes while listening, and doing reading comprehension
to make the students know about forests and land, and make them realize the importance and necessity of protecting them
teaching steps:
warming-up
singing a song
pre-task preparation
class competition
divide the students into groups and let them do a quiz competition about forests and land accompanied with the background music.
(to elicit the main topic of “forests and land”.
while-task procedure
picture show
show some pictures (forests, trees, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, leaves…) and ask the students to describe them.
listening
get the students to complete a listening task (p54, paragraph 1), take notes while listening and answer the following questions.
q:1.what is a forest?
2.why are forests very important?
3.what do birds do in trees?
4.what animals build homes in the hollows of the trees?
5.what is food for them?
give the students 1 minute to join the five short answers into one paragraph. (invite 1-2 students to say sth. about the paragraph.)
ask and answer
get the students to read the other two paragraphs silently, and do the pair work to ask and answer about the contents of the two paragraphs.
a: what do people use trees for? b:…
a: where do oil and coal come from? b:…
a: what do we use land for? b:…
a: why do many animals die? b:…
a: what must we stop doing? b:…
read aloud the whole text
fill in the blanks
get the students to fill in the blanks with proper words according to the text. (this exercise can be found onp55 of the textbook)
post-task activities
answer the question: if there are no trees, what will happen?