Period 6

Date: (日期)______月______日    

Class: Class _____ Grade 1  高一_____班

Teaching & learning contents: (教学内容)  Using Language—Reading &Listening

Teaching & learning goals: (教学目标)

1. Read and understand the text and learn the new words and phrases in the text.

2. Practise listening to the Dodo’s story, learn to conclude the main idea and do the listening exercises. 

Main points: (重点) Reading comprehension, new language items and listening.

Difficult Points: (难点) Reading comprehension, new language items and listening.

Class type: (课型) Reading & listening.

Teaching & learning procedures: (教学步骤)

Step 1 Revision

  Task  Revise the grammar items briefly and check the answers to the grammar exercises in WB.

Step 2 Reading

  Task 1 Listen to the tape of the text and try to get a general idea of the text and find out the reasons for the disappearance of dinosaurs in the text.

  Answers: A large rock hit the earth and put too much dust into the air. The earth got too hot to live on.

  Task 2 Learn the new language items in the text.

   1. They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being.                   千百万年前,早在人类产生之前,它们就生活在地球上。

   1) on the earth. 在地球上。在earth, sun, moon等表达世界上独一无二的名词前, 要加the。

2) come into being的意思是“开始存在; 发生”。

eg. We don’t know when the world came into being. 我们不知道这世界是什么时候存在的。

3) long before “早在…之前很久”.

     It will (not) be long before +从句(不久后将会....) 从句用一般现在时或一般过去时, 主句用一般将来时或一般过去将来时。

eg. It will not be long before we know the result of the experiment.   

2. inspect vt. 检查, 视察 

eg. The commander inspected the troops. 司令检阅了部队

3. They learned this from the way the bones were joined together.

他们通过研究骨骼的连接方式得出这个结论。

the way (in which) the bones were joined together

eg. I don’t like the way (in which) you treat her.

      Don’t judge a person by his or her appearance, but look at the way (in which) he or she speaks or acts.

4. incident n. 事件, 事变(突发事件，插曲)  an international incident国际性事件

5. dust n. [u] 灰尘, 尘土, 尘埃  dusty adj.

eg. The room is full of dust.

6. According to a UN report,….

    according to 根据, 据…说

   eg. According to John, the bank closes at 4 p.m.

      Each man will be paid according to his ability.

7. fierce adj. 凶猛的, 好斗的; 激烈的,猛烈的

eg. The house is guarded by a fierce dog.

The competition for jibs is fierce.

Step 3 Listening in TB

  Task 1 Before listening, try to predict in pairs how it might have become extinct.

  Task 2 Go through the listening exercises, listen to the tape once and try to get the main idea, and listen to the tape again to choose the correct answers.

   Answers to the listening exercises:

   Exercise 3:

Number 2 is correct.

Number 1 is wrong. It is not fair to blame the dodo for his disappearance.

Number 3 only explain half the story. The dodo and man did become friends but only because man wanted to kill all the dodos as easily as possible.

Number 4 is wrong because the other animals and birds did not do much to save the dodo. They warned him but did not help him.

   Exercise 4: 1 C  2 B   3 C

Step 3 Listening in WB (if time is enough)

Homework:

1. Do the listening exercises in WB.

   2. Remember the language points in the text.

Blackboard design

Reconsideration of the teaching:(教学反思)

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