Teaching plan
Aims: let the students know the current situation of various animals
lead them to think about the reasons why so many animals are in danger
Work out some methods to protect and save these animals
Let them realize that the earth is the home of both human beings and all the creatures on
the earth, so it’s our responsibility to protect our home and our friends.
Step 1 warming up
1.Look at the picture of the earth and ask “ what is it?”
2.“What will come to your mind when you see the earth?” “what are there on the earth.” ( human beings, animals, plants, ocean, …..)
“ Yes, so the earth is the home of all these things and all these things make up the world around us.”
3. “ Unit 10 the world around us In these unit let’s come to know the situation of our world, such as how is it now, what problem it has. Today, let’s first learn something about our friends on the earth---the animals.g
4. Look at the pictures of panda, tiger and antelope, ask “what do they have in common?”
“Yes, they are endangered animals. Endangered animals means animals that are in danger. We know the tiger was the king of forest for thousands of years but now its number has become smaller and smaller. The panda is the most precious animal in our country or even in the world. But there are really only a few pandas in the world, right? And the Tibetan antelope, do you know, where they are living (in Tibet). Its number decreases quickly in recent years. You know decrease? Increase means go up, so decease means go down.
5. Besides these three ones, there are still some other animals that are in danger. Can you think out some of them?” whale, elephant, camel,(especially the wild camels), spotted deer, red-crowned crane, Chinese alligator( it lives along the Yatze river)
6. These are only some of the animals that are in danger. The number of the animals that are in danger is increasing every year. So maybe many of the animals will die out one day. Can you imagine living in the world without any animals? Yes, it’s too terrible. So it is really the very moment we think about the reasons for the animals’ being in danger and the methods we should take in order to protect them. Right? Now discuss these two questions.
1). Why are these animals in danger?
2). What can we do to help endangered animals?
7.Let them discuss in the group of 6 for 5 minutes.
8. Ask them to answer question 1 ( till all the possible answers are mentioned)
make a conclusion . Yes, you mentioned many reasons. Now let’s make a conclusion. The first one is natural disaster, such as flood, forest fire. It will do a lot damage to animals. I think the dinosaur mainly died out because of natural disaster. Do you think so? The second one is the process of urbanization. You know urbanization? Just now we mentioned that in order to develop our country, a lot of forests and farmland have been changed into towns and cities. This is the process of urbanization. So it is….. Thus there are fewer and fewer places for animals to live in. While it is not so easy for animals to adapt themselves to the new environment. So many of them die quickly. Another one is pollution. Pollution destroys the fresh air and fresh water animals need in order to live. The last one is hunting. In ancient times animals are much stronger than human beings but today human beings can use improved science and technology to capture them. So the number of some animals are decreasing very quickly. Do you think that humans have the right to capture animals? No, because animals are equal to us. Then why human hunt animals? ( for the food, for the fur, to the bone, for the horn)
9.So we’ve found out where the problems lie. Then how should we deal with it and what can we do in order to help the endangered animals?
Ask ss to answer ( as many answers as possible) ( we should slow the speed of urbanization, limit the pollution and make some law to forbidden hunting. )
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