An English Teaching Plan
Teaching Material,“ The Bison on the Plains of America”
The Integrating Skills, Unit 16, Senior BII
Taught by Mr. Zhang Yonglian on Monday, March 27th, 2006
Students from Class1, Senior Grade 2
Teaching Aims:
1.Master the following:
in huge numbers, from---on/ onwards, make agreements with, in turn, resist,
have an effect on…, to have done
2.Train the students’ reading ability
3.Learn more about the Native Americans and the importance of the balance of nature.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability
2.Master some useful phrases
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to help the students understand the passage better.
Teaching Aids:
A tape-recorder, a projector and a computer.
Teaching Procedures:
Step I. Greetings
Step II. Lead-in.
Show several pictures on the screen and get the students to answer some questions
1.What do you think can be found in the plains of America?
2.Who is this? Was their life sad or comfortable?
Step III. Reading.
A. Read the passage quickly and decide if the following sentences true or false. If it is false, please correct it.
1. The first settlers on the plains were farmers.
2. Native Americans willingly gave up land to the settlers.
3. The settlers did not deal honestly with the Native Americans.
4. Settlers ended up with better land than the Native Americans.
5. Later settlers made use of the bison in the same way as the Native Americans
B. Read the passage again and answer some questions
1.Where did the Native Americans come from? How did they make a living?
2. In what ways did European settlers treat the Native Americans unfairly?
3. What kind of animal is the bison?.
4. The bison were very important to Native Americans. Why?
5. What happened later?
6. What made the settlers kill even more bison?
Step IV. Listening
While listening to the passage, put the following sentences in the correct order.
A.So there was not enough bison waste to improve the soil.
B.The plants were getting fewer and fewer.
C.Millions of bison were killed by settlers.
D.The soil became poorer and supported fewer plants.
E.The insects living on the plants died out.
F.The wolves and other animals that lived on birds and prairie dogs would have to starve.
G.G. H.With less insects birds couldn’t get enough food and neither could prairie dogsI.
Step V. Further understanding
1. What was the big change in the wildlife?
2.How was the whole wildlife chain of the plains changed? Please complete the diagram on P48.
3. From this passage, what lessons should we draw?
Step VI. Language points
1, in huge numbers
2, from--- on / onwards
3. make agreements with sb.
4. in turn
5.resist
6. have an effect on…
7. Between 1850 and 1910 the bison population is thought to have fallen from 60 million to just a few hundred.
Step VII. Summary and Homework
In this period, we’ve read the passage about the bison on the plains of America. Because the bison was killed in huge numbers by European settlers, the balance of the whole wildlife was destroyed. And we’ve also learned some important phrases. After class, write a summary of the passage.

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