镇远县2006年英语教研交流活动课教案
冀教版八年级英语下册3单元23课
羊场中学：杨 勇

Lesson 23 Famous Zoos
Teaching aims
1 Teaching focal, giraffe Asian be famous for ago before
2 Two skills, Egypt Africa pyramid Italy wedding Siberian
3 Teaching difficulty, ago before
Teaching steps
Step 1 Pre-task
1. Ask the students to answer my some questions about animals.
2. Ask the students to draw some animals on the blackboard.
3.Tell a story, then teach the new words and phrase below.
Step 2 Presentation
Play the tape for the students, get them to answer the questions:
1.What is Egypt famous for?
2. When did China build its first zoo?
After the students answer them, then teach be famous for, before, ago.
Step3. Practice
A. Be famous for
Egypt is famous for its pyramids
China ______ ______ ______ it’s the Great Wall.
_____ _______ ______ _____ its Huang Guo Shu waterfall.
Ask them to make more sentences with be famous for.
B. ago, before
I came to school an hour ago.
I came to school before 8 o’clock.
I went home three days _____.
I went to Beijing _____ Tuesday.
Ask them to make more sentences with ago, before.
Step4 Ask and answer
When did a king in Italy keep many wild animals?
Help them answer: Eight hundred years ago.
What did he give the animals?
Wedding clothes.
When did the new kind of zoo open in Germany?
One hundred years ago.
What is the difference between new cages and old cages?
The new cages had no bars.
Step5 Fascinating fact
Explain
Zoos are the only places that some kinds of animals live in.
What are they?
Asian wild horse and in the zoo most of the world’s Siberian tigers. It is the biggest cat.
Step6 Reading
Listen to the tape and repeat.
Exercises:
用before ,ago，be famous for填空。
Three years_____ he visited Shanghai.
They came to China _______ last year.
Zhen Yuan ______ ______ ______ its Wu Yang River.
G______ has a long neck.(根据首字母填空)
China is in A______.
Step7 Homework.
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