Teaching plan for
Module 6 Saving the antelopes

Topic: Reading and vocabulary
Teaching goals:
1). Language knowledge goals:
Mast some key words , phrases and sentences: endanger, antelope, poacher, illegal, confiscate, ideal
give one’s life to, on the spot, come into fashion, raid on, get tough with sb
Although surprised, the poachers had an advantage—there were more of them.
Often working at night, the poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time, leaving only the babies, whose wool is not worth so much.
2). Language skill goals:
To know sth about the endangered antelopes and improve the students’ reading ability.
3).Emotional attitude goals:
Cultivate the students’ awareness of loving animals and the nature as well as protecting the environment. Also encourage the students to take an active part in social practice and exploration. Guide the students to learn how to cooperate with others.
Teaching important points:
1). key sentence patterns: Although surprised(V-ed as adverbial), leaving only the babies(V-ing as adverbial of result)
2). key topics: How to protect animals in danger
Teaching difficult points:
1). Improve the students’ reading ability, simultaneously train the students to capture the key sentence and seize the key information.
2）. Get students to talk about “What I have learnt from this passage” and “How can we protect the animals” through group cooperation.
Teaching methods:
Task-based teaching methods, reading, pair or group work, discussion.
Teaching aids:
A multi-media computer& a tape recorder& a blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step1.Presentation
①. Four students in a group to list the animals they ever knew .Ask them to say sth about the animals' specialty.( have a competition to see which group can list the most words with the limited time)
②. Ask students which animals are in danger, then show some pictures of giant panda, Siberian tiger, ibis, antelope, red wolf
③. Students talk about the reasons why many kinds of wild animals are in danger.(group work)
Step2．New Words
Teacher shows the English definitions of new words and then asks them to guess the Chinese meanings of the words.
Step3. Fast reading
①. Decide if these sentences are true (T) of false (F).
1.A large number of antelopes have been killed for their meat.
2.The business of antelope wool is illegal but it is easy to be stopped.
3Little progress has been made in protecting the antelopes.
②. Do activity2 on P52.Choose the best answer for each question.
Step4.Careful reading
Summarize the main idea for each paragraph.(pair work), then find out the difficult sentences and language points by themselves, then put forward any questions if they have and solve them together.
Step 5. Consolidation: fill in the blanks.
There used to be millions of antelopes on the Qinghai-Tibetan __________. But unfortunately many ________ killed them and skinned them on the spot for their wool, which is the ______ material for a coat. Now the government begin to take an active part in _________ the antelopes. Many poachers were caught and 300 vehicles _____________. Police are getting _______ with the dealers. As a result, the antelope population has slowly begun to grow again.The writer tells us the facts about the ___________ antelope to make us realize the importance of protecting animals.
Step6.Homework
Write a passage about a kind of animals in danger.


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