Unit13 We’re trying to save the earth! Section A (3a-3b)
Savethe sharks!
一、教学目标：
1.语言知识目标
基本词汇：shark,fin, cruel. harmful, chain, ecosystem, industry, law, scientific,基本词组：beharmful to, at the top(of sth.), throw away
基本句型：Noscientific studies have showed that shark fins are good for health.
Weshould help save the sharks.
2.情感目标:be friendly to nature, call for people not’ Finning’ any more.
3.能力目标：usereading skill（skimming，scanning，carefulreading）toget the main idea.
二、教学重难点：
Howto catch the main idea of the passage and how to call for people toprotect the endangered animals.
三、教学用具：
多媒体，纸
四、教学方法：
Skimming,Scanning, careful reading
五、教学步骤:
Stepone: Warming up
Playa guessing game, let students guess the animals.通过猜谜游戏调动课堂气氛，引出鲨鱼的话题。
Steptwo: Presentation（pre-reading）
Picturetalking：展示鲨鱼图片，告诉学生鲨鱼不会有意攻击人类，提出问题我们人类又
对鲨鱼做了什么呢，这一环节让学生对本文有了背景知识的输入，预测本文内容，同
时为下面的学习作好铺垫。
Stepthree：Skimming(fastreading)
Listento the passage. Find out what the main idea of each paragraph is? Paragraph1 Weshould help save the sharks.
Paragraph2 Anintroduction of shark fin soup.
Sharksare endangered because of people’s killing. Paragraph 3
Stepfour：Carefulreading
1）ReadPara 1. and answer
1.Can you find three words to describe this dish?
2.Where is shark fin soup popular?
2）ReadPara 2. and answer
（播放人类捕杀鲨鱼鳍的视频，让学生通过视频思考没有了鲨鱼鳍会出现哪些问题？）
1.Why is it harmful to the environment?
2.What do the two numbers mean? 70million 90percent 3）ReadPara 3. and answer
1.What are WildAid and the WWF ?
2.Are shark fins good for our health ?
Stepfive：Furtherreading.
（在理解文章的基础上帮助学生掌握重点词组，并能根据相关图片复述文章）1)Readthe article again and try to find the following phrases in groups.
knowabout sth from hearing hearof
removesth from the body cutoff
bebad for beharmful to at the highest part of sth atthe top of make rules people must follow developlaws 2) Retell the passage.
Givesome main words, and then try to retell the passage.
Stepsix：Furtherthinking（拓展提升）
Task1:Canyou design a logo（标志）andtry to give some slogans to protect the sharks? Task2: Can youimagine you are a shark and try to write a letter to people for help?
(通过设计标志、写信等环节帮助学生们意识到保护鲨鱼以及动物的重要性，同时呼吁同学们保护濒临灭绝的动物)
Stepseven：Homework.
此环节要求学生在学习这篇文章的基础上，根据提示内容，自己写一篇关于如何保护
濒临灭绝动物的文章。Tryto write an article to call on people to help save the endangeredanimals.
