高中英語(yǔ)人教大綱第三冊(cè)Unit14Zoology(第四課時(shí))

1、The Fourth PeriodTeaching Aims：some reading and writing to improve the students' integrating skills.writing an argumentative essay.Teaching Important Points：students to understand the reading material better.students to write an argumentative essay.Teaching Difficult Point:How to improve the stu

2、dentsintegrating skills.Teaching Methods:reading to go through the reading material.activity to help students understand the text better.work and group work to finish the writing task.Teaching Aids:computer for multimedia use coursewareTeaching Procedures:Step I GreetingsGreet the whole class as usu

3、al.Step II Preparation for ReadingT:loday we are going to read a passage about you read the textld like to show you a picture and a news look at the screen.(Teacher uses multimedia to show the following on the screen.)Britain s well-known primatologist Jane Goodall receives a kiss from Pola,a young

4、chimpanzee she adopted from Budapest's began her pioneering study of Chimpanzees more than 40 years ago in Tanzania.T:Can you say something about the picture?Si： I think some kinds of animals are very loyal to their ownes.for example dogs,horses and so think that animals also have you treat them

5、 well.they will give reward to you.T:Wcll done!Now Til ask you some first one:What group do chimpanzees belong to?How about human beings?S2：Chimpanzces as well as human beings belong to primates.T:Quite you give other examples of primates?S3：As far as I know.apes such as gibbons,gorillas.orangutans

6、belong to such as spider monkeys,baboons also belong to primates.T:Please look at some pictures on the screen.(Teacher shows the following pictures on the screen.)T:Do you want to know the differences between apes and monkeys?Do you know what kind of animal is the closest relative of human beings?No

7、w let* s read the passage to find the answers to these read the passage quickly to get the general idea.Step III Reading(Teacher gives students some time to read through the passage.) T:Have you finished?Ss:Yes.T: you have anything that you don't understand?(Teacher asks students to tell the dif

8、ficult Reacher lists them on the blackboard:Phrases:belong to.depend on,be similar to.make sense.adapt toSentence Patterns:to/with ,Sub.+v.十,.2.,except that-clause of+n.)T:Now look at the 'll explain these phrases and sentence patterns for you.expensive car belongs to(=bc the property of) Mr Bla

9、ck.much is produced depends on(=be decided by sth.;follow from sth.) how hard we work.is similar(=bc alike to) in colour to brass.you say makes no sense(=have an understandable meaning)adapted (herself) quickly to(=become suited to new conditionsxtc.) the new climate.to many women,she is fortunate i

10、ndeed.remembered nothing about him except that his hair was black.meeting is of great importance to us two brothers are of the same size.T:Please pay attention to the sixth this senteiice/ compared to many women'、is past participle used as die seventh sentenceJhe preposition "except” is fol

11、lowed by that-clause/'Be ofrn/' is a sentence structure used to express the features of something,such as size,height,color.and so on.Step IV ConsolidationT:Now we have finished reading the text and have known a lot about Jet s do some exercise to see if we have understood the text ,look at

12、Exercise can use the information in the text to give examples and characteristics for each type of animals.(Teacher gives students a few minutes to prepare and then fills in the form on the screen.)animalsexamplescharacteristicsprimateshuman beings.apes.monkeys.good at holdingjnoving and using objec

13、tsihaving a good sense of touch :brain is largercompared to body sizeother animalstigersjions,dogs,cats.poor at holding and using objects;have a good sense of touch ;brain is smaller compared to body sizehigher primateshuman beingsiapes.live in groups.use facial expressions.body language and sound t

14、o communicatelower primatesmonkeyslive in groupsxommunicate with each other in many ways(the same as higher primates)monkeysspider monkeys; night monkeyshave tails,smaller in size,walk less upright.use smell more than sight jess developed brainapesgreatapes(gorillas,chimpanzees.humans) lesser apesha

15、ve no tailjargenwalk more upright.use sight more than smelLmoredevelopedbrain.have fewer youngnew wold primatessmallmonkeys;(spidermonkeysinight monkeys)smaller,spend less time on the groundold world primatesmonkeys,apes.humansbigger,spend more time on the ground(Teacher gives some more time for stu

16、dents to prepare Exercise 2 and Exercise teacher asks them to give the answers.)T:Now look at Exercise to answer this question:In what way are the higher primatesjor example chimpanzees,similar to human beings?S4：Higher primatesjor example chimpanzees,are similar to us human beings in many ways:They

17、 use the senses humans have feet and hands that are similar to diet is also similar to isjhey also eat meat and most important is that the genes of human beings and chimpazees are more than 95% ,they both live in groups and can communicate with each other in many ways.T:Vcry good!Now.next questions:

18、How are they different?S5：Human beings are chimpazees but are also different from each other in some ways:Chimpanzees are not so tall as can grasp things with their feet because they still have opposable toes while human beings caif feast on things such as insects and ants.but humans doift do can us

19、e languages to communicate but chimpanzees can' have much more developed brains than chimpanzees.T:You are quite look at Exercise 3 and try to answer this question:Do you think it is possible to teach chimpanzees to use language and do other things that we consider typically human?Why or Why not

20、?Just give your own opinion.S6：I think it is not possible to teach chimpanzees to use language or do other things humans do.because they doift have the same developed brains as humans.S?:I don't think hear that dogs can type out some words on the can give can ride course,all of them need to be t

21、rained in special ways in order to do are as clever as these they are trained properlyj'm sure they can do some of the things humans do.T:I agree with both of ,sonic kinds of animals such as elephants,dolphinsxhimpanzees,dogs are very can learn to do some of the things humans do after being Jhey

22、 can not do all the things humans dojncluding using reason is that chimpanzees don't have the same developed brain as humans.Step V WritingT:After we read the passage about primates,we've gained much knowledge about let's do some look at the can choose one of the topics and write a short

23、 essay in which you state and support your opinion.(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)scientists believe that primates,especially higher primates,should be treated differently from other's your opinion?Do you think that higher primates should be given special rights because they are so

24、close to human beings?of the higher primates,such as chimpanzees and gorillas.are endangered as a result of human activities-either by direct hunting or by the destruction of their can we do to help these endangered species and make sure that we do not cause more harm to them.(Teacher gives students

25、 some time to but are allowed to have a discussion before they begin to write the there is not enough time in classjeacher may tell students to finish it after class.Sample writing:Saving PrimatesIt is reported that nearly half of the primates in the world are facing the danger of dying of them are

26、being hunted for food or other are dying out because their habitat is destroyed as a result of human activities.There are 22 species of primates in our majority of them live in the southwest of species have reduced in people have realized the importance of protecting wild has taken measures to protect example,many laws have been anyone kills primates for food or sells them for nioney.he will be natural parks have been b