How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife

(Reading II)Sun Xidan

主题 野生动物保护文体 记叙文内容 记叙了 Daisy 在梦中经历的一次奇妙的

飞毯旅行。通过与三种动物的交流，描叙了野生动物的生存惨状、保护措施、栖息地保护三方面内容。

结构 人类关注“自身—自身与动物—整个自然界”问题—解决—改善

语言 生词多；语言中包含的情感

文本解读

结合文本分析和学情分析，本节课着眼于利用浅显的文字，采用推理、比较、总结等阅读技巧，帮助学生理解重点词句，理清文章的结构。通过读后的采访活动和名句欣赏提升对主题的理解。

Teaching methods

①situational methods②communicative approach③task-based methods

①Schema theory （ mainly)②Input and output theory

The theoretical Basis :

Learning aims1 Students will understand the meaning of the two

words (certain, appreciate).Students will master the following words and

expressions, and then use them in the out-put activity.(interview) ：

endangered, hunt, mercy, affect, decrease, rub, contain, pay attention to, as a result, in peace, no…no…

2 Students will practice reading skills (inferring, comparing, summarizing) by analyzing the structure of the passage, and summarizing what Daisy learned in her magic trip.

3 Students will have a better understanding of wildlife protection and the role people play in it by analyzing the passage and conducting an interview.

Step I Review

Step II Reading

Step III Summary

Step IV Interview

Step V Appreciation

Step VI Homework

Teaching design

Step I review

Daisy, who longed to help wildlife, had a magical trip with the help of a carpet.

She met an in Tibet, an in Zimbabawe, and a in a rainforest.

endangered

flying

antelope elephantmonkey

Aim: remind the students of the text, and lead students to reread the passage.

How does the antelope feel?Sad, lonely

Step II rereading

Para 1. Antelope

• We’re being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you.

• As a result, it became an species.

• People are only concerned about .themselves

endangered

Conclusion:

Why does it feel so?

Aim: reread the text, understand the situation, draw the conclusion， practice using target words

How does the elephant feel?happy

• People begin to .

Para 2 elephant

What happened to elephants in the past?

protect wildlife

1. sure 2. someThey allowed tourists to hunt only a

certain number of animals if they paid the farmers.

• People are concerned about not only but also .

human race

Why does it feel so ?Our number are increasing.

People hunted us without mercy.

(some)

Conclusion:

(not decreasing)

wildlife

Aim: reread the text, draw the conclusion, compare the situations , practice using target words

How does monkey feel in a rainforest?

You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together.

It is unhappy and unsatisfied

1 to thank someone2 to understand sth(to understand sth)

Para 3&4 monkey

habitat.

mosquito millipede insect monkey

rub

contain a powerful drug

affect

The monkey get from the millipede insect.

Can Daisy produce the new drug without animals?

No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.

Aim: reread the text, draw the conclusion, practice using target words

People should be concerned about

and learn to live with animals and .

wildlife’s habitat in peace

Conclusion:

nature

What did she learn?

Step III Summary

(animals ,people, protection)

Step IV An interview

• Several years later, Daisy

works as a reporter for

WWF. She meets the antelope again. She is making an interview.

• (1) What was your past life?• (2) What is the present life?• (3) What does the government do for you?• (4) How do people who live in Tibet get along

with you?Aim: go over the text practice the target words

After the interview, Daisy understands the words from Jane Goodall, who is famous for her study on wildlife.

Only if we understand can we care.Only if we care will we help.Only if we help shall all be saved. Only if : 只有

Aim: encourage students make emphasis

Homework: writing

Make the oral interview into a passage

Aim: make a consolidation

Step III Summary and commentsDaisy longed to help species of wildlife.

One day she started a magical trip by using a carpet.

The first animal she met is an antelope. The antelope . People .

Then Daisy was taken to a place where there’s some wildlife protection. She met an elephant . It used to be . But people began to .

The last animal she met is a monkey. It suggested that .

Daisy learned that people make animals . It is important to and know how to them. Further more the best way to protect them is .

• In a word, in protecting wildlife, who plays the most important role?

endangered

flying

endangered/ in danger

in dangerprotect protect

to live in peace with them

1. What is a wildlife protection about?

W__ plants and animals need food, a good environmentand safety. If their habitat is threatened or they cannot find enough good, their numbers may d______. As a result, these e__________ animals may even d__ __ .They need help. This is what wildlife protection is allabout.

Wild

decreaseendangered die out

How Daisy learn to help wildlife

( )Daisy found that a better way to protect wildlife is to protect the place where they live, and live in harmony ( 和谐 ) with wildlife.

( )Daisy faced the problem that people hunted animals without kindness for their own purpose.

( )Daisy found that people began to protect wildlife and did something for them.

( )Daisy longed to help the animals which are in danger of disappearing.

( )Daisy felt confident to help wildlife.

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How did Daisy(and we) learn to help wildlife?

( )Daisy found that a better way to protect wildlife is to protect the place where they live, and live in harmony ( 和谐 ) with wildlife.

( )Daisy faced the problem that people hunted animals without kindness for their own purpose.

( )Daisy found that people began to protect wildlife and did something for them.

( )Daisy longed to help the animals which are in danger of disappearing.

( )Daisy felt confident to help wildlife.

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mercy

peace

endangered animals

habitat