【精品】高中英语(人教大纲)第三册：Unit22-Zoology(第四课时).doc

The Fourth PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Do some reading and writing to improve the students’ integrating skills.2.Practise writing an argumentative essay.Teaching Important Points:1.Helps students to understand the reading material better.2.Train students to write an argumentative essay.Teaching Difficult Point:How to improve the students’ integrating skills.Teaching Methods:1.Fast reading to go through the reading material.2.Question-and-answer activity to help students understand the text better.3.Individual work and group work to finish the writing task.Teaching Aids:1.a computer for multimedia use2.a coursewareTeaching Procedures:Step Ⅰ GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Ⅱ Preparation for ReadingT:Today we are going to read a passage about primates.Before you read the text,I’d like to show you a picture and a news report.Please 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 chimpanzee she adopted from Budapest’s zoo.Goodall began her pioneering study of Chimpanzees more than 40 years ago in Tanzania.T:Can you say something about the picture?S1: I think some kinds of animals are very loyal to their ownes,for example dogs,horses and so on.I think that animals also have feelings.If you treat them well,they will give reward to you.T:Well done!Now I’ll ask you some questions.The first one:What group do chimpanzees belong to?How about human beings?S2:Chimpanzees as well as human beings belong to primates.T:Quite right.Can you give other examples of primates?S3:As far as I know,apes such as gibbons,gorillas,orangutans belong to primates.Monkeys 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?Now let’s read the passage to find the answers to these questions.Please 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:OK.Do you have anything that you don’t understand?(Teacher asks students to tell the difficult points.Meanwhile,teacher lists them on the blackboard:Phrases:belong to,depend on,be similar to,make sense,adapt toSentence Patterns:1.Compared to/with...,Sub.+v.+...2....,except that-clause3.be of+n.)T:Now look at the screen.I’ll explain these phrases and sentence patterns for you.1.The expensive car belongs to(=be the property of) Mr Black.2.How much is produced depends on(=be decided by sth.;follow from sth.) how hard we work.3.Gold is similar(=be alike to) in colour to brass.4.What you say makes no sense(=have an understandable meaning)5.She adapted(herself) quickly to(=become suited to new conditions,etc.) the new climate.6.Compared to many women,she is fortunate indeed.7.She remembered nothing about him except that his hair was black.8.The meeting is of great importance to us all.The two brothers are of the same size.T:Please pay attention to the sixth sentence.In this sentence,“compared to many women〞 is past participle used as adverbial.In the seventh sentence,the preposition “except〞 is followed by “that-clause〞.“Be of+n.〞 is a sentence structure used to express the features of something,such as size,height,color,and so on.Step Ⅳ ConsolidationT:Now we have finished reading the text and have known a lot about primates.Next,let’s do some exercise to see if we have understood the text well.First,look at Exercise 1.You 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 holding,moving and using objects;having a good sense of touch;brain is larger compared to body sizeother animalstigers,lions,dogs,cats...poor at holding and using objects;have a good sense of touch;brain is smaller compared to body sizehigher primateshuman beings;apes...live in groups,use facial expressions,body language and sound to communicatelower primatesmonkeyslive in groups,communicate 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,less developed brainapesgreat apes (gorillas,chimpanzees,humans) lesser apeshave no tail,larger,walk more upright,use sight more than smell,more developed brain,have fewer youngnew wold primatessmall monkeys;(spider monkeys;night monkeys)smaller,spend less time on the groundold world primatesmonkeys,apes,humansbigger,spend。