外研版 (2019)必修 第二册Unit 6 Earth first教学设计

Unit 6 Earth fist

Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 教学设计

This unit focuses on the wildlife protection. Through the unit, the students are easily aware the we have misunderstanding of sharks and they would raise their awareness of shark protection. Only by protecting them can we live in harmony with them.

1. Read quickly to get basic information about the passage; read carefully to understand the content of the passage.
2. Raise the awareness of the wildlife protection. Care about the animals ,the earth. We only have one earth, we should protect our home.
3. Learn how to write an a persuasive letter.

1. Get basic information the shark situation and realize the urgent the situation of the shark protection.

2. Understand how and why people’s attitudes change about sharks.

3. Understand the meaning of some languages points in the context.  Understand the usage of -ing or-ed as the complement.

A song for students before class.    Earth song

Step 1 Leading-in

Show students a video

Two questions for them

   Q1：What’s your feelings after watching the video?

   Q2:  What do you think we should do?

Step 2 Fast reading

Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage

1 To criticize Peter Benchley's misleading description of sharks in his book and advocate

the protection of sharks.

2 To explain people's misunderstanding of sharks and raise awareness of shark protection

3 To inform people about sharks and recommend the film and the book to them

Match each paragraph with its main idea.

Step Ⅱ　Careful reading

Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.

1.The writer described the opening scene of the film Jaws in order to         .

2.Which of the following was led to by the film?

3.The third paragraph mainly tells         .

4.When Peter Benchley saw so many dead sharks，he began to         .

5.How does the writer feel about the future of the sharks?

Fill in the form

Step Ⅲ Cloze test

Fill in the blanks according to the text.

Jaws，1.________(attract) huge audiences and winning many awards，tells the story of a great white shark that attacks and kills swimmers.It misled people to see sharks 2.________ horrible animals，which made more sharks 3.________(kill).

Besides this，because of finning，4.________ number of large sharks around America fell quickly，and soon fell around the world.In 1980，Peter Benchley，the man who wrote the book the film Jaws 5.________ (base) on came across the awful sight 6.________ the sea floor was covered with dead sharks.He admitted that his book was wrong about sharks’ 7.________ (behave) and began to fight to protect sharks. 8.________(fortunate)，more and more people became interested in 9.________ (understand)them and protect them from 10.________ (extinct).

Step IV　Language points

Step V　Homework

1. Read the whole passage fluently.
2. Review the new words and phrases.
3. Do the exercise books.