Part 1 Teaching Design
第一部分 教学设计
Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading
(HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE)
Introduction
In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to talk about wildlife preservation. Then they will be helped to read a narration about a girl called Daisy learning to help wildlife. Three “Warming Up” designs are presented in this book for teachers’ reference. Computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning.
Objectives
To help students learn express intentions and purposes
To help students learn express apologies
To help students learn read a narrative passage about wildlife protection
To help students better understand animals
To help students learn use some important words and expressions
To help students identify examples of “The Present Perfect Passive Voice” in the text
Focus
Words
hunt, affect, appreciate, succeed, employ, harm, bite, inspect
Expressions
die out, in peace, in danger of, in relief, burst into laughter, protect…from, pay attention to, come into being, according to, so that
Patterns
Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you.
Flying carpet, please show me a place where there’s some wildlife protection.
But I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.
A monkey watched them as it rubbed itself.
Aids
Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams
Procedures
Procedures
1．Warming up
（1）Warming up by learning about wildlife
Wildlife is all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other living things. Domesticated wildlife are plants, animals, and other living things that have been removed from nature and raised in an environment that is more or less controlled. Domestication, act of taming, or controlling, wild plant and animal species and producing them for human benefit, is performed often and has an impact on the environment, both positive and negative.
Wildlife is a very general term for life in ecosystems. Deserts, rainforests, plains, and other areas—including the most built-up urban sites—all have distinct forms of wildlife.
Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways; besides the obvious difference in vocabulary, there are differing expectations in the legal, social, and moral sense. This has been a reason for debate throughout recorded history. Religions have often declared certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the environment has provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment. Literature has also made use of the traditional human separation from wildlife.
⑵ Warming up by talking about key threats to wildlife
Many animals are threatened by human actions. But what are the key threats to them?
Key Threats to Wildlife
1. Habitat Loss — Because our population is growing and our cities are sprawling into the countryside, fewer natural wildlife habitat areas are left each year.
2. Climate Change — Because many types of plants and animals have specific habitat requirements, climate change could cause disastrous losses of wildlife species in China.
3. Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals — Pesticides are deliberately spread to make the environment toxic to certain plants, insects or rodents, so it shouldn't be surprising that other plants and wildlife are often harmed at the same time.
4. Non-native Species — Over the past 150 years, many non-native plants, molluscs, insects, fish, birds, mammals, and diseases have found their way to China.
5. Mismanagement — Some native wildlife can become a problem when released from their natural population controls.
⑶ Warming up by learning about the giant panda
Look at the photos below and listen to me telling you about the animals, the endangered animals.
The giant panda is a mammal now usually classified in the bear family, Ursidae, that is native to central China.
The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions, like Sichuan and Tibet. The Giant Panda is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a conservation organization. Toward the latter half of the 20th century, the panda also became somewhat of a national emblem for China, and is now used in Chinese gold coins.
Giant Pandas are an endangered species, threatened by continued loss of habitat and by a very low birthrate, both in the wild and in captivity. About 1,600 are believed to survive in the wild.
2. Pre-reading by talking about wildlife preservation
In some countries, protected areas, wildlife preserves or national parks have been set up to protect wildlife and their natural habitat. The most prominent of these are listed as World Heritage Sites or Biosphere Reserves by the UNESCO. The establishment of parks has been motivated by a mixture of environmentalism, tourism, and other factors. Some of these parks merely prevent development of the land, while still allowing limited hunting and fishing as a population control measure. Others forbid hunting or fishing and some may also limit the number or type of tourist excursions. Wildlife crossings have been installed at some roads to reverse habitat fragmentation
Reading to the recording
Now turn to page 26, listening and reading to the recording of the text. Try to keep pace with the native reader, making your reading resemble that of the reader, in speed, in intonation and in pronunciation.
Reading to complete the chart
Now you are to read the text for information to fill in the form.
What did Daisy see where she was?
In Tibet in China
Zimbabwe
In thick rain forest
An antelope looking sad
An happy elephant
An attacked monkey
Reading and underlining
Next you are to read the text and underline all the collocations at the same time.
Expressions from HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE
find…by one’s side, a flying chair, get dressed, fly away to…, turn around, with a sad face, use…to make…, kill…for…, take…from under…, take one’s picture, become endangered, destroy the farm, take photos, apply to, hunt…for…, make money for…, as a result, in thick rain forest, protect…from…, rub…over…, a powerful drug, pay attention to…, take…home
6. Arriving at a summary of the main idea for each paragraph and each part
Type of writing and summary of the idea
HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE
Type of writing
This is a piece of narrative writing.
Main idea of the passage
Daisy went by flying carpet to Tibet, Zimbabwe and a certain thick rainforest to visit endangered animals.
Idea of 1st paragraph
Daisy arrived in Tibet to see a sad antelope to learn that antelopes are an endangered species.
Idea of 2nd paragraph
Daisy came to Zimbabwe to see an excited elephant and learned that his family was being protected by man.
Idea of 3rd paragraph
Daisy flew to a thick rainforest to find a monkey, learning that no rainforest, no animals, no drugs.
Idea of 4th paragraph
Daisy returned home learning so much about wildlife.
7. Doing exercises
Fill in the blank with one word to complete the summary of the text.
10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife
1. Respect 1 _____ life.
2. Think of animals 2 _____ individuals.
3. Dare to admire 3 _____ humans aren't the only thinking, feeling beings on the planet.
4. Get to know 4 _____.
5. Be willing to 5 _____ from animals.
6. Speak up for 6 _____ you believe.
7. Use less paper, gas 7 _____ red meat.
8. Be inspired by 8 _____ work of others.
9. Join roots 9 _____ shoots.
10. Have 10 _____.
（Keys: 1 all 2 as 3 that 4 animals 5 learn 6 what 7 and 8 the 9 and 10 hope）
Work out the word and structure questions.
1. Always keep dogs and cats _____ control.
A: in B: with C: under D: by
2. Before you cut down trees and shrubs, _____ very carefully for nesting birds.
A: check B: wait C: pay D: look
3. Many birds depend on _____ in and around our backyards.
A: animals B: wildlife C: people D: insects
4. You can _____ supplying a nest box for birds to use.
A: make B: do C: try D: work
Animals are becoming _____ in many parts of the world.
A: endanger B: endangering C: endangers D: endangered
(Keys: CA DC D)
8. Closing up by matching animals to five risk categories
Different endangered species appear on different endangered species lists. And people who are trying to protecting animal use the following five risk categories (危难范畴五种) to group the unlucky animal.
Now in groups of four try to group all the unlucky animals found in China. You may do it in Chinese.
List of unlucky animals found in China
中国不幸动物分类名录
EXTINCT(灭绝动物)-A species formerly indigenous to Canada that no longer exists anywhere.
EXTIRPATED（根绝动物）-A species no longer existing in the wild in Canada but occurring elsewhere.
ENDANGERED（濒危动物）-A species threatened with imminent extinction or extirpation throughout all or a significant portion of its Canadian range.
THREATENED（危急动物）-A species likely to become endangered in Canada if the factors affecting its vulnerability are not reversed.
VULNERABLE（弱势动物）-A species particularly at risk because of low or declining numbers, small range or for some other reason, but not a threatened species.
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