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　　8A Unit 5 Birdwatchers
　　Content: Reading (2)
　　Period：10－3
　　Teaching aims and demands:
　　1. To get more detailed information about Zhalong Nature Reserve.
　　2. To analyze the sentences for the students to get a better understanding.
　　3. To mare the students know the importance of wetlands and nature reserves  
　　Key points:
　　To get more detailed information about Zhalong Nature Reserve.
　　Difficult points:
　　To analyze the sentences for the students to get a better understanding.
　　Teaching aids:
　　recorder and pictures
　　Teaching methods:
　　Scanning and predicting
　　Teaching procedures:
　　Step 1 Presentation
　　A. Revision
　　Answer some questions about the text.
　　1.Where is Zhalong?
　　2.Where is Heilongjiang?
　　3.Is Zhalong Nature Reserve a good place for wildlife? Why?
　　4.Are there many red-crowned cranes in the world? Why?
　　5.Why are more and more birds in danger?
　　Translate some useful expressions:
　　a nature reserve                               in north-east China
　　One of the world’s most important wetlands     provide…for    etc.
　　B.Language points.
　　1.provide…for…   为…提供
　　The dining-room provides food for students every day.                                                  
　　2.endangered: in a dangerous state.
　　Giant pandas are endangered animals.
　　3.tourist:visitor
　　There are many foreign tourists visiting the World Park in Beijing
　　every year.
　　4.stay    n.    v.
　　He learned a lot during her stay in Japan.  Please stay here till I come back.
　　5.change   n.      v.
　　Why did you make a change to the plan?    Shall we change seats?
　　6.count   n. v.
　　Our school does a student count every term.  
　　Let’s help him count the books.
　　用 important, importance 填空
　　It’s ___________ to learn English well.
　　Do you know the ___________ of learning English?
　　Step II. Practice
　　1.Read the whole passage .
　　2.Part B1(Check the answers with the students )
　　3.Match the first parts of the sentences at the top with the second parts at the bottom( Check the answers to Part C2 and then practice reading)
　　4.Get the students to read the passage again. Say ‘ Now you know Zhalong well. Let’s see if you can do this.’
　　If you are a tour guide, how do you introduce Zhalong to the tourists?
　　a nature reserve / important wetlands / provides food and shelter / many birds ----all year round / some birds--- for a short stay / living area for red-crowned cranes
　　Step III. Production
　　1. Talt Birdwatching Club
　　Say ‘ if you are a member of the birdwatching club, can you tell us something about your club?’ Get the students to talt the things Birdwatchibg Club does / is going to do.
　　Studying
　　Do a bird count
　　Need more people to help
　　Hope the information will help people
　　2.  Get the students to read the whole passage together loudly again.
　　3.  Complete the short passage about Zhalong.（见练习）
　　Homework.
　　1. Finish the relative exercises.
　　2. Write a report about Zhalong to attract more people to protect wildlife.
　　3. Preview the new words in Vocabulary
　　4. Preview using prefixes to form adjectives with opposite. 复备栏目