Teaching Plan
Creatures Large and Small
Teaching objectives:
I. Knowledge objectives:
1. Students know more about spiders
2. Students understand some new words or expressions in the reading passage,
like shelters, and elastic.
II. Competent objectives:
1. Students know how to skim to get the general idea of a passage.
2. Students know how to scan to get some specific information of a passage.
3. Students know how to read a play to have to better understanding of the
conversation between two characters.
4. Students know how to make one’s viewpoint more convincing.
III. Emotional objectives:
1. Students become aware of the value of creatures in nature, understand and
protect them.
2. Students become aware of their own value and then have confidence in
themselves.
Teaching Focus:
The teacher should not only help the students know more facts about spiders but
also help the students realize the importance of understanding and protecting different
kinds of creatures on earth.
Difficulty in teaching:
It is not easy to attain the competent and emotional objectives in the process of
teaching in a natural way.
Teaching Aid: Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
I. Introduce the topic and make sure all the students know what a creature is.
II. Show pictures of some common creatures to arouse students’ interest.
(bee, dragonfly, eagle, grasshopper, spider, cat, giraffe, ant)
III. Ask students to answer the following questions by skimming an excerpt from
one play.
1. What is the creature mentioned in the passage?
2. What does the man think of the creature?
3. What’s the woman’s view about it?
IV. Have students express their own views about spiders
What do you know about spiders? Who do you agree with?
1. Are spiders insects?
2. Where can spiders be found?
3. How big is a spider?
4. Do all spiders make webs?
5. What do spiders live on?
V. Ask students to complete the notes below by scanning the excerpt.
1. They are very _____creatures.
2. They are enemies of _______, but friends of _________.
3. During _______in China, _______build ______for them.
4. In _______, the spiders eat insects that attack farmers’ ________.
5. They make webs with silk which is _______, _______and _______.
6. Their poison is useful---it might be used to treat _________disorders in
humans.
VI. Ask students to listen to the passage and then fill in the blanks.
Spiders are not _______ or pests but useful ________.
For years, Chinese farmers have known that spiders are the enemies of insects and the
friends of humans, so the farmers build _______ for them and put them all over their
_______. This way, spiders can eat the ___________ insects attacking the farmers’
crops.
The ______ of spiders is also useful. Scientists want to use a similar _______ in
__________, artificial __________, and bulletproof vests.
Spiders’ bites may be ___________ to insects. However, the ________ can be
_______ to people. For example, it can be used to ________ some brain disorders in
humans.
People should try to understand things in ________, like spiders, and not _________
them.
Teacher’s conclusion:
1. A creature, whether large or small, stands for a state of nature that has its own
value.
2. Since we human beings are also creatures, we should remember that we each
stand for a state of nature that has its own value, so we should have confidence in
ourselves.
VII. Read and think
1. Was Betty interested in Winston’s talk about spiders? Why do you think so?
No, she wasn’t.
She said she didn’t really want to hear about it.
She sighed when she said Winston would tell her anyway.
She looked bored when she said that the natural method of pest control was
interesting.
2. What did Betty mean by saying “That’s good news for you”? Was she serious?
She implied that Winston had brain disorders because he tried to force his views on
her. She was just joking.
Tips on how to read a play: we should pay attention to not only the names before
their lines of dialogue but also the stage directions, which are usually written in
italics within brackets.
3. Was Betty persuaded by Winston to accept his viewpoint?
Yes, because at the end of the conversation, Betty said that she got his point and
that everyone should understand things in nature and not destroy them.
What can we learn from Winston to make our viewpoints more convincing?
We should use facts to support our viewpoints.
VIII. Homework.
1. read the excerpt at least three times
2. Work in pairs and act out the play.
3. After Winston tells his wife about spiders, she begins to change her attitude to
spiders and show interest in them. She then collects more information about
spiders from books and the Internet. Finally she writes a report on them.
Could you help her finish the report?
The following questions may help you.
Where do spiders live?
What are they like?
What do they eat?
What is the relationship between spiders and human beings?
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