Unit 3 Animals are our friends
Lesson 17: Save the Tigers
I. Analysis of teaching material:
This unit is about animals. It aims to give students a greater understanding of
why animals are important and instill the idea that animals should be treated with
care and kindness. Students will learn about different animals in the wild and
explore the dangers that are threatening the existence of certain species. They will
explore ways in which they can help save our animals and develop a vocabulary that
will help them express such ideas.
II.Analysis of students’ background:
The students are the eighth graders, they are interested in stories, more willing
to express their own ideas, thinking more deeply.
III.Teaching objectives:
i. Knowledge objectives:
1. Enable the students to handle these target words: century, courage, brave,
reason, kill, cut, balance, disappear, decrease
2.Help the students handle these key phrases: at the beginning of, drop to, in
balance, in danger, cut down
3.Make sure most of the students master the key phrases: the number of , a
number of ,several hundred, hundreds of
ii.Skill objectives:
Make sure most of the students are able to express their own ideas by using the
phrases that are learned in this lesson.
iii.Moral objectives:
Help the students know the importance of helping keep all the living things in the
world in balance. Lead them to care about animals.
IV.Teaching key points:
Let the students know the differences between “a number of “ & “ the number of” ,”
基数词+ hundred” &” hundreds of”, and then make sure they can use these phrases
correctly.
V.Teaching difficult points:
Have the students get the skill of how to do a reading comprehension by using a
new method FISHBONE.
VI.Teaching approaches:
Task-based Teaching approach, Student-centered approach
VII.Teaching aids:
Multi- media
VIII.Teaching period:
One period
IX.Teaching procedure:
Step 1: Warming- up:
Give the students some English-riddles about the animals to arouse their interest
in learning English. By the way ,lead in the topic word:animals.
Step 2: Lead-in:
Show the students some pictures or videos about animals killing to help them know
what we are going to learn today. Let them know how serious the problem is!
Step 3: Presentation:
1. Show them the new words and teach the new words by using some interesting
pictures or sentences:
century, courage, brave, balance, reason, disappear, kill, cut
2. Ask the students to read the lesson and match each paragraph with its main
idea.
A. Tigers are in danger of going extinct.
B.“Save the Tigers” is a volunteer group that hopes to stop the tigers from disappea
ring.
C. Tigers are important to the environment.
After the students have done the exercise individually, the teacher sho
uld teach them how to do the reading comprehension by the new method
FISHBONE.
Step 4: Practice:
After the scanning, the teacher should point out the two key points
of this lesson: a number of & the number of , …hundred &hundreds of.
Tell them the differences between the two, and give them enough exerci
ses to help them handle these languages points.
After that, the students should be asked to read the lesson again an
d find some sentences to support the main ides of each paragraph. The
students should be trained to master the skills of doing reading compreh
ension. Ask them only one “W” –Why?
Help them find the reason or the sentences to support the main idea.
Save the tigers
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3
Step 5: Production:
When the students finish reading this passage, the teacher should
review the method again, and give them another passage for the student
s to practice. Make sure they’ve handled the “5W+1H” method.
Step 6: Evaluation:
After they all have finished the reading comprehension, the teacher s
hould ask them to talk about our main characters in our passages--anim
als. Ask them to discuss some ways we can do to protect animals. Lead
in the theme: care about the animals, living in a peaceful environment,
no buying, no selling, no killing.
Step 7: Homework:
Do the exercises that assigned by the teacher.
Blackboard Design:
Lesson 17: Save the Tigers
the number of
a number of
…hundred
hundreds of
Teaching reflection: