Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World教案.pdf
精品教案设计资料Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World 教案Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World垎鏋?I 锛庢暀瀛唴瀹瑰Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World涓鸿瘽棰橈紝浠嬬?Introduction 閮垎閫氳繃鍥涘垯灏忕煭鏂囨弿杩板洓规湰妯潡瀛範鐨勫叴瓒?Reading and Vocabulary 閮垎閫氳繃璇炬枃?Speaking 閮垎鎵缁欑?Function 閮垎閫氳繃鍥涗釜娲诲姩锛岀粌涔犫滃彲鑳解濄佲滀笉?Listening and Vocabulary 閮垎鍏磋叮銆?Grammar 閮垎澶嶄範骞跺綊绾砿 ay have done 鎴杕 ight have done?Writing繘涓姝啛缁冧娇鐢湰妯潡璇嶆眹銆?Pronunciation精品教案设计资料?Everyday Englishack in the news,throw light on something銆?Cultural Corner 澶?Task?Module File?II 锛庢暀瀛噸鐐瑰拰闅剧偣 1.(1)鎺屾彙涓?(2)瀛範鎯呮佸姩璇嶈鐚滄祴鐨勭敤娉曘?(3)瀛範鎻愬彇鏂囩珷鏈夌敤淇伅锛岀寽娴嬭瘝涔夌殑鏂规硶銆?2.(1)?(2)姝 浣跨敤鎯呮?(3)瀛細鍒?III 锛庢暀竴璇炬椂锛欼 ntroduction,Speaking,Writing?eading and Vocabulary,ocabulary and Listening,Pronunciation,Everyday Englishrammar,Functionultural Corner,task,Module File IVPeriod 1 Introduction,Speaking Teaching Goals:1.To arouse Ss鈥?interest in learning about mysterious things.2.To get Ss to learnsome words to describe mysteries of the nature.3.To get Ss to know and describesome mysterious things in nature.Teaching Procedures:Step 1.Introduction Purpose:To arouse Ss鈥?interest in learning about mysteries of the nature.1.Pair work(1)精品教案设计资料Ask Ss to look at the four pictures on page 51 and give some descriptions in theirown words.For your reference:鈶?A large foot which looks like a giant鈥檚.It issimilar to our human being 鈥檚 but much bigger than it.Strangely it has only fourtoes.鈶?A huge monster like a gorilla,but looks taller and stronger than a gorilla.You may find the same creature in the film King Kong.鈶?A kind of animal like ahuge dragon in ancient Chinese legend.It lives in the water.鈶?A terrible creaturewith long grey hair and face.It has long claws instead of hands.(2)Let Ss read thefour paragraphs and match them with the pictures.Suggested Answers:鈶?b 鈶?a鈶?d 鈶?c 2.Individual work Ask Ss to do Activity 2 on page 51 individually.Suggested Answers:(1)creature(2)monster(3)hairy(4)footprint(5)tail(6)dinosaur(7)spirit(8)claw(9)attack Step 2.Speaking Purpose:To enable Ss topractice reporting mysteries of the nature.1.Pair work Ask Ss to suppose they areinterviewed by a journalist to describe something about the monsters they saw.Askthem to do the role-play in pairs.One acts the interviewer and the other acts theinterviewee.Ask them to describe the four creatures in Activity 1 of Introduction oneby one according the information showed in the introduction.Show Ss two examplesto guide them.Example(1):Student A:Where and when you saw the Bigfoot?Student B:I was cutting the firewood in the mountainous forests that evening.About6 o 鈥檆lock,when I wanted to go home,it appeared in the woods 20 yards from me.Student A:What is it like?Student B:It looks like a very large monkey鈥晅 all andhairy with big arms and legs.Student A:Did you feel frightened then?Student B:Yes,very.I thought it would attack me.I was frightened to death.鈥?Example(2)Student A:Can you describe the scene when you met the monster like The Yeti?Student B:yeah.It 鈥檚 about two meters tall and has powerful arms and legs.Itshead is very big and its eyes opened wide.It approached me slowly as if it wanted toattack me.I was very frightened but I didn 鈥檛 dare to cry for help 鈥?Student A:It鈥檚 really exciting and risky.But what happened last?Student B:鈥?2.Individual精品教案设计资料work Ask Ss to say the imaginary creatures and scene in details according thedialogue they made.Then report in individuals.Step 3.Homework 1.Ask Ss to revisethe passages in the Introduction.2.Ask Ss to practise making dialogue to say themonsters.3.Ask Ss to preview Reading and Vocabulary in the module.Period 2Reading and Vocabulary,Writing Teaching Goals:1.To let Ss master how to get usefulinformation from a passage.2.To let Ss master some words and phrases.3.To get Ssto talk something about a monster.4.To help Ss write a story about another monster.Teaching procedures:Step 1.Revision:Purpose:To check whether Ss master whatthey 鈥檝 e learnt in the last period or not.Ask Ss to answer the following questions.(1)What will the Yeti do when it gets angry?(2)What does the Bigfoot look like?(3)Where does the Grey man live?(4)What 鈥檚 the Loch Ness Monster like?Suggested Answers:(1)It will attack anyone who goes close to it.(2)It looks like avery large monkey 锟紺 tall and hairy with big arms and legs.(3)The Grey man liveson mountains in Scotland.(4)It has a small head and a long tail and some peoplebelieve it is a dinosaur.Step 2.Leading-in Purpose:To let Ss have a discussion aboutthe Monster of Lake Tianchi.1.Group work Show four pictures and ask Ss to saysomething about the Lake Tianchi and the monster.2.Group work Let Ss reported their discussions to the class and collect them.Thengive a simple introduction to lead in the reading.For your reference:Lake Tianchi islocated in the north-eastern Jilin province near the border of North Korea,in China.The lake is 1,243 feet deep and has had some volcanic activity in the last 300 years.Tianchi is honoured as the deepest mountain lake and the largest crater lake in China.There have been more than 30 reported sightings by tourists from home and abroadover the past 20 years.They said that they saw the great monster in the lake.Thereare quite a few pictures and videos of this creature,but none is clear enough to givea good appearance of it.Some persons made the picture with computer images of itbased on interviews.Someone drew a picture to show its shape,but it remains精品教案设计资料unconfirmed.Step 3.Reading Purpose:To improve Ss鈥?reading skills.1.SkimmingAsk Ss to read the beginning of the passage and finish Activity 1 on page 52.Suggested Answers:A newspaper.2.Scanning(1)Ask Ss to read the first paragraphquickly and answer the two questions.鈶?According to the text,what did themonster look like?鈶?How many people saw it?Suggested Answers:鈶?Black incolor;jumped like a seal;its head looked like a horse.鈶?About 200(2)Ask Ss toread the second paragraph and answer the questions:鈶?Who else saw the animal?鈶?What were they doing?鈶?What did it look like?Suggested Answers:鈶?Agroup of soldiers 鈶?They were walking along the side of the lake.鈶?It wasgreenish-black and had a round head with 10cm horns.(3)Ask Ss to read the thirdand fourth paragraph and answer the questions.鈶?What did Li Xiaohe see?鈶?Why could they see the animal clearly?鈶?How long was the history of reportsof monsters in Lake Tianchi?鈶?What do many people think?鈶?What do thescientists think?Suggested Answers:鈶?A round black creature moving quicklythrough the water.After 300 or 400 meters it dived into the water.鈶?The weatherwas fine and the lake was calm.鈶?Since the beginning of the last century.鈶?Themonster may be a distant cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland and theremight be similar creatures in other lakes around the world.鈶?The low-temperaturelake is unlikely to be able to support such large living creatures.(4)Ask Ss to read thelast paragraph and give the following information about Lake Tianchi:Height:鈶?Area:鈶?Depth:鈶?Suggested Answers:鈶?2189 m 鈶?10 km2 鈶?370 mdeep in some places 4.Post-reading Ask Ss to do Activity 4 on page 53.Then checktheir answers.Suggested Answers:(1)a(2)a(3)a(4)b(5)c(6)a(7)a(8)c(9)c(10)b Step 4.Language Points Purpose:To let Ss understand the passage well.1.Groupwork Ask Ss to discuss the important and difficult language points in groups.(1)Itoften gets angry and will attack anyone who goes close to it.(Page 51)瀹冪粡甯哥.attack vt&viEg 鈶?A girl精品教案设计资料was attacked and robbed by two strong men.鈶?The enemy attacked during thenight.鈥汇愭嫇灞曘?鈼?attack vt 鎶嚮 attack sb/sth for sth 涓烘煇浜嬫姩鍑绘煇浜?Eg He was attacked for his corruption.鈼?attack n launch/make anattack(on sb/sth)鏀诲嚮鏌愪汉鎴栬呮煇鐗?Eg They launched an attack onracism.(2)He claims to have seen a round black creature moving quickly through thewater.锛圥 age 52 锛?揩閫熸父杩囥?claim vt 瀹 锛屽绉帮紙鍚庡彲璺焧 hat 浠庡彞鎴栧姩璇嶄笉瀹氬紡锛?Eg 鈶?I don 鈥檛 claim to be an expert.鈶?He claimed he shouldbe given a fairer opportunity.鈥汇愭嫇灞曘?claim 鐨勬剰鎬濊繕鏈夛細鈼?vt?Eg Has anyone claimed this watch?鈼?vt 绱禂锛岀储鍙?Eg Did you claim the insurance after your car accident?鈼?vt 娉剰锛屾濊?Eg The matter claims our attention.(3)It is 2,189 metres high and covers an areaof about ten square kilometers.锛圥 age 52 锛?澶睜娴锋嫈 2189 绫筹紝闈鏈?0cover an area of 鎰忎负鈥滃崰鏈夆闂粹?涔熷彲浠彧鐢over 琛姝剰銆?Eg The town covers(an area of)5 square miles.鈥汇愭嫇灞曘?cover 鐨勫叾浠栨剰鎬濊繕鏈夛細 鈼?vt 瑕嗙洊 Eg Themountain is covered with snow all the year round.鈼?vt 鍖呭惈锛屾秹鍙?Eg Thelecture covers many aspects of business.鈼?vt 璧板畬锛堜竴娈佃矾绋嬶級 Eg Ican cover the distance on foot in two hours.鈼?vt 鎶亾 Eg The reporters arecovering the fire for a newspaper.(4)They say that the low-temperature lake isunlikely to be able to support such large living creatures.锛圥 age 52 殑鐢熺墿銆?鈼?be(un)likely to do 鈥?锛堜笉锛夊彲鑳藉仛鈥?Eg You鈥檙 e likely to catch a coldif you go out now.鈥汇愭嫇灞曘?It 鈥檚 likely that 鈥?鏈夊彲鑳解?EgIt 鈥檚 likely that he will be late.=He is likely to be late.2.Individual work Ask Ss tofill the blanks of the summary according to the passage.The 鈥淢 onster 鈥?of LakeTianchi,the highest _(1)_ lake in the world,is _(2)_ after several recent sightings.精品教案设计资料But no one has ever got a clear look at the _(3)_ creature.In one sighting,as is_(4)_ by the director of a local tourist office,it is black and _(5)_ the water like aseal.In another recent sighting,a group of soldiers watched it _(6)_ for about 2minutes.A third report came from a family who _(7)_ to _(8)_ a round blackcreature _(9)_ quickly through the water and then _(10)_the water.Manypeople think the monster may be a _(11)_cousin of the Loch Ness monster inScotland.Scientists,however,are _(12)_,because the low-temperature lake is_(13)_ to be able to _(14)_ such a large _(15)_ creature.Suggested Answers:(1)volcanic(2)back in the news(3)mysterious(4)claimed(5)jumped out of(6)swimming(7)claimed(8)have seen(9)moving(10)diving into(11)distant(12)sceptical(13)unlikely(14)support(15)living Step 5.Writing Purpose:To enable Ss tolearn how to write a passage to say about another monster.1.Group work Ask Ss toread the passage on page 52 and answer the questions in Activity 1 on page 57.Suggested Answers:(1)Several groups of people saw a kind of 鈥?monster 鈥?(2)InLake Tianchi in the Changbai Mountains in Jilin Province(3)It lived in the water,wasblack or greenish-black,and some people said it had a roundhead and body with10-cm horns on the head,while others said it had a horse 鈥檚 head.(4)Theweather or large food supply to the monster.2.Group work Ask Ss to write a passageusing the words and sentences in Activity1.Step 6.Homework 1.Ask Ss to finishReading exercises in the Workbook on pages 99101.2.Ask Ss to prepare for theListening class.Period 3 Vocabulary and Listening,Pronunciation,Everyday EnglishTeaching Goals:1.To enable Ss to know some skills of listening.2.To study somedaily expressions.3.To learn the intonation in exclamations.Teaching procedures:Step 1.Revision Check the answers to the Reading exercises in the Workbook.Step 2.Vocabulary study Purpose:To get Ss to learn some new words.1.Group work Ask Ssto match the words with their definitions.(1)dinosaur(a)A bowl-shaped depressionat the mouth of a volcano or geyser(2)carnivore(b)a large extinct reptile living on精品教案设计资料earth ever.(3)meteorite(c)a stony or metallic mass that has fallen to the earthssurface from outer space(4)mammal(d)the act or process of radiating(5)radiation(e)A flesh-eating animal(6)galaxy(f)a warm-blooded milk-producing animal likehuman being(7)crater(g)A sudden,often violent outburst(8)eruption(h)numerous stars,gas,and dust containing large amount of solar masses SuggestedAnswers:(1)b(2)e 銆(3)c 銆銆(4)f(5)d(6)h(7)a(8)g 2.Individual workLet Ss do Activity 1 on page 55 and check the answers.Suggested Answers:(1)climate(2)extinct(3)disappear(4)survive(5)adapt(6)evolve Step 3.ListeningPurpose:鈼?To get the main information in the listening part;鈼?To develop Ss鈥?listening ability.1.Pre-listening Let Ss do Activity 2 on page 56 to knowsomething about dinosaurs.2.While-listening(1)Ask Ss to listen to the tape andcheck the answers to Activity 2 on page 56 Suggested Answers:鈶?c 鈶?c 鈶?c鈶?a(2)Ask Ss to listen again and fill the missing words in the listening passage Goodafternoon,and welcome to this week 鈥檚 鈶?of Mysteries of Nature.Today鈥檚topic is a 鈶?one-it 鈥檚 鈶?,those strange creatures which 鈶?the earth for noless than two hundred million years,some of them were 鈶?eaters,others were likethe infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex,carnivores who lived off meat and who 鈶?themore peaceful plant 鈶?dinosaurs.Not all dinosaurs were big-some were the鈶?of chickens,and in fact the 鈶?things to dinosaurs living today are actually birds.But the 鈶?we are going to talk about today is why the dinosaurs suddenly _(11)_exactly 66 million year ago,and to _(12)_ light on the subject we鈥檝 e invitedone of the world 鈥檚 foremost _(13)_ on the subject,from the Pitt RiversMuseum in Oxford,Dr Roger Binfield.Suggested Answers:鈶?edition 鈶?big鈶?dinosaurs 鈶?ruled 鈶?plant 鈶?attacked 鈶?eating 鈶?size 鈶?closest鈶?mystery(11)disappeared(12)throw(13)experts(3)Listen to the second partand do Activity 4 and 5 on page 56.Suggested Answers to Activity 4:鈶?A meteoritehit the earth.鈶?They stopped evolving.鈶?They killed each other 鈶?A volcanic精品教案设计资料eruption 鈶?Cancer caused by radiation Suggested Answers to Activity 5:(4)Listento the second part again and do Activity 6 on page 56.Suggested Answers:鈶?F鈶?T 鈶?F 鈶?F鈶?F 鈶?F 鈶?T 3.Post-listening Ask Ss to work in pairs anddiscuss which theory they think is most likely and why.Step 4.Pronunciation鈥?Consonants disappearing Purpose:To enable Ss to know the words whichconsonants disappear.1.Pair work Show the sentences in the Pronunciation Activity1 on the screen and ask Ss to read them out.(1)I 鈥檒 l come straight to the point.(2)The most widely accepted theory.(3)I think it鈥檚 the most likely explanation.2.Individual work Ask Ss to listen to the tape.Let them pay attention to the elides.Givethem the right pronunciation.Suggested Answers:(1)straight to=/(2)mostwidely=/(3)most likely=/3.Pair work Ask Ss to listen to the sentences in Activity2 and repeat the elides.Then ask them to practise more.Suggested Answers:(1)went to=/(2)most fantastic=/(3)didn鈥檛 take=/Step 5.Everyday EnglishAsk Ss to choose the correct answers to Everyday English exercises and try to graspthe meaning of these expressions on page 58.Suggested Answers:(1)a(2)b(3)a(4)a(5)b(6)a(7)b Step 6.Homework 1.Ask Ss to finish Vocabulary exercises in theWorkbook on pages 9899.2.Ask Ss to preview Grammar and Function.Period 4Function,Grammar Teaching Goals:1.To enable Ss to know about the way to expresspossibility and improbability.2.To enable Ss to master the usage of 鈥渕 ay 鈥?鈥渕 ight 鈥?and 鈥渓 ikely 鈥?3.To help Ss learn how to use modal verbs 鈥渕 ay鈥?and 鈥渕 ight 鈥?to express conjecture.Teaching procedures:Step 1.RevisionCheck the answers to the Vocabulary exercises in the Workbook.Step 2.FunctionPurpose:To let Ss know how to talk about possibility and improbability.1.Pair workAsk Ss to do Activity 1 on page 54 and then call back the a
