1. Introduction + Reading Period 2 Grammar + Function Period 3
课时分配 课时
板块结合范例
Period 1
Introduction + Reading
Period 2
Grammar + Function
Period 3
Vocabulary and Listening +
Everyday English+Speaking
Period 4
Reading and Writing ＋
Cultural Corner

2. Period 1
Module 6
Animals in Danger
Introduction
Reading

3. How many kinds of animals do you know? Animals living on land:
Introduction – 1. Brainstorming(3m) Collect the words of the animals in English.
How many kinds of animals do you know?
Animals living on land:
___________________________
Animals flying in the sky:
Animals swimming in water:
____________________________
Let’s see which group can win the game!

4. giant panda Siberian tiger
Introduction – 2. Presentation (2m) Say something about these two animals.
giant panda
Siberian tiger

5. What do the giant panda and Siberian tiger have in common?
Introduction – 3. Reading (5m) Read the passage and find out the answers to the question.(open answers)
What do the giant panda and Siberian tiger have in common?
What can we do to help them in their struggle for survival?

6. 3 conservation 4 endangered 5 struggle 6 reserve 7 extinct 8 survival
Introduction – 4. Vocabulary (3m) (part 2)Match the words in the box with their meanings.
species 2 habitat
3 conservation 4 endangered
5 struggle 6 reserve
7 extinct 8 survival
9 wild wildlife

7. They are killed for body parts or food. People want them for pets.
Introduction – 5. Discussion (5m) Discuss the reasons why some animals are becoming extinct.
Discuss with your partner and put them in the order of importance and explain why.
They are killed for body parts or food.
People want them for pets.
People have moved into their natural habitat.
They are killed by pollution.
They are killed by climate change.

8. What is this species of animal in the picture? Where is it happening?
Reading – 1. Prediction (5m) Look at the picture and guess what the passage is about.
What is this species of animal in the picture?
Where is it happening?
What are these people in the picture?
What is the passage about?

9. C A E B D The reason for the trade. The result of the battle.
Reading – 2. Skimming (6m) Read and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
The reason for the trade.
The result of the battle.
Jiesang Suonandajie died when protecting antelopes.
The present situation and the future of the battle.
The process of the trade.
The battle against the trade.
The illegal trade of wool.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5 C A E B D

10. Paragraph 1
______ a ________cold day , Jiesang Suonandajie found a group of __________ killing the _______________ Tibetan antelope. He asked them to __________ their guns. But the poachers had an ___________-- there were more of them. As a result, Jiesang was shot and killed. He had ____________ to save the Tibetan antelope. On
freezing
poachers
endangered
put down
advantage
given his life

11. Its wool is the most expensive in the world.
Paragraph 2
What was the reason that the number of the antelopes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau had fallen ?
Its wool is the most expensive in the world.
It is soft, light and warm--- the ideal coat for an animal.
For poachers the profits can be huge.

12. Paragraph 3
The poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time, _________________________________________________(只留下那些毛不那么值钱的幼崽。)
The animals _________________________(就地剥皮) and the wool taken to India, where it is made into the shawls.
The business is _______________(非法) and there has a ____________(禁令) on the trade .
________________(在二十世纪九十年代)the shawls _________________(盛行) among rich people.
leaving only the babies,whose wool is not worth so much.
are skinned on the spot
illegal
ban
In the 1990s
came into fashion

13. What did the Chinese government do to protect the antelopes?
Paragraph 4
What did the Chinese government do to protect the antelopes?
They _______________________ in protecting them. They caught the poachers and _________________ the vehicles.
took an active part
confiscated

14. meanwhile----at the same time get tough with the dealers
Paragraph 5
The small group of officials who work in the reserve are helped by volunteers who come from all over the country,and who are ready for the difficult conditions of life at 5,000 metres.
meanwhile----at the same time
get tough with the dealers

15. The key to Ex 2 B A C The key to Ex 4 1. plateau 2. shawl
Reading – 3. Scanning (6m) Read again and do exercise 2 and 4 in the textbook.
The key to Ex 2 B A C
The key to Ex 4
1. plateau shawl
3. profit 4. herd
5. skin 6. ban
7. raid 8. confiscated
9. tough 10. co-operation

16. Fill the proper words in the blanks.
There used to be millions of antelopes on the Qinghai-Tibetan __________. But unfortunately many ________ killed them and skinned them on the spot for their wool, which is the ______ material for a coat. Now the government begin to take an active part in _________ the antelopes. Many poachers were caught and 300 vehicles _____________. Police are getting _______ with the dealers. As a result, the antelope population has slowly begun to grow again.The writer tells us the facts about the ___________ antelope to make us realize the importance of protecting animals
Plateau
poachers
ideal
protecting
confiscated
tough
endangered

17. Reading – 4. Practice (5m) Read and say what the numbers and dates refer to.
50,000
$5,000
1975
138 2%
3,000
5,000 metres
1997

18. The number of antelopes left by the 1990s
The key to the answers
The number of antelopes left by the 1990s
The price of a shawl made from Shatoosh.
The year when the trade ban on “Shatoosh” shawls was started.
The number of “Shatoosh” shawls found in a London shop.
The percentage of the antelope population those shawls represented.
The number of poachers caught in 10 years.
The height of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
The year when the antelope population started to grow again.

19. Reading – 5. Discussion (5m) Discuss the following question.
In your opinion, what should we Chinese people do to save the endangered Tibetan antelope?

20. Homework- Task of this lesson
Try to collect some information about the endangered animals in China and how they are protected, especially the condition of antelopes in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Do Workbook exercise.