1、1/3 Unit 6 Earth first Understanding ideas 【教学【教学目标目标】 1. 掌握本课的重要词汇与句式； 2. 引导学生理解采访话题的内在逻辑，学习并掌握与话题相关的语言； 3. 引导学生基于课文内容联系生活实际，发表自己的意见和观点。 【教学【教学重难点重难点】 1. 本课重要词汇与句式的灵活运用； 2. 锻炼学生理解采访话题的内在逻辑，学习并掌握与话题相关的语言。 【教学【教学过程过程】 Step 1 Warming up Questions: 1. What do you think the environmental problems are? 2
2、. What are the causes of these problems? 3. What do you think is the most serious environmental problem we face today? What should be done to help solve it? Ask some Ss to share their views about the questions and then teacher presents more information about pollution. Step 2 Before reading Activity
3、 1 Tick the words that you would use to describe sharks. Add any more you can think of. Then compare your choices with the class. And then share what you know about sharks. Step 3 While reading Activity 2 1. Have the Ss read the passage and find out how sharks are described in the film Jaws. (1) Ask
4、 the Ss to go through the passage and then discuss the shark with their partners. (2) Have several Ss share their views in whole class. 2/3 2. Pay attention to the language points during reading. （1）Jaws was a great success, attracting huge audiences and winning many awards. 教师要结合语境帮助学生理解本句中 attract
5、ing 和 winning 的用法 （作伴随状 语） ，区别于本单元所学的语法（现在分词和过去分词作补语） 。 （2）Finning would have an unexpected effect upon Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was based on. Paraphrase: Peter Benchley did not expect that finning would have a great effect on him. He was the author of a book, which t
6、he film Jaws was based on. 教师应引导学生掌握固定搭配 have an effect on/upon sth 的用法。 例如： A rise in temperature will have an effect on sea levels, drought frequency and more. （气温升 高会影响到海平面高度、旱情发生频率及更多方面。 ） （3）In 1980, Benchley was diving when he came across an awful sight. 教师应引导学生注意句中 when 表示 “当 （某事发生） 时” ， 相当于
7、at that/this time. 例如：We were about to go out and play when it started to rain.（我们正要出去 玩，突然下起雨来。 ）The couple had hardly fallen asleep when the doorbell rang loudly.(这对夫妻刚刚入睡，突然门铃声大作。 ） 另外，教师可以拓展讲解 come across 的用法，这个短语在文中意为 to meet, find, or discover someone or something by chance。 例如： I came across
8、this book in a bookshop in my home town.（我在家乡的一家书店里发现了这本书。 ）come across 还有其他的含义，如“ （感觉、想法等）被表达清楚” “给人的印象是” 。例 如：Your words didnt come across.（你讲的话让人听不明白。 ）She came across to me as a pleasant young girl.（她在我印象里是个讨人喜欢的年轻女孩。 ） （4）He came to see people as a danger to sharks, rather than the other way ro
9、und. Paraphrase: He finally started to realize that people are a danger to sharks, rather than the opposite. 教师向学生讲解 come to do sth,相当于 to finally reach a state in which something happens or you do something。 例如： She had come to like the new teacher over the months.（过了几个月，她终于喜欢上了新老师。 ） 3/3 3. Activi
10、ty 3 Have the Ss go through the three purposes as below and then ask them to choose the best one, then check the answer in class. 4. Activity 4 (1) Have the Ss read the passage again and ask them to complete the chart with words and expressions from the passage, then check the answers in whole class
11、. (2) Then encourage Ss to try to retell the passage according to the chart. Step 4 Think and Share 1. How do you think Peter Benchley felt after diving in 1980? 2. What other films or books do you know that feature wild animals? Do they “paint” a good or bad picture of these animals? Say how the an
12、imals are described. Have the Ss discuss the questions in groups, and then get several Ss to answer the questions. Open answer to the second question. Step 5 Homework Review the main idea of the passage and the language points. Its easy to_ with social media tools. Online people can easily make new friends with those share the same interests maintain friendships
