Book 3 Unit1 Nature in the balance Reading (Period 1) ◆Analyses of the teaching material： 【What】The topic of this part is about the Amazon rainforest. It is a documentary script, which introduces the basic information of the forest, its animal and plant species, biodiversity, its significance to the earth and the dangers it is facing. 【Why】The aim of this part is to lead the students to understand the significance of maintaining the balance of the Earth’s ecosystem, thus making the students raise the awareness of protecting the environment. 【How】The whole structure of the documentary is clear and orderly. This essay is essentially an expository text, which has the main characteristics of this type of text: scientific in content, rigorous in structure, and precise in language. ◆ Analyses of the learners： This lesson is designed for senior one students in high school. They have some basic skills of reading, like finding the topic sentence of each paragraph, and reading for the detailed information. They have some knowledge of environmental protection. But many of them lack knowledge about a documentary script and the Amazon rainforest.They are not able to do well in expressing themselves correctly in English. In addition, their English knowledge framework and learning quality still need to be improved. In this class, I would help them learn more about the Amazon rainforest, think independently and improve themselves through cooperative learning. ◆ Teaching Objectives： By the end of the section, students will be able to : 1. Understand the documentary script and summarize the basic information about the Amazon rainforest； 2. analyze the ways to protect the forest through discussion； 3. write an essay appealing to people to protect forests and the environment based on the discussion; 4. raise the awareness of protecting forests and the environment. ◆ Important teaching points: 1. Students can understand the documentary script and summarize the basic information about the Amazon rainforest； 2. Students can analyze the ways to protect the forest through discussion； 3. Students can write an essay appealing to people to protect forests and the environment based on the discussion. ◆Difficult teaching points: Students can raise the awareness of protecting forests and the environment. ◆ Teaching Procedures： 教学活动与步骤 Teaching procedures 设计意图 Intention 时间&模式 Time and pattern Step I. Lead-in 给学生播放一段森林的自述视频，让学生回答： What happened to the forest 通过视频引入课堂主题，创设话题情境，并训练学生“看”和获取信息的能力。 3’ Class work Individual work Step II. Pre-reading 给学生提供课本第二页插画和文章的标题让学生回答：Look at the title and the picture, what is the passage about 训练学生阅读能力———通过标题和插图猜测语篇内容，并且对文章的内容形成一个大致的概念，为接下来的阅读做准备。 2’ Individual work Class work Step III. While-reading Fast-reading Task 1 让学生快速阅读文章，并找出每段的中心主旨句。 老师给出Tip ... ...
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