Unit 5 Saving animals in danger Focusing on culture教学设计——2025-2026学年八年级下册《英语》沪教版(2024)

Unit 5 Saving animals in danger：Focusing on culture 教学设计 教学内容 Focusing on culture (pp. 78–79) 主要语篇 The story of the red-crowned crane 教学目标 通过本课的学习，学生能够： 1. 了解保护动物的真实故事，理解重点词汇的意义。 2. 了解故事体裁，分析人物品质。 3. 了解丹顶鹤的生态价值与文化象征，理解野生动物保护的意义及其现实困境。 4. 理解人与自然、人与动物和谐共生的关系，树立保护濒危动物的意识，深化社会责任感。 教学重点 了解保护动物的真实故事，分析人物品质。 教学难点 了解丹顶鹤的生态价值与文化象征，理解野生动物保护的的意义及现实困境。 【教学过程】 Step 1 读前活动 知识测验（Quiz）：教师呈现丹顶鹤的图片，提问“What animal is it What do you know about it ”接着，引导学生完成课本第81页关于丹顶鹤的知识测验，激活背景知识，激发阅读兴趣。教师可以先不与学生核对答案，待学生阅读文章后，再次浏览问题，补充对丹顶鹤基本信息的了解。 阅读语篇前，教师播放《丹顶鹤的故事》歌曲片段，并利用下列问题链向学生提问。 (1) What is the name of the song (The Story of the Red-Crowned Crane.) (2) What is the song about (A girl and a red-crowned crane.) (3) Why would a song about cranes make people cry (4) What do you think happened to the girl in the song Step 2 读中活动：了解故事情节，梳理文章脉络 指导学生阅略读文章并思考文章的写作顺序，要求学生在文中圈出表示时间的词。 指导学生细读文章，完成课本第79页活动2的表格，并在黑板上绘制故事时间轴，厘清徐秀娟一生中几个重要的时间节点和重要事件。 引导学生再次阅读文章，完成活动3的词汇练习。若学生程度一般，可引导学生思考以下问题，帮助学生理解5个重点词汇的意义。 (1) What are red-crowned cranes like Where did Xiujuan work How did Xiujuan feel when two birds went missing Why did Xiujuan decide to look for the birds in the wetlands What happened to Xiujuan at the age of 23 引导学生思考本板块的引导性问题“How do people protect animals in danger ”，在文中寻找人们保护濒危动物的动作。 People What they did Xiujuan’s father looked after red-crowned cranes at a local nature reserve in Zhalong Xu Xiujuan helped her father with his work hatched eggs took three red-crowned cranes eggs to Yancheng cared for cranes and looked after swans and other bird species stayed with sick birds day and night until it was strong enough to fly searched for the two missing swans for two days and nights and died at the age of 23 Workers in the nature reserve looked everywhere for the two missing swans Step 3 读后活动：分析人物品质，深化社会责任感 复述故事：学生根据Step 2中绘制的时间轴，复述徐秀娟的故事。 分析人物精神：学生思考并回答以下问题，梳理归纳徐秀娟的优秀品质。 Which words and expressions from the text show Xiujuan’s courage and dedication Line 7–Xiujuan loved birds and started helping her father with his work at 17. Line 9–When she hatched her first cranes, she was only a teenager. Lines 12-13–The trip was long but Xiujuan made sure the eggs were warm and safe. Lines 15-16–Whenever a bird became sick, she would stay with it day and night until it was strong enough to fly again. Lines 18–19–Xiujuan was alarmed, and searched for them for two days and nigh ... ...