Unit 6 Earth First Understanding ideas Sharks Dangerous or endangered 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

SHARKS: DANGEROUS OR ENDANGERED? Unit Title Earth first Students 45 senior one students Duration 45mins Lesson Understanding ideas Topic Sharks: Dangerous or Endangered? Teaching philosophy 1. The whole design is based on the New English Curriculum Standards. In this lesson, the text analysis is under the certain theme of context and whole unit and students’ English core competences which are language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality and learning ability would be taken into consideration and improved through activities. 2. This is an instructional design based on the student--centered teaching philosophy. In this lesson, in order to help students have a better understanding of this passage, the teacher will design some activities to guide and help students do team work and self-study to cultivate their critical thinking and learning ability. Text analysis Thematic context : human and nature Genre: expository text Source of text: The teaching material of my lesson is chosen from 2019 Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Book 2, Unit 6, Earth first. And the topic is from, Understanding ideas, Sharks: dangerous or endangered. What: In this passage, the author introduces because of a film, sharks are regarded as dangerous animals, which directly causes people’s shark killing and finning. As a result, sharks are endangered. After realizing our misunderstanding of sharks, people start to call for shark protection. Why: The author hopes to explain people’s misunderstanding of sharks and raise people’s awareness of shark protection. How: The story goes based on Peter Benchley who writes the book the film Jaws is based on. Because of the film, people see sharks as dangerous animals and start to kill them, which makes sharks endangered. However, because Peter changes his view on sharks and encourages people to protect sharks, people learn more about sharks and want to protect them from extinction. Students analysis What they h