Unit 5 Into the wild Understanding ideas The Monarch’s Journey 教案-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Book1 Unit 5 The Monarch’s Journey Good morning, dear judges. I’m Candidate No.1. My topic is The Monarch’s Journey. May I ..? Thank you! Good morning, everybody! How are you today? Fine! Great! I am very well. Look at this picture. Are you familiar with this place? Yes. it’s Taiyuan Wetland Park. Every December, I go to this park in order to meet some special visitors---the egrets. Every November, the egrets start their long journey of flying south, and every April, they fly back to north. Taiyuan Wetland Park is a safe place for them to find food and shelter during their long journey. We call this journey migration. Do you know why animals migrate? Have a discussion with your partner. I’d like to hear about your ideas. Wow, from your sharing, I can see you know a lot about wild lives. Now, please open your books and turn to page 50. Let’s learn more about this topic. The Monarch’s Journey. Look at the title and pictures, can you predict what the passage is mainly about? Oh, I think you made reasonable predictions. Now, read the passage very quickly and check your predictions. Are we right? Yes, it’s about the monarch’s migration. Now, read the passage again and find out the main idea of each paragraph. Para. 1 Introduction of the monarch’s migration (one of the most wonderful) Para. 2 The time and distance of the monarch’s migration (every autumn, around 4,000 km) Para. 3 The way of the monarch’s migration (the time of the day, the position of the sun, the way to go, destination ) Para. 4 The serious trouble of the Monarch. (10%, human activities ) Para. 5 How to help the monarch get out of trouble. (record its migration, protect plants) Can you tell me what genre this passage is? Expository writing. Well, let’s read carefully and get more detailed information. By reading carefully, we get a better understanding of the monarch’s migration. Now, let’s retell the story according to the information map on the blackboard. Who’d like to retell the story for us?