Unit 5 Into the Wild Understanding ideas The Monarch's Journey 教学设计-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit5 Into the wild Understanding ideas 精准化教学设计 课时主题 Unit5 Into the wild Understanding ideas The Monarch's Journey 课型 新授课 授课时间 年 月 日 第 2 课时 本课时教学内容分析 本课内容：This section presents a text titled "The Monarch's Journey", which is a popular science expository text reflecting the theme of the unit. Based on the observations and research of scientists, it introduces the migration of the monarch butterfly. The lead-in activity before reading lists animals with migratory behavior and asks students to talk about their understanding of animal migration, helping them become familiar with the topic of the text in advance and paving the way for text learning. The reading activity examines students' understanding of the topic of the text. The post-reading activities, through questions about the source and main idea of the article, detailed understanding, and open-ended questions, inspire students to think deeply and creatively explore the thematic meaning using the knowledge they have learned. 本文分析： What：This article introduces one of the most magical migrations in nature - the migration of monarch butterflies. Scientists have uncovered the mystery of the monarch butterfly's long-distance migration through research: they can distinguish time and determine the direction of advance through the position of the sun, thereby reaching a destination 4,000 kilometers away. Then it introduces the dangerous situation of the monarch butterfly, and points out that human destruction of the natural environment is the main reason for the sharp decline in the number of monarch butterflies. Finally, the author calls for people to pay attention to the survival status of the monarch butterfly, understand its migration mechanism, and better protect this animal so that it can survive in nature. Why：This article aims to introduce the natural wonder of the migration of monarch butterflies and the impact of human behavior on this animal. The teaching value of this lesson lies in provoking students to reflect on the adverse effects of human behavior on animals, thereby forming the concept of caring for and protecting animals, and establishing the correct values of ecological protection. Through the study of supplementary teaching materials, students are guided to further analyze other reasons for the sharp decline in the number of monarch butterflies, and cultivate the ability to analyze causes and logical relationships as well as critical thinking. How：Title Characteristics: "The monarch's journey" is concise and clear, summarizing the content of the article and clarifying the subject of explanation. Vocabulary Characteristics: This article is a popular science explanatory text, using objective and accurate vocabulary, rich in scientific, rigor, and inspiration. The overall difficulty of the article is moderate. Text Characteristics: This article is an explanatory text with a clear structure, mutual echoes between the beginning and the end, and clear causality. It leaves room for thought and research at the end. It can be divided into two parts. The first part consists of the first, second, and third paragraphs, introducing the migration of monarch butterflies and its mysteries; the second part consists of the fourth and fifth paragraphs, explaining the dangerous situation of monarch butterflies and analyzing the reasons behind it, and finally proposing solutions and calling for attention and protection of monarch butterflies. 学习目标 教学目标： Language proficiency goal: Guide students to skim through the text to identify keywords, grasp the main idea, and accurately determine the source of the article based on its content. Cultural awareness goal: Introduce students to the background, purpose, and methods of the migration of the Monarch Butterfly, Then students can understand the impact of human behavior on its survival, and thereby deepen their comprehension of the text and the thematic focus of the unit. Thinking quality goal: Lead students to engage in intensive reading to quickly locate the main details within the text and clarify the causal and logical relationships presented. Learning ability goal: to stimulate interest in English learning by understanding the content related to the relationship between humans and animals; to acquire English learning resources through multiple channels; to be able to select appropriate strategies and methods to monitor, evaluate, reflect on, and adjust one's own learning content and process. 学习重难点 教学重点：Guide students to study the migration activities of monarch butterflies and understand the impacts of human-like behaviors on them, and foster their awareness of understanding animals and animal protection. 教学难点：Conduct causal analysis and reasoning judgment on the reading content, combine supplementary teaching materials for critical thinking, express opinions and explain reasons. Correctly understand the relationship between humans and animals, and form the concept of animal protection. 教学资源准备 教学PPT、图片、视频 学习活动设计 设计意图 Step 1 Lead-in： 教师活动：Show the pictures of the small animals. Q：We know that humans and animals are friends.What animals do you often interact with? What is your relationship with them? 教师活动：Play a video about the animal migration. Q：There are also some animals in the wild. Guess what they are doing？ （2）Why do animals migrate? （3）look at the pictures and answer the question: Which of the six animals migrate and why? By talking about topics related to animals in students' life, the students to have something to say and focus their attention in class. Then explain the topic of animal migration, watch videos, create a text situation, stimulate students' interest in learning. Step2 Pre-reading ： Task 1：Skim the article and answer the question 1.What ’s the writing style of the passage? A. Narration（记叙文） B. Argumentation（议论文） C. Exposition（说明文） D. Practical writing （应用文） Key:C 2.Where is the passage taken from? A. In a scientific research paper about the monarch butterfly’s migration. B. In a popular nature magazine introducing the monarch butterfly. C. In a travel leaflet (小册子) encouraging people to visit North America. Key:B . Task 2：Match the main idea of each part. Q:Read the text. Match the main idea with each paragraph. 学生活动：Read the article and answer the question. 1 a. Protection of the monarch 2 b. Trouble of the monarch & the reasons 3 c. Migration of the monarch 4 d. Finding of the migration 5 e. Definition(定义) & reasons of migration Key:1-E 2-C 3-D 4—B 5—A Browse through the articles to understand the article type. Clarify the general idea of each paragraph to pave the way for the problems and tasks after. Improve students' understanding and reading ability.（本环节实现教学目标一） Step3 While-reading： Read for the content. Para 1 answer the questions. What is migration？ Why do animals migrate? (3)Who migrates in this article? Para 2 Q: Why do we call it “one of the most wonderful migrations”? To answer this question, you need to remind the students that: When and where do they migrate? Time: Every autumn/fall. Place: Travel around 4000 km (south) to California or Mexico. It is a long and difficult journey,so we we call it “one of the most wonderful migrations”. (ppt展示北美帝王蝶的迁徙动画，让学生更直观的了解帝王蝶的迁徙。) Critical thinking: Para 3 Complete the sentences with expressions from the passage. Then use the c sentences to complete the "cause-effect" flow charts.（完成教材结构思维导图a-d选项） Para 4 Group discussion, summarize the reasons why the butterflies disappeared.And What has been done to solve the situation? Then complete the sentences with expressions from the passage. Then use the sentences to complete the "cause-effect" flow charts.（完成教材结构思维导图e-h选项） Lead student understand the words: crash crash 原义为“碰撞；瘫痪；（股市或股票）暴跌”，文中用来说明帝王斑蝶的数量急剧下降 Para5： Q:Why does the topic be a journey instead of migration？ Life is a journey. Not only is the journey of butterflies, but also the journey of scientists, human journey. Summary： The 1.__________ (migrate) of the North American monarch butterfly can be considered as the most 2. __________ (wonder) one in nature. In other words, it’s 3. __________ wonder! Every autumn, these beautiful insects 4. have black and orange wings manage to travel to California or Mexico. At first, no one knows how they migrate. 5.________, a team found the answer eventually. The reasons why the monarch can reach the destination 6._________ (correct) are that not only are they able to tell the time of the day, but also they have the ability 7.___________ (determine) the position of the sun. The current situation is that the number of the monarch is falling, which leads 8. __________ the awareness of this creature. Human 9. __________ (behave) have an effect on them, but people are taking 10.__________ (measure) to save them. Three questions "what why who" will clarify the first paragraph of the article to improve students' ability to extract information. （本环节完成目标二） Introduce students on the background, purpose and method of monarch migration,guide students to analyze in the form of mind mapping to cultivate their critical thinking. (本环节完成目标三) In the summary link, with the way of questions, improve students' ability to use vocabulary, and realize the combination of teaching and examination. Step4 Post-reading 1.Discuss other factors that destroy the monarchs’ habitat. （Possible answers：forest fire，overpopulation，food shortage，deforestation，high quantity of exhaust gases ，urbanization） 2.What other animals do you know have similar condition to the monarch butterfly? What do you think people should do to help them?Make a speech to help people know more about the butterflies and call on people to help them. （Assess the performance of the volunteers.） After learning the article, conduct speculative discussion, think about other factors affecting the habitat, expand and extend. In addition, this lesson learns the migration of monarchs, guiding students to think about more similar wild animals and improve the awareness of animal protection.How to protect animals, this is also the further expansion of the content of this course, through the way of expression of pickled cowpea, improve the students' expression ability, the ability to use language vocabulary. (实现教学目标四) 作业设计 Love animal magazine is now soliciting manuscripts from middle school students about the protection of wild animals. Through this lesson, you must have learned a lot. Please contribute to the magazine to introduce the wild animals you know, and call on everyone to protect it. 板书设计 The Monarch's Journey problems Kill Cut introduction Reasons Time position Measures man and nature live in harmony. 教学反思 The teaching design is grounded in the holistic concept of a large unit, centering on the thematic meaning of the unit. Based on students' cognitive characteristics, it progresses systematically, forming a structured, multi-angled, and diversified set of unit learning activities to assist students in transitioning from learning comprehension to application practice, and finally to transfer and innovation. The teaching demonstrates the importance of integrating reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in English. The design of this lesson aims to emphasize the comprehensive cultivation of students' core competencies. On the foundation of developing students' reading comprehension abilities, it seamlessly integrates critical thinking training to achieve the goals of enhancing their thinking quality and fostering cultural awareness. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$