Unit 8 Lesson 3 The elephants' journey home课件 2024-2025学年冀教版（2024）七年级英语下册

Unit 8 Lesson 3 The elephants' journey home Language Goals: 1.Master new words and expressions: save, flag, forget, place, water, be in great danger,cut down,get lost... 2.Master new sentences:(1) The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols. (2) But people kill the elephants for their ivory... Ability Goals: 1.To observe and describe animals 2.To talk about their preferences 3.To increase the students' reading strategies. Emotional Goals: We should protect animals and make friends with them. Because we are on the same earth. Teaching Goals Guess 猜一猜 It is very big. It has a long nose. It has two large ears. I like elephants. .... Lead-in What do you think of them? They're kind of/really... friendly/cute/lovely smart They are from ________ . ['taɪlænd] 泰国 Thailand Thailand's flag [flæg] 国旗 one of Thailand's symbols [ˈsimbəl] 象征 they are in great danger. But now 处于极大危险之中 People cut down too many trees. [kʌt] [daʊn] 砍倒 People also kill (猎杀）elephants for their ivory. Things made of ivory 由...制成 Pre-reading Look at the picture and predict 1.What kind of passage is it? 2.What animal may be talked about? A. a diary B. a website article(网络文章） √ Elephants Check(√) the best title for the article. √ Skimming(略读）: Pay attention to the key words and sentences. (关注关键词句） While-reading Fast reading 1 3 2 Find the topic sentence(主题句) of each paragraph. Reading tip(技巧): You can often find the topic sentence(中心句) from the first sentence or the last sentence of each paragraph（每段的首句或末句）. Elephants are smart animals.  Elephants are in danger and we must save them. Elephants are important in Thailand. While-reading Fast reading Hello. We are students from Thailand, and we want to save the elephants. The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols. Our first flag had a white elephant on it. This is a symbol of good luck. Para.1 Careful reading While-reading What do the students from Thailand want to do? 2.Why are elephants important in Thailand? They want to save the elephants. Because it is one of Thailand’s _________. the first flag had _______________on it. it is a symbol of __________. symbols a white elephant good luck What can elephants do? While-reading Careful reading Elephants are smart animals. They can play soccer or music. They can also draw very well. People say that “an elephant never forgets”. Elephants can walk for a long time and never get lost. They can also remember places with food and water. This helps them to live. Abilities can play _______________ can also ______well can ______________ places with food and water Careful reading soccer or music also remember While-reading Para.2 draw can _____ for a long time and never_______. walk get lost Elephants are smart but they are in great danger While-reading Careful reading But elephants are in great danger. People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes. People also kill elephants for their ivory. Today there are only about 3,000 elephants(over 100,000 before). We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day. Facts and figures people _________many trees people kill them for ________ today there are___________(over _________before) Careful reading cut down their ivory about 3,000 100,000 While-reading Para.3 The number is reducing (减少). 1 2 3 But elephants are in great danger. People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes. People also kill elephants for their ivory. Today there are only about 3,000 elephants(over 100,000 before). We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day. Para.3 Careful reading How to save them don’t cut down so many______ don’t______things made of ivory ___________is Thai Elephant Day trees buy March 13th No buying, no killing. While-reading 1 2 3 3 Importance in Thailand first flag had ______________ symbol of _________ Facts and figures people_________many trees people kill them for_____ today there are __________ (over_________ before) How to save them don’t cut down so many_______ don’t _____ things made of ivory ___________ is Thai Elephants Day a white elephant good luck cut down ivory about 3,000 100,000 trees buy March 13th ELEPHANTS Abilities can play________________ can also _______well can _________ places with food and water soccer or music draw remember Post-reading Let's retell according to the mind map ___ lions ___ elephants ___ pandas ___ giraffes ___ koalas ___ tigers Post-reading Check (√) the animals that you think are in great danger. Group work ride elephants animal shows eat wild animals “Many animals are in great danger,we must save them. We can / should / must / have to....(because...) And we can't / mustn't....” What can we do to save animals? 小组讨论并派1名代表做报告 Post-reading Post-reading We should protect（ 保护 ） animals and make friends with them. Because we are on the same earth（地球）. Save animals, save ourselves. (拯救动物，拯救我们自己) 1. New words and phrases: symbol, flag, ivory, cut down, in danger... 2. Reading strategies: skimming, scanning and so on 3. Increase the awareness of protecting animals in great danger. （增加保护濒临灭绝动物的意识） Summary Make a poster(海报) about saving animals. No sale,no kill Homework Lavf57.62.100 Lavf57.62.100 null 8724.915 Lavf58.20.100 $$