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Unit 6 Fantastic Friends
Presenting ideas
英语外研版七年级上册
Learning Objectives
通过本课时的学习,学生能够:
1. 梳理动物档案的基本结构和构成要素;
2. 通过小组合作,从amazing animals, helpful animals, extinct animals等方
面制作一份动物档案,并进行口头报告;
3. 深刻地理解动物与人类的相互依存的关系。
Amazing animals:
Helpful animals:
Extinct animals:
Review, classify and say
Look at the pictures and tell their names. Then classify them.
pigeons
beavers
rescue dogs
dodos
Review, classify and say
Amazing animals
Basic facts:
There are over 200 kinds of pigeons.
Special skills:
can recognise themselves in mirrors
can fly several thousands kilometers and don’t get lost
can fly at speeds of over 100 km per hour
Special skills:
can cut a tree with its teeth
can create ponds by themselves and build homes in the ponds
Review, classify and say
Helpful animals
Name: Bingjie
Job: a rescue dog
Special skills: have a good sense of smell
Relationship with humans:
work with firemen; help to save people
Review
Extinct animals
General information
Name dodo
Living place an island in Indian Ocean
Characteristics slow and couldn’t fly
The reasons for its extinction Humans cut down trees, hunted dodos, and their animals ate dodos’ eggs.
Free talk
Which kind of animal will you choose? Why?
Amazing animals
Extinct animals
Helpful animals
If you are going to introduce an animal,
This profile is about pandas. They are black and white. They live in the forests. In this picture, the panda is eating bamboo. In that picture, the panda is climbing trees. Pandas can also swim. In the past, their homes were broken, and they were endangered. In modern times, people take actions to protect pandas and their forests. Now there are more pandas in the wild. But we still need to protect them.
Read and fill
Name: ______________________
Living place: _________________
Looks: ______________________
Special skills:
____________________________
____________________________
Other basic facts:
____________________________
____________________________
Linlin wants to introduce an amazing animal to her class. So she made a profile about it. But the profile is unfinished. Can you read her passage and complete the profile for her?
black and white
forests
panda
can climb trees;
can swim
endangered in the past;
more pandas in the wild now
This profile is about pandas. They are black and white. They live in the forests. In this picture, the panda is eating bamboo. In that picture, the panda is climbing trees. Pandas can also swim. In the past, their homes were broken, and they were endangered. In modern times, people take actions to protect pandas and their forests. Now there are more pandas in the wild. But we still need to protect them.
Read and analyze
Structure of the introduction:
Beginning
Body
Ending
(looks, living places, special skills, basic facts...)
(name)
(thoughts & opinions)
This profile is about pandas. They are black and white. They live in the forests. In this picture, the panda is eating bamboo. In that picture, the panda is climbing trees. Pandas can also swim. In the past, their homes were broken, and they were endangered. In modern times, people take actions to protect pandas and their forests. Now there are more pandas in the wild. But we still need to protect them.
Read and choose
Linlin chose two pictures for the profile. Can you guess which two pictures they are? Why?
1
2
3
4
✔
✔
Compare and think
Which profile is better? Why?
Photos or drawings can help readers understand a profile better.
Discuss and vote
Now, you’re going to make a profile as Linlin did.
Work in groups. Search for information about different animals. Take a group vote to decide on the animal for your profile.
Which animals are amazing?
Which animals help humans?
Which animals need our help?
Special looks/skills...
Relationship
Step
1
Let’s make
Organise your ideas with the help of the following outline and make your profile. You may use the following language tips or find useful expressions or sentences from this unit.
Step
2
what animal
...
animals
fox
dodo
beaver
The profile is about the ...
Describing the topic and purpose (目的) of the profile.
eagle
pigeon
dolphin
giraffe
wolf
hummingbird
camel
clam
...
Introduction
A step-by-step guide
Body
basic facts/special skills/
relationship with humans
appearance (外貌)
food
kinds
living place
situation (形势)
...
The giraffe has a long neck. It grows to about 2 metres long.
It eats leaves and grass.
There are over 200 kinds of pigeons.
The dodo lived on an island in the Indian Ocean.
There used to be thousands of dodos. But now they die out.
basic facts about animals
It has long/big ....
It grows to about ... long/tall.
It eats ...
There are over ... kinds of ...
It lives in/on ...
There used to be ... But now ...
A step-by-step guide
basic facts/special skills/
relationship with humans
to avoid enemies
to produce babies
to catch food
...
It can fly at speeds of over 100 km per hour.
That’s almost as fast as the car.
Some can fly several thousand kilometres and don’t get lost.
The dog has a good sense of smell.
In this picture, the beavers are cutting a tree with their teeth to build their homes.
special skills of animals
Body
It can ... That’s almost as ... as ...
Some ... can fly/run ...
It has an amazing sense of ...
In this picture, it’s ...
Look, it’s ...
A step-by-step guide
basic facts/special skills/
relationship with humans
as animal helpers
as endangered animals
...
The camel can carry heavy things for people.
The dog can help guide blind people. It is our best friend.
The rescue dog helps find missing people. It is a hero.
People need to try their best to protect the panda.
relationship with humans
It can ... for people.
It can help people with ...
It’s our hero/best friend.
People need to ... to protect it.
Body
A step-by-step guide
Sharing your thoughts and opinions on the animal
what we think
what we can do
...
Maybe I was wrong about pigeons.
They are AMAZING—I just didn’t know enough about them!
We need to do whatever we can to help it.
Please try our best to help animals. Make them as happy as a clam, not as dead as a dodo.
thoughts & opinions
Conclusion
Maybe I was wrong about ...
It’s amazing. I need to learn more about it.
We need to do whatever we can to help it.
Please try our best to ...
A step-by-step guide
what animal
what we think/what we can do
basic facts
relationship with humans
special skills
kinds
appearance
food
living place
situation
to avoid enemies
to produce babies
to catch food
...
as animal helpers
as endangered animals
...
Let’s summarize
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
live in
grow to
dolphin
die out
at speeds of
over 40 kinds of
have a good sense of
This profile is about the (1)_________.
∙ There are (2)______________ dolphins.
∙ It (3)________ the sea and eats food.
∙ The largest dolphin can (4) _______ about 10 meters long.
∙ It can swim (5) __________ over 70 km per hour.
∙ It (6)_________________ direction(方向) and never gets lost.
∙ It is our friend.
∙ Dolphins are (7)________ and we need to protect it.
It is amazing! I need to learn more about it.
basic facts
special skills
relationship with humans
dying out
dolphin
lives in
grow to
over 40 kinds of
has a good sense of
at speeds of
Include some photos or drawings to help readers understand your profile better.
Let’s complete
Practise and present your profile to the class.
Vote on the best three profiles and the best three presentations.
Step
3
Step
4
Let’s share
Criteria Requirements Score
(1-5) Total Score
Their
profile covers all necessary information about the animal. _____
uses expressions from this unit properly.
has beautiful pictures that are related to the animal.
Their
Presentation is fluent and grammatically correct.
is natural and attractive.
Summary
introduce the profile to the class.
make a profile about an animal.
2
1
After learning this lesson,
I can
Homework
1. Polish the animal profile.
2. Sort out important words and expressions in this unit.
3. Make a self-reflection to improve yourself.
Bye-bye!
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