1、Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language(ANIMAL EXTINCTION)IntroductionLanguage is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the listen and read aloud to the tape, read and copy, speak and write in English, all centering around wild life protection, making
2、use of the words, expressions, structures and topic ideas covered in this unit. Objectives To help students read a short passage about dinosaurs on page 30 To help students read and say about dodo To help students write a letter to dodoProcedures1. Warming up by reading to the tapeLets warm up by re
3、ading aloud to the recording of the text ANIMAL EXTINGCTION on page 30.2. Listening about DINOSAURSNow Id like to tell you something about top ten reasons that dinosaurs died out.10. Evolutionary dates kept slipping.9. Over-reliance on programming languages from the Paleozoic era.8. Demand for large
4、 Dinosaurs leveled-off and attempts to stimulate interest by producing small Dinosaurs were not successful.7. Nocturnal scavenger market was ceded to mammals on the mistaken notion that it was a low-volume, dead-end niche.6. Total Quality Management.5. Inability to effectively utilize massively-para
5、llel evolution.4. Restructuring eliminated asteroid tracking and disaster planning groups.3. Loss of popular and articulate Tyrannosaurus Rex to the public sector.2. Dinosaur Mission Statement did not include any form of the word empower.And the number one reason that Dinosaurs died out.1. Extraneou
6、s barrier wait () call at the KT (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary.3. Reading and copying Next we shall go back to the text ABOUT DINOSAURS on page 30 again to read it and copy down all the expressions into your notebook.Useful phrases from ANIMAL EXTINGCTIONduring the long history of the earth, live o
7、n the earth, tens of millions of years ago, came into being, eggs of five species, a rare new species, a bird-like dinosaur, climb tree, tellfrom, die out, hit the earth, putinto the air, get hot, live on, know for sure, in the same way, listen to the story about, disappear from 4. Reading to answer
8、 questionsRead the questions in the table below and scan the text to answer them.When did dinosaurs live on earth?Tens of millions of years agoWhen did dinosaurs die out?About 65 million years agoWhy and how did dinosaurs die out?Nobody knows for sure why and how dinosaurs die out?5. Listening about
9、 the dodoHave you ever heard of the dodo, an animal that has also disappeared from the earth?The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo, was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit
10、and nested on the ground.Next we are going to listen to the tape and do exercises 1 and 2 on page 30 on dodo.5. Speaking in pairs about helping the dodoZhao Yannan: The Dodo was driven to extinction by sailors when they discovered the island of Maritius in the 17th century. It is one of the first do
11、cumented human induced extinctions.Zhao Yanfei: What a pity that we can not find any dodo now. Imagine we are with the dodo, Yannan, what could we do to help it?Zhao Yannan: Then I would intend to hide it in a cave, so that sailors could not find it.Zhao Yanfei: If I were there, I would try to trap
12、them as they were catching and killing the dodo. Putting man who is harmful to the dodo in a cage and attacking him is the best way to protect and save the dodo. Zhao Yannan: Id like to and Im ready to, teach man how to be friends with animals, including the dodo. The man and the dodo can be living
13、side by side on the earth. They can be happy together.ZhaoYanfei: I would rather not tell you what I think of man. He is selfish and cruel. He cares only for himself and that is why so many animals have disappeared from this earth. Putting the bad men in a cage is the only way out, I am sure.7. Clos
14、ing down by writing to the dodoAll right now, boys and girls, to end this period next you are to write a letter or an email to the dodo telling him what you are going to do to save him.By 1681, the last dodo died, and the species became extinct. After hundreds of years, no one recalled what a dodo bird was, and it was regarded as a myth invented by imaginative sailors. It wasnt until the 1900s when the bones were found that the dodo was believed to be real.Today, the dodo bird is a symbol of the harm humans can bring to other living things if we are irresponsible.
