1、Unit 8 Green LivingLesson 2 Greening the Desert 教学设计科目：英语 课题：Lesson 2 Greening the Desert 课时：1课时教学目标与核心素养：知识目标：Students can learn some new words.能力目标：Students can listen for general understanding and specific information.情感目标：Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.教学重难点教学重点：How to l
2、earn the new words.教学难点：How to improve students listening skills.课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔教学过程：一、Pre-listening1. Greeting2. Leading-inACTIVATE AND SHARE学生活动：阅读海报，回答问题。Look at the poster. Answer the questions.What is the event about?What do you think the presenter is going to talk about?What does NPO stand for?
3、Ask for volunteers to share their answers to the class.(Answers:1 The event is about a public speaking event on environmental protection.2 The presenter might talk about Yi Jiefang and a nonprofit organisation.3 NPO stands for the term nonprofit organisation.)二、 While- listeningLISTEN FOR UNDERSTAND
4、ING1. 学生活动：听材料回答问题。Listen to the first part of the presentation. Answer the questions.1 What was the terrible event that changed Yi Jiefangs life?2 How did Yi Jiefang feel after the accident?3 What made her start NPO-Greenlife? (Suggested answers:1. Her 22-year-old son died in a road accident.2. For
5、 Yi Jiefang, life seemed to lose all meaning.3. She remembered how concerned her son had been about the sandstorms and deserts in northern China. He had said that he wanted to plant trees there after he graduated.)2. 学生活动：Pair WorkListen to the second part of the presentation and take notes. Then as
6、k and answer questions with your partner based on the notes.The early days of NPO-Greenlife 1 _. Yi Jiefang went to 2 _ Inner Mongolia and saw 3 _ with little agriculture. So Yi Jiefang 4 _ to 5 _ in the region over 6 _ and the government agreed. Although the first trees were 7 _, her team continued
7、 planting more trees. Now the trees have 8 _.(Answers:1 were not easy 2 the deserts of 3 vast areas of dry lands 4 made a proposal 5 plant one million trees 6 ten years 7 blown away 8 a survival rate of 85%)3. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。Listen and complete the quotes written on the headstone of Yi Jiefangs son. T
8、hen read the quotes aloud. Explain the meaning of the quotes in your own words.You are _. Alive or fallen, you served a purpose. _, you stood proud against winds and sandstorms; _, your brightness gave _ to others.Let life prosper _; let greenness last forever _.(Answers:a tree, Alive, fallen, light
9、 and warmthin greenness, in life)FOCUS ON FUNCTION: ASKING QUESTIONS1. 学生活动：听材料回答问题。Listen to the Q & A session. Answer the questions.1 What helped Yi Jiefang work through her sadness?2 What changes has NPO-Greenlife brought to the desert?3 What did Yi Jiefang do in 2013? (Suggested Answers:1. Her s
10、ons wishes gave Yi the strength to rebuild her life. To make the desert green was her sons dream. To make his dream come true is the meaning of her life.2. Huge changes have been seen there. Grassland has gradually started to grow from the sandy soil. Villagers can even grow watermelons now. And the
11、 local river, which used to be dry, now runs and is full of fish to catch.3. In 2013, Yi began a new project to plant more trees in Inner Mongolia. This time she chose the county where many of the sandstorms that affect Beijing start. )2. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。Listen and imitate. Complete the Talk Builder. A
12、sking Questions 1 _ : How did Ms Yi Jiefang work through her sadness after her sons death?2 _ the former and the current conditions in the desert?3 Im interested in what she is working on now. _?(Answers:My question isCan you say something aboutCould you tell us more)3. 学生活动：回答问题。Are the questions i
13、n Activity 6 formal or informal? Why are the questions asked this way?(Formal as they are addressed in an interview.)三、After-listeningSPEAK学生活动：Pair WorkImagine you have a chance to meet Ms Yi Jiefang. Prepare some questions that you would like to ask her. Then role-play an interview.四、Summary 重点词汇：contented, occur, proposal, survive重点句型：同位语从句五、HomeworkWrite a short dialogue about asking questions.
