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1、The Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Train the students reading ability.2.Learn and master the following words:bee,transparent,dot,surrounding,troop,assumption,beyond,semicircle,apparent,sideways,maximum,precise,adequate,clarify,upward3.Learn and master the following phrases:tell.apart,over and over aga
2、in,come to lightTeaching Important Points:1.Enable the students to understand the text better.2.Master the following sentence patterns:(1)It is/was.that-clause(2)Sub.+vt.+it +n./adj.+infinitiveTeaching Difficult Points:1.How to use the sentence patterns above correctly.2.How to improve the students
3、reading ability.Teaching Methods:1,Fast-reading to get the general information in the text.2.Careful reading to get the detailed information in the text.3.Asking-and-answering activity to help the students understand the text better.Teaching Aids:1.a computer for multimedia use2.a coursewareTeaching
4、 Procedures:Step Greetings and RevisionT:Good morning,every one!Ss:Good morning,Miss Gao!T:In the last period I arranged a task for you to match the Chinese with some English idioms.Now Ill check your homework.(Teacher asks some students to give their answers.If they make any mistakes teacher correc
5、ts them.)Suggested answers:1.D2.C3.G4.E5.F6.A7.B8.HStep DiscussionT:Today we are going to read a passage about the language of honey-bees.Before reading the passage,you can have a discussion about the questions in Pre-reading in pairs.(Teacher gives students some minutes to discuss the questions and
6、 then asks them to answer the questions one by one.)T:Whod like to answer the first question?S1:I think animals communicate by making sounds,touching each other,dancing and so on.S2:I think some of them can use their facial expressions,body gestures and so on to communicate with each other.T:You are
7、 right.Now,the second question.Who is the volunteer?S3:Animals communicate some information on how they feel when they are hungry,happy,sad or in danger and so on.For example,when bees find food in a certain place,it will tell others by dancing.When a dog feels happy,it will shake its tail.When a go
8、rilla sees its enemy,it will warn others of danger.T:Your answer sounds very interesting.I hear you are very interested in animal life.Do you want to be a zoologist?S4:Yes.T:If you were a zoologist,what would you do to study animal communication?S4:If I were a zoologist,I would live together with so
9、me kinds of animals,give them much training and see how animals communicate with each other and how animals communicate with human beings.T:Do you think human beings can communicate with animals?S4:Of course.Because some kinds of animals are very clever.Though they cannot speak,they can understand w
10、hat people tell them to do.For example,when you call your pet dogs name,it will come to you quickly.If you come back home,your dog will shake its tail to greet you.Recently when I surfed the Internet,I saw a piece of information that the chimpanzee can use gestures to exchange ideas with human being
11、s after being trained.A dog can type out some words using the keyboard after being trained.T:I can see you really know much about animals.Im sure your dream to become a zoologist will come true one day.Step ReadingT:So much for discussion.As we know,there are different types of bees,but among them s
12、cientists are most interested in honey-bees,because they can use a kind of “language” to communicate with each other.Today we are going to read a passage whose title is “The Language of Honey-bees”.You can read it quickly to get the general idea.After you read it,please answer the two questions on t
13、he screen.1.How do honey-bees communicate with each other?2.What are they able to tell each other? (Teacher gives students some minutes to read through the passage,then teacher asks two students to answer the questions.)T:Who can give the answer to the first question?S5:They do different dances,a ci
14、rcle dance and a wagging dance.T:Quite right.Now,the second one.Zhang Hua,please.S6:They are able to tell each other that food has been discovered and how far away the feeding place is.T:Your comprehension is right.Now read the passage carefully and get the detailed information.Then well do some exe
15、rcises to see if you understand the text well.(Teacher gives students enough time to read the passage once again.)T:Have you finished reading?Ss:Yes.T:OK.Please look at the screen.These pictures show how bees perform the “circle dance” and the “wagging dance”.Please label the dances correctly.Write the letters for parts of the dances (a-f) next to the correct line of the text.(Teacher shows the pictures on the screen and asks a student to read the sentences in the text.)Suggested answers:Circle dance:First it made a circle to the right(f),then to the left(e).wagging dance:Th
