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Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target Language目标语言

重点词汇和短语

overpopulation, flood, earthquake, typhoon, poverty, carry on, take up, put aside, cut down, set up, come up with

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Learn why rainforests are important.

3. Learning ability goals学能目标

By reading the article students will learn that rainforests play an invaluable role in sustaining life on Earth.

Teaching important points教学重点

Reading strategies for completing texts with sentence gaps

Why rainforests are important.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

How to grasp the main idea of the text with sentence gaps

Teaching methods教学方法

Reading, discussing and practicing

Teaching aids 教具准备

Multi-computer

Teaching procedures & ways 过程与方式

Step I Revision

Go over the passive.

1. Ask students to read the text in Ex6 on Page 94.

2. Ask students to state the reasons for using the passive voice in English.

Step II A brief introduction of rainforests

First make a brief introduction of rainforests. Then students are given seven minutes to read the article to get a main idea of the article.

T: In this class we are going to learn something about rainforests. Before reading the text, look at the brief introduction.

(Show the following on the PowerPoint.) Teacher asks the questions, students read the materials together.