T: So, you do know something about the wild animals. And can you tell me the difference between the wild animals and the poultry? Yeah, the poultry are kept by human beings. Now, we are going to play a game called "Pick me out". I'll show you 5 lines words. There are 6 words in every line, one of which doesn't belong to "wild animals" and you should pick it up. Understand?
(Ss can also compete in doing this game. )
Step 5 Speaking
Task One
Presentation
1) Show some pictures of the dying-out wild animals appearing in the Games "Who am I?" and "Pick me out." And ask students to discuss " What other kinds of wild animals are dying out?" and "why are they facing such a situation?"
2) Students discuss with their partners.
3) Teacher shows more pictures and concludes the reasons, such as too much hunting, lacking of food and so on.
4) Warming-up in Page 26 of Book II
Match up the information about pandas, tigers and Milu deers. Then, teacher gives students some useful expressions. Introduce the WWF and ask students to imagine that they are scientists of it and make short reports, which should tell people the situations of them, the numbers of them before and after protections having been taken. And what are the protections.
5)Students prepare for the speaking by themselves and make reports in class.
Step 6 Expending
Give students the words: horse, pig, bee, donkey,swan and so on. Ask them to complete some usage expressions of English. And tell students some different opinions of animals between Chinese people and some Western people. Introduce some cultural information.
e.g.: T: Do you know as happy as a what? Horse? No! Bee? Oh, no! Swan? Also no! Yeah! It is pig! As happy as a pig! Wonderful!
Step 7 Conclusion