Using language (reading and writing) The Gene

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Using language (reading and writing) The Gene
   Using language (reading and writing)
The General Idea of This Period：
This period is about two parts. First, read the passage：animals extinction.It will help the students learn more about wildlife and realize what made the animals disappear and what we should do to help to save the endangered animals.Then write a letter of how to protect the endangered animal in Sanya--egrets.
Teaching Aims：
1.Train the students’ reading and writing abilities.
2.Learn some useful words and expressions：
disappear，county，die out，dust,pollute...
3.Enable the students to know what they should do to help the endangered animals and realize the importance of protecting them .
Teaching Important Point：
Help the students to understand the passages and realize the importance of protecting the endangered animals.
Teaching Difficult Points：
1.How to improve the students’ reading and writing abilities.
2.How to help the students understand real reasons of the disappearance of the animals and realize the importance of  protecting them.
Teaching Methods：
Asking-and-answering activity to check the students’ understanding of the text；individual，pair or group work to finish each task.
Teaching Aids：
A multimedia computer and a blackboard.
Teaching Procedures：
Step 1 Warming up and lead-in.
Ask students to look at some pictures of the endangered animals.
T：As you can see, there are many endangered animals such as tiger,panda,elephant...
If we don’t save them, they will die out like many animals in the past such as dinosaurs! Now we’ll invite a dinosaur to give you some information about it.
The dinosaur acted by a student will give some information about it.
Step 2 Pre-reading
T：Can you guess why the dinosaurs disappeared?
（Show the pictures on the screen.）
Step 3 Reading
Task 1 Fast-reading
  Ask the students to read the passage quickly and find the topic sentences.
Task 2 Detailed reading
  ①Ask the students to read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks.