I. Teaching Aims

1. Knowledge Objects: Learn to talk about geography and nature.

Key Vocabulary: bamboo, research, awake, excitement, illness,  wild, government, prepare for, run over, fall over, die from, cut down

2. Ability Objects: Be able to find specific information and understand the passage by scanning.

Learn to talk about the facts of pandas by using the numeral and the comparatives with adjectives

3. Moral Objects: Improve the realization of protecting animals and environment. Educate students to take an active part in protecting animals.

II.  Teaching Difficult Points

Learn how to use scanning strategy to find specific information and understand the passage.

III. Teaching Methods: Task-based language teaching and learning method, communicative approach, multimedia-assisted teaching and learning method.

IV. Teaching Aids: A video about pandas, PPT.

V. Teaching Procedures:

Step 1: Revision and Leading-in

Say something about pandas based on what the students have learned in Section B, including baby pandas, and their birth, weight, height and the food they eat etc.

The teacher gets the students to think about the information they have learnt about pandas. He may say: “What do you know about pandas ? Do you remember the listening material last period? Can you describe what the pandas and baby pandas are like?”

Step 2: Groupwork  2a  Discussion.

Talk about pandas in your class. Use the words in the box to help you. Divide the students into several groups. Four students work as one group. The teacher teaches the new words “bamboo” “endangered”. Give students 2 minutes to practice talking about pandas. Each group chooses a leader and reports the results of their discussions.

Step 3: Scanning.

1. 2b. Read the article to find out what these number means: 10, 12, 300, 2000. Ask them to make whole sentences to express the meanings of numbers.

2. 2C. Read the text quickly to find the key information, answer the questions briefly(P54). Give the students 4 minutes to read the text and then answer these questions.

Step 4: Careful Reading.

Read the passage carefully, try to underline the key words and phrases and important structures. The teacher explains the text and teaches the new words and phrases.

Step 5: Listening practice. Get the students to listen to the recording of the text.

Step 6: After-reading activity.

Present the chart on the screen and get students to read the text again and fill in the blanks in the chart.

Step 7: Homework

1. Remember the words and expressions in the text and read the text fluently.

2. Complete the sentences using words from the passage on page 55.(2d)

3. What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas?(2e)

4. Preview 3a-3b on P55-56.