Book2Unit4WildlifeProtection学案.doc

Book2 Unit4 Wildlife Protection Period 1 教师寄语：Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。 Learning aim: 1. To grasp the usage of some words and expressions. 2. To put the important words into practice. Difficult point: How to make the students use the key words, phrases and sentence patterns flexibly and properly. Step 1. Read and recite the following words and expressions . 1. protection n. 保护→protective adj. 保护的；防护的→ protect v. 保护；防护 protect… from/against… 保护……不受……(危害) 2. distant adj. 远的；远处的→ distance n. 距离 at a distance 从远处 in the distance 在远处 3. relief n. (痛苦或忧虑的)减轻或解除；减轻痛苦的事物→relieve vt. 解除；减轻；缓和(不快或痛苦) in relief 如释重负 to one’s relief 令某人放心/欣慰的是 4. mercy n. 仁慈；宽恕；怜悯→ merciful adj. 仁慈的；宽大的；慈悲的 → merciless adj. 无情的；毫不怜悯的；残忍的 without mercy 残忍地；无情地 5. certain adj. 确定的；某一的→ certainly adv. 毫无疑问；当然→certainty n. 确定／确实的事；确定(性) It is certain that… (不能用sure) 6. importance n. 重要(性)→important adj. 重要的；重大的→importantly adv. 重要地 more importantly 更重要地 7. appreciate vt. 鉴赏；感激；意识到→appreciation n. 欣赏；鉴赏；感激；理解 I would appreciate it if 从句 如果......我将感激不尽 8. respond vi. 回答；回应；做出反应→response n. 回答；回应 respond to 回答；回应 in response to 回答；回复 Step 2. Read and try to recite the following passage. Wildlife Protection Dinosaurs died out because of an unexpected incident. But wildlife today disappears or is in danger just because humans do harm to it. For example, tigers are hunted for fur to make carpets so that they can only live in secure reserves; grassland is destroyed without mercy so that dust storms come into being affecting distant cities. Last year, scientists saw some monkeys rubbing themselves with a certain kind of insects to protect themselves from fierce mosquitoes biting. According to the result of the inspection, they found that the insect contains a powerful drug, so local farmers were employed to catch the insects. The ending was that the insects disappeared from the whole zone. When told that it was a loss to humans, the farmers burst into laughter and re