Unit 2 Wildlife Protection

Reading for Writing

 

【教材分析】

The activity theme is “making effective poster”. The protection of wildlife needs the participation of the whole society. It is imperative to educate the public on wildlife protection and arouse the public’s awareness and enthusiasm for wildlife protection. Teenagers are not only the main body of education, but also the “ambassador” of publicity and promotion. To make posters, students need to understand and study the situation of endangered animals and think about protection measures. In the process of reading and understanding the content of posters and making posters, students should be trained to master and use the style of posters, and their social responsibility and sense of responsibility should be cultivated.

The reading text is two posters. The first poster, “give ugly a chance!” calls on people to protect all kinds of wild animals and not treat them differently because of personal likes and dislikes. No matter how beautiful or ugly animals are, they have the meaning and value of existence. The world is beautiful because of the diversity of biology. The article uses the tone of statement to make people unconsciously accept the author’s point of view. The second POSTER “don’t make paper with my home!” adopts anthropomorphic rhetoric and takes koala’s heart cry as the title, criticizing those behaviors of deforestation and destruction of animal homes. The text is a progressive explanation of the title. Exclamatory sentences and rhetorical sentences are used in this paper, which express the author’s attitude and point of view. In addition, the title of these two posters uses exclamation sentences with strong appeal and emotional color, coupled with vivid pictures, making the posters more powerful.

【教学目标】

1. Cultivate students to acquire some features about an English poster by reading the text.

2. Help students to write an English poster about animal protection properly using some newly acquired writing skills in this period.

3. Develop students’ writing and cooperating abilities.

4. Strengthen students’ great interest in writing discourses.

【教学重难点】

1. Stimulate students to have a good understanding of how to write an English poster properly.

2. Cultivate students to write an English poster properly and concisely.

【教学过程】

Step 1: Lead in

Do you want to be a volunteer of a pet’s shelter? Why?

Yes, I want to be a volunteer of it, because I want to help the pets, which are lovely and cute. I like them very much.

Step 2: Read to discover details concerning the main details of the news report.

I. Read the news report and then solve the questions below.

1. Who started the rescue centre called the Small Friends Pet Shelter?

A group of high school students and parents.

2. What did the young people do in the shelter?

Take care of animals.

3. How do the young people think of their work?

Worthwhile

4. What help does the centre need?

Volunteers’ time and love.

II. Read the text again and then choose the best answer.

1. What should we do when we protect the wildlife animals?

A. Treat all the wild animals equally.

B. Only pay attention to less cute animals.

C. Pay attention to cute animals.

D. Care about endangered wildlife animals.

2. What’s the bad effect of cutting down billions of trees to make paper for humans?

A. Make a lot of animals homeless.

B. Make a number of wildlife animals dying out.

C. The animals’ habitat is being destroyed.

D. All of them.

【答案】ADC

Step 3: Study the organization and language features.

1. Read the passage more carefully and write down the outline of the text.

2. Appreciate the complex sentences:

1. The Small Friends Pet Shelter was started by a group of high school students and their parents when they started to see many pets (that were left behind after their families moved away).

译文:当一些高中生和他们的父母看到在主人搬走后,______________________________时,们建立了小朋友宠物收容所。

【答案】很多宠物被遗留下来

2. The young people (who run the shelter) work hard to keep the place clean, take care of the animals, and advertise the animals so that they can be adopted.

译文：负责收容所的年轻人努力保持收容所的清洁、照顾这些动物、_________________。

【答案】登广告以便让人收养这些宠物

3.When it comes to...当涉及……:___________________________

(当涉及野生动物保护时), all species—the good, the bad, and the ugly—should be treated equally.

【答案】wildlife protection

4. so that 引导目的状语从句：Is it right to make animals homeless ____________ (以至于人类就可以有更多的纸)?

【答案】so that humans can have more paper

5.强调句型：_____________________________ (正是因为这个原因) the WWF constantly put up information to stir up public interest in the welfare of the planet.

【答案】It is for this reason that

6.That is what...what引导表语从句：That is _____________________ (动物们最需要的).

【答案】what the animals really want most

Step 4: Analyse the characteristics of an English poster.

英文海报的特点：

英文海报通常含有通知性、宣传性，所以主题要明确，一目了然.它还包含广告的特点，要求内容简明扼要，形式丰富。

基本框架：

1.标题

首先根据海报的特点、格式写明标题.海报中往往把内容作为大标题.例如: Save the earth, save the birds.

2.正文部分

不同的海报其正文部分的侧重点不同。对于介绍性的海报，首先要引出话题，其次列出原因，最后是总结。

对于宣传类的海报，要写明具体内容，活动内容，地点以及参加活动的注意事项，主持或举办单位等。

3.图片：要选择引人注目的图片，与主题要相关，色彩明亮。

话题句式

1. It is a treasure of our country. 它是我国的国宝。

2. Believe it or not, at present only several thousand pandas exist in the world.

信不信由你，目前世界上仅现存几千只熊猫。

3. It’s because of human activities that tigers are endangered.

正是因为人类的活动，老虎处于濒危的状态。

4. Many wild animals are in danger of dying out. 很多野生动物面临着灭绝的危险。

5. The government has taken effective measures to protect them.

政府已采取有效的措施来保护它们。

6. People should raise the awareness of the protection of wild animals.

人们应该提高保护野生动物的意识。

7. It’s amazing that there are merely less than 1, 000 finless porpoises living in China.

非常令人吃惊，目前中国仅有不足1 000只江豚。

课后巩固

Step 5: Use what you have learnt to write an English poster:

请设计一个海报，号召人们加入到保护大熊猫的行动中来。 1.大熊猫是中国乃至世界的稀有动物； 2.由于栖息地遭到破坏，竹子被砍伐，大熊猫觅食越来越困难，正濒临灭绝； 3.政府已建立数个自然保护区来保护大熊猫； 4.拯救熊猫的项目需要更多的关注和资金。

 

谋篇 明确体裁话题：海报 确定时态人称：一般现在时，第三人称 布局文章架构：图片  标题  主要内容 列出要点：1.个人信息  2.教育经历

 

Save Cute Pandas

Not only is the giant panda a rare animal in China but also one of the rarest animals on the earth. As more and more habitats are being destroyed and most of the bamboo has been cut down, it is becoming more and more difficult for giant pandas to find food for themselves. So they are becoming extinct. To save giant pandas, our government has set up some nature reserves. But more funds and attention are needed to carry out this important rescue project.