Unit 10 The world around us

Goals:

a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of environment protection;

b. Learn to express causes and effects:

c. Vocabulary in this unit:

the words and expressions listed on the teacher’s book

d. Grammar:

Review Direct and Indirect Speech

Lesson 1

Main points

1.Words

in danger; fur; cut down; left;sometimes;discuss; make sure; find out

2.Sentence patterns

...,tigers can no longer hide and hunt.

3.Functional item

Questions and answers

Difficult points

No longer&no more

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

Ss tell the reasons why some animals have died out.

T:We know there are far fewer kinds of animals in the world than before.They have died out for different reasons.

Ask several students to tell the reasons.Get Ss to know about the fact many animals have died because of human beings.

Step 2 Warming up

1.Ss talk about the three pictures.

What kinds of animals are they?

Why are they in d