Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Teaching and learning goals
Learn the new words of Unit7 in one class. Students learn to spell words in this unit. Students try to learn how to read and remember the words and phrases. They can learn to make a story with the new words and try to memorize this story.
Teaching and learning steps
Step 1 Lead in
Show the pictures of Qomolangma, the Nile, the Caspian Sea and the Sahara to the
students.
Students talk about them
1) Where are they ?
2) What else do you know about them ?
Step 2 Learn to read the new words on page 121
Ask the students to try to read the new words in this unit according to the phonetics given by
themselves and underline the difficulties they meet. The difficult words: population achievement
government protection)
Encourage the students to read the difficult words with partners.
Ask individual students to read the new words to the class, the others listen carefully. If
necessary, the teacher should correct the mistakes.
Follow the tape and imitate the pronunciation.
Step 3 Learn to remember these words and language chunks
1. Look at the pictures, introduce language chunks about these natural objects.
Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters high. The Himalayas run along the southeast. Thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard. Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storm. Many climbers want to reach the top of it. Because they want to challenge themselves. On May 29,1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary succeed in climbing to the top of it. They achieved their dream. Their achievement shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.
The Caspian is 1,025 meters deep. The Nile is 6671 meters long.
The Pacific Ocean is the
biggest ocean in the world.
The Sahara is about 9,600,00 square kilometers in size. It’s the biggest
dessert in the world.
China is the biggest country in Asia. It has the biggest population in the world. It’s famous for the Great Wall. The Great Wall is quiet tall and wide. It is the longest wall in the world. Ancient emperors build it to protect their part of the country. It is so amazing that many tourists come to visit it every year. If you come to visit it , you will have a pleasant tour !
A panda is 150 cm tall (standing on two legs). It weighs 100 kilos. At birth, a baby panda is about 0.1 to 0.2 kilos. An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. They like eating bamboos.
They are endangered animals. Now there are fewer 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.Some babies often die of illness.To protect them, we build the Chengdu Research Base for them. Now, it is 9:00 a.m. , the baby pandas are awake, they run over to the keepers with excitement, because they want to drink milk.
An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo tress for them.
Whales live in the sea. They are very huge. Humans catch them for meat, fat an oil. To protect them , we must make rules on whale protection.
Read the story and translate it into Chinese.
Read the story and underline the new words.
4. Remember the phrases by matching themselves with their meanings.
feel free
面对(问题，困难等)
as far as I know
走路时撞着
take in
即使，虽然
in the face of
大约
even though (even if )
吸入，吞入(人体)
at birth
到达(某数量、程度等)，至多有，不多于
up to
可以，随便
walk into
绊倒
fall over
就我所知
or so
出生时
Step 4 Consolidation of words
1. Give students a few minutes to memorize the words first.
2. Get students to read the words by Chinese, then look at Chinese and say English.
3. Get students to spell and write down the words with Chinese. Underline the words they haven’t
grasped.
4. Check.
5. Spell the words . Let’s see which group can remember the most words.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
平方，正方形
人口，人口数量
古代的，古老的
旅行者，观光者
保护，防护
沙漠
米，公尺
宽阔的
成就，成绩
西南的，西南方向的
厚的，浓的
包括，包含
条件，状况
实现目标，成功
力，力量
达到，完成，成功
大海，海洋
出生，诞生
成年的，成人的
竹子
Step 5 End -of -class test
Write the right words according to the first given letter or Chinese
China has the biggest p_____________in the world.
There are many _____________(竹子) forest in China.
He used the house as a ___________(基地) for his painting business.
At b_____________, a baby panda is about 10 cm long.
Many t____________go to visit The Great Wall every year.
Choose the proper words or phrases to finish the sentences
awake,
deep,
excitement,
adult,
desert,
The ____________panda weighs many times more than a cat.
He jumped up and down with____________.
The Caspian Sea is 1,025 meters _____________.
The biggest ____________in the world is Sahara.
Step 6 Homework
Ask the students to review the words and phrases, especially the words and phrases they
haven’t grasped on their notebook.
Ask the students to make sentences with the following phrases verbs.
feel free, as far as I know, take in, in the face of, at birth
Retell the story with the help of the pictures.
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