课题

Period 3

Discovering Useful Structures

单元

Wildlife Protection unit

学科

English

年级

Grade 1

教材分析

The topic of this period is “Report an ongoing event”. The target grammatical structure is the passive voice of the present continuous tense. Rare wild animals are being poached on a large scale and rescue operations are being carried out.

教学目标与核心素养

Knowledge objectives: Using the present continuous passive voice correctly. Make language expression more accurate.

Skill objectives: Master the form and meaning of the present continuous passive voice.

Emotional objectives: Understand what happens to animals and arouse awareness of environmental protection.

Thinking quality objectives: Think deeply about what we can do for wildlife and express our ideas.

重点

Guide the students to understand and correctly use the present continuous passive voice in the context

难点

Report an ongoing event using the present continuous passive voice correctly.

教学过程

导入新课

Review

Step1：Present the summary of 16 tenses on the PPT. Invite some students to make sentences freely using the present continuous tense.

Step2：Show some sentences on PPT, ask students to change the sentences into the passive form.

(1) I take a book.

(2) He waters the flowers every day.

(3) The famers don't grow apples on the farm.

(4) Can we put our bikes here?

Answers：

(1) The book is taken by me.

(2) The flowers are watered by him every day.

(3) Apples are not grown by the farmers on the farm.

(4) Can our bike be put here?

Leading–in

Step3：Ask students to underline the present continuous passive voice in the sentences and discuss its function.

Step4： Guide students to change the sentences into active form.

(1) African elephants are being hunted.

(2) What is being done to help them?

(3) What measures are being taken to help them?

Answers：

(1) Hunters are hunting African elephants.

(2) What are people doing to help them?

(3) What measures are people taking to help them?

Step5：Ask students to find more sentences with the same verb form in this unit.

Example sentences：

(1) They are being hunted, illegally, for their valuable fur. (Page-16 Paragraph 2)

(2) Much is being done to protect wildlife. (Page-16 Paragraph 7)

Step6：Guide the students to summarize the grammatical structure of the present continuous passive voice.

Step7: Ask the students to make sentences according to the grammatical structure

“Object +am/is/are being +past participle +(by +Subject)”

Example sentences：Books are being read by students.

回顾16种时态的总结表，并用现在进行时语态造句子。

学生将老师给出的4个主动语态的句子改为被动语态的句子。

学生找出三个句子中代表现在进行时被动语态的部分，用下划线标出。

学生将三个句子用主动语态的形式表达出来。

学生从教材中找出同样形式的句子，并用下划线画出表示现在进行时被动语态的句子。

学生跟随老师总结现在进行时被动语态的语法结构，并按照示例造句子。

通过调出时态总结表，加强学生对时态内容的理解，让学生对所学的知识点形成整体框架印象，克服学生对语法知识点的恐惧。并复习现在进行时语法知识。

通过转换句子的练习，让学生回顾主动语态与被动语态的相关知识概念。

通过找出教材中示例句子的重点语法部分，加强学生对目标语法结构的熟悉程度。

带领学生将被动语态的句子转变回熟悉的主动语态的句子，让学生能够理解句子的含义。

通过让学生从教材中找出目标句子，加强学生对目标语法的认知和熟悉程度。

通过学生熟悉的示例句子总结出目标语法结构，通过造句让学生练习和熟悉。

讲授新课

Activity-1

Step8：Let the students find the present continuous passive voice in the sentence, get a preliminary sense of its form and function, and look for more sentences containing the present continuous passive voice in this unit.

Step9：Guide the students to distinguish the meaning and function of the three language forms of present continuous passive voice, active voice and present simple passive voice in the single sentence.

Step10： Ask the students to do the matching questions, linking the grammatical structure with the corresponding Chinese meaning.

am/is/are being done——现在进行时的被动语态

am/is/are doing——现在进行时的主动语态

am/is/are done——一般现在时的被动语态

Step11：Ask students to change the sentence into the passive form.

(1) I am reading a book.

(2) They are hunting a dear.

(3) Tom is playing the guitar.

Answers：

(1) The book is being read by me.

(2) The dear is being hunt by them.

(3) The guitar is being played by Tom.

Activity-2

Step12：Read the passage which is about Liu Tao’s concern of the wetland in his hometown. Answer teacher’s question and finish the passage with the present continuous passive voice of the verbs in brackets.

Q1: What is happening to the small birds in the wetland?

Q2: What is happening to the wild ducks?

Q3: What is happening to the fish and snakes?

Q4: What is happening to the wetland?

Q5: What do you think should be done to protect the wetland?

Discussion

Step13：Ask students to discuss in groups and prepare to give a presentation of your ideas to the class.

What do you know is being done in your neighbourhood to protect animals and plants? What suggestions do you have?

For example: Well, the old trees in the park are being protected. Perhaps they could help protect the birds by making the roads around the park free from cars. That would certainly help make the air cleaner for them …

Language points

Important words

deer  n. 鹿 ( pl. deer )

An animal with long legs, that eats grass, leaves, etc. and can run fast. There are many types of deer.

a deer park  鹿苑

a herd of deer 一群鹿

Example sentences：

Huntsmen chased the deer silently.

If we are hunted, many deer will be hurt each day.

kangaroo  n. 袋鼠 ( pl. -oos )

A large Australian animal with a strong tail and back legs, that moves by jumping. The female carries its young in a pocket of skin (called a pouch ) on the front of its body.

Example sentences：

Kangaroo attacks are relatively rare.

Kids love stuff like exploring caves or kangaroo parks.

reduce  vt. 减少

To make sth less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.

reduce waste 减少浪费, 减少废弃物

reduce expenditure 减少开支

Example sentences：

Reduce what you need to do.

Oil is put in machinery to reduce the friction.

due         adj.

due to   adv. 由于；因为

Synonym：

because of

as a result of

Example sentences：

That was made into an office due to its small size.

We dig a hole, which is not easy, due to roots.

insect  n. 昆虫 ( pl. -s)

Any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts. Insects usually also have wings. Ants , bees and flies are all insects.

insect pest 害虫

insect bite 昆虫咬伤；蚊虫叮咬

Example sentences：

He instanced the fly as dirty insect.

The traveller's face was covered with insect bites.

neighbourhood  n. 临近的地方；街区( pl. -s)

A district or an area of a town; the people who live there. The area that you are in or the area near a particular place.

in the neighbourhood of 大约；在...附近

Example sentences：

My neighbourhood has really been built up.

The fire alarmed the whole neighbourhood.

学生做练习题，选出合适的答案。

学生做连线题，将语法结构形式与对应中文意思相连

学生将现在进行时主动语态的句子转换成现在进行时被动语态的句子。

学生根据教师问题，回答并将正确答案填入空格。

学生小组讨论，表达对文章主题的想法。

通过做练习方式，巩固新知识，加强应用和理解。

通过做题方式，检查学生对新知识的掌握程度。

通过改写句子，增加习题操练，巩固语法知识。

通过教师提问学生回答的形式，完成文章阅读。帮助学生提高阅读能力。

通过小组讨论交流，尽量使用目标语法知识点表达自己的想法。充分应用和练习新知识。

课堂小结

Step 10 Summary

Summary the structure of the text on the ppt.

“Object +am/is/are being +past participle +(by +Subject)”

Step 11 homework

Prepare to give a presentation of your ideas next class.

“What do you know is being done in your neighbourhood to protect animals and plants? What suggestions do you have?”

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