Unit 2 Animals and Pets I.Teaching Aims 1.Master the useful expressions in this unit. 2.Train the students'listening ability to understand the main idea and grasp important details ofa text; 3.Give a brief summary to the conversations and story about animals and pets. 4.Improve the student's speaking ability related to the conversations and story about animals and pets. II.Teaching Points 1.Ss are required to understand the conversations and story related to animals and pets. 2.Train the students'listening and speaking abilities. 3.Useful expressions and words:mean,newborn,abandon,breast-feed,bitch replacement,cub,occasion,puppy,adopt,naughty,play mother Π.Teaching Methods 1.Listening and speaking activities 2.Individual,pair,or group work 3.Role-play activities 4.Explanation IV.Teaching Periods Two teaching hours V.Teaching procedures Step one Introduction More and more like raising pets,such as dogs and cats,and some even feed some horrible pets like snakes and mice.Pets may bring happiness and enjoyment to the owner,but sometimes they cost a lot of money and cause many social problems.As for this issue,many people have their own ideas.What's your idea about this topic Step Two Micro-listening
Unit 2 Animals and Pets I. Teaching Aims 1. Master the useful expressions in this unit; 2. Train the students’ listening ability to understand the main idea and grasp important details of a text; 3. Give a brief summary to the conversations and story about animals and pets; 4. Improve the student’s speaking ability related to the conversations and story about animals and pets. II. Teaching Points 1. Ss are required to understand the conversations and story related to animals and pets. 2. Train the students’listening and speaking abilities. 3. Useful expressions and words: mean, newborn, abandon, breast-feed, bitch, replacement, cub, occasion, puppy, adopt, naughty, play mother III. Teaching Methods 1. Listening and speaking activities 2. Individual, pair, or group work 3. Role-play activities 4. Explanation IV. Teaching Periods Two teaching hours Ⅴ. Teaching procedures Step one Introduction More and more like raising pets, such as dogs and cats, and some even feed some horrible pets like snakes and mice. Pets may bring happiness and enjoyment to the owner, but sometimes they cost a lot of money and cause many social problems. As for this issue, many people have their own ideas. What ‘s your idea about this topic? Step Two Micro-listening
1.Play the tape recorder for the students and ask studentsto listen for the main idea. 2.Check the answers. 3.Emphasize some language points and sentence structures Make a big difference to:matter,play an effect on Step Three Macro-listening 1.Explain the new words and expressions (1)Mean a bad-tempered,nasty (2)newborn:a.very recently bor (3)abandon:v.to give up,leave alone (4)breast-feed v.to feed a baby mother's milk from the breas (5)replacement:thing or person taking the place of another (6)cub n.the baby ofa wild animal (7)occasion time when a particular event tkas place (8)puppy n.baby dog. (9)Adopt:v.to take (a baby,pet,etc.)in to one's family and raised\it as a member of the family (10)Naughty:not behaving properly (11)Play mother:play the role of a mother 2.Play the tape recorder for the students. 3.Ask the students some questions about the conversations. 4.Explain language and culture notes (1)..but he is not going to get one....but I'm not going to buy him one (meaning a snake or an alligator) (2)...Balu to play mother to...A dog named Balu plays the role of a mother to the baby tigers,feeding them with her own milk 5.Ask the students to answer the questions in the book.Lead them to get the right answers and teach them some tips for the listening exercises. Step Four Oral Practice 1.Ask the students to make conversations,trying to use"as..as"structure. 2.Ask them to retell the story"Dog Plays'mother'to Tiger Cub"in their words
1. Play the tape recorder for the students and ask students to listen for the main idea. 2. Check the answers. 3. Emphasize some language points and sentence structures: Make a big difference to: matter, play an effect on Step Three Macro-listening 1. Explain the new words and expressions (1) Mean a. bad-tempered, nasty (2) newborn: a. very recently born (3) abandon: v. to give up, leave alone (4) breast-feed v. to feed a baby mother’s milk from the breast (5) replacement: thing or person taking the place of another (6) cub n. the baby of a wild animal (7) occasion time when a particular event tkas place (8) puppy n. baby dog. (9) Adopt: v. to take ( a baby, pet, etc.)in to one’s fami;ly and raised\ it as a member of the family (10) Naughty: not behaving properly (11)Play mother: play the role of a mother 2. Play the tape recorder for the students. 3. Ask the students some questions about the conversations. 4. Explain language and culture notes. (1) …but he is not going to get one. …but I’m not going to buy him one (meaning a snake or an alligator) (2) …Balu to play mother to…A dog named Balu plays the role of a mother to the baby tigers, feeding them with her own milk. 5. Ask the students to answer the questions in the book. Lead them to get the right answers and teach them some tips for the listening exercises. Step Four Oral Practice 1. Ask the students to make conversations, trying to use “as…as” structure. 2. Ask them to retell the story “Dog Plays ‘mother’ to Tiger Cub” in their words
Then ask some of them to retell it to the class. 3.Give them the following topics to discuss and then ask some students to give personal presentation. (1)Advantagesof Raising Pets (2)Disadvantages of Raising Pets Step Five Home Listening Ask the students to finish the"Home Listening"afterclass VL.References 1.《大学英语听说》（学生用书），虞苏美，李慧琴主编，上海：上海外语教有出 版社，2006. 2.《大学英语听说》（教师用书），虞苏美，李慧琴主编，上海：上海外语教育出 版社，2006. 3.大学英语语法.薄冰主编.山西：山西教有出版社，2006. 4.大学英语实用语法讲解与练习.任福洪等主编.北京：国防工业出版社，2004 5.牛津高阶英汉双解词典（第六版），牛津大学出版社，2004. Appendix: Advantages of Raising Pets 1. The basic meaning of"pet"is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons.A pet animal keeps us company and reduces our stress and loneliness.But pets offer us more than just companionship:they provide us the opportunity to love and be loved. Pets can calm us and bring us out of a funk when human words don't help. When pets depend onus for food and shelter,they make us feel needed and important. Keeping a pet around means young kids have the access to the more natural world in this"Plastic Age",and learning to care for a pet helps achild to grow into a loving adult who feels responsible for those who depend on them and towards the society that needs their contribution for a better world too. Animals can communicate with human beings.for they're quite sensitive to anger and sorrow
Then ask some of them to retell it to the class. 3. Give them the following topics to discuss and then ask some students to give personal presentation. (1) Advantages of Raising Pets (2) Disadvantages of Raising Pets Step Five Home Listening Ask the students to finish the “Home Listening” after class. VI. References 1.《大学英语听说》（学生用书），虞苏美，李慧琴主编，上海：上海外语教育出 版社，2006. 2.《大学英语听说》（教师用书），虞苏美，李慧琴主编，上海：上海外语教育出 版社，2006. 3.大学英语语法. 薄冰 主编. 山西：山西教育出版社，2006. 4. 大学英语实用语法讲解与练习. 任福洪等主编. 北京：国防工业出版社，2004. 5. 牛津高阶英汉双解词典（第六版）. 牛津大学出版社，2004. Appendix： Advantages of Raising Pets 1． The basic meaning of “pet” is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal keeps us company and reduces our stress and loneliness. But pets offer us more than just companionship; they provide us the opportunity to love and be loved. 2． Pets can calm us and bring us out of a funk when human words don’t help. 3． When pets depend on us for food and shelter， they make us feel needed and important. 4． Keeping a pet around means young kids have the access to the more natural world in this “Plastic Age”， and learning to care for a pet helps a child to grow into a loving adult who feels responsible for those who depend on them and towards the society that needs their contribution for a better world too. 5． Animals can communicate with human beings， for they’re quite sensitive to anger and sorrow
Apet dog brings its master a sense of confidence from the faithfulness it brings to the owner Disadvantages of Raising Pets 1. Keeping pets is just a waste oftime, energy,and resources 2. Pets and children often fight over care and love in the family.It'sridiculousand degrading to see children jealous of pets.And to make things worse.people nowadays are so crazy about pets that they even neglect caring for their own children. 3. A campaign should be launched by the government to put overpopulation of pets in urban area under contro Plus.the ever-growing number of pets has caused serious hygiene problem that cannot be solved in a short time 4 Pets are often humanized by those who keep pets.Owing to their need for a home.for food and drink,pets are tamed and idealized by their owners 5. Pet dogs and cats of both sexes should be sterilized because the animals themselves are in danger of becoming the first victims for the simple reason that their owners don't have enough time for too many of them. 6. Not all that keep pets are responsible,instead they often abandon their pets when they go away on holiday and are unable to take the pets along with them. 7. It's a shame that many animals eat much better food than some ofus human do. and we should use that money on the impoverished people in the under- developed countries. It's really against nature to cage birds,chain dogs and keep cats within the house
6． A pet dog brings its master a sense of confidence from the faithfulness it brings to the owner. Disadvantages of Raising Pets 1． Keeping pets is just a waste of time， energy， and resources. 2． Pets and children often fight over care and love in the family. It’s ridiculous and degrading to see children jealous of pets. And to make things worse， people nowadays are so crazy about pets that they even neglect caring for their own children. 3． A campaign should be launched by the government to put overpopulation of pets in urban area under control。Plus，the ever－growing number of pets has caused serious hygiene problem that cannot be solved in a short time. 4． Pets are often humanized by those who keep pets. Owing to their need for a home， for food and drink， pets are tamed and idealized by their owners. 5． Pet dogs and cats of both sexes should be sterilized because the animals themselves are in danger of becoming the first victims for the simple reason that their owners don’t have enough time for too many of them. 6． Not all that keep pets are responsible，instead they often abandon their pets when they go away on holiday and are unable to take the pets along with them. 7． It’s a shame that many animals eat much better food than some of us human do， and we should use that money on the impoverished people in the under－ developed countries. 8． It’s really against nature to cage birds, chain dogs and keep cats within the house