Step 1

　　Greetings

　　Greet the whole class as usual.

　　Step 2

　　Revision

　　1. Ask students some questions to revise the last lesson(show them on the screen).

　　a. How much salt do the oceans contain per thousand parts of water(35 parts of salt. 3.5% by weight)

　　b. What is coral Why are corals not found in deep water

　　c. Why is the Dead Sea called the Dead Sea

　　2. Check the homework(made a survey about the sea or sea life by surfing the Internet or asking for help from other people). Through this part we can consolidate what they studied yesterday, communicate with others about their survery results and prepare for the new lesson.

　　Step 3

　　Lead-in and preparation for reading

　　Show them some pictures and let them talk each other, and then use the pictures about sea and life in the oceans to learn new words, for example, Antarctica, huge whale, sperm whale, squid and so on.

　　Purpose: Arouse the students interest of study.

　　Bring in new subject: Life in the oceans.

　　Step 4

　　Fast reading

　　Read the passage as quickly as they can. I show the questions on the screen and let them get the

　　main idea of each paragraph:

　　1. Why can living things live in such oceans around the Antarctica

　　2. What does the whale feed on

　　3. What is the difference between the sperm whale and other whales

　　Method: Read the text individually, use questionandanswer activity.

　　Purpose: Improve the students reading ability.

　　Understand the general idea of each paragraph.

　　Step 5

　　Listening(book closed)

　　1. Listen to the tape then do an exercise(wb page 90, part 1)

　　2. True or false exercise.(on the screen)

　　Train the Ss listening ability and prepare for later exercises.

　　Step 6

　　Intensive reading

　　Read the passage carefully again and answer some detailed questions on the screen.

　　1. How much does a whale eat at a time

　　2. Do all the whales feed on small fish

　　3. How deep can a sperm whale dive

　　It is also called depth reading or study reading. It means reading for detailed information.

　　Purpose: Further understand the text (Train further reading ability) to find out some different sentences and details of the text.

　　Step 7

　　Preparation for details of the text on the screen

　　1. ...its heart slows to half its normal speed.

　　slow-v. to become / make slower.

　　2. ...using sound wave

　　Present participle used as adverbial.

　　3. provide sth. for sb.

　　provide sb. with sth.

　　4. at a time: each time

　　5. grow to a length of...

　　Purpose: Train the Ss ability of understanding and using laguage.

　　Step 8

　　Consolidation

　　1. Find out the topic sentences.

　　2. Retell the passage according to the topic sentences.

　　Purpose: I want to know if my students understand the whole text really and if they master what I mean to tell them in this class. Whats more, I want to let them have the ability of introducing and analyzing expression. At the same time, I will write down the topic sentences on the blackboard according to what the students find, so they can retell it easily.

　　Step 9

　　Discussion

　　Show them some pictures about the polluted sea and many living things which are in danger and ask them: What are their opinions about it In order to let them have free choice, I give them another topic: The sea is being polluted. What should they do

　　Purpose: I mean to give them emotional education. I give them multi-media pictures to arouse their interest of study and their love for life. I mean to make them realize: The sea is in danger! I teach them to do their best to help it and do something from now on. Everyone should do something to love and protect our home.

　　Step 10

　　Homework

　　Write an article Saving the sea. I want to improve the ability of their writing. At the same time, train the ability of do-it-yourself and looking up the information by themseleves.

　　Part 4. Blackboard design

　　

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