Unit 1 A Student of African Wildlife

By Tiffany2014-04-09

• Are you familiar with this continent?

• Which continent is it?

• It’s Africa.

The Gombe National Park

Basic information about Jane Goodall:

Name ①_____________In 1960 ②She first arrived in _____.Daily work ③Observed and recorded the

daily activities of _____.

Purpose ④To make people __________ and _______ the life of chimps.

Achievements ⑤She ________ the way people think about chimps.

Jane GoodallGombe

chimps

understand

changed

respect

Reading Comprehension:

•Textbook;

•Ex 1. P3.

Watching a family of chimps _______.

We follow as they ______ ___ the forest.

The mother chimp and her babies ______________.

_____________ together in their nest for the night.

The whole day

Paragraph 1 ：

wake upwanderinto

play in the tree

Go to sleep

1st

2nd

Result

She discovered that chimps ____ and ____ _____.

She also discovered how chimps ____________ with each other.

hunt meateat

communicate

bodylanguage

systemsocial

Paragraph 2 ：

Her study of their ____ ________helped her work out their ______ _______.

•(1) In Jane’s opinion, how should people treat wild animals?

•(2) Do you think it is important to study chimps in the wild rather than in a zoo? Give some reasons.

Paragraph 3 ：

Answers:

→The wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.

(1) In Jane’s opinion, how should people treat wild animals?

Answers:

→Yes, because it is only in their natural environment that chimps will behave naturally and enjoy freedom.

(2) Do you think it is important to study chimps in the wild rather than in a zoo? Give some reasons.

In this passage, can you find out all the achievements Jane Goodall has made in these years?

Paragraph 4 ：

Let’s have a try!

▲The topic sentence;

▲The main ideas;

▲The key words.

▲The topic sentence;

Let’s have a try!

Para 1:

The Main Ideas:

How the group followed Jane’s way of studying chimps in the wild.

→ Work

Para 2:

The Main Ideas:

What Jane discovered about chimps.

→ Discoveries

Para 3:

The Main Ideas:

How Jane tries to protect the lives of chimps in their own environment.

→ Actions

Para 4:

The Main Ideas:

Jane’s achievements.

→ Achievements

Let’s have a try!

▲Summary:

◆Who

◆What

→Jane Goodall;Chimps;

→ work;discoveries; understand.

• Jane Goodall has worked with chimps in their own environment, had some discoveries and helped the world better understand the chimps.

Summary:

Free Discussion:

• To be a student or researcher in the forest is not easy and Jane must have gone through a lot of difficulties.• Discuss in groups of four: • What kind of difficulties did she meet and what personalities made her successful?

Assignment:Let’s write a short essay about Jane Goodall, including those we’ve learned today:

★Her basic information;★ Her difficulties while studying the

chimps in the forest;★ Her personalities which made her

successful;★ etc.