【正文】 8 A Module 2 Unit 5 EncyclopaediaFirst period Reading Look it up!Language Targets:1. To activate the knowledge to help the students understand the text.2. To help students understand the text quickly by using different reading skills , such as getting main idea and details, find facts etc.Ability Targets:1. Students learn to maintain an interaction by reading the article.2. Students learn to write the synopsis by paragraph.3. Students try to express their ideas in English fluently.Emotion Targets:Students can know about the history of dinosaurs, a way to be happy and Disneyland.Language focus:1. Vocabulary: 1) article, dinosaur, exist, harmless, gentle, fierce,skeleton,Diogenes,Greece, amusement,creat,character,deliver2) a long time before, as small as chicken, leave behind, the way to be happy, even happier, an amusement parkFunction: 1. It sometimes sat on Walt’s desk while he was working. 2. After leaving school and studying art at night, he sold newspapers and delivered mail.Teaching aids: 1. A recorder, a cassette2. Student’s book 8A page 7477.Teaching steps:PRODEDURECONTENTSMETHODSPURPOSE preparation1. Show some interesting pictures.Ss enjoy some pictures about dinosaurs and Disneyland and so on.Students would like to enjoy it with classmates and will make the atmosphere of we can lead in the new words.2. Learn new vocabularies We went to an amusement park. Here Amusement means something that gives people pleasures or fun.Character means a person, animal in a book, play, film, etc.Ask students to learn to express the meaning in EnglishII. While task procedureA. Encyclopaedia is an enclopaedia?, say and learn types of encyclopaedias4. In which volumes of the encyclopaedia on theright would you find the information listed below? Write the number of the volume for each topic. on different topics to find the information we needB. Text Dinosaurs do dinosaurs make you think of?Choose and think of some adjectives and tell your classmates about your ideas. Reading A What do you know about?4. How much do you know about dinosaurs? 5. Listen and fill in the blanks. the text the InternetWhen we meet some new words, sometimes we can know about their meanings by looking at the suffixes. C. Diogenes the Internet and find some information about Diogenes. and fill in the blanks.3. Learn the text. the Internet again.D. Disney Walt1. Cartoon characters2. Who created these cartoon characters? else did Walt Disney create? many Disneyland Park in the world? will be another Disneyland park inShanghai soon. What do you think it will be like? and fill in the blanks. the sentences in the correct order. the Internet is your favourite cartoon character?E. Exercises the words with the pictures.2. Find words in the articles on page 75 toplete the following dialogue. The words must be similar in meaning to the words in brackets.3. Work in groups four to six. Look at thefollowing words and make new words using the letters from some of the words in the checklist.An encyclopaedia is a book that gives you information about a lot of different things.Have you got an encyclopaedia at home?Have you ever read an encyclopaedia in the library?Do you know any types of encyclopaedias?BrainsTyphoonsComputersWeatherKoreaPandasWhen we use an encyclopaedia, we should knowwhat kind of information we need to look for first. Sometimes, we do not understand some important words (we call them key words) in the sentences. Then we can look in an encyclopaedia and try to find them. large, brave, fierce, small, shy, gentle, beautiful, powerful, harmful, ugly, weak, harmless.1. Ss try this quiz alone.2. Check their answers.Say something about them. If you do not know much, you can ask your classmates for help.May is listening to the article about dinosaurson CDROM. Listen carefully and help her plete the following notes for her school project.1. Ask Ss to read the text by themselves and find out the new words, and try to guess the meanings by reading the words around them so that they can know the main idea of the text.2. Read after the tape.3. Read the text together.4. Synopsis by paragraph.Surf the Internet and find more information about dinosaurs. Tell your classmates about the lives of dinosaurs on the Earth.For example,harmful is an adjective which means ‘causing harm’ andharmless is also an adjective which means ‘not causing harm’.Do you know the meanings of ‘careful’, ‘careless’, ‘useful’, ‘useless’, ‘helpful’ and ‘helpless’?.Where did he e from?Where did he live?1. Ask Ss to read the text by themselves and find out the new