Teaching objectives:
1. Knowledge and skills: Make students understand the characteristics of squirrels through multimedia teaching.
2. Process and method: Through students’ independent and cooperative learning, they can understand the image of the article and vividly explain things.
3. Attitudes, emotions, and values: stimulate interest in small animals, cultivate awareness of loving animals, and protecting animals.
Teaching focus: Learn how to explain things by grasping their characteristics.
Basis for determination: The author captures the beautiful, docile and well-behaved characteristics of the squirrel, showing that it is not only lovable but also very useful, so that readers can get a clear impression of the squirrel.
Teaching difficulties: Understand the use of accurate, vivid and vivid language to explain things.
Basis for breakthrough: Let students feel the accuracy and vividness of the explanatory language of the article while reading, and deepen their understanding through discussions, comparisons, etc. based on the content.
Class schedule: 1 class hour
Teaching process:
1. Create situations and introduce new lessons
Students, which one do you like best? A small animal? Can you give us an introduction in a sentence or two? (Student: Introduction) What everyone said was very interesting. The world of animals is very exciting. Today, we are going to get to know a cute little animal. I won’t tell you about it yet, but I will give you a riddle to test it. “It looks like a mouse and lives like a monkey. It crawls on the branches and is busy picking food.” Fruit. (Hit an animal)
[Student: It’s a squirrel] Awesome! The squirrel is a very cute little animal. Can you talk about the characteristics of the squirrel with the riddle and the picture?
[Student Answer] That’s great, classmates. Do you want to know more about this cute little animal? Then let’s go into Buffon’s “Squirrel” to get more knowledge about squirrels. < /p>
2. Teacher-student interaction
1. Look it up
Students learn about the author and master new words based on the "Resources and Study Plans" and other reference books.
① Get closer to the author:
Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist, writer, and pioneer of evolutionary thinking, spent 40 years writing 36 volumes of "Nature" "History". This is a natural history, including "History of the Formation of the Earth", "History of Biology", "History of Humanity" and other parts. It gives a materialistic explanation of the natural world in "Selected Works of Buffon".
Note: This link is completed by the students themselves, and the teacher can improve it if necessary. The purpose is to test the students' pre-class preparation and knowledge accumulation.
②Mark new words, use reference books to eliminate writing obstacles, and emphasize students’ independent learning methods. ) Shizhe (zhé) Fu Weizha (zā) Moss (táixiǎn)
2. Read it
① Please read the text in the way you like (you can read silently or quietly Reading, reading aloud, etc.), you are required to circle and outline in the text to find sentences that reflect the general characteristics of the squirrel.
[Communication] General characteristics: beautiful, docile, and well-behaved.
②After reading this text, what kind of little animal do you think squirrel is?
[Clear] A cute, clever, lively and cute little animal.
< p> 3. Think about it①[Students think] Squirrels are beautiful, docile, and well-behaved. Please explain what these three words mean, and which aspects of squirrels they refer to?
[Instructions] Beautiful means beautiful and good-looking, which refers to the appearance of the squirrel; tame means docile and kind, which refers to the habits of the squirrel; and well-behaved means that the words and deeds are in line with people. Xinxin means to be lovable, it refers to the character of the squirrel.
② Think about which paragraphs of the article these three characteristics are embodied in?
[ Make it clear] The second paragraph is about the beauty of the squirrel, the third paragraph is about the docility, and the fourth and fifth paragraphs are about the well-behaved nature.
③The first paragraph at the beginning of the text always writes about the three characteristics of squirrels. The following paragraphs write about these three characteristics. In what order is this article written?
[Clear] The article generally adopts the order from total to score.
4. Discuss
[Student activities] Discuss the following issues.
①Do you like little squirrels? What do you like about little squirrels?
[Discussion and Exchange]
a. I like the beautiful appearance of little squirrels very much. They look very cute.
b. I like how smart and capable little squirrels are. They can cross water and build nests.
c. The little squirrel loves to be clean and is also very docile and kind.
d. Little squirrels have made great contributions to mankind.
(Use: making brushes, making leather clothes...)
②In addition to being accurate, what other characteristics does the language of this article have?
[Instructions] The language of this article is vivid and lively. The author uses a lot of anthropomorphic explanation methods to personify the squirrel and make it amiable and cute.
②Where in the text are anthropomorphism used to explain the characteristics of the squirrel and talk about its benefits. Students work in groups of 4 to collaborate, discuss and communicate with each other.
③This article describes the characteristics of squirrels accurately. Can you tell me why?
[Tip] To understand this problem, we should break through the language. What words accurately describe squirrels? What types of words are there?
[Instructions] To accurately explain and describe things, choosing accurate and measured language is one aspect. The main thing is to make meticulous observations of things, which requires a rigorous and realistic spirit. .
5. Let’s talk
Intersperse the following information to further appreciate the beauty of this article’s vivid explanation.
[Projection] Materials for plain explanation:
Squirrel is also called "squirrel". Class Mammalia, Squirrelidae. Body length 20-28 cm; tail fluffy, 16-24 cm long. The body hair is gray, dark brown or auburn, and the belly is white. The ears have tufts of hair in winter. Forest habitat; build nests with leaves, grass and moss, or use the abandoned nests of crows and sparrows. Addicted to eat pine nuts, walnuts and other fruits. There are 1-4 litters per year, with 5-10 litters per litter. Distributed from northeast to northwest of my country and throughout Europe. The fur can be used to make clothes, and the tail hair can be used to make pens. ) Ask students to compare the language in the text and "Cihai". If you were a little squirrel, which introduction language would you prefer? Why? Please talk about it with specific words or sentences.
[Student Activities] Independent Cooperation and Communication
[Summary] There is a big difference between scientific explanation and literary explanation. The former uses plain and accurate language and only needs to clearly introduce the object of explanation. Unattractive. The latter's language is vivid and accurate. It uses anthropomorphic techniques to vividly describe the characteristics of things, and the article is expressive. The author loves squirrels, and he integrated this feeling into personified descriptions and emotional language, so he wrote the little squirrels very cutely. , I hope you can learn how to write this article, grasp the characteristics of your favorite small animals, and introduce it to your classmates vividly and methodically.
6. Practice
"The little white rabbit is white and white, with two ears standing up. It loves to eat radishes and vegetables. It is so cute to jump around." It is the classmates. A very familiar children's song.
My students and I wrote children's songs for little squirrels. Examples of children's songs:
Example 1: Little squirrel, good and well-behaved. Example 2: Little squirrel, lovable.
The long tail is raised, the face is delicate, the tail is long,
serves as an umbrella, as a cover, eats pine cones, picks chestnuts,
builds a nest in the tree So cute! What a skill in building a nest!
(Poetry writing breaks the shackles of style and is entertaining. It is beneficial to developing students’ innovative thinking.)
3. Knowledge expansion
1. Learning After reading this article, how do you think we can better introduce animals? (Discussion)
(A. Accurate and vivid language; B. Reasonable and clear structure;)
( C. Clear characteristics of things; D. Appropriate selection of explanation methods)
2. Through the description of the article, we realize that squirrels are indeed very cute. Can you bear to hurt a squirrel if it is so cute? (Students all answered: I can’t bear it) But at the end of the article, the author writes about the economic value of squirrel meat, skin, and fur to make people realize how precious squirrels are. This will inevitably prompt people to hunt them. So how should we protect them? , or should it be used to serve mankind?
Discussion, students can express different opinions based on their own experiences. The teacher can give appropriate guidance.
IV. Class Summary
The explanatory language of this article is accurate and vivid, which is due to careful observation and careful selection. The author uses a literary style to outline the squirrel's beautiful appearance, docile habits and well-behaved character, especially highlighting its endearing characteristics. In the study, the main purpose is to understand the characteristics of squirrels and understand how the author uses accurate language to express them.
5. Assignment Design
After studying this article, write an explanatory piece, complete the exercise "Introducing an Animal", grasp one or two characteristics of it, and write down your own thoughts emotion. This is actually a radiation and extension of the content of classroom teaching. The purpose is to guide students to imitate, learn by analogy, cultivate and strengthen expository writing skills, and complete knowledge transfer.
6. Blackboard design