New College English

Basic Course

Unit 5Animal World

Content Preparation Listening-centered activities Reading centered activities In-class reading Pre-reading question

Do Animals Have Culture? Assignments After-class reading

Passage I Animal Play Passage II Ready for Danger

Further development Practical writing

We cannot live without animals. They are part of the world. They can be our food, they can be our pets, they can even be our friends.

What animal names can you name? Describe one animal you like or hate. A guessing game: (Group work) One student thinks of a type of animal. Then the

other students in the group try to guess the animal by asking him/her Yes or No questions.

Questions like: Does it live in water? Does it have a pair of legs? Answers must be Yes or No.

Preparation

Listening-centered activitiesAnswers to exercises: Listening 1 Exercise 1: 4 2 3 1 Exercise 2: 1. cold 2. red 3. thick 4. warm 5. small 6. use 7. finished 8. middle 9. covered 10 rabbits Listening 2 Exercise 1: 1. It took place in Laos.

2. A buffalo helped him plow his field. 3. Because he saw a big animal (the

buffalo) listening to a small animal (the man).

4. Because the farmer was very intelligent. 5. He suggested the tiger ask the farmer

himself. 6. It was at home. 7. He was afraid the tiger would kill his

buffalo when he was away to get his intelligence.

8. He took his plow and hit the tiger. 9. Man is the smartest animal.

In-class reading Pre-reading questions: 1. Work in pairs to decide which of the following are

true of animals, excluding humans. Put a tick in the appropriate boxes.

Use tools Share knowledge Communicate with spoken words Practice religion Have emotions Make tools 2. What do people think about the difference between

human beings and other animals?

Do Animals Have Culture? Background information: What is culture? When we speak of culture, we mean a

way of life a group of people have in common.

• beliefs and attitudes• patterns of behavior that help people to live

together• patterns of behavior that make one group

different from another group

In-class reading Background information: For example: The people in Northern China,

esp. men are generous, expansive and straightforward; while the people in Southern China are gentle and exquisite （细腻的） . The difference makes northern people are different from southern people. They are also different in beliefs, views, foods, likes and dislikes etc.

Language points Words and expressions

1. speak of: 提及，谈到 2. make up for ； 弥补， 补偿 3. come into contact with: 与…接触 4. rule out: 把…排除在外，排除…的可能性 5. hold onto: 坚持，抓住不放Language points: 1. (Para. 5) She creates her own sentences that have

real meaning. This has allowed two-way talk. It permits more than one-way command and response.

Washoe not only responds passively to the commands from the psychologists but also asks new questions, makes requests, etc.

2. (Para. 5) Yet with a spoken language we can communicate our entire culture to anyone else who knows that language perhaps the most important thing is that the line dividing us from them is not as clear as we used to think.

The sentence should be two sentences separated between “language” and “perhaps” .

Post-reading questions

After reading the passage, do you think animals have a culture? If so, what kind of culture is it, as compared with human culture? If not, why not?

Assignments Read the text aloud after class. Recite Para. 1 Finish the exercises. Recite the words. Finish after-class reading

After-class reading questions: Passage 1 ( Animal Play) 1) What animals play? 2) Why do animals play? 3) What animal play most? Passage 2 ( Ready for Danger) 1) Why are animals so different? 2) What does an animal need if the species

is to survive? 3) How do animals keep themselves safe if

they survive?

Keys to the questions of after-class reading passages

Passage 1 ( Animal Play) 1) Vertebrates play. 2) They play for fun and to learn some of life’s

serious and important activities. 3) Chimpanzee does. Passage 2 ( Ready for Danger) 1) Animals living in different places have to develop

different ways of fitting in with their surroundings. 2) enough food, ability to go on living without being

killed off, producing enough young ones 3) protective colors, poisonous, long neck, changing

color, grow new parts of themselves

Further Development 2. Vocabulary review (Part A) 2) agree on agree with agree to

agree on: People reach a decision together about it

agree with sb./sth.: you both have the same opinion about it or you approve it

agree to: you will do it or you allow someone else to do it

3) Act action activityBoth “act” and “ action” can be used as a

countable noun to mean “ something that someone has done”. Action can also be used as an uncountable noun. “ Act”, not action, can be followed by “of” . “Activity” is used for something that is done regularly

2. Vocabulary review (Part B)

Animal crossword Across Down 1. chimpanzee 2. panda 3. dog 3. dinosaur 6. chameleon 4. insect 8. owl 5. elephant 11. puppy 7. mouse 12. turtle 9. lion 13. cat 10. giraffe

5. Sample writingSave animals

We human beings like to think that we are the lords of the earth. We can kill any other animal if we like. We eat snakes, turtles, frogs, sparrows, and even bear’s paws. We use horses, camels, and mules for transportation. We dress ourselves in fur coats. We hunt deer for sport. But can we imagine a world without animals? A world without animals is not only dull but also dreadful. Animals help to make the world more colorful and, more importantly, help to maintain the balance of nature.

What can we do to save the animals? The most

important thing is to educate people about the

importance of animals. Then we should stop

killing animals for food, for fur, for safety or for

fun. We should also refuse to buy ivory

products, fur coats, and leather products.

Finally, there should be laws to punish those

who kill protected species.