欢迎访问甘肃省省级重点课程即精品课程---大学英语网站。Unit Seven Animal Intelligence
Teaching objectives:
After studying the first Unit
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familiarize themselves with words and phrases: assess, controversy, convince, cooperate, deceive, disaster, dominant, emergency, encounter, evidence, expand, explore, extend, gaze, horizon, judgment, negotiate, obvious, original, release, relieve, reveal, surround, switch, thrive, underneath, undertake, at first, figure out, give in, go far, go wrong, in sb’s interest(s), make a deal, only to, size up, wipe out, etc. |
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familiarize themselves with the basic expository writing skills employed in this unit, such as statement of opinion with supporting details, a topic with examples, headings and subheadings, transitional devices like also, however and moreover, then write a logical, well-organized and carefully thought-out expository essay on the theme of the unit: Animal Intelligence based on these skills. | |
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grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text and finish the connected exercises on Using English Grammar: 1. V+ing used as adverbial (P80-81); 2. Whether clause used as object (p267-269) 3. when/while +v+ing (P111-112) 4. inversion sentence pattern like Careful bargainer that she was(P340-341); 5. Why + inf and Why not +inf (P235-236); 6. so that (P311-313) | |
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communicate clearly in the speaking activities centered on the theme of the unit: Animal Intelligence. | |
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Describe their experience with animals like pet animals and say whether they believe that animals can think as we humans do, why or why not. |
Text A What Animals Really Think
Teaching procedures
1. Speaking activities
Discuss the following questions in groups of four:
What do you think of animal intelligence?
How much do you know about animal intelligence?
Do you experience the animal intelligence that they show in their daily activities?
2. Listening practice
Make sure that students have finished the listening practice after class and grasp the main idea that it is possible/likely that some animals have intelligence, such as crows, especially birds have the abilities to use the analogical reasoning.
3. Reading practice
3.1 Skimming and scanning
Read the passage quickly and circle the transitional devices in the passage.
Let’s make a deal
Consider the time…
Tale of a whale
Why would animal want to cooperate with a human?
Primate Shell Game
Sometimes evidence of intelligence can be seen in attempts to deceive
What is intelligence anyway?
Also
However
Moreover
3.2 Close reading
Read the passage to get the main idea of each part associated with the transitional devices and exchange with the partner.
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Let’s make a deal |
Some animals are intelligent enough not only to trade one thing for another but also handle money. And sometimes they know how to bargain with people. |
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Tale of a whale |
Some intelligent animals like whale can assesses a situation and act accordingly as well as do something that he has never been trained to do. |
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Primate Shell Game |
Some intelligent animals like orangutan can attempt to deceive, by doing so may be meant to serve that survival. |
3.3 Questions discussion (pair work):
Ø When did the incident take place? Why did the author write this essay with three different stories?
On the basis of the author’s experience, there exist better ways to explore animal intelligence than experiments designed to teach human signs, such as the observation from the zoo keepers.
3.4 Summary: sum up this passage and share it with the partner.
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My own experiences make me realize that animal can do their best to think when it serves their own purposes, not when scientists ask them to, such as Tale of a Whale from Gail Laule, a consultant on animal behavior and Primate Shell Game of an orangutan form Zoo keeper. These stories show that there exist better ways to explore animal intelligence than experiments designed to teach human signs and that intelligence is meant to serve the survival. |
4. Useful expressions:
4.1 Pick out the useful expressions in the passage
explore animal intelligence 探索动物智能 perform mental feats 展现思维技能
make a deal 达成交易 switch to 使某事物转变
figure out理解；推断出 trade one thing for another以物换物
only to 结果却，不料 cooperate with sb 与某人合作
in sb.`s interests 为了某人的利益 go far 帮助很大；很有成效
go wrong 有毛病，出故障 size up 估量；判断
throw up 呕吐 speak of 说起；提到
give in 让步；屈服；投降 wipe out 消灭，消除
make a judgment 作出判断 a blank stare 白眼
emergency care 紧急救护 virtuous habits 道德习惯
convince sb of sth/ convince sb that使某人确信；使某人明白
4.2 Choose at least ten words or phrases in the table on page 189 and do the creative writing.
5. Writing : Animal Intelligence as I See It
² Get a partner and discuss the following questions:
e.g. Have you ever observed that a pet usually knows its master? How do you explain this?
Have you ever been to the circus and seen the feats trained animals perform? What do these indicate ?
Do you think animals, especially very intelligent ones, have thoughts and feelings? Explain
² Based on what you have discussed with your partner, write an essay entitled “Animal Intelligence as I See It” in about 150 words.
² Ask your partner to evaluate your work and revise it.
6. Reflection after class
Recall a story about animal intelligence and share it with your partner.
Text B Do Animals Fall in love
Activity 1: Read the passage and discuss the following questions:
1. Do you think that animals fall in love ? Give examples to support your opinion.
2. What are the animal researchers` points?
3. Is pairing an only way to ensure adequate parental care for the young?
4. What happened to Ado after his mate was killed?
5. Can you use a word to describe how animals fall in love?
6. What may urge animals to love?
7. How did a male parrot choose his mate?
8. Why did zookeepers decided to send Timmy to another zoo?
9. What is Jane Goodall`s opinion about chimpanzees?
10. Is there evidence of love in the devotion that members of pairs heap on each other?
11. What does Hope Ryden`s study indicate?
12. What will affect an animal`s affection?
13. Does everyone agree that there is love among animals?
Activity 2: use the reading skills of scanning and find out different opinions about love among animals.
Activity 3: use the different opinions that you have found as clues to summarize the whole passage.
Exercises
Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box. Change the form where necessary.
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assess disaster gaze expand cooperate horizon relieve encounter in sb.`s interest(s) controversy switch wipe out extend go far only to original |
1) The financial help they got from the local government didn`t toward solving the problems.
1）go gar
2) Their retail business in Asia rapidly since the early 1990s.
2）has expanded.
3) world peace, we must promote mutual understanding among nations with different social systems.
3）in the interest(s) of
4) I thought it was still early, yet I got to the library find it closed.
4）only to
5) On the train I an old lady who happened to be a neighbor of my daughter`s when she lived in Los Angeles.
5）encountered
6) Our company with several American companies for the past few years in joint ventures.
6）has cooperated
7) Phil looked around at the other competitors and his chances of winning.
7）assessed
8) The police believed that the reason they failed to find anything suspicious in that guy`s bag was that members of the gang bags at the airport.
8） ( had ) switched
9) Our visit to the Far East has certainly broadened our .
9）horizons
10) Emily felt extremely uncomfortable under the woman`s steady .
10））gaze
11) Everything was going smoothly until suddenly the struck.
11） disaster
12) Smallpox, which used to be a severe epidemic disease, has been completely .
12）wiped out
Translate the sentences into English, using the words or phrases in brackets.
1） 当地一家公司承担了此项工程，但工程没完成就破产了。(undertake)
A local business undertook the project but went bankrupt before it was completed.
2） 我和你做笔交易——你替我洗车，我晚上把车借给你开。(make a deal)
Let`s make a deal---you wash my car, and I`ll let you use it tonight.
3） 我们到达那个我们本以为已毁于那次大地震的村庄时，却发它只受到轻微的损失。(wipe out, only to )
We got to the village which we thought must have been wiped out in the severe earthquake, only to find it slightly damaged.
4） 我的花园既干燥又背阴(shady)。在那样的环境里，很少有植物能茁壮成长。(thrive)
My garden is dry and shady---few plants thrive in that condition.
5） 那位电影明星的死亡真相至今仍被谜团(mystery)笼罩着。(surrond)
Mystery still surrounds the exact truth behind the film star`s death / exact circumstances of the film star`s death.