Period Ⅱ: Reading（第二课时）
第一部分 教案设计
教学内容
Reading（第58页），本课时主要学习Reading A文章的内容，了解相关野生动物的特征。
教材分析
“Reading”部分A，学习一篇大熊描“希望”的成长过程的文章，同时学习新的词汇，训练从上下文猜测文章大意的方法。通过这篇文章的学习，增强学生保护野生动物的意识，让他们学习从自我做起,保护生态环境。
教学目标
基础知识
掌握词汇：
mean, face, however, action, beginning ,serious, result, law,none, sadly, mainly, danger
词组：be born, look like, not... any more ,look after herself, live on, as a result, in danger
take action, right away, at birth, at four months old, in the beginning, face serious problems
句型：When Xi Wang was born, she weighed just 100 grams and looked like a white mouse.
Eight months later, she was not a small baby any more.
Giant pandas live mainly on a special kind of bamboo.
As a result, pandas may not have a place to live or food to eat.
