Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课程导入

Unit3 Australia Period 1 Reading I. Teaching aims: 1.

Enable the students to learn some information about Australia 2.

Train the students reading ability (skimming, detail reading, distinguishing different styles of articles) lI. Teaching important points: Get some information of Australia in the text

Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points: Enable the students to dist inguish different styles of extract articles IV. Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task- based learning V. Teaching aids: A computer, a blackboard, a tape- record VI. Teaching procedures: Step I Lead in 1. Greeting 2. Ask Ss to guess the country we are going to talk about--Today we are going to learn about a country. It is a country and also a continent.It is surroundedby oceans. While many other countries are having winter, it is ¡n summer. In this country, you wi11 see many plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else, such as the kangaroo, koala bear, ect. Do you know which country it is? 3. Ask Ss to say something about each picture and distinguish what city does each picture associates with.' "Have you ever been to Australia? What places do you know in Australia? (Well- -known cities, famous scenic spots, etc. ) Look at the pictures. What do you see in each pictur2 Can you recognize them? Why? 4. Ask Ss to find the places listed in Question 1 on the map 5. Ask Ss to work in groups and discuss what they know about these places. Step lI Pre reading

1. Ask Ss to quickly glance at the five text and answer the quest ions des igned for this part. 2. Get the Ss know some reading strategies: skimming, detail reading and paying attention to the words that frequent ly appeared in the text and equal ly impor tant, their relative words. Step Ⅲ Reading 1.

Ask the Ss to read the text quickly and answer quest ions listed in Exercise 1, Comprehending part. 2.

Ask the Ss to read the text in detail, underline the informat ion they didn’ t know before and write down five facts that they consider to be the most interesting and exchange informafon in groups' work. Step IV Discussion Ask the Ss to work in groups to discuss the following quest ions. 1.

What kind of people do you think make Australia their home? StepⅤ.Homework

Finish the exercises in the comprehending part.