Using LanguageⅡ教学目标设计

教学设计

Book 8 Unit 1 A land of diversity The sixth period Writing How to describe a place 梅江区梅州中学 叶映霞

Teaching goals: 1. To develop Ss’ writing ability.

2. To enable Ss to write an email to introduce a place. Teaching important points: How to write an email to introduce a place. Teaching difficult points: Teach students how to express structures of describing a place. Teaching strategy: Cooperative learning by means of pair or group work. Teaching procedures & ways: Step one Ask students to discuss the following question in groups. Suppose you are a guide to describe your city to tourists, what subjects will you introduce? Step two Teach students some useful structures: 1) Location: be located in…,

be situated in…,

lie in… There stands/lies ... 2) Population: …has a population of…,

...with a population of… 3) Area:

...has/covers an area of…square kilometers ...with an area of…square kilometers 4) History: …has a long history (of …years) ...with a long history

(of …years)

5) Local food/snacks: …is especially famous for its delicious local snacks, of which…are very popular among tourists.

6) Tourist attractions: There are many tourist attractions you can visit/well worth visiting in…, like/such as…

Many tourists come here especially for the delicious/…local snacks, such as…

7) Economy: The economy is developing rapidly... Step three

Get students to write to Mary with the given beginning and ending: Dear Mary, Glad to hear you're coming to our city Meizhou as an exchange student.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua Step four Get students to know what they should pay attention to: According to the given information，our composition can be divided into three parts： The first part：Give your writing purpose(s). The second part: Introduce your city Meizhou, including its location, population and area, tourist attractions and local snacks. The third part: Make a conclusion（for example, Looking forward to your coming). Step five Get students to write the email with their partners and exchange their articles and correct the mistakes. Step six The writings with the high levels will be shown on the projector so that the whole class can appreciate them. Step seven Homework Beautify your composition with your partners.

Sample Dear Mary, Glad to hear you're coming to our city Meizhou as an exchange student. I'd like to introduce Meizhou to you. Meizhou, located in the norteast of Guangdong Province, is a beautiful slow city. With a population of about 5.5 million and an area of about 16 thousand square kilometers, Meizhou is one of the most pretty mountainous cities of Guangdong. There are many famous tourist attractions well worth visiting in Meizhou, such as Lingguang Tower, one of the four great famous towers of Guangdong. Here you can enjoy many special snacks like salted noodles which are famous all over China. I believe you'll fall in love with it the first time you taste it. Looking forward to your coming. Yours, Li Hua

教学反思: 本节课的设计是要求学生写一封介绍梅州概况的邮件，包括梅州的地理位置、面积人口、著名景点和特色小吃。为了鼓励学生主动学习，积极学习，我们采取了与听说相结合的一种教学模式，课前自主学习，合作探究；课上交流展示、研讨提升；课后巩固提高，我们希望通过这样的课堂设计过程，通过老师所创设的这样一个教学流程和情境，让学生通过自己的探索、研究，解决问题、获取知识。从而真正达到学生自主学习、合作学习、探究学习、积极学习的目的。