Reading and vocabulary优质课教案设计

Period 1: Introduction and Reading Step 1: Warming up

1.

Warming up and discussing some questions. 2.

Warming up by showing some pictures about buildings to lead in some new words.

Apartment:

a set of rooms in

Apartment block

A building, usually on one floor

High-rise building skyscrapers

five-storey

brick

second-floor 1.

Read about the homes of the two students on page 31. Which one is more similar to yours?

2.

If you want to describe a city , what aspects(方面) will you talk about? Think about three or four sentences describing your home

3.

Work in pairs and compare your homes 4.

Warming up by studying vocabulary Turn to page 114, and study the vocabulary list for Unit Four, paying attention to the relationship between the spelling and the pronunciation. Step 2: Pre-reading

1.Leading-in After discussing something about our homes, our neighbourhood , we restudied some new words in this unit ,maybe I think everyone is eager to live in a city with beautiful sceneries around it .Now ,today let’s come to one city in the northwest of Xiamen. The passage will introduce something about the city. I guess most of you must hope to visit it after reading it.

2.Introduce some new words Show the following new words from the text and ask the students to read them all together twice while correcting their pronunciation.

hometown

attractive

pretty

starve

bother

nuisance

fortunate

sound

tourist

district

approach

rent

Ok, we are to have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above, using a proper form of the words. 1)

As you ______ the town the first building you see is the church. 2)

Don’t ______ your father now ; he is very tired. 3)

London is full of _____ in the summer 4)

She is ____ enough to enjoy good health. 5)

They got lost in the desert and ____ to death. 6）The noise was so loud that it was a ____ to the neighbours. 7)

That music ____ beautiful. (Keys:

approach, bother, tourists, fortunate, starved, nuisance, sounds )

Step 3. Fast reading

Now, let’s read the text together and then choose the correct answers. 1. John Martin is visiting ___________.

(a) Xiao Li’s hometown

(b) a town near where Xiao Li lives

(c) a shopping mall 2. Xiao Li lives _________.

(a) on the island of Gulangyu

(b) in Xiamen

(c) in a town to the northwest of Xiamen 3. John and Xiao Li are _____.

(a) at Xiao Li’s home

(b) driving around the city in a car

(c) on a train Read the passage again and decide whether the following statements are True or False. 1. John and Xiao Li haven`t seen each other for six years. (

) 2. John has never been to China before. (

)

3. There are very few tourists on the coast (

) 4. Xiao Li

enjoys living on the coast.

(

) 5. There are a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island.

(

) 6.There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island.

(

)

( Keys: 1. T

2. F

3. F

4.T

5.F

6. T )

Step 4

Post reading Complete the passage with proper words, which will help you retell the text.

John is visiting Xiao Li’s __________, one of the most __________ cities on the coast. Xiao Li lives in the

_________ of

Xiamen. It’s very _____ and everyone is ________. It

is

____ and ____ in summer, but quite _____ in winter. In summer, many ________

come to Xiamen. The business district where Xiao Li lives is very ________. There are a lot of newly built _________ _________ and great _________ _____, the western district is near the ________ and it has some pretty parks. You could also see the __________ island with some interesting ____________. Step 5. Assignment

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Write three or four sentences to describe your hometown.

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Retell the text in your own words.

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Using these words and phrases:

be located in / lie in ,

attractive,

feel fortunate living… ,

places of interest, walk around