Reading and vocabulary教学设计

必修1 Module4 A Lively City 教学设计

王芳

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必修1 Module4 A Lively City 教学设计

教学流程设计

Teaching Steps: Step 1. Warming up- The Game of City Guessing 【教师活动】Describe the city of Nanjing sentence by sentence. Show the descriptions on PPT at the same time. 

an old capital of six dynasties（朝代） with a history of more than 2500 years 

The climate there is mild. But it used to be one of the three furnace cities（三大火炉之一） along the Yangze river. 

many places of interest, such as Zhongshan Tomb （中山陵）and Presidential Palace （总统府）

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the capital of Jiangsu province 【学生活动】Listen carefully and try to guess the city the teacher is describing. 【教师活动】T: “From which aspects did I introduce the city of Nanjing? In other words, which kind of information did I give you just now? ”Show the answer on the PPT. 【学生活动】Answer the questions together. Location, history, climate, and attractions 【教师活动】T:“Besides theses aspects, what else can we talk about to describe a city?” 【学生活动】Volunteer to answer my question. 【教师活动】T: “Now it’s your turn to get ready to describe a city and let your classmates to guess. Remember to put the most obvious character at the end of your description.”

【学生活动】Prepare the description in groups and volunteer to show it in class.

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Step 2. Lead-in 【教师活动】Another city to guess. 

a coastal city / a city by the seaside 

It’s well known for its coastal travel, sea food and hot springs 

one of the most livable cities in the world 

It is located in （位于） the eastern tip of Shandong Province. 【学生活动】Listen carefully and guess. 【教师活动】Ask several students to answer the question “What do you think of living in Weihai?” “What’s this question about?” “Please fill in the blanks and pay attention to adj. and verbs.”

Weihai is a ___________ city, and I ______living here.

【学生活动】Answer the question and fill in the blanks. Step 3. Read for Details 1. Details about impression 【教师活动】T： Read the first half of the left column and find out both Xiao Li and John Martin’s impression of Xiamen. Fill in the blanks. Xiamen is one of the most ________ places he __ ___ ___. It’s so _____ and everyone seems so ______. In Xiao Li’s view, it’s one of the most _________ cities on the coast. He ____ _________ living there. And he _____ living ___ ____ ______. 【学生活动】Read the first part of the text and fill in the blanks. T: From what other aspects did Xiao Li introduce Xiamen？ 【学生活动】Read the rest of the text and find out the answer quickly. 2. Details about Location T: Answer the question 1. Where is Xiamen? 2. Where is Xiao Li’s hometown? 3. Feedback of Impression and Location

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T: Fill in the blanks using what we learned just now. Xiao Li’s hometown is ___ ___ _______ __ Xiamen, one of the most _________, ___________ and __________ cities __ _____ ______ with _________ people. And he feels ________ living there. 4. Details about climate, business district and attractions 1) What’s the climate like? Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but quite cold in the winter. 2) What did they see in the business district? High-rise buildings and shopping malls. 3) Where is Gulangyu Island? What’s people’s impression of it? Just across

the water. It’s a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. Step 4. Text Retelling 1.

Review what we learn about Xiamen together by using a childlike mindmap. 2.

Give Students 3’to get ready to retell the text with the key words on the screen. Start like this:This is the first time that John has visited Xiamen. He thinks…

Step 5. Dialgue Making Although it has been six years since they last saw each other and it is the first time that John has visited Xiao Li’s hometown, don’t you think Xiao Li did a pretty good job in showing him around? Now it’s your turn to make up a dialogue to show your partner around a city that you have ever been to. 5 minutes for you to get ready.

Step 6. Homework 【教师活动】Give students the homework -- Write a detailed description

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of Taiyuan to me with what we learnt today 【学生活动】Listen and remember the homework.

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