Reading and vocabulary国家优质课一等奖

Module4 A Social Survey-My Neighborhood Period2 Reading and Vocabulary Teaching aims:

Knowledge aims:learn some new words and phrases, appreciate some nice sentence. Ability aims:students can say something about their hometown after learning the passage which is an introduction to XiaoLi’s hometown Xiamen. Important and difficult points:

1 Get the students to understand the scenary of Xiamen. 2 Get the students to learn the reading skills. Teaching methods: discussion; pair and group work Teaching aids: multimedia, blackboard Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Warming up 1.Raise questions: Q1:Do you like traveling? Q2:Where would you most like to go?

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2.Students appreciate some pictures about cities and tell the locations of these cities.

Step 2. Lead-in 1.Students guess a city according to the four hints given(on PPT).

2.Show a video about Xiamen, students discuss after they see the video. Step3

pre-reading Students talk about what they know about Xiamen.(group work) Step4

While reading Skimming Students answer questions: Q1:Which city does “A Lively City” refer to? Q2:How long haven’t John and Xiao Li seen each other? Scanning Do exercise1and 2 on page33. Careful reading 1.Summarize the main idea for each paragraph.(pair work) 2.Find out the difficult sentences and language points by themselves, then put forward any questions if they have and solve them together. Step 5

Post-reading 1.Fill in the blanks. Xiamen (Xiao Li’s hometown)

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The city is ________, interesting and lively.The people are______. Climate is pretty___ in summer, ____ in winter. In business District

lots of ___________ ________ have been put up; there are some great___ .In Western district there are some pretty _____.

The Gulangyu Island is

________, with some interesting architecture.

2.Put the sentences in the right order. (

) There are a lot of high-rise buildings recently in the business district; (

) The climate in Xiamen is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter; (

) There are a lot of tourists in summer; (

) Gulangyu Island is a gorgeous island with really interesting architecture. It lies int he western part of this city; (

) Xiamen is a city on the coast; Step6

Discussion Students discuss the question below in groups and one student from each group

present their ideas.

Q: would you like to travel to Xiamen? why or why not? Step7

Homework

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Write a passage

Write a short passage about your favorite city.

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