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New Senior English for China Student’s Book 11 Unit 1 New Zealand The First Period (warming-up, pre-reading,reading and comprehending)

Xi’an Gaoxin NO.1 High School Tian Gaili

Teaching Aims: 1.

To encourage the students to get to know more about New Zealand.

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To cultivate the students reading skills of skimming, scanning, close reading,summarizing and word-guessing.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1.Warming-up (a short video

A dance from Maori) (1) Reading material provides some background information for the students. (2)

Work with a partner and decide whether the statements below are True(T) or False(F). 1)New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Australia.( ) 2)The capital of New Zealand is Auckland.( ) 3)New Zealand is approximately the same size as the UK.( ) 4)There are nearly 40 million sheep in New Zealand.( ) 5)There are more people living in New Zealand than in the UK.( ) 6)About 10% of New Zealanders are Maori.( ) 7)New Zealanders are often called “Kiwi”after the kiwi bird that lives onlin New Zealand.( 8)Kiwi birds are strong flyers.( ) 9)There have been humans living in New Zealand for about 10,000 years.( ) 10)New Zealand has many high mountains.( ) (3) Traveling is really interesting and the teacher will guide all of you to the beautiful country today.

Step 2. Pre-reading

Look at the map of New Zealand and discuss what you can learn about New Zealand. Discuss especially: ☻ latitude and longitude ☻ seas surroundings the country ☻ islands that make up New Zealand ☻ mountains and mountain ranges ☻ lowest and highest areas )

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possible areas for farming ☻ major cities ☻

possible climate 3.

Scan the title and the subtitles of the reading passage and look at the pictures. Make the list of the things that the text may cover If you are the writer of the passage ,what will you write to introduce the country---New Zealand? The students may have various answers such as population, geography, history, natural beauty, climate ,agriculture ,culture, life and so on.

Step 3 Reading 1.

Reading the title and the first sentence in each paragraph, and then discuss what the text is about and what kind of information you are likely to find the text. 2.

Close the book and recall about New Zealand from the text. (geographic features of New Zealand, the historical development of the settlers in New Zealand) 3.

Read the text again and underline the difficulties that they meet. 4.

Finish the exercise in the comprehending (1)

Read the whole text carefully and get the main idea of each paragraph. Geography

History

Para 1: Location of New Zealand

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Para 2: The North Island

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(2) Answer some questions. a. Which New Zealand island has the most mountains? b. In which island is there more geological activity? c. On which part of the South Island are you most likely to find sheep farms? Give reasons. d. What part of the South Island had the most rainfall? e. Where and when was gold discovered in New Zealand? (3) Put the following historical events in order. a. Many Maori died from disease or war. b. Maori tribes began moving to the North Island and started to grow crops. c. After the Land Wars, more and more European settlers began arriving.

d. The British government and the Maori signed a treaty, which made New Zealand the property of Great Britain, but gave the land to the Maori people. e. The first humans settled in New Zealand. f. Sealers and whalers from Europe came to New Zealand. g. Forests began disappearing and some animals and plants became extinct. h. War between the Maori and Pakeha ended with the loss of much Maori land. i. Wars began between tribes. Step 4:

Discuss and Homework

1 . On which island would you expect there to be more people? Give at least two reasons. What happened that caused the Maori people to become more warlike? 3. In what ways was the arrival of the first European a disaster for the Maori people? 4. What kind of the changes to the land do you think happened after the Europeans started arriving?

Step 5: Reflection of teaching