Listening and vocabularyppt课件配套教案内容

Module3 My First Ride On a Train

The Second Period

Reading and Vocabulary Teaching goals

教学目标

1. Target language

目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

abandoned, desert, colorful, farm, fields, seaside, soil, diamond, midnight, scenery, shoot, journey, get out of, be short for, refer to b. 重点句式

P23 We got on in ... and we got off in ..., right in the middle of Australia.

We saw abandoned farms which were...

During the day, I sat and looked out of ..., and sometimes talked to...

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the Ss to describe the first ride experience in their life. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the Ss learn how to express the first ride experience in their life. Teaching important points

教学重点

Deal with the questions in Activity 4 on P24. Teaching difficult points

教学难点

Enable the Ss to find the clues of the writer’s first ride on a train. Teaching methods

教学方法

Asking and answering activity, reading and discussing. Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways

教学过程与方式

Step I Revision Greet the class as usual and check the homework.

Step II Lead-in T: As we know, with the development of tourism, travel becomes very convenient and it has become a very important part in people’s life. Many people travel everywhere

during the holiday. Today I’ll take you to a beautiful country —

Australia. Show the pictures about Australia on the screen. Ask the Ss to say one or two sentences about Australia. Then ask them some questions about Australia.

T: Boys and girls now please look at the three pictures and say something about Australia. S1: Australia lies in the South Pacific Ocean. S2: The flag shows the UK flag and a large star with seven points. The other stars on the flag represent the Southern Cross. S3: Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent. S4: The most famous animal is the Kangaroo. It has become the symbol of Australia. S5: Australia has more sheep than people, so it is a country built on the backs of sheep. T: Quite right. Now I’d like you to answer the following questions on the screen. After answering these questions, you’ll learn more about Australia. Show the following questions on the screen: 1. How many people live in Australia? 2. What’s the capital city of Australia? 3. Where do you think most of the People live, in the central part of the country or on the coast? 4. What do you think the central part of the country is like? 5. What Australian animals do you know about? Sample answers: 1. About 19 million. Most of Australians live in the six major cities around the coast. 2. The capital city of Australia is Canberra. 3. Because two thirds of the country is dry and desert, most of the people live on the coast. 4. I think there are many farms in the central part of the country, where farmers raise

sheep and cattle. 5. In Australia, the most famous animals are kangaroos and koala bears. There are also many varieties of parrots, and over 140 different types of snakes. Step III Reading T: Before we read the text, let’s look at the words in Activity 2 on P22. Match some of the words in the box with the 6 definitions. If you are not sure, you can turn to your dictionary for help. Check the answers after the Ss finish it.

T: Look at the picture on P23. Where is the train heading? And where does the story take place? Now read the passage quickly and get a general idea about it. A few minutes later. T: What’s the passage about? S1: It’s about Alice’s traveling to the central part of Australia. It was her first ride on a long-distance train. She described her journey and the scenery she saw on the way. T: You are quite right. Now please read the text again and find the answers to the questions in Activity 4 on P24.

Sample answers: 1. Recently Alice traveled on a long-distance train. 2. Her destination was the central part of Australia. 3. The scenery was not the same during the whole journey. For the first few hundred kilometers of the journey, the scenery was colorful; after that, it was desert; and then they saw abandoned farms which were built long time ago. 4 She read books and listened to her Chinese cassettes while she was on the train. 5. The Australians used camels to travel to the central part of the country. 6. They don’t use camels to deliver goods now. They use railway instead. T: All of you did a good job. Do you still remember the passage we heard in last period? It was about the man’s first long-distance flight. Ss: Yes. The man in the passage came across many kinds of bad things on the way to Singapore from the very beginning to the end. When he finally reached the destination, it was l2 hours later. So he felt the journey was very boring.

T: Very good. For today’s reading passage, what did the writer think of her first journey? Did she enjoy herself during the journey? Ss: The writer’s name is Alice Thompson. She thought her first train ride was wonderful. So she had a good time during the journey. Step IV Listening and Explanation

This process is meant to improve the Ss’

pronunciation and solve some language points. T: We have got the general understanding of the passage. Now I’ll play the tape for you, listen carefully and imitate the pronunciation, and at the same time, pay attention to the sentences that you don’t understand. Walk around the classroom to see if the Ss need help. T: Do you have any questions? S: I don’t understand this sentence “Suddenly, it looks like a place from another time”. T: This sentence means suddenly, it looks as if the place changed into another place from another time. Here “look like” means having the appearance of sb or sth. For example: It looks like rain. Or we can say: It looks as if it is going to rain. Let the Ss pay attention to the different usages of look. Show the following on the screen. She looked but saw nothing. She looked at the actor curiously. Who looked after the baby when her mother was working? Mrs Li looked around the classroom to see who was absent. Father looked in the newspaper to see what was on at the People’s Grand Hall. The traveler looked into the distance and finally saw a car coming. Looking into the future, we are full of confidence. Why are you looking out of the window from time to time? What are you looking for? We are looking forward to hearing from you. Why are you always looking back? Look forward and you will have a much

better life. She looks cheerful and healthy. S: We ate great meals cooked by experts. What does “great” here mean?

T: “Great” here means “delicious”. For example: Yesterday they ate a great meal cooked by their mother. S: Can you tell me what’s the difference between “be short for”

and “be short of”? T: “Be short for” means serving as an abbreviation of sth. While “be short of” means not having much or enough of sth; lacking sth. For example: “Ben” is usually short for “Benjamin”. China is short of arable land. Are you clear?

Ss: Yes. T: Any questions? Ss: No. T: OK. So much for language points. Next, who would like to summarize the writing style of the passage? S: I will try. I think this passage is a travel note. At the beginning of the passage, the writer tells when and where their travel took place, and then she describes the scenery all the journey, and at last she explains the origin of Ghan train and means of transport for traveling a long distance in the past. Step V Discussion In this process, divide the Ss into four groups, one question for two groups. Show the two questions on the screen. Questions: 1. What sort of people do you think travel on the Ghan train? 2. What kind of towns and villages do you think the train passed? T: Now, boys and girls, are you ready for discussing the two questions on the screen? Question 1 for Group 1 and Group 2. S1: We think young students who are having a holiday travel on the Ghan train. They like traveling on the train. On the one hand, as students, they don’t have enough money. Traveling on a train is much cheaper than traveling on a plane. On the other hand, traveling on a train is relatively safer than traveling on other vehicles.

S2: In our opinion, a group of Chinese tourists travel on the Ghan train. They want to see Australia. On the train they can enjoy the colorful scenery on the way. Besides, traveling on the train is very comfortable and they can also talk to other passengers on the train to improve their spoken English. T: Very good. Question 2 for Group 3 and Group 4. S3: We consider that the towns and villages the train passed are wild, because the central part of Australia is desert and there are no people living there. S4: We don’t agree with them. In our opinion, maybe some villages and towns are abandoned, but these should be in the middle. Alice travels from Sydney, which is on the coast. So there must be prosperous towns and villages on the way. T: All of you did a good job. Maybe some students have different ideas. That’s OK. You may search on the Internet to get more information after class. Traveling is to experience and to learn more about other parts of the world and people who are leading a quite different life. Tourism, as one of the most promising industries in the 21st century, provides people with great opportunities to see everything all over the world. It has become a lifestyle for some people, and the global travel has put it in the spot light. One day when you have the chance to travel abroad, don’t forget to write a travel note, and share it with your classmates. Step VI Homework 1. Retell the passage in 100 words, using the third person form. 2. Find the sentences which contain the -ed form in the passage.