Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学实录与评析

Unit 5

Canada—“The True North”

Reading A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

I.

Teaching aims: 1.

Knowledge aim: to make students be more familiar with the new words and useful expressions, also know some information of Canada; 2.

Ability aim: to understand the passage and develop students’ reading skills; 3.

Emotional aim: to stimulate students’ interests in learning about foreign countries to love our mother country more. II.

Key and difficult points 1.

Key points: to get students to understand the text and get the main information of Canada through the basic skill of skimming, scanning and careful reading.

2.

Difficult points: to enable students to improve the reading skills. III.

Teaching methods Communicative Approach, Presentation, Discussion and Cooperation

IV.

Teaching procedures Step 1 : Lead-in T: OK, Let’s begin our class. Before that, I want to show you some pictures, and please tell me where the people are. Ss: ...... T: Right, in these pictures they are in different places. What are they doing? Ss: Traveling.

(1)

T: Yes, you are right. Do you like traveling?

Ss: ...... T: Today we will travel to a western country with some friends, now let’s watch a video, and guess where it is. S: Canada. T: Yes, very good. Today we will travel to Canada. Before that, I want to know how much you learn about Canada.

Step 2 : Warming up Make a quiz Show the following on the screen. How much do you know about Canada? 1. What language(s) do Canadians speak? A. English.

B. English and German. C. English and French.

D. English and Spanish. 2. What is the capital of Canada? A. Vancouver.

B. Toronto.

C. Calgary.

D. Ottawa. 3. What is the national animal of Canada? A. Beaver.

B. Grizzly bear.

C. Polar bear.

D. Penguin.

Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz.

Step 3 : Reading 1.

Skimming Students read the passage quickly and answer the question.

What is “The True North”?

2.

Scanning (1)

. Give students some minutes to scan the passage and match the main idea with each paragraph .

(2). Check the answers with students. 3.Careful reading

Read the passage again carefully and fill in the table.

Basic Facts about Canada Distance from east to west coast Oceans on east and west coasts Population Where most Canadians live Location of largest fresh water supply Key point about Vancouver Key point about Calgary Key point about Thunder Bay Step 4: Summary T: Today we have read a passage about some information about Canada and finished some exercises, I think all of you have done a very good job. I’m so happy to see that. We learn English and something about foreign countries. But as a Chinese, we should love our own country more, we should protect her culture, history and environment, right?

Step 5: Homework 1.

Read the text aloud after class; 2.

Retell the text. V. Teaching Reflection