Reading and vocabulary教案2

Module 4 A Social Survey —

My Neighborhood

Second period：Reading and Vocabulary (Teaching with a courseware)

Teaching aims and demands:

Knowledge: Master the new words and expressions in this reading; Get more familiar with the present perfect tense (compared with the past tense); Know the ways of expressing positions and directions.

Skill:

Listening: Listen and understand the dialogues and articles introducing places.

Speaking: Be able to speak using stresses; say sentences with new words and expressions in this reading; talk about positions and directions; introduce the local landscape.

Reading: Read and understand this reading,

similar articles introducing landscapes or geography characteristics of one place.

Writing: Employ properly the words but and and ,and the present perfect tense. Write smoothly a short passage introducing a local place. Strategies: Cognition: Learn the ways of introducing a place.

Control:

While doing tasks, watch and listen to other classmates and learn from them.

Resources: Learn about cities at home and abroad through communication with teachers and classmates. Cross-culture awareness: Learn about cities of our country and foreign ones.

Cultivate the awareness of environment protection. Attitude: Cultivate one’s love for one’s hometown and one’s motherland.

Important and difficult point: Learn the ways of introducing one place. Time needed: one period.

Teaching procedures: StepI

Pre-reading Review the ways of showing position by means of a guessing game.

Show pictures and ask students to describe the pictures StepII Fast-reading Task 1 Read the passage quickly and find answers to the following questions: 1.How long haven’t John and Xiao Li seen each other?

2. Where does Xiao Li live?

3.Where do they plan to have lunch?

4. How does Xiao Li find living by the sea? 5. Are the tourists a bother in Xiao Li’s eyes? Task 2

Are these statements True or False?

1. John and Xiao Li haven`t seen each other for six years. (

) 2. John has never been to China before.

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3. There are very few tourists on the coast.

(

) 4. There are a lot of new high-rise buildings

on

Gulangyu Island.

(

) 5. There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu

Island.

(

) Task 3Find out the information about Xiao Li’s hometown

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Location Climate Building Place of mentioned

interest

Different districts

StepIII

careful-reading Task 1 Read the passage carefully and complete the chart below

The cityThe peopleClimate3. ______Xiamen Business districtWestern district7.Gulangyu__________Islandattractive1.__________, interesting and livelyfriendly2.___________ Wet in summer, coldin winterhigh-rise buildingslots of 4. _________________have been put up: there are some great 5.____________shopping mallsthere are some pretty parks6. ________gorgeous8.__________, with some interesting architecture

Task 2

Fill in the blanks. Xiamen is one of the most ___________cities on the______. The climate is ___________and wet in summer , but it can be quite cold in winter. Every year, many_______ come to Xiamen to spend their holidays,especially in summer. Its ______________ has put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. And there are some great_____________. The western district is the most interesting part of the city. It’s got some really____________. Xiamen is famous for Gulangyu Island. It’s a ________island with some really interesting ____________.

StepIV

Talk about a place which is familiar to you: You may have the following

aspects for reference: •Location and area

•Boundaries and neighbors •Landscape and rivers •Climate

•Nature and environment

•History •Population •Language and religion

•Economy

•Life and culture

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•Speciality (特产) •Local flavor (风味小吃)

StepVI

Homework:

1.Get on the website to know more about Xiamen.

www.xmtravel.com.cn 2. Write your description of your favourite

place.

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