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Unit three reading

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Knowledge aims (1) Students learn to know Australia from various aspects, such as physical features and ecology and political organization.

(2) Students learn the new words and phrases

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Ability aim (1) Students will practice the reading skills of skimming and scanning.

(2)Students will learn to cooperate with others. 3. Emotion aim

Learn to appreciate Australia 4.

Teaching difficult and key points

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The new words and phrases (2)

The understanding of some aspects of Auatralia 5.

Teaching aids Traditional tool, multi-media 6.

Teaching Procedures: Step1. The teacher may ask Ss:

What do you want to know about Australia? Write it down and share it with your partner. Step2. Ask students glance quickly at the five texts with the following questions: 1) What topic is common to all five texts? 2) What aspect of the topic is discussed in each text? 3) What may each text come from? Suggested answer: Q1:

All texts are about some aspect of Australia. Q2:

Text 1: A general description of physical features and ecology and political organization of Australia

Text 3:

Two rail journeys across the length and breadth of Australia Text 4:

Uluru Text 5:

Cradle Mountain National Park Text 2:A citizenship ceremony on Australian Day Q3 :

Text 2:

A newspaper article Text 3:

An advertisement Text 4: A postcard Text 1 :Part from an encyclopedia

Text 5；Part of a tourist brochure Step3. Skim and scan the five texts and answer the following questions as quickly as possible. 1) Where do most Australian live? 2) In what city do federal politicians work? 3) How many people live in Australia? 4) When is Australia Day? 5) How far is it from Perth to Sydney? 6) How many World Heritage Sites are there in Australia? 7) Which part of Australia get the most rainfall? 8) Why do most people choose not to climb Uluru? 9) What two World Heritages are named in the texts? Answers to these Qs are easy to find, so a time limit is needed in this part to train Ss speed reading. Step 4.

Ask Ss to read the five texts one by one carefully. Find out “what you don’t know before and what you are interested”. Fill in the following table

and share it with your classmates. Things you don’t Things know before Text 1 interested you are

Text 2 Text 3 Text 4 Text 5 Answer may vary. Step 5. Read the texts again and discuss these questions with classmates. 1)

What kind of people do you think make Australia their home? 2)

Why do you think each year large numbers of people choose to become Australian citizens? 3)

When do you think traveling by train across Australia would be appropriate and when by plane? And why? 4)

In what part of Australia do you think most agriculture take place? Why? 5)

Why do you think the population of Australia is so small when it is such a large country? Tips for doing this task are provided: •

Read the Qs first and then read the texts with the Qs on mind •

Locate which text concerns the Q •

Find evidence in the specific text

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Make a summary based on what you have found Step 6. Ss are required to choose five words or phrases to describe Australia. For example: colorful

tolerant

amazing

a country with a variety of animals and plants

a large country with small population …

Step 7. Homework；Look up things you want to know but not mentioned in the text in an encyclopedia. And share it with classmates next time.

教学反思：

通过本课的学习，学生对澳大利亚加深了理解，通过问题学习文本，锻炼了学生的英语思维能力提高了学生捕捉信息的能力，但在课堂中，学生对一些词的理解还需要进一步的训练。