Reading and vocabulary优质课教案设计

The First Period

Reading （一）教学内容与目标

1. Topic话题内容

Our surroundings and neighbourhood 2. Target Language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

apartment, apartment block, countryside, five-storey, high-rise building, local, mile, (second) floor, suburb, stone, architecture, area, climate, coast, district, harbour, hometown, island, park(V.), rent, tourist b. 重点句子

It’s been six years since we last saw each other, you know.

And this is the first time I’ve visited your hometown.

This is one of the most attractive places I’ve been to.

Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. 3. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn how to introduce a place.

4. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to analyze the way the author introduces a place. 5.

Emotional goals 情感目标

Love our motherland and hometown. （二）教学重点与难点

Teaching important points教学重点

Retell what the students learn about the city of Xiamen according to the conversation in the text.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

Work together with partners and introduce their own neighbourhoods to each other.

（三）教学方法与手段

Teaching methods 教学方法

a.

Discussing.

b.

Reading.

c.

Listening. d.

Cooperative learning.

Teaching aids教具准备

A recorder, a projector and a computer.

（四）教学过程与设计

Teaching procedures & ways教学步骤与方式

Step I Warming up (4 minutes) 1.

Warming up by showing some pictures and discussing some questions.

a. Which one do you like best? Why? 2. Warming up by showing some pictures about buildings to lead in some new words.

a.

Read about the homes of the two students on page 31. Which one is more similar to yours?

b.

Think about three or four sentences describing your home c.

Work in pairs and compare your homes

Step II: Pre-reading

1.

Imagining (2 minutes) Now, imagine you are living in one of the most interesting cities on the coast, and there are very beautiful sceneries around it and it is a good place for visiting, and then tell me how your feeling is. 2.

Introduce some new words (3 minutes) Show the following new words from the text and ask the students to read them all together

twice while correcting their pronunciation. T: Ok, we are to have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above, using a proper form of the words. hometown

attractive

pretty

starve

bother

nuisance

fortunate

sound

tourist

district

approach

rent

1)

As you ______ the town the first building you see is the church. 2)

Don’t ______ your father now ; he is very tired. 3)

London is full of _____ in the summer. 4)

She is ____ enough to enjoy good health. 5)

They got lost in the desert and ____ to death. 6)

The noise was so loud that it was a ____ to the neighbours. 7)

That music ____ beautiful. (Keys:

approach, bother, tourists, fortunate, starved, nuisance, sounds )

Step III: Reading

1.

Leading in (2 minutes)

T: After discussing something about our homes, our neighbourhood, we restudied some new words in this unit ,maybe I think everyone is eager to live in a city with beautiful sceneries around it. Now, let’s come to one city in the northwest of Xiamen. The passage will introduce something about the city. I guess most of you must hope to visit it after reading it. 2. Fast reading

(8 minutes) T: Now, let’s read the text together and then answer the following questions: 1) Is this John Martin’s first time to visit Xiao Li’s hometown?

2) What’s the climate like in Xiamen?

3) Do the tourists bother Xiao Li ?

4) Where is the most interesting part of the city ? 5) From the dialogue, can you tell me something about Gulangyu Island?

Group work: (4 minutes)

Put the sentences in the right order according to this dialogue. (

) There are a lot of high-rise buildings recently in the business district; (

) The climate in Xiamen is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter ; (

) There are a lot of tourists in summer; (

) Gulangyu Island is a gorgeous island with really interesting architecture. It lies in the western of this city; (

) Xiamen is a city on the coast. ( Key: 4. 2. 3. 5. 1 ) 3. Listening to the tape of the text and try to find the following new words appearing in the passage and then use some of them to complete these sentences. (7 minutes)

1) A lot of ____ visit Xiamen in the summer. 2) The parks in the ____ district are very pretty. 3) I can’t listen because of the noise. What a _______! 4) The ____ for a modern apartment in Xiamen is usually very expensive. 5) Which ____ of the city does Xiao Li live in? 6) If we _____ the car over there , we can go for a walk along the harbour. ( Keys: tourists, coast, nuisance, rent , district, park ) 4. Detailed reading for information

A.

Read the passage and choose the correct answers. (4 minutes)

1)

John Martin is visiting _____ . a. Xiao Li’s hometown

b. a town near where Xiao Li lives c. a shopping mall 2) Xiao Li lives _____. a. on the island of Gulangyu

b. in Xiamen

c. in a town to the northwest of Xiamen 3) John and Xiao Li are _____ . a. at Xiao Li’s home

b. driving around the city in a car

c. on a train ( Keys: 1.a

2. c

3.b ) B.

Read the passage again and decide whether the following statements are True or False. (4 minutes)

1). John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years. architecture

area

climate

coast

district

nuisance

hometown

island

park

rent

tourist

gorgeous

2) John has never been to China before. 3) Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast. 4) There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen. 5) There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island. ( Keys: 1. T

2. F

3. T

4.F

5.F

6. T )

Step IV Homework (1 minute) 1.

Review the notes and preview Listening and vocabulary on Page 35. 2.

Finish the exercises in Vocabulary and Reading on page 86-88