Listening and vocabulary第二课时教案

Teaching plans Book1 Module4 A social survey Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary—A Lively City Teaching Aims

1. Grasp some new words and expressions to describe a place.

2. Enable the Ss to describe the city of Xiamen.

3. Help the Ss to learn how to introduce or describe a city from different aspects, such as its location, climate, and famous tourist attractions etc.

Teaching Important Points

Grasp some new words and expressions to describe a place.

Teaching Difficult Points

Analyse how to introduce or describe a city from different aspects, such as its location, climate, and famous tourist attractions etc.

Teaching Methods

1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.

2. Asking-and-Answering to help the students understand the text.

3. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.

Teaching Aids

1. the multimedia

2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

Q1: Look some pictures and guess which city do the pictures [来源:Zxxk.Com]show?

Q2: What do you know about it?

Step 2 Reading

[Activity1:] Pre-reading

Look at the title and predict what the passage is about.

Brainstorm

If you want to describe a city, what aspects of this city would you

introduce?

A lively city

[Activity2:] While-reading 1.

Fast reading Please read the passage as quick as you can and fill in the blanks.

Xia

Men

The city 1.___________, interesting and lively The people 2._____________ 3._______Wet in summer, cold in Business district lost of 4.________________have been put up; there are some great5._________ Western district There are some pretty 6.__________ 7.__________ 8._____________, with interesting architecture some 2. Careful Reading (1)Choose the best answer. 1.

John Martin is visiting _____________.

A. Xiao Li’s hometown

B. a town near where Xiao Li lives

C. a shopping mall

D. The western district.

2.

Xiao Li lives

_____________________.

A. on the island of Gulangyu

B. in Xiamen

C. in a town to the northwest of Xiamen

D. in a town on 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

D. walking around the city

(2) Try to guess the meaning of the following words and explain why you think so. 1. Fortunate means ________.

(a) sad

(b) lucky 2. Pretty hot means_________.

(a) too hot

(b)very hot

3. Bother means____________.

(a) amuse you

(b)give you problem

4. Nuisance means____________.

(a) amusing

(b)causing problems

5. Shopping mall means_________.

(a) shopping center

(b)small shops

6. Gorgeous means____________.

(a) lovely

(b)boring 7. Starving means____________.

(a) very hungry

(b)excited [Activity3:] Post-reading Discussion: What kind of city is Jintang in your eyes? Please write some sentences to describe your hometown: Useful expressions and words Location: lie in/be located/ situated in the east/west/north /south of……?

Area: It covers an area of about……;

Population: It has a population of about……;

Climate: In summer, it is…; In winter, it is…

Special local products: …is famous/well-known for……,

Places of interest: It has many places of interest such as…;

(1) (2) (3) ……

Step 3 Summary 1.What have you learned today? 2.How to describe a place: ……

Step 4

Homework 1.Review what you have learnt today. 2.Write a short passage with the topic of My hometown on your exercise book