Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计一等奖

Instructional design

By Zhang Zuoxian May 10, 2019 

Contents：

New Senior English for China Student’s Book 11

Period 1 Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending 

Aims：

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Knowledge i. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part. ii. Let students learn something about geography and history of New Zealand. 

Ability i. Develop students’ reading ability and let students learn different reading skills. ii. Enable students to learn some basic information about New Zealand and talk about New Zealand. 

Emotion i. Stimulate students’ interest in learning about foreign countries.

ii. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning. 

Key points:

i. Let students learn something about geography and history of New Zealand. ii. Get students to learn different reading skills. 

Difficult points:

i. Develop students’ reading ability.

ii. Enable students to learn some basic information about New Zealand and talk about New Zealand. 

Procedures：

Step 1 Greetings and Lead-in

Ask students the question: “How much do you know about New Zealand ?”, and ask some students to say something about New Zealand. Then show some pictures about New Zealand to students.

(Students’ answer may vary. Encourage them to tell more information. )

Step 2 Warm-up Have a quiz. Let students judge the following statements are True( T ) or False ( F ). ( 1 ) New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Australia.( ) ( 2 ) The capital of New Zealand is Auckland.(

) ( 3 ) New Zealand is approximately the same size as the UK.( ) ( 4 ) There are nearly 40 million sheep in New Zealand.( ) ( 5 ) There are more people living in New Zealand than in the UK.( ) ( 6 ) About 10% of New Zealanders are Maori.( ) (7) New Zealanders are often called “Kiwi”

after the kiwi bird that lives only New Zealand.( ) ( 8 ) Kiwi birds are strong flyers.( ) ( 9 ) There have been humans living in New Zealand for about 10,000 years.( ) 1

( 10 ) New Zealand has many high mountains.( ) （keys: F

F

T

F

F

T

T

F

F

T）

Step 3 Reading

i.Skimming Let students glance over the whole text and then answer the question: “What’s the text about? ”

(Answer: It is about the geography and history of New Zealand. )

ii.Scanning

Get the students read the text quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph.

Geography

Para.1 Location of New Zealand

Para.2 The North Island

Para.3 The South Island（The Southern Alps）

History

Para.1 The first Maori arrivals

Para.2 The Maori people changed way of life

Para.3The Europeans come to the land

Para.4 The relationship between the Maori and the early European settlers

Para.5 The impact of the continuing arrival of the European settlers

iii.Careful reading

Task 1: Answer the following questions according to the Geography.

1. Which New Zealand island has the most mountains? The South Island.(65%)

2. In which island is there more geological activity?

The Northern Island. 3. On which part of the South Island are you most likely to find sheep farms? Give reasons.

To the east of the mountains in the South Island. There are plains and gentle hills and little rainfall, which is suitable for grazing sheep. 4 .what part of the South Island has the most rainfall?

A narrow, coastal strip to the west of the Alps mountains.

Task 2: Correct the order according to the History.

(

)A. Many Maori died from disease or war. (

)B. Maori tribes began moving to the North Island and started to grow crops. (

)C. After the Land Wars, more and more European settlers began arriving. (

)D. The British government and the Maori signed a treaty, which made New Zealand the property of Great Britain, but gave the land to the Maori people. ( 1 )E. The first humans settled in New Zealand. (

)F. Sealers and whalers from Europe came to New Zealand. (

)G. Forests began disappearing and some animals and plants became extinct. (

)H. War between the Maori and Pakeha ended with the loss of much Maori land. (

)I. Wars began between tribes. (keys:

6

3

9

7

1

5

2

8

4) Step 4 Consolidation Fill in the blanks:

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New Zealand consists of ___

main lands in the ________ Ocean, with its capital _________ .

_______ ,the earliest people brought plants, dogs and________ with them. They ________ mainly in the North Island. _________, mainly ________has come to New Zealand. In 1840,

the Maori __________ with the settlers, that day is still ________ as a _________ holiday. New Zealand has a warm _________ and many animals and _________ living there, eg, the national bird called–---- a Kiwi. The North Island is famous for___________ and some of this heat is used to _________.

(keys: two

Pacific

Wellington

The Maori

rats

settled

Europeans

British

signed an agreement

celebrated

national

climate

plants

hot springs

make electricity) Step 5 Homework Task 1: Search any information that interests you about New Zealand and prepare to present your findings.

Task 2: Learn the important words and expressions in the reading passage.

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