Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计范文

Unit 3

Australia 本单元的中心话题是澳大利亚, 主要内容涉及澳大利亚的地理, 历史, 主要城市,自然风光,动植物等。本单元的语言技能和语言知识也都是围绕这个话题设计。

本单元涉及的要点：

1）

了解澳大利亚的地理, 历史, 主要城市,自然风光,动植物等。

2）

学***利亚的地理, 历史, 主要城市,自然风光,动植物等相关词汇。

3）

掌握表示警告，许可，禁止的表达方法。

4）

复习，总结表语的语法知识。

Period One: Warming up Teaching Goal: 1.

to arouse students’ curiosity about Australia 2.

to prepare them for learning Teaching Procedures: Step1. Ask students what they can think about Australia. What do they know about them. Clues can be provided for them: animals, places, what else?

Step2. Start with animals. Kangaroos’ pictures are presented for Ss, and the spelling is addressed. And then it’s followed by Koala bear which Ss must be familiar with.

Step3. Then ask Ss to talk about their familiar places in Australia: Sydney, Canberra, the Great Barrier Reef. Correspondent pictures are presented.

Step4.

Ask Ss what else they know about Australia, such as national flag, national emblem. Encourage Ss to speak as much as they can. Step5.

Move on to some places that Ss may be not familiar with. The teacher may say:” in the previous part, we have seen some familiar things in Australia. Now look

at these pictures, can you recognize them?”

Then, the pictures of Perth, Kakadu National Park and Uluru are shown to Ss. Brief explanations are also given.

Perth—

The Capital of Western Australia

Kakadu National Park—

In Northern Territory

Uluru—

Ayers Rock, a huge rock in the middle of flat, desert in the Northern Territory

Step6. Ask Ss find the places that the pictures indicate on the map of Australia. Ss are thus supposed to get familiar with geographical position of the main cities.

Step7. Now that Ss’

curiosity has been aroused and they want to know more about Australia, move on to the text. Period Two: Reading I Teaching goal: 1.

to get students to know Australia from various aspects, such as physical features and ecology and political organization.

2.

to get students to practice the reading skills of skimming and scanning

Teaching Procedures: Pre-reading (step 1) Reading (step 2-4) Comprehending (step 5,6) Homework (step 7) 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 interested you are Text 1 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.