Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学内容概述

Period 1 warming up &Reading Ⅰ. Teaching aims: 1. Enable the students to learn some information about Australia 2. Train the students’ reading ability(skimming, detail reading, distinguishing different styles of articles) Ⅱ. Teaching important points: Get some information of Australia in the text Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points: Enable the students to distinguish different styles of extract articles Ⅳ. Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning Ⅴ. Teaching aids: A computer, a blackboard, a tape-record Ⅵ. Teaching procedures: StepⅠ

Lead-in 1. Greeting 2. Ask Ss to guess the country we are going to talk about---“Today we are going to learn about a country. It is a country and also a continent. It is surrounded by oceans. While many other countries are having winter, it is in summer. In this country, you will see many plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else, such as the kangaroo, koala bear, ect. Do you know which country it is?”

3. Ask Ss to say something about each picture and distinguish what city does each picture associates with. “Have you ever been to Australia? What places do you know in Australia? (Well-known cities, famous scenic spots, etc.) Look at the pictures. What do you see in each picture? Can you recognize them? Why?”

4. Ask Ss to find the places listed in Question 1 on the map 5. Ask Ss to work in groups and discuss what they know about these places. Step Ⅱ

Pre-reading 1. Ask Ss to quickly glance at the five text and answer the questions designed for this part. 2. Get the Ss know some reading strategies: skimming, detail reading and paying attention to the words that frequently appeared in the text and equally important, their relative words. Step Ⅲ

Reading 1. Ask the Ss to read the text quickly and answer questions listed in Exercise 1, Comprehending part. 2. Ask the Ss to read the text in detail, underline the information they didn’t know before and write down five facts that they consider to be the most interesting and exchange information in groups’ work.

Step Ⅳ

Discussion Ask the Ss to work in groups to discuss the following questions. 1. What kind of people do you think make Australia their home? 2. Each year large numbers of people became Australian citizens. Why do you think they choose to become citizens? 3. When do you think traveling by train across Australia would be appropriate and when do you think traveling by plane would be most suitable? Give more than one reasons.

4. In what part of Australia do you think most agriculture takes place? Give reasons. 5. Why do you think the population of Australia is so small when it is such a large country? 6. Choose five words or phrases to describe Australia. Step Ⅴ

Language points Explain some difficult points as listed in the PPT. Step Ⅵ

Homework 1. Finish Ex.1, 2, 3, Page24-25. 2. Write an article about the reasons why people want to travel in Australia