Reading and vocabulary教案设计（一等奖）

Module 4 A Social Survey —

My Neighbourhood

Teaching aims and demands:

Knowledge: Master the new words and expressions in this reading; Get more familiar with the present perfect tense (compared with the past tense); Know the ways of expressing positions and directions. Skill:

Listening: Listen and understand the dialogues and articles introducing places.

Speaking: Be able to speak using stresses; say sentences with new words and expressions in this reading; talk about positions and directions; introduce the local landscape.

Reading: Read and understand this reading, similar articles introducing landscapes or geography characteristics of one place.

Writing: Employ properly the words but and and, and the present perfect tense. Write smoothly a short passage introducing a local place. Strategies: Cognition: Learn the ways of introducing a place.

Control:

While doing tasks, watch and listen to other classmates and learn from them.

Resources: Learn about cities at home and abroad through communication with teachers and classmates. Cross-culture awareness: Learn about cities of our country and foreign ones.

Cultivate the awareness of environment protection. Attitude: Cultivate one’s love for one’s hometown and one’s motherland.

Important and difficult point: Learn the ways of introducing one place. Time needed: one period.

Teaching procedure: Pre-reading Review the ways of showing position by means of a guessing game.

Show pictures and ask : Which city is this? It’s Beijing. Where is Beijing?

Beijing is in the north of China. ……

While-reading Ⅰ

.Read the dialogue again and decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years.

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 a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island. 6. There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu island. Ⅱ. Read the text and fill in the blanks.

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A(n) 1. _________________ and lively city

Climate

2. ________________in summer and 3. __________ in winter

People

Places of interest mentioned

Two districts mentioned

Friendly

4. _______________, a gorgeous island with some interesting 5. ___________

The business district

The 8. _______ district

A great number of 6. _________ buildings and great 7. _________The most 9. ___________ part of the city with some really pretty Post-reading Xiamen is one of the most 1____

______(attract) cities on the coast. The 2_______ ____ is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. Every year, many 3__________(tour) come to Xiamen to spend their holidays, especially in summer. Lots of high-rise buildings have been put 4______ in its business district recently. And there are some great 5____________(shop) malls. The western district is the most 6_____________(interest) part of the city. It’s got some 7_________(real) pretty parks. Xiamen is famous 8_________ Gulangyu Island. It’s a gorgeous 9____________with some really interesting 10__________________(architect).

Work in groups and discuss what aspects you are going to talk about Chengdu, and add at least one sentence to it .Finally choose one to demonstrate your discussion.

Homework:

1．Write a short paragraph to introduce our hometown---Cheng du to Lady Gaga if you were a tour guide in Sichuan. 2. Read the conversation over and over again and preview the language

points.

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