Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending板书设计

Unit 2 King Lear

Warming Up

Teaching aims:

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Get to know something about population mobility including different reasons; 2.

Practise listening and speaking by sharing information; 3.

Get ready for the reading part of this unit.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1

Brainstorming The teacher begins the lesson by asking students to share their experiences in pairs by finding out when, where and why they moved 【设计说明】教师通过让学生分享自身或是周围的人的迁移经历而自然进入本单元的主题

“People on the move”。

Step 2

Pair work Ask students to look at the five pictures and discuss where the people in the pictures are moving and why. 【设计说明】由自身的经历转到他人的迁移原因上非常自然，水到渠成。

Step 3

Group discussion Ask students to find out various reasons for population mobility. Possible answers: marriage, job, environment, study …

【设计说明】教师让学生通过小组讨论，进一步发现人口迁移的多方面的原因，以拓展学生

的视野。

Step 4

Pair work Ask students to discuss after graduation, where they would like to study, in a nearby city or in a faraway place? Why? 【设计说明】对于高三学生来说，毕业后报考什么高校，是近一点的还是远一点的，都是非常实际的问题。学生在分享想法的过程中，可以对自己的选择有更为深入的思考，能够在一定程度上培养学生解决问题的能力。

Step 5

Group work Ask students to think about whether population mobility is good for the development of our world, why or why not? Possible answer: Population mobility is good for the development of our country and our world. Because now we’re all making contributions to building a global village and population mobility is helpful for us to share our knowledge, science and technology and even labor force. It’s good for globalization. 【设计说明】这个步骤是对学生思想的一种提升，由小及大，可以帮助学生形成正确的世界第

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观，站在全球发展的角度来看待人口迁移问题。

Step 6

Homework Ask students to surf the Internet and try to find out something about the history of immigrants to America.

Reading Comprehending Period 1 Teaching aims: 1.

Know something about the population mobility in the USA; 2.

Try to improve students’ reading ability; 3.

Know how to match pictures with quotations when reading newspapers or magazines.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1

Lead-in The teacher begins the lesson by asking students to say something about the history of immigrants to America according to their survey. The teacher just shows a picture to help students fulfill the presentation. 【设计说明】教师通过presentation这一形式，一来检查了学生作业的完成情况，二来可以为文章的导入做好准备。教师运用美国殖民时期的一张地图，可以让学生对于美国这一移民国家有更为深入的了解。美国移民的历史可查阅网上资料，参考网站：http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/55021957.html。美国不仅是一个移民国家，而且时至今日，美国国内人口的迁移依然在进行着。

Step 2

Listening Ask students to listen to the tape and answer the question: What are the two groups of people discussed in this passage? Answer: The old and the young in the USA. 【设计说明】带着简单的问题听一遍课文，有助于学生了解文章大意。

Step 3

Fast reading Ask students to read the passage fast and try to fill in the blank. Name David Angela Daniel Edna Age 68 21 27 78 Destination Florida Los Angeles A big city Florida 【设计说明】快速阅读有助于学生对课文有进一步的了解。

Step 4

Reading Ask students to read the passage again and try to answer questions in Part C2 on page 20.

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1. Where in the USA are the older people who are moving south from? 2. What state in the USA is most popular with older people ? 3. Why is Charlotte County in central Florida called the oldest place in the USA? 4. What has been done in Florida for older people? 5. What is the percentage of people in the USA who move house every year? 6. Why are young people moving to cities? 7. Why does Daniel want to move to a big city? 8. How many people are quoted in the article? 【设计说明】精读有助于帮助学生深入了解文章中的细节,提高学生的阅读能力。

Step 5

Task-based reading Ask students to complete the task-based reading in the hand-out according to the passage. Population mobility in the USA

Mobility trends Duration Reasons Examples Aging in the sun People aged 65 permanent, 1.

better health 1.

Edna prefers and over are year-round or care; staying warm heading south, seasonal 2.

communities for inside with a cup accounting for 18 old people; of cocoa; percent of the 3.

warm and less 2.

David and his state’s changeable wife want to buy population. climate; a house here 4.

relatively flat because the landscape community understands the needs of older people. Young adults

move to big cities. 1.

good jobs; 2.

excitement Bright lights, big city 1.

Daniel thinks cities are more exciting. Though the rent is high, it’s a great place to meet people and have fun. 2.

Angela will move to Los Angeles because she wants more career opportunities. 【设计说明】利用任务型阅读的方式，可以检查学生对文章的理解，这是复述课文内容的一种形式，也是一种有效的输出形式。

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Step 6

Group discussion Ask students to discuss the following question: Do you think it is good for many immigrant laborers to flow into cities from the countryside? Why or why not? 【设计说明】让学生运用所学的语言知识，来讨论民工问题，可以将书本知识和生活实际联系起来，提升思维深度，并且可以为学生提供练习口语的机会。

Step 7

Homework Do Exercise D on page 20 and Exercise E on page 21.

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