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Unit 5 Theme parks Period 1 Reading THEME PARKS- FUN AND MORE THAN FUN

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims 1.Get the students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this section. 2.Learn about the differences between traditional parks and theme parks. Ability Aims: 1.

Develop students’ reading ability. 2.

Enable students to use different reading skills properly. Emotion Aims: 1.Let students know more about theme parks. 2. To arouse students’

interest in English learning.

Teaching Important Points: 1.Let the students learn about different theme parks. 2. Help the students learn different reading skills.

Teaching Difficult Points: 1. Develop students’

reading ability. 2. Enable students to talk about different theme parks.

Teaching Methods: 1.Task-based teaching and learning 2.Cooperative learning

Teaching Aids: Multi-media and a blackboard.

Teaching procedures Step 1.Lead-in

The teacher shows the students a short video about Disneyland to lead in the topic.

Step2. Warming up

Show some pictures of different parks, and ask students to guess which are parks and which are theme parks.

Step 3 Pre-reading

What do you think a theme park is?

Step 4 First reading Task 1 Get the main idea of the passage. This text mainly tells us that there are various kinds of_____________ to meet people’s different needs by describing ___________,

____________ and _____________ as three examples.

Task 2 Get the main idea of each paragraph. Let the students glance the reading material quickly and match the paragraph with the topic . Paragraph 1

A: Disneyland Paragraph 2

B: England’s Camelot Park Paragraph 3

C: Various kinds of theme parks. Paragraph 4

D: Dollywood

Task 3 The structure of the passage.

Step5.Second reading: Fill in the chart using the information from the text.

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Park Theme

Example of Activities Name Disneyland Fairy Travel through space, visit a tale stories

pirate ship, meet fairy tale characters, ride a swinging ship, go on a free-fall drop. Dollywood

Culture Listen to American country of the music, see traditional craftsmen and southeastern their work, try some traditional candy, USA ride on an old steam engine, see bald eagles, ride on Thunderhead and other rides. Camelot

Ancient Watch magic shows, see fighting English with swords or on horseback, visit history and farm section , learn about farms in stories ancient England.

Step 6. Third reading True or false. 1.

Disneyland can be found everywhere .

2. You can meet any cartoon character you like at Disney land .

3. Tourism develops where a Disneyland is built.

4. Dolly wood is in the mountains in the southeastern USA.

5. Country music singers perform in Dolly wood throughout the whole year.

6. Dolly wood has the only electric train

still working in the USA . 7. Visitors to Camelot Park can taste candy like the candy made in ancient England . 8. Camelot Park has the oldest roller coaster in the world .

9.Camelot Park has an ancient English farm .

10. Camelot Park has places for visitors to watch and maybe take part in sword fighting.

Step 7. Post-reading 1.What’s the meaning of the title “Theme parks—fun and more than fun”? 2.Discussion: If you have a chance to visit one of these three parks, which will you visit ? Why?

Step8.Summary

Step 9.Homework 1. Find out more information about theme parks. 2. Design your own theme park.

板书设计：

Unit 5 Theme parks

Park Theme

Example of Activities Name Disneyland

Dollywood

Camelot

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