Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀教案

Unit 3 Australia

Ⅰ. Teaching aims

1. To broaden students’ horizon about foreign countries. 2. To enable the students to learn some important information about Australia.

3. To train students’ reading ability. Ⅱ. Teaching important points: To learn about Australia according to the text. Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points: To enable students to talk about Australia in English by using what they have learned from the passage. Ⅳ. Teaching method

task-based reading

Ⅴ. Teaching procedures : StepⅠLead-in

The teacher shows a flag of Australia on the screen.

T: 1. What’s the name of this country ?

2. What do you know about it? List three things that interest you. (List something famous) Play the national song of Australia, and thus may arouse their interest and keep them in high spirits.

StepⅡPre- reading

Work with a partner to answer the questions about Australia. ---Which of the pictures do you associate with the places in Australia? Write the number of the picture beside the place.

Show students the map on the PPT. Encourage the students to discuss the big cities in Australia, and ask some students to mark the cities on the map.

StepⅢ

Fast reading

Skimming the five short passages and find the answers to the questions in Exercise 1, Comprehending part. (P.24)

1.Where do most Australians 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 Worlds Heritage Sites are named in these texts?

StepⅣ

Careful reading

Now read the five texts again more carefully and fill in the form with the information about Australia in the texts. ppt

StepⅤ

T or F

1. Australia Day falls on 26th February .

2. During the citizenship ceremonies, some people who come from different cultural and social backgrounds will become Australian citizens on that day . 3. People could sing ,dance and taste the food from all over the world during the ceremony .

StepⅥ

Group work four students a group and make a dialogue .

Suppose Mary is an exchange student from Australia, and her classmates are very interested in the country, so they ask Mary a lot of questions.