Learning about Language名师教学设计1

教学过程

设计方案(一)

→Step 1 Leading-in and warming up 1. Show a map of Canada to students and talk about Canada. Then ask them the following questions:

1)What kind of country is Canada? 2)How large is it? 3)What else do you know about Canada? Suggested answers: 1)Canada is a multicultural country. 2)It’s the second largest country in the world. It covers an area of 9 984 670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China. 3)(Students’ answer may vary. Encourage them to tell more information. ) 2. Make a quiz Show the following on the screen. How much do you know about Canada? 1. What language(s) do Canadians speak? A. English.

B. English and German. C. English and French. D. English and Spanish. 2. What is the capital of Canada? A.Vancouver. B.Toronto. C. Calgary. D. Ottawa. 3. What is the national animal of Canada? A. Beaver.B. Grizzly bear. C. Polar bear.D. Penguin. 4. What is the Canadian leader called? A. President. B. Prime Minister. C. Governor. D. King. 5. How many Great Lakes are there in Canada? A. 4. B. 3. C. 5. D. 6. Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz. Then have them compare their answers with another pair. Give them the correct answers and see how many students got 80% or better. →Step 2 Pre-reading 1. Let students discuss the following questions: 1)What is the longest trip you have ever taken? 2)If you take a trip to Canada, what do you think you might see there?

3)What three words would you use to describe Canada? 3. Have students turn to Page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what the passage is about. Then have them read the passage quickly to see if they are right. →Step 3 Reading 1. Fast reading Ask students to skim the reading passage and then answer the following questions: 1)What is the passage mainly about? 2)What is “The True North”? 3)How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they? Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Suggested answers: 1)The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada. 2)“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada/the cross-Canada train.

3)Five. They are Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Thunder Bay and Toronto. 2. Intensive reading Allow students to read the passage carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and get the important details, and then finish the following: 1)Choose the best answer to each question according to the text. (1)As you go eastward, you can see the following things except ______________. A. mountains B. thousands of lakes C. forests and wide rivers D. cows (2)Who will take part in the Calgary Stampede? A. Cowboys from Stampede. B. People from Canada. C. Anyone who has a gift for riding. D. Cowboys from all over the world. (3)Which of the following statements is true? A. One can cross Canada in less than five days by

train. B. Many people think Calgary is the most beautiful city in Canada. C. In fact, the population of Canada is more than thirty million. D. Ocean ships cannot reach Thunder Bay. (4)Which of the following shows the right route of the cousin’s travel? A. Toronto→Calgary→Vancouver→Thunder Bay B. Vancouver→Calgary→Thunder Bay→Toronto C. Vancouver→Thunder Bay→Calgary→Toronto D. Toronto→Thunder Bay→Calgary→Vancouver Suggested answers: (1)D (2)D (3)C (4)B 2)Use the information from the reading passage to fill in the table below. Basic Facts about Canada Distance from east to west

coast Oceans on the east and the

west coast Population

Where most Canadians live

Location of the largest

fresh water supply Key points about Vancouver

Key points about Calgary

Key points about Thunder

Bay 3)Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (1)Which continent were the cousins crossing? (2)Why were they not flying directly to the Atlantic coast? (3)Why is the population of Vancouver growing so rapidly? (4)What happens at the Calgary Stampede? (5)How are ocean ships able to reach the center of Canada? (6)What are some of Canada’s greatest natural resources? 3. Reading and discussing Read the passage a third time and then work in pairs to discuss these questions. 1)Which part of the reading passage interests you

most? 2)If someday you go to Canada, where will you go? Why? (Let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions with their partners. Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences. ) 4. Dealing with language points Help students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meanings of some new words and expressions. Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context. Give them explanations if necessary. 5. Listening and reading aloud Ask students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework. Read them aloud and try to learn them by heart. Collocations: be on a trip to, rather than, take

the aeroplane, all the way, take the train, at the airport, on the way to, chat about, as well as, less than, aboard the train, settle down, manage to do, catch sight of, be famous for, have a gift for, thousands of, in prizes, be amazed to do, at the top of, be surprised at, because of, fresh water →Step 4 Consolidation Give students 10 minutes or so and let them do the following: 1. Work in pairs and fill in the table about the type of writing and summary of the idea. A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

Type of writing

Main idea of the

passage Main idea of

Paragraph 1 Main idea of

Paragraph 2 Main idea of

Paragraph 3 Main idea of

Paragraph 4 Main idea of

Paragraph 5 Suggested answers: A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing. Main idea of the Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went passage on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery across the whole continent of Canada from west to east. Main idea of Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were Paragraph 1 on a trip to Canada. Main idea of Having arrived in Vancouver, the most Paragraph 2 beautiful city in Canada, they were to be taken to catch “The True North”, the cross-Canada train. Main idea of Settling down in their seats in the Paragraph 3 train, they enjoyed the wild scenery while crossing the Rocky Mountains to Calgary. Main idea of While arriving at Thunder Bay, they

Paragraph 4 learn more about Canada, its population, resources, etc. Main idea of The train rushed towards Toronto while Paragraph 5 they were sleeping. 2. Complete the summary of the story with one word in each blank and then retell the whole story. Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on a ______________ across Canada. Instead of taking the aeroplane ______________ the way, they would cross the whole continent of Canada in a ______________ after arriving Vancouver by air. Danny Lin waited ______________ them at the airport and gave them a brief ______________ about Canada, the second ______________ country in the world and Vancouver, the most beautiful city of the country, while taking them to ______________ the train, “The True North”. Having settled ______________ in the seats, they looked out of the window ______________ the wild scenery, the mountain goats, and grizzly bears. They went by the city of Calgary and ______________ in Thunder Bay, a city at the ______________ of the Great

Lakes, learning more about Canada of its population resources and so ______________. Their last stop is Toronto, one of the southernmost cities in Canada. Keys: trip; all; train; for; introduction; biggest; catch; down; at; arrived; top; on →Step 5 Homework 1. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart. 2. Read the reading passage again and try to retell the passage. 板书设计

Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”

Warming up and reading A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”

Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing. Main idea of the Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went passage on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery across the whole continent of Canada from west to east. Main idea of Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were Paragraph 1 on a trip to Canada.

Main idea of Having arrived in Vancouver, the most Paragraph 2 beautiful city in Canada, they were to be taken to catch “The True North”, the cross-Canada train. Main idea of Settling down in their seats in the Paragraph 3 train, they enjoyed the wild scenery while crossing the Rocky Mountains to Calgary. Main idea of While arriving at Thunder Bay, they Paragraph 4 learn more about Canada, its population, resources, etc. Main idea of The train rushed towards Toronto while Paragraph 5 they were sleeping. 活动与探究

Surf the Internet to find the following information about Canada. Then make a pocket information card, on which writes the information and try to keep it in mind. Full country name: Total area: Population: Capital city: People:

Languages: Religion: Government: Sample card: Full country name: Canada Total area: about 9 984 670 km

Population: about 31 485 000 (October, 2002) Capital city: Ottawa People: British descent, French descent, Italian descent, aboriginal peoples, plus significant minorities of German, Ukrainian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese descent. Languages: English, French, Chinese, Italian, Punjabi, Spanish. . . Religion: Catholic, Protestant and minorities from most of the world’s major religions Government: Parliamentary democracy

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