Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课堂实录

B9

Unit 3

Australia

Reading

杨嘉玮

【Teaching aims】

Enable students to learn some information about Australia 【Teaching important points】

Get some information of Australia in the text 【Teaching difficult points 】

Enable students to distinguish different styles of extract articles 【Teaching methods】

Cooperative learning, task-based learning

【Teaching aids】

Computer, a blackboard 【Teaching procedures】

Step 1 Lead-in 1.

Ask students to look at the pictures and guess the country we are going to talk about. 2.

Ask students to watch a short video about Australia and what they want to know about Australia. Step 2 Reading

1.

Fast reading

Ask students to go through the five parts in the passage and try to find where these parts come from. A

a postcard to Shenping on holiday

B

a newspaper report C

an advertisement from travel company D

tourist brochure E

A brief introduction in an encyclopedia

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Australia Citizenship Ceremonies Planned Around Australia Go by train and see Australia Dear Shenping Tours outside Hobart

2.

Detailed reading

Part 1

Australia Ask students to listen to the tape and fill in the blanks with some key words. Capital: Canberra

Offcial name: Commonwealth of Australia

Area: 7,686,850 km2

Population: 20 million

Highest point: Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 metres above sea level

Lowest point: Lake Eyre, 15 metres below sea level Australia is the only country that is also a ________. It is the sixth largest country in the world and is in the _________ continent - Oceania. It is a mainly _____ country with only a few coastal areas that have adequate rainfall to support a large _________. Approximately 80 of Australians live in the south-eastern coastal area, which includes Australia‘s two largest cities – Melbourne and Sydney. The ______ of the continent, which is mainly desert and dry grassland, has few settlements.

Australia is famous for its huge, open spaces, bright _______, enormous number of sheep and cattle and its unusual _________, which include kangaroos and koalas. Australia is a popular destination with _______ from all over the world who come to experience its unique ecology.

Australia is made up of six states. Like the states in America, Australian states are autonomous in some areas of ________. However, Australia has a federal government responsible for matters that affect people all over the country, such as defence, foreign _______ and taxation. The federal parliament is located in Canberra.

Part 2 Citizenship Ceremonies Planned Around Australia

Question: what is the topic sentence of this piece of news? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part 3 Go by train and see Australia Question: Why do you think travelling by train would be a good idea to see Australia? 3 nights -- ____________________________________________________________ 2 nights-- ____________________________________________________________ Part 4 and Part 5 (Two parts) Ask students to make up some questions by themselves and answer them. For example: How many World Heritage Sites are there in Australia? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Step 3 Group Work

Ask students to join a group of 4 and design their own posters about Australia by using the useful sentences in the passage. Step 4 Homework Write a brief introduction about Australia and correct mistakes with each other.