Reading and vocabulary精品学案

Reading &Vocabulary Teaching goals:①Enable the students to learn something about Xiamen.

②Enable the students to learn how to introduce a city. Emotion goals: Cultivate the students’ good emotions of love of the country and their hometown.

Teaching important and difficult points:

①Enable the students to learn how to introduce a city. ②Make the students able to write a good composition about their hometown.

Teaching methods: preview, question-answer, task-based activities

Teaching Period: 1

Teaching procedures:

Step1（导）Lead-in 1. Look at the words in the box. Which words do you use to describe buildings?

apartment, apartment block, countryside, five-story,

high-rise building, local, mile, (second) floor, suburb, stone…

2. Show some beautiful pictures, and ask students to guess which city it is. Step2 (学)self-study Task1

Listening Listen to the tape recording of the text and choose the correct answers. 1. John Martin is visiting ___________.

A. Xiao Li’s hometown

B. a town near where Xiao Li lives

C. a shopping mall 2. Xiao Li lives _________.

A. on the island of Gulangyu

B. in Xiamen

C. in a town to the northwest of Xiamen 3. John and Xiao Li are_____.

A. at Xiao Li’s home

B. driving around the city in a car

C. on a train Task2 Fast Reading

Read the text quickly. Judge the following sentences true (T) or false (F). 1. John and Xiao Li haven't seen each other for six years.

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) 2. John has never been to China before.

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) 3. Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast.

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) 4. There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen.

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) 5. There are a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island.

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) 6. There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island.

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) Task3 Careful Reading Read the text again carefully to find out more detailed information about the city.1

Step3（展）

Check the students’ answers and show them correct answers.

Step4（练）

Practice

Task1 Try to tell the difference between Xiaoli’s hometown Xiamen and your hometown Renshou.

Task2 Role play Suppose(假设) you’re Li Hua, and your American friends come here. Please try to introduce our hometown Renshou to your foreign friends.

Task3 Discussion What’s the purpose of the writer by showing us this text?

Step5总结与反思（summary and feedback）

How to describe a city? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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