Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehendingppt课件课堂实录

Unit3

Australia

Ⅰ. Teaching aims:

1. Enable the students to learn some information about Australia

2. Train the students’ reading ability，let students master skimming, detail reading, distinguishing different styles of articles.

Ⅱ. Teaching important points:

Get some information of Australia in the text.

Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points:

Enable the students to distinguish different styles of extract articles

Ⅳ. Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning.

Ⅴ. Teaching aids: A computer, a blackboard, a tape-record

Ⅵ. Teaching procedures: StepⅠ

Lead-in

1. Greeting

2. Ask students to guess the country we are going to talk about. “Today we are going to learn about a country. It is a country and also a continent. It is surrounded by oceans. While many other countries are having winter, it is in summer. In this country, you will see many plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else, such as the kangaroo, koala bear, ect. Do you know which country it is?”

3. Ask students to look at the pictures and say something about each picture and distinguish what city does each picture associates with.

“Have you ever been to Australia?

What places do you know in Australia? (Well-known cities, famous scenic spots, etc.)

4. Ask students to find the places on the map.

Step Ⅱ

Reading

1. Ask the students to quickly glance at the five texts and answer the questions designed for this part.

2. Get the students some reading strategies: skimming, detail reading and paying attention to the words that frequently appeared in the text and equally important, their relative words.

3. Get the students read the five texts again more carefully and fill in the form.

Step Ⅲ

Discussion Ask the students to work in groups to discuss the following questions.

1. What kind of people do you think make Australia their home? 2. Each year large numbers of people became Australian citizens. Why do you think they choose to become citizens?

3. When do you think traveling by train across Australia would be appropriate and when do you think traveling by plane would be most suitable? Give more than one reasons.

4. In what part of Australia do you think most agriculture takes place? Give reasons.

5. Why do you think the population of Australia is so small when it is such a large country?

6. Choose five words or phrases to describe Australia.

Step Ⅳ

Language points

Explain some difficult points as listed in the PPT.

Step Ⅴ

Homework

1. Finish Ex.1, 2, 3, Page24-25.

2. Write an article about the reasons why people want to travel in Australia.

板书设计

Unit3 Australia Where do most Australians live?

When is Australia Day?

What do you think of Australia?