Reading and vocabulary第二课时教案

My Neighborhood-Reading A lively city Ⅰ Teaching aims 1. Knowledge aims: 1) students will master some key words, phrases, and sentences in the text, such as hometown, attractive, fortunate, pretty, sound, tourist, put up, It’s a gorgeous island with some...

2) Get students to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part. 2. Ability aims: 1) Students can get the main idea of the passage and improve reading their skills (skimming & scanning) to understand different reading materials. 2) Students will know how to describe the city of Xiamen and to introduce or describe a city from different aspects, such as its location, climate, and famous tourist attractions etc. 3. Emotional aims

1) Stimulate students’ interests of learning English by reading and acting this play. 2) Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork.

Ⅱ Important points and difficult points 1. Important points: Students will learn words and expressions used to describe a place. 2. Difficult points: Use the learned words to their daily life fluently and freely. Ⅲ Teaching procedures Step 1: Greetings & lead-in (guessing game) T: Good morning / afternoon, boys and girls! Ss: Good morning / afternoon, Mr / Ms... Put up a map of China on the blackboard and ask the students some questions to make them practice telling others a place. T: Here is a map of China. Would you like to tell me which city is it according to the given information? There is a beautiful lake in this city.

There is a romantic love story between a man and snake. It is called the Heaven on Earth. Ss: Hangzhou T: Yes, you are clever. Another one: It is in the southeast of China. It is on the southwest of Zhejiang province. It is on the southeast of Jiangxi province. Would you like to tell me which province it is? Ss:Fujian province. T: You are right. And the capital of Fujian province is Fuzhou, which is a big and beautiful city of Fujian, but there is another big and famous city in Fujian, do you know the name of this city? S: It is Xiamen. T: Then do you know the position of Xiamen? Ss: It locates on the southeast coast of China. T: OK! Please look at the map. Xiamen is here. Indicate the location of Xiamen on the map. T: Now would you like to tell me any information about Xiamen?

S: Xiamen is a very beautiful and clean city. Xiamen University is well known all over China. My brother is studying there. S: Xiamen has been accredited as National Garden City, National Model City for Environmental Protection and National Excellence in Tourism City. S: Xiamen has many tourist attractions, such as Sunlight Rock, ShuZhuang Garden of Gulangyu Island etc. It has been recognized as one of the most attractive locations for foreign visitors. T: OK! You have done a good job. Step 2: Pre-reading (1 or 2) 1.Discussion: Ask the students a few questions to activate the atmosphere of the class and try to arouse their interest in learning the text. T: Now I will give you five minutes and please work in pairs to discuss with your partners the three questions on the slide. Then I will ask several pairs to give me your answers. Show the questions on the slide. 1. Have you ever been to Xiamen?

2. If you have been to Xiamen, what impression does it make on you? 3. If you haven’t, can you imagine what it is like?

Five minutes later. T: OK! Time’s up. Volunteer?

S1: S2: S3: T: Thank you. You did a good job. Xiamen is a scenic port city, facing Taiwan Island with Taiwan Straits in between. It has a beautiful name — The Garden City. ..............OK! Now please open your books. Let’s read the text and see how Xiao Li and John Martin talk about Xiamen. 2.Brainstorming: T: let’s look at the title, suppose when we want to know something about a lively city, what should we know?

T: Thank you. You did a good job. Now please open your books. Let’s read the text and see how Xiao Li and John Martin talk about Xiamen. Step 3: While-reading 1.Skimming: let the students read the text individually and answer some questions according to the text. T: Please read the whole text quickly and answer the question on the slide. Three

minutes for you: Show the questions on the slide. Which of the following subjects are included in this passage?

Location: on the southeastern coast of China Climate: pretty hot and wet in summer; cold in winter Tourists: a lot of tourists; a nuisance in summer Business district: 1)huge Apartment block; high rent 2)high-rise building 3)shopping malls Western district: most interesting part; pretty parks Gulangyu Island: gorgeous island; interesting architecture Impression of Xiamen: attractive ;lively; friendly After a few minutes. T: OK! Time’s up. Who want to try?

....... T: OK! You did a good job. Look at the screen and there are some statemants, please read the dialogue again. 2.Scanning:Read the dialogue again and decide if the following statements are true or false.

1) John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years. T

2) John has never been to China before. F (He has seen quite a lot of China.) 3) Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast. T 4) There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen. F (There are many tourists in the northwest of Xiamen. ) 5) There are a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island. F (the business district) 6) There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu island. T 3. Detail Reading and then Complete the chart T: read the dialogue carefully and find the detailed information to complete the chart. A few minutes later, check the answers.

4. Learn the new words: Choose the best answers.(Page 33) T: there are some new words in the dialogue, please choose the best one according to the context. A few minutes later, check the answer. Show the exercise on the slide. 1) Fortunate means _______. A. sad B. Lucky

2) Pretty hot means _______. A. very hot B. too hot 3) Bother you means _____. A. amuse you B. give you problems 4) Nuisance means ______. A. amusing B. causing problems 5) Shopping mall means _____. A. shopping centre B. small shops 6) Gorgeous means _______. A. lovely B. boring 7) Starving means ______. A. excited B. very hungry Step 4: Post-reading Discussion: T: By learning the text, you have had a general idea about Xiamen. Now I will ask you a question: Would you like to live in Xiamen? Why or why not? Work in pairs and discuss with your partners for three minutes. A sample version: S: I would like to live in Xiamen. It is one of the cleanest cities of China and also the National Garden City, so I can breathe fresh air every day. And when I have spare time, I can visit so many famous and beautiful tourist attractions conveniently. And my dream is to study in

Xiamen University. If I can go to the university and live in Xiamen, I can live with my parents in stead of being far away from them. T: Then another question: Is your hometown similar to Xiamen? S: My hometown is also beautiful and the air is also clean but the economy isn’t so prosperous as that of Xiamen.

T: So what should you do? S: One of my dreams is to work hard for the construction of my hometown and make contribution to its prosperity and environment improvement. T: I think everyone should study hard and try your best to make our country more and more powerful. Don’t you think so?

Step 5 Homework 1. Retell the whole passage by describing the city of Xiamen and the neighbourhood where Xiao Li lives in the third person. 2. Write a composition with the topic of My hometown on your exercise book