Reading and vocabulary教案3

Module 4

A Social Survey-My Neighborhood Reading

A Lively City by Pan Yin Haikou No.2 Middle School

Learning goals 1. To be able to get some information about the city. 2. To be able to master some useful reading skills such as scanning and skimming. 3. To be able to retell the main idea of the passage, and describe the city we live. 4. To know something about the city and cultivate the feeling of love for our hometown.

Important and difficult points 1. To be able to get some information about the city. 2. To be able to master some useful reading skills such as scanning and skimming. 3. To be able to retell the main idea of the passage, and describe the city we live.

Teaching Procedures Step1. Lead in Enjoy some beautiful pictures of the city and guess which city it is. Step2. Self learning（自学）

New words hometown

district

attractive

approach

fortunate

harbour

pretty

gorgeous

sound

architecture

tourist

starve

bother

park

nuisance

traffic

rent

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Step3. Prediction

1. According to the title, this is a passage which describes

.

A. a person

B. a place

C. an event 2. Guess what aspects the passage will describe about the city?

Step4.

Fast reading（独学）

Find out the key words describing a city from the passage after reading quickly.

Position

Climate

History

People

Food

Area

Business District

Western District

Gulangyu Island

Step5. Careful reading（独学——对学）

Choose the best answer after reading carefully. (Tip: 1. to find out the key words from the questions. 2. to find out the sentences where the key words appear from the passage.)

1. Which place does Xiao Li think worth living?

(

) A. a city to the northwest of Xiamen

B. a city on the coast C. the city of Xiamen

D. John’s hometown

2. What’s the climate like?

(

) A. pretty cool in summer and warm in winter

B. pretty hot and try in summer, but quite cold in winter

C. not very hot and wet in summer, but quite cold in summer

D. very hot and wet in summer, but quite cold in winter

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3. Which word has the same meaning as the word of “nuisance”(Line24) ?

(

) A. pleasure

B. trouble

C. sadness

D. surprise 4. In Xiao Li’s opinion, which of the following is not the reason why the western district is the most interesting part in Xiamen?

(

)

A. There are some really pretty parks.

B. There is a gorgeous island.

C. There are some really interesting architecture.

D. There are some high-rise buildings and great shopping malls. Step6. Retell the text（群学）

Fill in the blanks Xiao Li feels very fortunate 1.

(live) in the city 2.

the coast. 3.

the climate is pretty hot and wet in summer, but it can

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(be) quite cold in winter, every year, many tourists come to Xiamen

5.

(spend) their holidays, especially in summer. Its business district

6.

(put) up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. 7.

there are some great shopping malls. The western district is considered to be 8.

most interesting part of the city. It’s got some

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(real) pretty parks. Xiamen is famous for Gulangyu Island. It’s a gorgeous island with

some really interesting 10.

(architecture).

Step7. Post reading Suppose you are a guide, you are persuading the visitors to travel to the city of Haikou. And write a description of the city of Haikou.

位置

海南省的东北部

，省会城市

面积

人口

气候

环境

2304.84平方公里(square kilometer) 150万

夏季凉爽，冬季温暖，气候宜人

碧海蓝天，空气清新，阳光沙滩，吸引各地游客

景点（places 万绿园(Ever Green Park)假日海滩(Holiday Beach)，海瑞墓(Tomb of interest) of Hairui)等

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Words and sentences ①位置：…be located/situated in…

②面积：…have/cover an area of…

③人口：…have a population of…

Haikou

Step8. Summary Position：It’s one of the most interesting cities on the coast. Climate：pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the

winter. People：friendly Business District：There are some high-rise buildings and great shopping malls. Western District：

There are some really pretty parks and a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. Gulangyu Island:

a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture Step9. Homework

Write a description of a city you like.

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