Listening and vocabulary教学内容概述

Module 3

My First Ride on a Train

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The Analysis of this lesson The topic of this lesson is about “trip”. It refers to talking about “an experience on a train in Australia”. It mainly introduces the history of the train and the scenery during the ride. Meanwhile, the use of past tense and the use of past participles of verbs are also focused in this lesson. 2.

The Analysis of the students

The students in class are in Senior Grade One. They have learn the past tense in middle school, so grammatically, this article would be not very difficult for them to understand.The topic is trip, and students will have great interest in it. 3.

Teaching aims (1)

Language points Students can know the meaning of the key vocabulary: abandoned, desert,

colourful, shoot, supply, product, passenger, soil, diamond, distance, and use them to make sentence. (2) Language competence

①

Students can improve their reading skills by skimming and scanning.

②

With teacher’s help, students can master the main idea of this passage.

③

Students can use what they have learned to describe a trip or one of their

experiences.

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Teaching and learning difficulties

Teaching difficulties: Enable the students to understand the passage clearly

and learn to describe their own trip.

learning difficulties: Students may fell difficult to find the main idea of each

paragraph, and to analyze structure of this passage.

5.

Teaching aids

Some pictures about the train to arouse the interest of students. 6.

Teaching procedures

Step 1: Greeting: Good afternoon, boys and girls!Today, we are going to learn a passage, before we learning this passage, let’s review the words we’ve learned yesterday. Step 2: Lead-in (about 5 minutes)

(1) Students read the words following me in page22. (2) Ask students “Do you like to travel?”

“where you have went”, and I give some response to them. After that I ask them “which kind of transportation you prefer?” Some students may say train, and I say “today, we are going to learn the passage “my first ride on a train.”

Step 3: Pre-reading (about 2 minutes) Firstly, show one picture of the train, and then ask students. T:Look at this picture and the title, combine with your own experience, and try to

guess what this passage will talk about. Guide students to find the probable answers.. Further questions, show more pictures, and ask students. T: Do you think the train is very comfortable? S:... T:Does the food looks delicious? S:... T:Is the scenery beautiful? S:... T:Do you want to have a ride on this train? S:... Step 4:While-reading(about 20 minutes) After the questions and answers, let students turn to page 23 and read the passage.

1, Skimming

Ask students to read passage and try to find out the main idea of each paragraph including paragraph. para 1

the scenery

along the railway

para 2

why is the train called the Ghan para 3

things about camels para 4

a general introduction to my first ride on a train para 5

how I spent the time on the train para 6

the fate of the camel 2, Scanning

(1)Ask students to read the first paragraph carefully and finish activity 3 in

the text book, and find the answer to explain why the other three ones are wrong. (2)Ask students to read the rest of the passage carefully, and answer the questions in activity4. (3)Ask students to fill the blank ①

For example:Alice made her first long-distance train ride at the age of 18.

(when) ②

We______in Sydney and we ______in Alice Springs.

(_____) ③

______and I traveled on the famous Ghan______.

(______) ④

We ate great meals cooked by______.

(______) ⑤

They saw field, soil, desert, and ________

farms which were built more

than a hundred years ago.

(________ ) ⑥

During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes

talked to other __________

(________ )

⑦

I read books and listen to my Chinese ___________

(________ ) Step 5:Post-reading(about 5 minutes)

Group work

Ask student to talk about one of their traveling experiences, the content

should include “when ,go where, with whom, how about the scenery or

food, what they did,” and talk to the classmates.

Step 6: Homework

Ask them write down their own traveling experiences, which

they talked during the class.